Horse profile
Nakamura (IRE)
by Kodi Bear (IRE) out of Ahab (GB) (Alhebayeb)
17 runs · 10 courses · from Apr 2025
As at 24 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: GB, Ireland & France · 2005–present, updated daily
2 wins · Cork & Navan
Headgear returns LTO
Last run 20 Oct 2026 · 3rd of 17
Last raced off OR 73
KTB Profile
Nakamura is a gelding who won two of his 17 starts, both in soft-ground nurseries over 6f – 7f at Cork and Navan in Aug and Sep 2025. He has raced exclusively on turf, usually prominently, and has never won on good ground. His last run, at Curragh in Oct 2026, was a third of 17 off an official rating of 73, 15lb below his highest ever mark of 88, with headgear returning.
Based on 17 archived runs · run-style from 17 commented runs since Apr 2025 · updated 24 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance
Typically prominent
OR ↓ 15lb off peak
- 2–17Wins / Runs
- 11.8%Strike rate
- 6 (35.3%)Placed
- −6.50£1 level staken=17 at SP
- 1.56Fair A/E n=17 · 1.25 incl. margin
- 88Highest OR
- 35dAvg 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 rating73↓ 15lb off peak
73
70–88
KTB Speed and Rating
KTB Speed
Best recent Speed 87
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 24 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soft | 10 | 102A | 72.5 | 5 · 83 / 67 |
| Good | 6 | 104C | 82 | 3 · 104 / 84 |
| Good to Firm | 1 | — | — | 1 · — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 24 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6f – 7f | 16 | 104C | 79 | 8 · 104 / 79 |
| Under 6f | 1 | — | — | 1 · — |
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 17 figures from 17 runs · as at 24 Oct 2026 · 1 recent figure provisional (may move for 7 days) · 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 17 analysed runs since Apr 2025
- Prominent 11 (65%) · 1 win
- Mid-division 3 (18%) · 0 wins
- Led 2 (12%) · 1 win
- Held up 1 (6%) · 0 wins
Pedigree intelligence
Sire
Progeny in our archive have won 10.3% of 3,947 runs since Jan 2008 (387 horses).
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firm | 11 | 3 | 27.3% | +17 | — |
| Good to Firm | 535 | 65 | 12.1% | +1.8 | 0 from 1 |
| Good | 1,027 | 108 | 10.5% | +0.2 | 0 from 6 |
| Good to Soft | 375 | 34 | 9.1% | −1.2 | — |
| Soft | 536 | 51 | 9.5% | −0.8 | 2 from 10 |
| Heavy | 141 | 14 | 9.9% | −0.4 | — |
| Standard (AW) | 1,322 | 133 | 10.1% | −0.2 | — |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 6f | 552 | 69 | 12.5% | +2.2 | 0 from 1 |
| 6f – 7f | 2,234 | 239 | 10.7% | +0.4 | 2 from 16 |
| 1m – 1m1f | 731 | 64 | 8.8% | −1.5 | — |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 257 | 19 | 7.4% | −2.9 | — |
| 1m5f – 2m | 112 | 11 | 9.8% | −0.5 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 48 | 4 | 8.3% | −2 | — |
| 2m5f – 3m | 10 | 2 | 20% | +9.7 | — |
| Over 3m | 3 | 0 | 0% | −10.3 | — |
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
Ahab (GB) (Alhebayeb)
1 sibling in the archive, 0 winners.
| Produce | Runs | Wins | Win trips | Best grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dear Theodosia (IRE) | 5 | 0 | — | — |
Record by conditions
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soft | 10 | 2 | 20% | +0.50 |
| Good | 6 | 0 | 0% | −6.00 |
| Good to Firm | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curragh | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Curragh (IRE) | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Naas | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Cork | 2 | 1 | 50% | +3.50 |
| Navan | 2 | 1 | 50% | +3.00 |
| Roscommon (IRE) | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Listowel (IRE) | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Fairyhouse | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Galway | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Roscommon | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Distance | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6f – 7f | 16 | 2 | 13% | −5.50 |
| Under 6f | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Jockey | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Coen | 9 | 2 | 22% | +1.50 |
| Patrick McGettigan | 5 | 0 | 0% | −5.00 |
| Yudish Geerdharry | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Seamie Heffernan | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Headgear | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blinkers | 9 | 2 | 22% | +1.50 |
| None | 6 | 0 | 0% | −6.00 |
| Cheekpieces | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Season | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 9 | 0 | 0% | −9.00 |
| 2025 | 8 | 2 | 25% | +2.50 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Oct 26+8d | Curragh (IRE) | Autumn Racing With 1xBet.ie At The Curragh Handicap sat just behind the front runner - 2nd at halfway - shaken up to hit the front over 2f out - soon under a hard drive and overtaken over 1f out - 3rd and out of gas over 100 yards out - stayed on at same speed to the line | 3/17 | 2½ | 9-8 | 73 | 67C | 100A | Ben Coen | 20/1 |
| 12 Oct 26+8d | Roscommon (IRE) | Guinness Handicap Raced in the pack - 8th at halfway - faded over 2f out and never a factor - finished 13th | 13/14 | ¾ | 9-11 | 76 | 78C | 70C | Seamie Heffernan | 16/1 |
