Explain (GB)
Explain (GB) is 7 from 64. Hasn't won since Oct 2018. All 7 wins have come over 6f – 7f. Last raced off 50, 41lb below the career-high mark.
- 7–64Wins / Runs
- 10.9%Strike rate
- 18 (28.1%)Placed
- −26.63£1 level staken=64 at SP
- 1.09Fair A/E n=64 · 0.94 incl. margin
- 91Highest OR
- 36dAvg between runs
A/E compares actual wins with what starting prices implied. "Fair" strips the bookmaker margin from the expectation, so favourites and longshots are judged on the same footing — figures near 1.00 mean the market priced this horse about right.
KTB Speed and Rating
Best recent Speed 78
How fast the horse ran, as points against the day-corrected standard time for its course and distance: 100 is the median GB Class 4 handicap winner on that code; one point is 0.1% of the standard time. A, B or C is how much the day's card could tell us, not how good the run was. What this means →
| Going | Runs | Best | Median | Since 21 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | 14 | 106C | 83.5 | — |
| Good to Firm | 9 | 121B | 96 | — |
| Soft | 8 | 99C | 78 | — |
| Good to Soft | 8 | 109C | 90 | — |
| Standard (AW) | 3 | 120B | 73 | — |
| Heavy | 1 | — | — | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 21 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6f – 7f | 43 | 121B | 86 | — |
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 43 figures from 43 runs · as at 3 Oct 2026 · a record, not a forecast
Both figures are KTB's own, computed from the archive; no vendor rating enters either. Every run's figure is on its form line below with its grade. Grades measure how much the archive could see, never the merit of the run.
Run style is derived from in-running commentary, which our data provider does not supply for this horse's races.
Pedigree intelligence
Progeny in our archive have won 9.9% of 13,847 runs since Jan 2008 (800 horses).
Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 5.8% from 468.
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firm | 188 | 16 | 8.5% | −1.4 | 0 from 1 |
| Good to Firm | 2,756 | 289 | 10.5% | +0.6 | 3 from 18 |
| Good | 2,716 | 230 | 8.5% | −1.4 | 0 from 21 |
| Good to Soft | 1,413 | 121 | 8.6% | −1.3 | 2 from 10 |
| Soft | 1,306 | 127 | 9.7% | −0.2 | 1 from 9 |
| Heavy | 368 | 44 | 12% | +2.1 | 1 from 2 |
| Standard (AW) | 5,100 | 545 | 10.7% | +0.8 | 0 from 3 |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 6f | 3,349 | 381 | 11.4% | +1.5 | 0 from 2 |
| 6f – 7f | 6,993 | 705 | 10.1% | +0.2 | 7 from 61 |
| 1m – 1m1f | 1,945 | 171 | 8.8% | −1.1 | 0 from 1 |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 836 | 74 | 8.9% | −1 | — |
| 1m5f – 2m | 468 | 27 | 5.8% | −4.1 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 197 | 12 | 6.1% | −3.8 | — |
| 2m5f – 3m | 50 | 2 | 4% | −5.9 | — |
| Over 3m | 9 | 0 | 0% | −9.9 | — |
Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since Jan 2008 · as at 21 Oct 2026 · rows under 30 runs muted · win % is the measure, a record not a forecast
7 siblings in the archive, 3 winners — best of them Secret Handsheikh (GB) (13 wins).
The wins came over 5f–6f; the highest grade won is Listed (Valonia (GB)).
