Grizzly James (FR)
Grizzly James won the Silvershine Handicap Chase at Hereford in Apr 2023 off an official rating of 93. The gelding recorded one win and three places from 17 starts on turf between Oct 2021 and Apr 2024, all at Class 5 level. His sole success came over 2m5f – 3m on good to soft going. He last ran at Ffos Las in Apr 2024 off an official rating of 96, 27lb below his highest ever mark.
- 1–17Wins / Runs
- 5.9%Strike rate
- 3 (17.6%)Placed
- −5.00£1 level staken=17 at SP
- 0.37Fair A/E n=17 · 0.33 incl. margin
- 123Highest OR
- 56dAvg 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 119
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 27 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soft | 8 | 119A | 74.5 | — |
| Good | 1 | — | — | — |
| Good to Soft | 1 | — | — | — |
| Heavy | 1 | — | — | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 27 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 5 | 119A | 71 | — |
| 1m5f – 2m | 4 | 79B | 53 | — |
| 2m5f – 3m | 2 | 94C | 73.5 | — |
Of 17 runs looked at, 6 have no figure: obstacles omitted — the race ran a shortened course (3) · did not complete (3).
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 11 figures from 17 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 11.6% of 2,390 runs since Jan 2008 (303 horses).
Weakest on standard (aw) going: 4.5% from 179. Strongest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 15.9% from 598. Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 2.9% from 138.
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firm | 1 | 1 | 100% | +88.4 | — |
| Good to Firm | 25 | 5 | 20% | +8.4 | — |
| Good | 510 | 60 | 11.8% | +0.2 | 0 from 2 |
| Good to Soft | 369 | 52 | 14.1% | +2.5 | 1 from 3 |
| Soft | 887 | 104 | 11.7% | +0.1 | 0 from 10 |
| Heavy | 419 | 47 | 11.2% | −0.4 | 0 from 2 |
| Standard (AW) | 179 | 8 | 4.5% | −7.1 | — |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 6f | 1 | 0 | 0% | −11.6 | — |
| 6f – 7f | 24 | 1 | 4.2% | −7.4 | — |
| 1m – 1m1f | 138 | 4 | 2.9% | −8.7 | — |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 300 | 36 | 12% | +0.4 | — |
| 1m5f – 2m | 598 | 95 | 15.9% | +4.3 | 0 from 4 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 955 | 108 | 11.3% | −0.3 | 0 from 8 |
| 2m5f – 3m | 317 | 28 | 8.8% | −2.8 | 1 from 5 |
| Over 3m | 57 | 5 | 8.8% | −2.8 | — |
Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since Jan 2008 · as at 27 Oct 2026 · rows under 30 runs muted · win % is the measure, a record not a forecast
2 siblings in the archive, 2 winners — best of them Stemster (GB) (3 wins).
The wins came over 1m–2m1½f.
| Produce | Runs | Wins | Win trips | Best grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stemster (GB) | 36 | 3 | 1m | — |
| Father James (FR) | 4 | 1 | 2m1½f | — |
Record by conditions
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soft | 10 | 0 | 0% | −10.00 |
| Good to Soft | 3 | 1 | 33% | +9.00 |
| Heavy | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Good | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Class | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class 4 | 8 | 0 | 0% | −8.00 |
| Class 5 | 6 | 1 | 17% | +6.00 |
| Class 3 | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Class 2 | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ludlow | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Hereford | 2 | 1 | 50% | +10.00 |
| Chepstow | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Ffos Las | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Huntingdon | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Lingfield | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Plumpton | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Fontwell | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Warwick | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Taunton | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Uttoxeter | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Haydock | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Carlisle | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Distance | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 8 | 0 | 0% | −8.00 |
| 2m5f – 3m | 5 | 1 | 20% | +7.00 |
| 1m5f – 2m | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Jockey | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlie Deutsch | 12 | 1 | 8% | +0.00 |
| Ned Fox | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Robert Dunne | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Hugh Nugent | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Season | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | 0 | 0% | −5.00 |
| 2023 | 6 | 1 | 17% | +6.00 |
| 2022 | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Type | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chase | 12 | 1 | 8% | +0.00 |
| Hurdle | 5 | 0 | 0% | −5.00 |
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 Grizzly James won?
- Grizzly James (FR) won 1 of 17 archived starts between 2021 and 2024, a strike rate of 5.9%. Placed 3 times in total (17.6% of starts).
- Who trained Grizzly James?
- Grizzly James (FR) was trained by Venetia Williams on the most recent run on record, at Ffos Las on 16 April 2024.
- Who is Grizzly James's sire?
- Grizzly James (FR) is by Montmartre (FR) out of Mariyara (FR), whose sire is Daylami.
- What going does Grizzly James prefer?
- Grizzly James (FR) has the best record on good to soft going: 1 win from 3 starts (33.3%). Only going bands with at least three archived starts are read, so this is a direction rather than a settled preference.
- What is Grizzly James's official rating?
- The most recent official rating on record is 96, from the run on 16 April 2024. The highest on record is 123.
- What is Grizzly James's sire's record?
- Montmartre (FR)'s progeny in our archive have won 11.6% of 2,390 runs since Jan 2008 (303 horses), Flat and jumps together. Weakest on standard (aw) going: 4.5% from 179. Strongest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 15.9% from 598. Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 2.9% from 138.
- Who are Grizzly James's siblings?
- Out of Mariyara (FR), Grizzly James (FR) has 2 other produce in our archive, 2 of them winners. Most wins: Stemster (GB) (3). The wins came over 1m–2m1½f. As at Oct 2026.