Helplessly Hoping (IRE)
Lightly raced, with 2 archived starts, both in Sep 2021, the last of them as a 2yo filly. Finished 13 of 13 at Listowel last time. By Footstepsinthesand (GB), whose progeny in our archive have won 10.2% of 12,804 runs since Apr 2009.
- 0–2Wins / Runs
- 0%Strike rate
- 0 (0%)Placed
- −2.00£1 level staken=2 at SP
- 14dBetween runs (median)
KTB Speed and Rating
Best recent Speed —
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 4 Nov 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soft | 1 | — | — | — |
| Good | 1 | — | — | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 4 Nov 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6f – 7f | 2 | 31C | 24.5 | — |
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 2 figures from 2 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 10.2% of 12,804 runs since Apr 2009 (937 horses).
Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 6.9% from 320.
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firm | 72 | 16 | 22.2% | +12 | — |
| Good to Firm | 1,911 | 220 | 11.5% | +1.3 | — |
| Good | 2,946 | 268 | 9.1% | −1.1 | 0 from 1 |
| Good to Soft | 1,240 | 108 | 8.7% | −1.5 | — |
| Soft | 1,778 | 145 | 8.2% | −2 | 0 from 1 |
| Heavy | 545 | 62 | 11.4% | +1.2 | — |
| Standard (AW) | 4,311 | 486 | 11.3% | +1.1 | — |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 6f | 1,127 | 142 | 12.6% | +2.4 | — |
| 6f – 7f | 5,046 | 529 | 10.5% | +0.3 | 0 from 2 |
| 1m – 1m1f | 3,335 | 336 | 10.1% | −0.1 | — |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 2,103 | 196 | 9.3% | −0.9 | — |
| 1m5f – 2m | 839 | 80 | 9.5% | −0.7 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 320 | 22 | 6.9% | −3.3 | — |
| 2m5f – 3m | 31 | 1 | 3.2% | −7 | — |
| Over 3m | 3 | 0 | 0% | −10.2 | — |
Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since Apr 2009 · as at 4 Nov 2026 · rows under 30 runs muted · win % is the measure, a record not a forecast
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
| Date | Course | Race | Pos | Btn | Wgt | Spd | KTB | Jockey | SP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 · 2 runs | |||||||||
| 21 Sep 21+14d | Listowel | Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden | 13/13 | 6 | 9-2 | 18C | 40C | Joe Doyle | 250/1 |
| 07 Sep 21 | Galway | Irish EBF Median Sires Series Fillies Maiden | 10/12 | 4¾ | 8-13 | 31C | 44C | Joe Doyle | 100/1 |
Quick answers
- How many races has Helplessly Hoping won?
- Helplessly Hoping (IRE) has yet to win, from 2 archived starts in 2021.
- Who trained Helplessly Hoping?
- Helplessly Hoping (IRE) was trained by Denis Gerard Hogan on the most recent run on record, at Listowel on 21 September 2021.
- Who is Helplessly Hoping's sire?
- Helplessly Hoping (IRE) is by Footstepsinthesand (GB) out of Meadow Cross (IRE), whose sire is Cape Cross.
- What is Helplessly Hoping's sire's record?
- Footstepsinthesand (GB)'s progeny in our archive have won 10.2% of 12,804 runs since Apr 2009 (937 horses), Flat and jumps together. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 6.9% from 320.