Obey The Rules (IRE)
Obey The Rules won four of 23 starts over fences between Jan 2021 and May 2023. All four wins came in handicaps on good or faster ground, two of them at around 2m1f to 2m4f and two at 1m5f to 2m. He gained his last success at Leicester in Dec 2022 off a mark of 93. The gelding, aged 8 at his last run in May 2023, finished off a career-high mark of 95 at Huntingdon.
- 4–23Wins / Runs
- 17.4%Strike rate
- 8 (34.8%)Placed
- −3.63£1 level staken=23 at SP
- 1.00Fair A/E n=23 · 0.89 incl. margin
- 96Highest OR
- 39dAvg 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 109
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 28 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | 12 | 109A | 74.5 | — |
| Good to Soft | 2 | 106C | 59 | — |
| Good to Firm | 2 | 126A | 106.5 | — |
| Soft | 2 | 73B | 61 | — |
| Heavy | 2 | 91C | 78 | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 28 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m5f – 2m | 13 | 126A | 73 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 7 | 107A | 78 | — |
Of 23 runs looked at, 3 have no figure: did not complete (1) · not enough races on the card to set the day (under 4) (1) · obstacles omitted — the race ran a shortened course (1).
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 20 figures from 23 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 5.8% of 310 runs since Jan 2008 (35 horses).
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good to Firm | 4 | 1 | 25% | +19.2 | 1 from 2 |
| Good | 125 | 7 | 5.6% | −0.2 | 3 from 14 |
| Good to Soft | 56 | 3 | 5.4% | −0.4 | 0 from 3 |
| Soft | 93 | 6 | 6.5% | +0.7 | 0 from 2 |
| Heavy | 28 | 1 | 3.6% | −2.2 | 0 from 2 |
| Standard (AW) | 4 | 0 | 0% | −5.8 | — |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6f – 7f | 9 | 0 | 0% | −5.8 | — |
| 1m – 1m1f | 4 | 0 | 0% | −5.8 | — |
| 1m5f – 2m | 83 | 4 | 4.8% | −1 | 2 from 14 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 124 | 8 | 6.5% | +0.7 | 2 from 9 |
| 2m5f – 3m | 75 | 5 | 6.7% | +0.9 | — |
| Over 3m | 15 | 1 | 6.7% | +0.9 | — |
Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since Jan 2008 · as at 28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | 14 | 3 | 21% | +1.62 |
| Good to Soft | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Good to Firm | 2 | 1 | 50% | +1.75 |
| Soft | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Heavy | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Class | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class 5 | 17 | 3 | 18% | −1.38 |
| Class 4 | 6 | 1 | 17% | −2.25 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wincanton | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Leicester | 2 | 1 | 50% | +1.75 |
| Bangor-on-Dee | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Market Rasen | 2 | 1 | 50% | +5.50 |
| Sedgefield | 2 | 1 | 50% | +0.62 |
| Ludlow | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Huntingdon | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Musselburgh | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Ffos Las | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Stratford | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Worcester | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Fakenham | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Catterick | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Hereford | 1 | 1 | 100% | +4.50 |
| Chepstow | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Carlisle | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Doncaster | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Distance | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m5f – 2m | 14 | 2 | 14% | −4.75 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 9 | 2 | 22% | +1.12 |
| Jockey | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Hughes | 8 | 2 | 25% | −1.63 |
| Theo Gillard | 6 | 0 | 0% | −6.00 |
| Sean Quinlan | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Sam Twiston-Davies | 2 | 1 | 50% | +3.50 |
| Jonathan Burke | 1 | 1 | 100% | +6.50 |
| Alan Johns | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| A P Heskin | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Headgear | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheekpieces | 12 | 2 | 17% | −0.75 |
| None | 10 | 2 | 20% | −1.88 |
| Blinkers | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Season | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| 2022 | 10 | 2 | 20% | +1.25 |
| 2021 | 11 | 2 | 18% | −2.88 |
| Type | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chase | 19 | 4 | 21% | +0.37 |
| Hurdle | 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 Obey The Rules won?
- Obey The Rules (IRE) won 4 of 23 archived starts between 2021 and 2023, a strike rate of 17.4%. Placed 8 times in total (34.8% of starts).
- Who trained Obey The Rules?
- Obey The Rules (IRE) was trained by Donald McCain on the most recent run on record, at Huntingdon on 29 May 2023.
- Who is Obey The Rules's sire?
- Obey The Rules (IRE) is by Rule of Law (USA) out of Mamie Buggles (IRE), whose sire is Suleiman.
- What going does Obey The Rules prefer?
- Obey The Rules (IRE) has the best record on good going: 3 wins from 14 starts (21.4%). Only going bands with at least three archived starts are read, so this is a direction rather than a settled preference.
- What is Obey The Rules's official rating?
- The most recent official rating on record is 95, from the run on 29 May 2023. The highest on record is 96.
- What is Obey The Rules's sire's record?
- Rule of Law (USA)'s progeny in our archive have won 5.8% of 310 runs since Jan 2008 (35 horses), Flat and jumps together.