Horse profile
Merlin The Wizard (GB)
by Camelot (GB) out of Sweet Gentle Kiss (IRE) (Henrythenavigator)
27 runs · 16 courses · from Dec 2022
As at 25 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: GB, Ireland & France · 2005–present, updated daily
5 wins · 5 courses
Last run 18 Sep 2026 · 2nd of 10
Last raced off OR 74
KTB Profile
Merlin The Wizard is a gelding with five wins from 27 runs. He won the Michael Joyce Memorial Handicap at Ballinrobe over 1m – 1m1f on soft ground in Jun 2026 off an official rating of 72 and the Limerick Optional Claiming Race over 1m2f – 1m4f on good to soft ground the same month off 72. He has also won twice over 6f – 7f on good ground. Aged 6 at his last run in Sep 2026, he finished 2 of 10 at Dundalk (AW) off an official rating of 74. He is usually held up.
Based on 27 archived runs · run-style from 18 commented runs since Aug 2024 · updated 25 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance
OR ↓ 22lb off peak
- 5–27Wins / Runs
- 18.5%Strike rate
- 9 (33.3%)Placed
- −10.09£1 level staken=27 at SP
- 1.56Fair A/E n=27 · 1.29 incl. margin
- 96Highest OR
- 53dAvg 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.
Official rating74↓ 22lb off peak
74
72–96
KTB Speed and Rating
KTB Speed
Best recent Speed 97
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
| Going | Runs | Best | Median | Since 25 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | 8 | 107B | 78.5 | 1 run · — |
| Standard (AW) | 6 | 97A | 88.5 | 3 runs · 97 / 93 |
| Good to Soft | 5 | 110A | 93 | 5 runs · 110 / 93 |
| Soft | 5 | 114C | 88 | 3 runs · 114 / 99 |
| Good to Firm | 3 | 108A | 95 | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 25 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m – 1m1f | 14 | 114C | 91 | 8 runs · 114 / 91 |
| 6f – 7f | 8 | 95B | 78.5 | — |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 4 | 110A | 97 | 4 runs · 110 / 97 |
| Under 6f | 1 | — | — | — |
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 27 figures from 27 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 from 18 analysed runs since Aug 2024
- Held up 6 (33%) · 0 wins
- Prominent 6 (33%) · 2 wins
- Mid-division 5 (28%) · 0 wins
- Led 1 (6%) · 0 wins
Pedigree intelligence
Sire
Progeny in our archive have won 11.7% of 7,691 runs since Jan 2008 (755 horses).
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firm | 15 | 2 | 13.3% | +1.6 | — |
| Good to Firm | 817 | 91 | 11.1% | −0.6 | 0 from 3 |
| Good | 1,992 | 237 | 11.9% | +0.2 | 2 from 8 |
| Good to Soft | 1,094 | 131 | 12% | +0.3 | 1 from 5 |
| Soft | 1,490 | 198 | 13.3% | +1.6 | 1 from 5 |
| Heavy | 554 | 58 | 10.5% | −1.2 | — |
| Standard (AW) | 1,729 | 183 | 10.6% | −1.1 | 1 from 6 |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 6f | 26 | 1 | 3.8% | −7.9 | 0 from 1 |
| 6f – 7f | 713 | 66 | 9.3% | −2.4 | 2 from 8 |
| 1m – 1m1f | 1,608 | 179 | 11.1% | −0.6 | 2 from 14 |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 2,879 | 349 | 12.1% | +0.4 | 1 from 4 |
| 1m5f – 2m | 1,670 | 218 | 13.1% | +1.4 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 595 | 63 | 10.6% | −1.1 | — |
| 2m5f – 3m | 171 | 20 | 11.7% | 0 | — |
| Over 3m | 29 | 4 | 13.8% | +2.1 | — |
Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since Jan 2008 · as at 24 Oct 2026 · rows under 30 runs muted · win % is the measure, a record not a forecast
Dam
Sweet Gentle Kiss (IRE) (Henrythenavigator)
2 siblings in the archive, 1 winner — best of them Pratigya (GB) (1 win).
