Old Chap (IRE)
Old Chap won one of 15 starts on turf. The win came in an Adare Manor Opportunity Handicap Hurdle at Sligo over 3m on good ground off an official rating of 93 in Aug 2023. He last ran at Sligo in Oct 2023 where he was the beaten favourite off a career-high mark of 98. All three runs on good to soft and all ten on soft ended without a win.
- 1–15Wins / Runs
- 6.7%Strike rate
- 1 (6.7%)Placed
- −2.00£1 level staken=15 at SP
- 1.60Fair A/E n=15 · 1.29 incl. margin
- 98Highest OR
- 45dAvg 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 117
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 | 7 | 105B | 74 | — |
| Good to Soft | 3 | 84C | 83 | — |
| Good | 2 | 117B | 102 | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 21 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m5f – 2m | 5 | 87B | 81 | — |
| 2m5f – 3m | 3 | 105B | 83 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 3 | 84C | 74 | — |
| Over 3m | 1 | — | — | — |
Of 15 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 · 12 figures from 15 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 5.3% of 19 runs since Jan 2008 (2 horses). A small sample.
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | 4 | 1 | 25% | +19.7 | 1 from 2 |
| Good to Soft | 3 | 0 | 0% | −5.3 | 0 from 3 |
| Soft | 12 | 0 | 0% | −5.3 | 0 from 10 |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m5f – 2m | 8 | 0 | 0% | −5.3 | 0 from 7 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 6 | 0 | 0% | −5.3 | 0 from 3 |
| 2m5f – 3m | 3 | 0 | 0% | −5.3 | 0 from 3 |
| Over 3m | 2 | 1 | 50% | +44.7 | 1 from 2 |
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soft | 10 | 0 | 0% | −10.00 |
| Good to Soft | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Good | 2 | 1 | 50% | +11.00 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sligo | 2 | 1 | 50% | +11.00 |
| Ballinrobe | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Galway | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Killarney | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Listowel | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Cork | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Limerick | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Roscommon | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Tramore | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Navan | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Fairyhouse | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Naas | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Distance | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m5f – 2m | 7 | 0 | 0% | −7.00 |
| 2m5f – 3m | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Over 3m | 2 | 1 | 50% | +11.00 |
| Jockey | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack G Gilligan | 12 | 0 | 0% | −12.00 |
| Daniel King | 1 | 1 | 100% | +12.00 |
| Mr P J Gilligan | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| J B Kane | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Season | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | 1 | 14% | +6.00 |
| 2022 | 8 | 0 | 0% | −8.00 |
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 Old Chap (IRE) won?
- Old Chap (IRE) won 1 of 15 archived starts between 2022 and 2023, a strike rate of 6.7%. Placed 1 time in total (6.7% of starts).
- Who trained Old Chap (IRE)?
- Old Chap (IRE) was trained by Paul John Gilligan on the most recent run on record, at Sligo on 27 October 2023.
- Who is Old Chap (IRE)'s sire?
- Old Chap (IRE) is by Ascalon (GB) out of Aces Blue (IRE), whose sire is Pistolet Bleu.
- What is Old Chap (IRE)'s official rating?
- The most recent official rating on record is 98, from the run on 27 October 2023. That is also the highest on record.
- What is Old Chap (IRE)'s sire's record?
- Ascalon (GB)'s progeny in our archive have won 5.3% of 19 runs since Jan 2008 (2 horses), Flat and jumps together. A small sample.