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Horse profile

Optiva Star (IRE)

4yo gelding (at last run, Nov 2024) · Last trainer Charlie Wallis · Last owner John Joseph Smith
by U S Navy Flag (USA) out of Leaf (IRE) (Montjeu)
25 runs · 13 courses · from May 2022
As at 21 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: GB, Ireland & France · 2005–present, updated daily
No run recorded since 1 Nov 2024 — 719 days ago. Our archive can't say whether the horse is still in training.
Last run Nov 2024 · 3rd of 14 3 wins · Brighton New yard Last raced off OR 69
KTB Profile

Optiva Star is a gelding who won three of 25 starts, all at Brighton. He gained all three wins in handicaps on good ground between 6f and 1m1f, two of them in Class 5 and one in Class 6. All three successes came on turf; he is 0 from 5 on the all-weather. His last run, at Newmarket in Nov 2024, was his first for Charlie Wallis and saw him finish third of 14 off an official rating of 69, 8lb below his highest ever mark.

Based on 25 archived runs · run-style from 4 commented runs since Aug 2024 · updated 21 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance All wins on turf Wins on good or faster OR ↓ 8lb off peak
Official rating69↓ 8lb off peak
69 62–77

KTB Speed and Rating

KTB Speed

Best recent Speed 111 the best of the last 3 graded (A or B) runs · Brighton, 7 Aug 2024

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 25 figures · best 134A · median 81
GoingRunsBestMedianSince 21 Oct 2025
Good6134A83.5—
Good to Firm6117B94.5—
Soft5109A97—
Standard (AW)569A68—
Good to Soft3117B96—
DistanceRunsBestMedianSince 21 Oct 2025
6f – 7f13117B86—
1m – 1m1f11134A81—
Under 6f1———

KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 25 figures from 25 runs · as at 3 Oct 2026 · a record, not a forecast

KTB Rating

Best recent KTB Rating 95A the best of the last 3 rated runs · Newmarket, 1 Nov 2024 Official rating 69 at the last run, 1 Nov 2024

What the horse achieved in each race, in pounds on the official-rating scale, from the weight carried, the lengths beaten and the race's own level solved across the archive — never the market, never the official rating as a starting point. The headline is the best of the horse's last three rated runs on that code. A, B or C on a run is how much known form was in that race. What this means →

Flat 25 figures · best 95A · median 74
GoingRunsBestMedianSince 21 Oct 2025
Good695A78.5—
Good to Firm680B69.5—
Soft591A77—
Standard (AW)576A52—
Good to Soft388A82—
DistanceRunsBestMedianSince 21 Oct 2025
6f – 7f1388A72—
1m – 1m1f1195A77—
Under 6f1———

KTB Rating v1 · batch 3 Oct 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 25 figures from 25 runs · as at 4 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 4 analysed runs since Aug 2024

  • Mid-division 2 (50%) · 0 wins
  • Prominent 1 (25%) · 0 wins
  • Led 1 (25%) · 0 wins

Pedigree intelligence

Sire
U S Navy Flag (USA)

Progeny in our archive have won 8.4% of 1,397 runs since Jan 2008 (147 horses).

Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 12.2% from 181.

GoingRunsWinsSRvs sireThis horse
Firm4125%+16.6—
Good to Firm185158.1%−0.30 from 6
Good3293610.9%+2.53 from 6
Good to Soft14196.4%−20 from 3
Soft190189.5%+1.10 from 5
Heavy4424.5%−3.9—
Standard (AW)504367.1%−1.30 from 5
Distance (all codes)RunsWinsSRvs sireThis horse
Under 6f1812212.2%+3.80 from 1
6f – 7f598427%−1.42 from 13
1m – 1m1f358287.8%−0.61 from 11
1m2f – 1m4f208188.7%+0.3—
1m5f – 2m36616.7%+8.3—
2m1f – 2m4f10110%+1.6—
2m5f – 3m600%−8.4—

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

Dam
Leaf (IRE) (Montjeu)

2 siblings in the archive, 0 winners.

ProduceRunsWinsWin tripsBest grade
St Hilda (IRE)70——
Kathleen's Glory (IRE)40——

Record by conditions

GoingRunsWinsSR£1
Good 6 3 50% +5.58
Good to Firm 6 0 0% −6.00
Soft 5 0 0% −5.00
Standard (AW) 5 0 0% −5.00
Good to Soft 3 0 0% −3.00

ClassRunsWinsSR£1
Class 5 12 2 17% −3.67
Class 4 9 0 0% −9.00
Class 6 4 1 25% −0.75

CourseRunsWinsSR£1
Brighton 6 3 50% +5.58
Epsom Downs 3 0 0% −3.00
Kempton (AW) 3 0 0% −3.00
Windsor 3 0 0% −3.00
Salisbury 2 0 0% −2.00
Newmarket 1 0 0% −1.00
Ascot 1 0 0% −1.00
Chepstow 1 0 0% −1.00
Lingfield 1 0 0% −1.00
Southwell (AW) 1 0 0% −1.00
Wolverhampton (AW) 1 0 0% −1.00
Leicester 1 0 0% −1.00
Newbury 1 0 0% −1.00

DistanceRunsWinsSR£1
6f – 7f 13 2 15% −5.42
1m – 1m1f 11 1 9% −7.00
Under 6f 1 0 0% −1.00

JockeyRunsWinsSR£1
Joe Leavy 8 1 13% −4.00
Alec Voikhansky 5 1 20% −0.67
Pat Dobbs 4 1 25% −0.75
Sam Hitchcott 2 0 0% −2.00
Tyrese Cameron 2 0 0% −2.00
Sean Levey 2 0 0% −2.00
Saffie Osborne 1 0 0% −1.00
Thomas Greatrex 1 0 0% −1.00