The wins came over 1m½f; the highest grade won is Class 5 (Pratigya (GB)).
| Produce | Runs | Wins | Win trips | Best grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pratigya (GB) | 4 | 1 | 1m½f | Class 5 |
| Melosa (GB) | 10 | 0 | — | — |
Record by conditions
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | 8 | 2 | 25% | −1.84 |
| Standard (AW) | 6 | 1 | 17% | −3.00 |
| Good to Soft | 5 | 1 | 20% | −1.75 |
| Soft | 5 | 1 | 20% | −0.50 |
| Good to Firm | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Class | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class 4 | 4 | 2 | 50% | +0.83 |
| Class 3 | 3 | 1 | 33% | +1.33 |
| Class 2 | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newmarket | 4 | 1 | 25% | +0.33 |
| Leopardstown | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Kempton (AW) | 3 | 1 | 33% | +0.00 |
| Galway (IRE) | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Ballinrobe | 2 | 1 | 50% | +2.50 |
| Curragh | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Dundalk (AW) | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Dundalk (AW) (IRE) | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Roscommon (IRE) | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Tramore (IRE) | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Limerick | 1 | 1 | 100% | +2.25 |
| Galway | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Navan | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Ascot | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Sandown | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Ffos Las | 1 | 1 | 100% | +0.83 |
| Distance | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m – 1m1f | 14 | 2 | 14% | −5.17 |
| 6f – 7f | 8 | 2 | 25% | −3.17 |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 4 | 1 | 25% | −0.75 |
| Under 6f | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Jockey | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hollie Doyle | 7 | 2 | 29% | −2.17 |
| Donagh O'Connor | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Julian Pietropaolo | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Reese Holohan | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Gavin Ryan | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| William Buick | 2 | 1 | 50% | +2.33 |
| Sam Coen | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Dylan Browne McMonagle | 1 | 1 | 100% | +3.50 |
| Colin Keane | 1 | 1 | 100% | +2.25 |
| Patrick McGettigan | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Seamie Heffernan | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Rory Mulligan | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Nathan Crosse | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Gary Carroll | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Sean Levey | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Headgear | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| None | 25 | 5 | 20% | −8.09 |
| Cheekpieces | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Hood | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Season | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 12 | 2 | 17% | −4.25 |
| 2025 | 5 | 0 | 0% | −5.00 |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3 | 50% | +3.16 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
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
| Date | Course | Race | Pos | Btn | Wgt | OR | Spd | KTB | Jockey | SP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 · 12 runs | ||||||||||
| 18 Sep 26+18d | Dundalk (AW) (IRE) | Start Your Racing TV Free Trial Now Apprentice Handicap | 2/10 | 1¼ | 9-6 | 74 | 97A | 86A | Julian Pietropaolo | 5/1 |
