Merry Moves (IRE)
Merry Moves won a handicap hurdle at Limerick in Mar 2023 off an official rating of 87 on soft ground over 2m5f to 3m. The mare holds one win and four places from 22 starts on turf, all her successes coming at that trip and on soft ground. She last ran at Limerick in Dec 2023 off an official rating of 88, which was 9lb below her highest ever mark of 97. Aged 8 at her last run in Dec 2023.
- 1–22Wins / Runs
- 4.5%Strike rate
- 4 (18.2%)Placed
- +1.00£1 level staken=22 at SP
- 0.84Fair A/E n=22 · 0.65 incl. margin
- 97Highest OR
- 48dAvg 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 105
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 21 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soft | 12 | 125B | 81 | — |
| Good to Soft | 3 | 119B | 84 | — |
| Heavy | 2 | 105B | 103 | — |
| Good | 2 | 90B | 69 | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 21 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2m5f – 3m | 12 | 105B | 80 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 6 | 125B | 88 | — |
| Over 3m | 1 | — | — | — |
Of 22 runs looked at, 3 have no figure: did not complete (2) · not enough races on the card to set the day (under 4) (1).
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 19 figures from 22 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 12.5% of 4,258 runs since Jan 2008 (419 horses).
Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 8.9% from 157.
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good to Firm | 99 | 14 | 14.1% | +1.6 | — |
| Good | 1,269 | 146 | 11.5% | −1 | 0 from 2 |
| Good to Soft | 814 | 110 | 13.5% | +1 | 0 from 3 |
| Soft | 1,304 | 169 | 13% | +0.5 | 1 from 12 |
| Heavy | 549 | 69 | 12.6% | +0.1 | 0 from 5 |
| Standard (AW) | 222 | 23 | 10.4% | −2.1 | — |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6f – 7f | 39 | 6 | 15.4% | +2.9 | — |
| 1m – 1m1f | 157 | 14 | 8.9% | −3.6 | — |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 326 | 32 | 9.8% | −2.7 | — |
| 1m5f – 2m | 1,052 | 127 | 12.1% | −0.4 | 0 from 1 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 1,454 | 192 | 13.2% | +0.7 | 0 from 6 |
| 2m5f – 3m | 991 | 125 | 12.6% | +0.1 | 1 from 14 |
| Over 3m | 239 | 35 | 14.6% | +2.1 | 0 from 1 |
Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since Jan 2008 · as at 21 Oct 2026 · rows under 30 runs muted · win % is the measure, a record not a forecast
3 siblings in the archive, 1 winner — best of them Sliabh Mhuire Lass (IRE) (1 win).
The wins came over 2m7½f.
| Produce | Runs | Wins | Win trips | Best grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sliabh Mhuire Lass (IRE) | 15 | 1 | 2m7½f | — |
| Ale Ambrosio (IRE) | 10 | 0 | — | — |
| Itsaworkinmaniam (IRE) | 7 | 0 | — | — |
Record by conditions
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soft | 12 | 1 | 8% | +11.00 |
| Heavy | 5 | 0 | 0% | −5.00 |
| Good to Soft | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Good | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limerick | 5 | 1 | 20% | +18.00 |
| Fairyhouse | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Thurles | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Punchestown | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Galway | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Tipperary | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Kilbeggan | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Cork | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Listowel | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Wexford | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Naas | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Distance | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2m5f – 3m | 14 | 1 | 7% | +9.00 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 6 | 0 | 0% | −6.00 |
| Over 3m | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| 1m5f – 2m | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Jockey | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diarmuid Moloney | 5 | 0 | 0% | −5.00 |
| Ben Harvey | 3 | 1 | 33% | +20.00 |
| Phillip Enright | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Mr Derek O'Connor | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Robbie Geoghegan | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Jordan Gainford | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Miss C F Macmahon | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Mr J G Murphy | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Mr P J Cawley | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Kieran Callaghan | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Rachael Blackmore | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Headgear | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tongue tie | 12 | 1 | 8% | +11.00 |
| None | 7 | 0 | 0% | −7.00 |
| Tongue tie + cheekpieces | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Season | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 9 | 1 | 11% | +14.00 |
| 2022 | 10 | 0 | 0% | −10.00 |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Type | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hurdle | 14 | 1 | 7% | +9.00 |
| Chase | 5 | 0 | 0% | −5.00 |
| NH Flat | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Flat | 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
Quick answers
- How many races has Merry Moves (IRE) won?
- Merry Moves (IRE) won 1 of 22 archived starts between 2021 and 2023, a strike rate of 4.5%. Placed 4 times in total (18.2% of starts).
- Who trained Merry Moves (IRE)?
- Merry Moves (IRE) was trained by Mrs Grainne M O'Connor on the most recent run on record, at Limerick on 27 December 2023.
- Who is Merry Moves (IRE)'s sire?
- Merry Moves (IRE) is by Sholokhov (IRE) out of Memorys Of Madness (IRE), whose sire is Presenting.
- What going does Merry Moves (IRE) prefer?
- Merry Moves (IRE) has the best record on soft going: 1 win from 12 starts (8.3%). Only going bands with at least three archived starts are read, so this is a direction rather than a settled preference.
- What is Merry Moves (IRE)'s official rating?
- The most recent official rating on record is 88, from the run on 27 December 2023. The highest on record is 97.
- What is Merry Moves (IRE)'s sire's record?
- Sholokhov (IRE)'s progeny in our archive have won 12.5% of 4,258 runs since Jan 2008 (419 horses), Flat and jumps together. Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 8.9% from 157.
- Who are Merry Moves (IRE)'s siblings?
- Out of Memorys Of Madness (IRE), Merry Moves (IRE) has 3 other produce in our archive, 1 of them a winner. Most wins: Sliabh Mhuire Lass (IRE) (1). The wins came over 2m7½f. As at Oct 2026.