| 04 Oct 26+12d | Curragh (IRE) | Business Plus Handicap Prominent early - pushed along around halfway and in the pack - soon outpaced - finished 14th | 14/22 | 2¼ | 9-9 | 79 | 61C | 79A | Patrick McGettigan | 18/1 |
| 22 Sep 26+87d | Listowel (IRE) | WTW Willis Towers Watson Handicap Sat handy behind pace - 6th at halfway - asked for effort over 2f out and edged into 5th inside final furlong - faded to finish 7th | 7/11 | hd | 9-13 | 79 | 83A | 86A | Ben Coen | 14/1 |
| 27 Jun 26+15d | Curragh | Fitzpatrick's Garage Group Handicap Tracked the front group towards the stands - pushed along with no headway 2f out - unable to quicken final furlong - finished well held in 12th | 12/14 | 1¼ | 8-9 | 82 | 78C | 62A | Patrick McGettigan | 10/1 |
| 12 Jun 26+20d | Fairyhouse | Winter Festival Early Bird Handicap Hesitant start - sat behind the pace - pushed along in 4th with 2f left - improved to 3rd approaching final furlong - moved into 2nd close home and stuck to task for 2nd | 2/12 | ½ | 9-10 | 81 | 84A | 99A | Patrick McGettigan | 4/1F |
| 23 May 26+14d | Curragh | NorthStandard Handicap Sat close to the pace - 4th at halfway - asked for effort over 2f out but found nothing more - dropped away inside the final furlong | 8/13 | 1 | 9-1 | 84 | 80C | 79A | Patrick McGettigan | 22/1 |
| 09 May 26+35d | Naas | Declan Landy Fencing Handicap (Premier Handicap) Held up towards the back - urged into a slight advance past midfield inside the final 2f - stayed on at one tempo through the closing furlong without threatening | 7/14 | 1¾ | 9-5 | 86 | 104C | 86A | Patrick McGettigan | 22/1 |
| 04 Apr 26+175d | Cork | Down Syndrome Centre Cork Rated Race Settled just behind the pace early - began to struggle with two out and slipped towards the back - faded through the closing stages to finish well beaten | 8/8 | 6½ | 9-9 | 87 | 36C | 49C | Ben Coen | 7/1 |
| 11 Oct 25+11d | Naas | Irish Stallion Farms EBF Birdcatcher Premier Nursery Handicap Sat behind the front group - second at halfway - urged forward outside the two-furlong marker - asked to go on a furlong out but found nothing more - slipped back to fourth in the closing stages | 4/14 | ½ | 9-2 | 88 | 95C | 91A | Yudish Geerdharry | 8/1 |
| 30 Sep 25+33d | Cork | Irish Stallion Farms EBF Nursery Handicap Set the pace from the break - firmly challenged with two furlongs left - pushed along and continued gamely inside the final furlong to prevail | 1/12 | 9-11 | 79 | 87A | 95A | Ben Coen | 9/2 | |
| 28 Aug 25+28d | Navan | Navan Racecourse Nursery Handicap Travelled keenly close up early - shared the front by 1 1/2f - edged in front around halfway - pressed for effort with 2f to go and shifted right to level 1 1/2f out - hit the front approaching the final furlong - stayed on strongly to the line - won | 1/12 | 9-5 | 70 | 102A | 93A | Ben Coen | 4/1F | |
| 31 Jul 25+12d | Galway | Guinness Irish EBF Nursery Handicap Went forward early - challenged three out then pushed along two out - lost the front inside the final furlong - stuck on same gear to finish third | 3/6 | 2¼ | 9-3 | 71 | 62C | 80B | Ben Coen | 11/2 |
| 19 Jul 25+68d | Curragh | Lavazza Sprint Nursery Handicap Held up in the pack - urged forward with over 2f left - stayed on modestly in the closing stages to snatch 6th right at the line | 6/8 | 1¼ | 8-13 | 74 | 60A | 71A | Ben Coen | 10/1 |
| 12 May 25+16d | Roscommon | Irish EBF Median Sires Series Maiden Shared the early advantage before losing it after 1f and slipping to 4th by halfway - asked for effort with 2f remaining - found extra to move into 3rd approaching the final furlong - bumped late but held on for the placing | 3/15 | ½ | 9-2 | — | 84C | 85A | Ben Coen | 10/1 |
| 26 Apr 25+14d | Navan | Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden Sat close behind front group early - driven up in 4th two out with little response - edged into third and stayed on steadily to finish third | 3/12 | 1½ | 9-7 | — | 65A | 76A | Ben Coen | 125/1 |
| 12 Apr 25 | Curragh | Tote Never Beaten By SP Irish European Breeders Fund Maiden Settled in the pack early - under pressure with two furlongs left and unable to close - held on same effort to finish 10th | 10/10 | hd | 9-0 | — | 47A | 52A | Yudish Geerdharry | 33/1 |
Quick answers
- How many races has Nakamura (IRE) won?
- Nakamura (IRE) won 2 of 17 archived starts between 2025 and 2026, a strike rate of 11.8%. Placed 6 times in total (35.3% of starts).
- Who trains Nakamura (IRE)?
- Nakamura (IRE) is trained by J. P. Murtagh, who saddled the horse on its most recent run on 20 October 2026.
- Who is Nakamura (IRE)'s sire?
- Nakamura (IRE) is by Kodi Bear (IRE) out of Ahab (GB), whose sire is Alhebayeb.
- What going does Nakamura (IRE) prefer?
- Nakamura (IRE) has the best record on soft going: 2 wins from 10 starts (20%). Only going bands with at least three archived starts are read, so this is a direction rather than a settled preference.
- What is Nakamura (IRE)'s official rating?
- The most recent official rating on record is 73, from the run on 20 October 2026. The highest on record is 88.
- What is Nakamura (IRE)'s sire's record?
- Kodi Bear (IRE)'s progeny in our archive have won 10.3% of 3,947 runs since Jan 2008 (387 horses), Flat and jumps together.
- Who are Nakamura (IRE)'s siblings?
- Out of Ahab (GB), Nakamura (IRE) has 1 other produce in our archive, 0 of them winners. As at Oct 2026.