| 31 Aug 26+16d | Roscommon (IRE) | Oran Handicap Went straight to front - lost command approaching 5f out - fourth and driven 2f out - squeezed for space inside final furlong - found nothing more and dropped away late | 6/15 | hd | 9-5 | 76 | 97C | 79A | Sam Coen | 9/1 |
| 15 Aug 26+16d | Tramore (IRE) | Perennial Freight Handicap Settled at the back - no meaningful challenge from 2f out - plugged on one-paced from over 1f out - fifth at the line | 5/7 | ¾ | 9-8 | 77 | 91A | 74A | Reese Holohan | 100/30 |
| 30 Jul 26+2d | Galway (IRE) | Rockshore Refreshingly Irish Handicap Sat close to the front group early - 5th at halfway - pushed along into 4th with 2f left - couldn't quicken from 1f out and stayed on same gear to finish 6th | 6/13 | 1¾ | 9-2 | 78 | 99C | 84A | Gavin Ryan | 15/2 |
| 28 Jul 26+36d | Galway (IRE) | COLM QUINN BMW Mile Handicap Settled in the pack - 11th at halfway - made ground into 2f out but failed to threaten leaders entering straight - stayed on at one gauge to finish ninth | 9/17 | 1¼ | 8-7 | 78 | 114C | 80A | Gavin Ryan | 25/1 |
| 22 Jun 26+12d | Ballinrobe | Michael Joyce Memorial Handicap Settled just behind pace - still second at halfway - moved smoothly to hit the front two furlongs out - pushed on entering the straight - opened a big gap inside the last - held on gamely though margin shrank near the line to score | 1/10 | 9-6 | 72 | 88A | 98A | Dylan Browne McMonagle | 7/2 | |
| 10 Jun 26+17d | Limerick | Limerick Optional Claiming Race Went forward early before settling just behind the pace - third at halfway - pushed along 2f out - fought back into it a furlong out - hit the front inside the final 200 yards - won going away | 1/10 | 9-13 | 72 | 110A | 87A | Colin Keane | 9/4 | |
| 24 May 26+16d | Curragh | Velo Coffee Handicap Settled in the pack early - dropped to 11th with 3f left before finding renewed energy inside the final furlong - stayed on at a steady clip to finish 8th | 8/19 | nk | 9-1 | 74 | 70C | 75A | Reese Holohan | 10/1 |
| 08 May 26+26d | Ballinrobe | Burleigh Accountancy Group Handicap Sat close to the front group early - 4th at halfway - pressed for effort in 6th with 2f left - up to 5th at the furlong pole and held on steadily to finish third | 3/9 | 1 | 9-1 | 74 | 64A | 83A | Julian Pietropaolo | 10/3F |
| 12 Apr 26+23d | Leopardstown | Leopardstown Members Handicap Sat close to the pace early - pushed along into 4th with 2f left then up to 3rd inside the final furlong - unable to close further and held for 5th | 5/17 | nk | 9-8 | 74 | 93C | 92A | Donagh O'Connor | 11/2 |
| 20 Mar 26+21d | Dundalk (AW) | Dundalk Stadium Winter Series Champion Jockey Handicap Near front early - settled just behind leading group - 6th at halfway - moved into contention 2f out - pushed along with a furlong and a half left - shared 2nd a furlong out and stayed on at an even gait to finish 2nd beaten two lengths | 2/11 | 2 | 9-6 | 74 | 93A | 87A | Donagh O'Connor | 12/1 |
| 27 Feb 26+213d | Dundalk (AW) | BAR 1 Betting 'Download Our App For Cheltenham' Handicap Held up towards the back - pushed along inside the final two furlongs - stayed on at one speed but made no impression - finished 10th | 10/13 | nk | 9-9 | 75 | 89B | 76A | Donagh O'Connor | 22/1 |
| 2025 · 5 runs | ||||||||||
| 29 Jul 25+19d | Galway | caulfieldindustrial.com Handicap Settled around midfield - pushed along with nothing to offer approaching 2f out - dropped away late | 15/15 | 6 | 9-7 | 80 | 55C | 46A | Patrick McGettigan | 12/1 |
| 10 Jul 25+28d | Leopardstown | Irish Stallion Farms EBF Nasrullah Handicap Held up towards the back - asked for effort but made no headway entering the straight - stayed on inside the last to finish 7th | 7/12 | nk | 8-12 | 82 | 108A | 83A | Seamie Heffernan | 40/1 |
