If Any Man Can (IRE)
If Any Man Can won one of two starts over hurdles in Jul 2024, taking a maiden at Cork over 2m1f – 2m4f on good ground. The gelding finished 8 of 8 at Ballinrobe later that month in a rated novice hurdle on good to soft. By Ocovango, whose progeny have won 9.4% of 2,968 runs since Jan 2008 with a strongest trip over 3m. His dam is Gortahalla Lassie.
- 1–2Wins / Runs
- 50%Strike rate
- 1 (50%)Placed
- +27.00£1 level staken=2 at SP
- 18dBetween runs (median)
KTB Speed and Rating
Best recent Speed 113
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good to Soft | 1 | — | — | — |
| Good | 1 | — | — | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 4 Nov 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 2 | 113B | 48.5 | — |
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 9.5% of 3,009 runs since Oct 2019 (307 horses).
Strongest at trips beyond 3m (all codes): 13.8% from 196.
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good to Firm | 28 | 8 | 28.6% | +19.1 | — |
| Good | 943 | 94 | 10% | +0.5 | 1 from 1 |
| Good to Soft | 711 | 71 | 10% | +0.5 | 0 from 1 |
| Soft | 915 | 75 | 8.2% | −1.3 | — |
| Heavy | 396 | 37 | 9.3% | −0.2 | — |
| Standard (AW) | 16 | 0 | 0% | −9.5 | — |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m – 1m1f | 6 | 0 | 0% | −9.5 | — |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 11 | 0 | 0% | −9.5 | — |
| 1m5f – 2m | 791 | 65 | 8.2% | −1.3 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 1,099 | 98 | 8.9% | −0.6 | 1 from 2 |
| 2m5f – 3m | 906 | 95 | 10.5% | +1 | — |
| Over 3m | 196 | 27 | 13.8% | +4.3 | — |
Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since Oct 2019 · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 · 2 runs | |||||||||
| 23 Jul 24+18d | Ballinrobe | RBC Brewin Dolphin Rated Novice Hurdle | 8/8 | 37 | 11-7 | -16C | 94C | Liam Quinlan | 5/1 |
| 05 Jul 24 | Cork | Sign Up To Our Newsletter Maiden Hurdle | 1/16 | 11-4 | 113B | 121A | Liam Quinlan | 28/1 | |
Quick answers
- How many races has If Any Man Can won?
- If Any Man Can (IRE) won 1 of 2 archived starts in 2024, a strike rate of 50%. Placed 1 time in total (50% of starts).
- Who trained If Any Man Can?
- If Any Man Can (IRE) was trained by Mary Ellen Doyle on the most recent run on record, at Ballinrobe on 23 July 2024.
- Who is If Any Man Can's sire?
- If Any Man Can (IRE) is by Ocovango (GB) out of Gortahalla Lassie (IRE), whose sire is Heron Island.
- What is If Any Man Can's sire's record?
- Ocovango (GB)'s progeny in our archive have won 9.5% of 3,009 runs since Oct 2019 (307 horses), Flat and jumps together. Strongest at trips beyond 3m (all codes): 13.8% from 196.