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Horse profile

Little Les (GB)

5yo gelding (at last run, Aug 2021) · Last trainer Donald Whillans · Last owner D W Whillans
1 run · 1 course · from Aug 2021
As at 5 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: GB, Ireland & France · 2005–present, updated daily
No run recorded since 17 Aug 2021 — 1,905 days ago. Our archive can't say whether the horse is still in training.
Last run Aug 2021 · 8th of 8
KTB Profile

Lightly raced, with 1 archived start in Aug 2021 as a 5yo gelding. Finished 8 of 8 at Hamilton last time. By Pastoral Pursuits (GB), whose progeny in our archive have won 9.5% of 7,219 runs since Apr 2009.

Based on 1 archived run · updated 5 Nov 2026

KTB Speed and Rating

KTB Speed

Best recent Speed — no A or B graded figure in the last 3 runs; the figures below carry grade C

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 →

Flat 1 figure · too few for a breakdown

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

KTB Rating

Best recent KTB Rating 60C the best of the last 1 rated run · Hamilton, 17 Aug 2021

What the horse achieved in each race, in pounds on the official-rating scale, from the weight carried, the lengths beaten and the race's own level solved across the archive — never the market, never the official rating as a starting point. The headline is the best of the horse's last three rated runs on that code — its best recent day. The KTB Rating on a racecard is a different reading of the same figures: the level the horse has been running to, an average of up to its last six runs with the latest counting most, so the two can differ. A, B or C on a run is how much known form was in that race. What this means →

Flat 1 figure · too few for a breakdown

KTB Rating v1 · batch 3 Oct 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 1 figure from 1 run · as at 4 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

Sire

Progeny in our archive have won 9.5% of 7,219 runs since Apr 2009 (437 horses).

Strongest on firm going: 17.4% from 109. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 1.5% from 133.

GoingRunsWinsSRvs sireThis horse
Firm1091917.4%+7.9—
Good to Firm1,4581439.8%+0.3—
Good1,4721339%−0.50 from 1
Good to Soft772759.7%+0.2—
Soft7527810.4%+0.9—
Heavy1751810.3%+0.8—
Standard (AW)2,4812188.8%−0.7—
Distance (all codes)RunsWinsSRvs sireThis horse
Under 6f1,87823312.4%+2.9—
6f – 7f3,6013389.4%−0.1—
1m – 1m1f1,084767%−2.5—
1m2f – 1m4f475336.9%−2.60 from 1
1m5f – 2m13321.5%−8—
2m1f – 2m4f3525.7%−3.8—
2m5f – 3m1000%−9.5—
Over 3m300%−9.5—

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

Dam
The Lady Mandarin (GB) (Groom Dancer)

3 siblings in the archive, 0 winners.

ProduceRunsWinsWin tripsBest grade
The Calling Curlew (GB)120——
The Boomingbittern (GB)40——
Shearwater (GB)20——

Too few runs for meaningful splits. The full record is below.

Form

DateCourseRace PosBtn Wgt SpdKTB Jockey SP
2021 · 1 run
17 Aug 21 Hamilton Hampton By Hilton Hamilton Park Maiden Stakes Class 5 · 1m3f · Good · 8 ran 8/8 49 9-13 12C60C Connor Beasley 80/1

Quick answers

How many races has Little Les won?
Little Les (GB) has yet to win, from 1 archived start in 2021.
Who trained Little Les?
Little Les (GB) was trained by Donald Whillans on the most recent run on record, at Hamilton on 17 August 2021.
Who is Little Les's sire?
Little Les (GB) is by Pastoral Pursuits (GB) out of The Lady Mandarin (GB), whose sire is Groom Dancer.
What is Little Les's sire's record?
Pastoral Pursuits (GB)'s progeny in our archive have won 9.5% of 7,219 runs since Apr 2009 (437 horses), Flat and jumps together. Strongest on firm going: 17.4% from 109. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 1.5% from 133.
Who are Little Les's siblings?
Out of The Lady Mandarin (GB), Little Les (GB) has 3 other produce in our archive, 0 of them winners. As at Nov 2026.

Record shown from August 2021. Our archive holds racing in Great Britain, Ireland and France from January 2005. Any runs before that, or in other countries, are not in it. In-running comments are available from 2024 onward.