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Horse profile

Friends Don't Tell (GB)

5yo gelding (at last run, Apr 2021) · Last trainer Clare Ellam · Last owner Robert P Clarke
by Mount Nelson (GB) out of The Blue Dog (IRE) (High Chaparral)
2 runs · 2 courses · from Mar 2021
As at 4 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: GB, Ireland & France · 2005–present, updated daily
No run recorded since 17 Apr 2021 — 2,027 days ago. Our archive can't say whether the horse is still in training.
Last run Apr 2021 · 11th of 12 First-time headgear LTO
KTB Profile

Lightly raced, with 2 archived starts between Mar 2021 and Apr 2021, the last of them as a 5yo gelding. Finished 11 of 12 at Bangor-on-Dee last time. By Mount Nelson (GB), whose progeny in our archive have won 9.9% of 6,278 runs since May 2012.

Based on 2 archived runs · updated 4 Nov 2026

KTB Speed and Rating

KTB Speed

Best recent Speed — no A or B graded figure in the last 3 runs; the figures below carry grade C

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 →

Jumps 1 figure · too few for a breakdown

Of 2 runs looked at, 1 has no figure: not enough races on the card to set the day (under 4) (1).

KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 1 figure from 2 runs · as at 3 Oct 2026 · a record, not a forecast

KTB Rating

Best recent KTB Rating 86C the best of the last 2 rated runs · Bangor-on-Dee, 17 Apr 2021

What the horse achieved in each race, in pounds on the official-rating scale, from the weight carried, the lengths beaten and the race's own level solved across the archive — never the market, never the official rating as a starting point. The headline is the best of the horse's last three rated runs on that code — its best recent day. The KTB Rating on a racecard is a different reading of the same figures: the level the horse has been running to, an average of up to its last six runs with the latest counting most, so the two can differ. A, B or C on a run is how much known form was in that race. What this means →

Jumps 2 figures · best 86C · median 86
GoingRunsBestMedianSince 4 Nov 2025
Good1———
Good to Soft1———
DistanceRunsBestMedianSince 4 Nov 2025
1m5f – 2m286C86—

KTB Rating v1 · batch 3 Oct 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 2 figures from 2 runs · as at 4 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

Sire

Progeny in our archive have won 9.9% of 6,278 runs since May 2012 (538 horses).

GoingRunsWinsSRvs sireThis horse
Firm3026.7%−3.2—
Good to Firm6437311.4%+1.5—
Good1,6801508.9%−10 from 1
Good to Soft1,04411110.6%+0.70 from 1
Soft1,2531249.9%0—
Heavy4535111.3%+1.4—
Standard (AW)1,1751139.6%−0.3—
Distance (all codes)RunsWinsSRvs sireThis horse
Under 6f9888.2%−1.7—
6f – 7f864859.8%−0.1—
1m – 1m1f678497.2%−2.7—
1m2f – 1m4f1,22314812.1%+2.2—
1m5f – 2m1,5941559.7%−0.20 from 2
2m1f – 2m4f1,2031199.9%0—
2m5f – 3m537529.7%−0.2—
Over 3m8189.9%0—

Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since May 2012 · as at 4 Nov 2026 · rows under 30 runs muted · win % is the measure, a record not a forecast

Dam
The Blue Dog (IRE) (High Chaparral)

No other produce in our archive. It holds racing in Great Britain, Ireland and France from 2005, so siblings racing elsewhere won’t appear here.

Too few runs for meaningful splits. The full record is below.

Form

DateCourseRace PosBtn Wgt SpdKTB Jockey SP
2021 · 2 runs
17 Apr 21+25d Bangor-on-Dee Bryn Y Pys Standard NH Flat Race (Conditional Jockeys' And Amateur Riders' Race) (GBB Race) Class 5 · 2m½f · Good · 12 ran 11/12 99 10-13 —86C Harrison Beswick 300/1
23 Mar 21 Wetherby BoscaSports Racings Digital Display Standard Open NH Flat Race (GBB Race) Class 5 · 2m · Good To Soft · 9 ran 9/9 99 11-0 -29C86C Ryan Mania 150/1

Quick answers

How many races has Friends Don't Tell won?
Friends Don't Tell (GB) has yet to win, from 2 archived starts in 2021.
Who trained Friends Don't Tell?
Friends Don't Tell (GB) was trained by Clare Ellam on the most recent run on record, at Bangor-on-Dee on 17 April 2021.
Who is Friends Don't Tell's sire?
Friends Don't Tell (GB) is by Mount Nelson (GB) out of The Blue Dog (IRE), whose sire is High Chaparral.
What is Friends Don't Tell's sire's record?
Mount Nelson (GB)'s progeny in our archive have won 9.9% of 6,278 runs since May 2012 (538 horses), Flat and jumps together.

Record shown from March 2021. Our archive holds racing in Great Britain, Ireland and France from January 2005. Any runs before that, or in other countries, are not in it. In-running comments are available from 2024 onward.