Front Bencher (GB)
Front Bencher is a lightly raced gelding who finished 5 of 7 in the General Gilbert Open NH Flat Race at Exeter in Jan 2025 on soft ground over 1m5f – 2m. He is by Frontiersman whose progeny have won 56 of 359 runs since Jan 2008 with a strongest record on good ground. His dam has produced one runner to date without a winner. His only start came for Tom Weston.
- 0–1Wins / Runs
- 0%Strike rate
- 0 (0%)Placed
- −1.00£1 level staken=1 at SP
KTB Speed and Rating
Best recent Speed 111
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 →
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 1 figure from 1 run · 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.
Pedigree intelligence
Progeny in our archive have won 16% of 376 runs since Sep 2022 (67 horses).
Strongest on good going: 19.1% from 152.
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firm | 2 | 0 | 0% | −16 | — |
| Good to Firm | 15 | 1 | 6.7% | −9.3 | — |
| Good | 152 | 29 | 19.1% | +3.1 | — |
| Good to Soft | 85 | 17 | 20% | +4 | — |
| Soft | 52 | 8 | 15.4% | −0.6 | 0 from 1 |
| Heavy | 26 | 4 | 15.4% | −0.6 | — |
| Standard (AW) | 44 | 1 | 2.3% | −13.7 | — |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6f – 7f | 16 | 5 | 31.3% | +15.3 | — |
| 1m – 1m1f | 44 | 4 | 9.1% | −6.9 | — |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 54 | 10 | 18.5% | +2.5 | — |
| 1m5f – 2m | 174 | 25 | 14.4% | −1.6 | 0 from 1 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 80 | 16 | 20% | +4 | — |
| 2m5f – 3m | 8 | 0 | 0% | −16 | — |
Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since Sep 2022 · as at 4 Nov 2026 · rows under 30 runs muted · win % is the measure, a record not a forecast
1 sibling in the archive, 0 winners.
| Produce | Runs | Wins | Win trips | Best grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peace Pact (GB) | 1 | 0 | — | — |
Too few runs for meaningful splits. The full record is below.
Form
| Date | Course | Race | Pos | Btn | Wgt | Spd | KTB | Jockey | SP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 · 1 run | |||||||||
| 13 Jan 25 | Exeter | General Gilbert Open NH Flat Race (GBB Race) Settled towards the back - urged forward and lost touch with rivals 4f out - dropped away 3f out - finished well beaten in 5th | 5/7 | 16 | 10-3 | 111A | 83A | Adam Wedge | 12/1 |
Quick answers
- How many races has Front Bencher won?
- Front Bencher (GB) has yet to win, from 1 archived start in 2025.
- Who trained Front Bencher?
- Front Bencher (GB) was trained by Tom Weston on the most recent run on record, at Exeter on 13 January 2025.
- Who is Front Bencher's sire?
- Front Bencher (GB) is by Frontiersman (GB) out of Our Belle Amie (GB), whose sire is Black Sam Bellamy.
- What is Front Bencher's sire's record?
- Frontiersman (GB)'s progeny in our archive have won 16% of 376 runs since Sep 2022 (67 horses), Flat and jumps together. Strongest on good going: 19.1% from 152.
- Who are Front Bencher's siblings?
- Out of Our Belle Amie (GB), Front Bencher (GB) has 1 other produce in our archive, 0 of them winners. As at Nov 2026.