Improving (IRE)
Improving (IRE) is 1 from 36. Hasn't won since Oct 2020. The win came on turf — 0 from 5 on the all-weather. Last raced off 47, 33lb below the career-high mark.
- 1–36Wins / Runs
- 2.8%Strike rate
- 8 (22.2%)Placed
- −33.25£1 level staken=36 at SP
- 0.36Fair A/E n=36 · 0.28 incl. margin
- 80Highest OR
- 61dAvg 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 96
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.
| Going | Runs | Best | Median | Since 14 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soft | 12 | 112C | 91 | — |
| Good | 8 | 109C | 89 | — |
| Heavy | 8 | 116C | 86.5 | — |
| Standard (AW) | 5 | 96B | 89 | — |
| Good to Soft | 2 | 79A | 72 | — |
| Good to Firm | 1 | — | — | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 14 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6f – 7f | 28 | 116C | 87 | — |
| 1m – 1m1f | 5 | 102A | 75 | — |
| Under 6f | 3 | 101C | 96 | — |
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 36 figures from 36 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 6.6% of 1,099 runs since Jan 2008 (71 horses).
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firm | 5 | 1 | 20% | +13.4 | — |
| Good to Firm | 92 | 11 | 12% | +5.4 | 0 from 1 |
| Good | 259 | 13 | 5% | −1.6 | 0 from 8 |
| Good to Soft | 116 | 8 | 6.9% | +0.3 | 0 from 2 |
| Soft | 189 | 14 | 7.4% | +0.8 | 0 from 12 |
| Heavy | 88 | 5 | 5.7% | −0.9 | 1 from 8 |
| Standard (AW) | 349 | 21 | 6% | −0.6 | 0 from 5 |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 6f | 26 | 2 | 7.7% | +1.1 | 0 from 3 |
| 6f – 7f | 231 | 12 | 5.2% | −1.4 | 1 from 28 |
| 1m – 1m1f | 304 | 18 | 5.9% | −0.7 | 0 from 5 |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 235 | 19 | 8.1% | +1.5 | — |
| 1m5f – 2m | 180 | 15 | 8.3% | +1.7 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 88 | 2 | 2.3% | −4.3 | — |
| 2m5f – 3m | 31 | 5 | 16.1% | +9.5 | — |
| Over 3m | 4 | 0 | 0% | −6.6 | — |
Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since Jan 2008 · as at 14 Oct 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.
Record by conditions
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soft | 12 | 0 | 0% | −12.00 |
| Good | 8 | 0 | 0% | −8.00 |
| Heavy | 8 | 1 | 13% | −5.25 |
| Standard (AW) | 5 | 0 | 0% | −5.00 |
| Good to Soft | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Good to Firm | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cork | 8 | 0 | 0% | −8.00 |
| Listowel | 6 | 0 | 0% | −6.00 |
| Limerick | 5 | 1 | 20% | −2.25 |
| Dundalk (AW) | 5 | 0 | 0% | −5.00 |
| Naas | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Curragh | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Galway | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Tipperary | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Navan | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Fairyhouse | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Cork (IRE) | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Distance | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6f – 7f | 28 | 1 | 4% | −25.25 |
| 1m – 1m1f | 5 | 0 | 0% | −5.00 |
| Under 6f | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Jockey | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dylan Browne McMonagle | 6 | 1 | 17% | −3.25 |
| Shane Foley | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Wayne Lordan | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Adam Caffrey | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Oisin Enright | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Robbie Colgan | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Gavin Ryan | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Jack Kearney | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Mikey Sheehy | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Robert Whearty | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| W J Lee | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Mark Gallagher | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Killian Leonard | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Dylan Hogan | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Leigh Roche | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Conor Hoban | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Headgear | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| None | 27 | 1 | 4% | −24.25 |
| Cheekpieces | 5 | 0 | 0% | −5.00 |
| Tongue tie | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Blinkers | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Hood | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Season | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| 2023 | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| 2022 | 7 | 0 | 0% | −7.00 |
| 2021 | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| 2020 | 7 | 1 | 14% | −4.25 |
| 2019 | 8 | 0 | 0% | −8.00 |
| 2018 | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
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 Improving (IRE) won?
- Improving (IRE) won 1 of 36 archived starts between 2018 and 2024, a strike rate of 2.8%. Placed 8 times in total (22.2% of starts).
- Who trained Improving (IRE)?
- Improving (IRE) was trained by Augustine Leahy on the most recent run on record, at Limerick on 12 June 2024.
- Who is Improving (IRE)'s sire?
- Improving (IRE) is by Most Improved (IRE) out of Mill I Am (USA), whose sire is Henny Hughes.
- What going does Improving (IRE) prefer?
- Improving (IRE) has the best record on heavy going: 1 win from 8 starts (12.5%). Only going bands with at least three archived starts are read, so this is a direction rather than a settled preference.
- What is Improving (IRE)'s official rating?
- The most recent official rating on record is 47, from the run on 12 June 2024. The highest on record is 80.
- What is Improving (IRE)'s sire's record?
- Most Improved (IRE)'s progeny in our archive have won 6.6% of 1,099 runs since Jan 2008 (71 horses), Flat and jumps together.