| Produce | Runs | Wins | Win trips | Best grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secret Handsheikh (GB) | 89 | 13 | 5f–6f | Class 4 |
| Valonia (GB) | 10 | 2 | 6f | Listed |
| Hernes Hill (GB) | 8 | 1 | 6f | — |
| Sandstream (GB) | 13 | 0 | — | — |
| Kylin (GB) | 6 | 0 | — | — |
| Ice Girl (GB) | 6 | 0 | — | — |
| Red Hottie (GB) | 8 | 0 | — | — |
Record by conditions
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | 21 | 0 | 0% | −21.00 |
| Good to Firm | 18 | 3 | 17% | −0.88 |
| Good to Soft | 10 | 2 | 20% | +1.50 |
| Soft | 9 | 1 | 11% | −5.25 |
| Standard (AW) | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Heavy | 2 | 1 | 50% | +3.00 |
| Firm | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Class | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class 4 | 29 | 2 | 7% | −18.50 |
| Class 3 | 17 | 3 | 18% | +3.50 |
| Class 5 | 11 | 2 | 18% | −4.63 |
| Class 6 | 5 | 0 | 0% | −5.00 |
| Class 2 | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayr | 7 | 2 | 29% | +4.75 |
| Haydock | 6 | 0 | 0% | −6.00 |
| Chester | 6 | 2 | 33% | +2.50 |
| Thirsk | 5 | 1 | 20% | +2.50 |
| Ripon | 5 | 1 | 20% | +2.00 |
| Redcar | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Catterick | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Musselburgh | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Doncaster | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Newcastle (AW) | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Pontefract | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Newmarket | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| York | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Leicester | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Beverley | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Carlisle | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Nottingham | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Windsor | 1 | 1 | 100% | +1.62 |
| Lingfield | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Bath | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Yarmouth | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Goodwood | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Distance | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6f – 7f | 61 | 7 | 11% | −23.63 |
| Under 6f | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| 1m – 1m1f | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Jockey | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Sullivan | 30 | 3 | 10% | −9.50 |
| Jack Garritty | 9 | 1 | 11% | −2.00 |
| Fergus Sweeney | 8 | 2 | 25% | −1.63 |
| Tom Eaves | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Sam James | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Mr Will Pettis | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Lewis Edmunds | 2 | 1 | 50% | +1.50 |
| David Probert | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Callum Rodriguez | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Andrew Mullen | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Barry McHugh | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Daniel Muscutt | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Miss Anna Hesketh | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Franny Norton | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Steve Drowne | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Headgear | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheekpieces | 23 | 2 | 9% | −12.50 |
| Blinkers | 17 | 2 | 12% | −9.38 |
| None | 17 | 2 | 12% | −5.75 |
| Visor | 7 | 1 | 14% | +1.00 |
| Season | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | 0 | 0% | −5.00 |
| 2019 | 9 | 0 | 0% | −9.00 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1 | 7% | −6.00 |
| 2017 | 13 | 3 | 23% | +2.50 |
| 2016 | 12 | 1 | 8% | −4.50 |
| 2015 | 7 | 1 | 14% | −4.38 |
| 2014 | 4 | 1 | 25% | −0.25 |
Splits include every sample, however small — muted rows are under 3 runs. A one-from-one record is a fact, not a trend: read the Runs column before the strike rate.
Form
Quick answers
- How many races has Explain (GB) won?
- Explain (GB) won 7 of 64 archived starts between 2014 and 2020, a strike rate of 10.9%. Placed 18 times in total (28.1% of starts).
- Who trained Explain (GB)?
- Explain (GB) was trained by Ruth Carr on the most recent run on record, at Redcar on 16 October 2020.
- Who is Explain (GB)'s sire?
- Explain (GB) is by Kyllachy (GB) out of Descriptive (IRE), whose sire is Desert King.
- What going does Explain (GB) prefer?
- Explain (GB) has the best record on good to soft going: 2 wins from 10 starts (20%). Only going bands with at least three archived starts are read, so this is a direction rather than a settled preference.
- What is Explain (GB)'s official rating?
- The most recent official rating on record is 50, from the run on 16 October 2020. The highest on record is 91.
- What is Explain (GB)'s sire's record?
- Kyllachy (GB)'s progeny in our archive have won 9.9% of 13,847 runs since Jan 2008 (800 horses), Flat and jumps together. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 5.8% from 468.
- Who are Explain (GB)'s siblings?
- Out of Descriptive (IRE), Explain (GB) has 7 other produce in our archive, 3 of them winners. Most wins: Secret Handsheikh (GB) (13). Highest grade won: Listed (Valonia (GB)). The wins came over 5f–6f. As at Oct 2026.