| 12 Jun 25+19d | Leopardstown | 'the 1878 At 3Arena' Apprentice Handicap Settled around midpack - improved into contention 3f out - pressed for third with 2f left - held no more in hand and stayed on at one gear to finish 5th | 5/12 | 2 | 9-6 | 84 | 84A | 91A | Rory Mulligan | 22/1 |
| 24 May 25+7d | Curragh | QuinnBet Handicap Held up early - dropped towards the back before making up ground after halfway - couldn't quicken in the closing stages | 15/20 | 1¾ | 9-13 | 88 | 63C | 84A | Nathan Crosse | 33/1 |
| 17 May 25+206d | Navan | Best Of Luck On Your Retirement Joey Martin Handicap Slow to break - urged forward towards the back early - unable to make progress under pressure inside final 2f - stayed on same speed to finish sixth | 6/9 | 1½ | 9-13 | 89 | 59A | 77A | Gary Carroll | 16/1 |
| 2024 · 3 runs | ||||||||||
| 23 Oct 24+74d | Kempton (AW) | Try Unibet's Improved Bet Builder Handicap Held up at the back - lost touch approaching final 2f - well held at finish | 14/14 | ¾ | 9-7 | 92 | 88B | 76A | Hollie Doyle | 20/1 |
| 10 Aug 24+91d | Newmarket | JenningsBet Handicap Settled off the pace in the pack - pushed along with 2f left - unable to close the gap inside the final furlong - finished seventh beaten 6.5 lengths | 7/9 | ½ | 9-8 | 94 | 95B | 84A | Hollie Doyle | 16/1 |
| 11 May 24+224d | Ascot | Lavazza & Ascot 10 Year Anniversary Victoria Cup (Heritage Handicap) | 20/21 | ¾ | 8-13 | 96 | 78C | 70A | Hollie Doyle | 14/1 |
| 2023 · 6 runs | ||||||||||
| 30 Sep 23+49d | Newmarket | bet365 Cambridgeshire (Heritage Handicap) | 33/34 | 16 | 8-10 | 96 | 53C | 62C | William Buick | 8/1 |
| 12 Aug 23+35d | Newmarket | Molson Coors Handicap | 1/8 | 9-7 | 88 | 107B | 105A | William Buick | 10/3C | |
| 08 Jul 23+13d | Sandown | Coral Racing Club Handicap | 5/8 | 1½ | 9-8 | 89 | 79A | 89A | Hollie Doyle | 3/1 |
| 25 Jun 23+18d | Ffos Las | 3AS Leisure Handicap | 1/5 | 9-5 | 83 | 89C | 86B | Hollie Doyle | 5/6F | |
| 07 Jun 23+19d | Kempton (AW) | More Extra Place Races At Unibet Novice Stakes (GBB Race) (Div 1) | 1/14 | 9-4 | — | 87B | 95A | Hollie Doyle | 2/1F | |
| 19 May 23+156d | Newmarket | Racehorse Lotto Novice Stakes (GBB Race) | 5/10 | ½ | 9-4 | — | 95A | 84A | Hollie Doyle | 6/1 |
| 2022 · 1 run | ||||||||||
| 14 Dec 22 | Kempton (AW) | Unibet/British Stallion Studs EBF Novice Stakes (GBB Race) | 2/13 | 2¼ | 9-7 | — | 78B | 84A | Sean Levey | 12/1 |
Quick answers
- How many races has Merlin The Wizard won?
- Merlin The Wizard (GB) won 5 of 27 archived starts between 2022 and 2026, a strike rate of 18.5%. Placed 9 times in total (33.3% of starts).
- Who trains Merlin The Wizard?
- Merlin The Wizard (GB) is trained by R P Cody, who saddled the horse on its most recent run on 18 September 2026.
- Who is Merlin The Wizard's sire?
- Merlin The Wizard (GB) is by Camelot (GB) out of Sweet Gentle Kiss (IRE), whose sire is Henrythenavigator.
- What going does Merlin The Wizard prefer?
- Merlin The Wizard (GB) has the best record on good going: 2 wins from 8 starts (25%). Only going bands with at least three archived starts are read, so this is a direction rather than a settled preference.
- What is Merlin The Wizard's official rating?
- The most recent official rating on record is 74, from the run on 18 September 2026. The highest on record is 96.
- What is Merlin The Wizard's sire's record?
- Camelot (GB)'s progeny in our archive have won 11.7% of 7,691 runs since Jan 2008 (755 horses), Flat and jumps together.
- Who are Merlin The Wizard's siblings?
- Out of Sweet Gentle Kiss (IRE), Merlin The Wizard (GB) has 2 other produce in our archive, 1 of them a winner. Most wins: Pratigya (GB) (1). Highest grade won: Class 5 (Pratigya (GB)). The wins came over 1m½f. As at Oct 2026.