HeadgearRunsWinsSR£1
Hood 14 3 21% −2.42
None 11 0 0% −11.00

SeasonRunsWinsSR£1
2024 8 0 0% −8.00
2023 12 3 25% −0.42
2022 5 0 0% −5.00

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

DateCourseRace PosBtn Wgt ORSpdKTB Jockey SP
01 Nov 24+15d Newmarket Munich's Allianz-Grosser Preis Von Bayern Handicap Class 5 · 8f · Good · 14 ran Settled in the pack early - moved into third and stayed on frontrunners' heels from two out - stuck on late but couldn't close the gap 3/14 ½ 9-13 6980C95A Saffie Osborne 14/1
17 Oct 24+35d Brighton attheraces.com/marketmovers Handicap Class 5 · 8f · Soft · 11 ran Settled midfield early - driven up into contention 2f out and hit front briefly inside final furlong - overtaken close home - held on same speed for third 3/11 1¼ 9-8 69109A91A Alec Voikhansky 12/1
12 Sep 24+36d Epsom Downs Quickslide Quick Ride Handicap Class 4 · 7f · Soft · 12 ran Handy on the outside early - drifted across the far rail and dropped away over 2f out - driven along and no extra final furlong to finish sixth 6/12 1 9-4 7197B72A Joe Leavy 10/1
07 Aug 24+25d Brighton Carlsberg Danish Pilsner Brighton Mile Challenge Handicap Class 4 · 8f · Good To Firm · 9 ran Set the pace early - pushed along a furlong out then lost the advantage approaching the final furlong - could not find more late and held on for 6th beaten 4.5 lengths 6/9 2 9-4 73111B68A Joe Leavy 16/1
13 Jul 24+26d Ascot SportVision Handicap Class 4 · 7f · Good · 16 ran 14/16 1½ 9-10 7454C66C Thomas Greatrex 40/1
17 Jun 24+47d Chepstow Plan A Consulting Handicap Class 5 · 8f · Good To Soft · 7 ran 3/7 ½ 9-3 74117B82A Joe Leavy 9/1
01 May 24+16d Kempton (AW) Unibet More Boosts In More Races Handicap Class 4 · 8f · Standard To Slow · 14 ran 13/14 5 8-12 7568C48C Joe Leavy 40/1
15 Apr 24+161d Windsor Irish Night 10th June Windsor Racecourse Handicap Class 4 · 8f · Good · 12 ran 3/12 hd 8-13 7581A79A Joe Leavy 11/1
06 Nov 23+18d Kempton (AW) Join Racing TV Now Handicap Class 5 · 7f · Standard To Slow · 12 ran 12/12 1 9-6 7568A49A Alec Voikhansky 16/1
19 Oct 23+46d Brighton Download The At The Races App Handicap Class 5 · 8f · Soft · 7 ran 2/7 hd 9-0 73105A77A Joe Leavy 7/2
03 Sep 23+13d Brighton St Leger Form Study On attheraces.com Handicap Class 5 · 8f · Good · 7 ran 1/7 9-3 69134A83A Joe Leavy 3/1C
21 Aug 23+12d Brighton Sky Sports Racing Sky 415 Handicap Class 5 · 7f · Good · 9 ran 1/9 8-13 66109B74A Alec Voikhansky 10/3F
09 Aug 23+6d Brighton Download The Star Sports App Handicap Class 6 · 7f · Good · 7 ran 1/7 9-9 6286B78A Pat Dobbs 9/4
03 Aug 23+8d Epsom Downs Tommy Harrigan Memorial Handicap Class 6 · 7f · Soft · 7 ran 2/7 hd 9-6 6275B82A Sam Hitchcott 11/4
26 Jul 23+6d Lingfield Follow AtTheRaces On Twitter Handicap Class 6 · 7.5f · Good To Firm · 10 ran 3/10 nk 9-0 64117B72A Tyrese Cameron 5/1
20 Jul 23+54d Epsom Downs Chantilly Handicap Class 6 · 7f · Good To Firm · 8 ran 4/8 ¾ 9-2 6470B71A Tyrese Cameron 9/1
27 May 23+16d Salisbury D & N Construction Handicap Class 5 · 5f · Good To Firm · 10 ran 9/10 1¾ 8-9 6878A41A Joe Leavy 18/1
11 May 23+7d Southwell (AW) Read Richard Hannon's Chester Blogs At UnibetRacing Maiden Stakes (GBB Race) (Div 2) Class 5 · 6f · Standard · 10 ran 8/10 ½ 9-1 7166A58A Alec Voikhansky 15/2
04 May 23+17d Salisbury William Hill Extra Place Races Daily Handicap Class 5 · 6f · Good To Soft · 10 ran 5/10 ¾ 9-7 7396A88A Sam Hitchcott 40/1
17 Apr 23+112d Windsor Sky Sports Racing Sky 415 Handicap Class 5 · 8f · Soft · 8 ran 7/8 5½ 9-7 7354C51C Sean Levey 6/1
26 Dec 22+12d Wolverhampton (AW) talkSPORT Powered By Fans Nursery Class 4 · 8.5f · Standard · 5 ran 5/5 4¾ 8-7 7659C52B Alec Voikhansky 9/1
14 Dec 22+174d Kempton (AW) Unibet Extra Place Offers Every Day Nursery Class 5 · 8f · Standard To Slow · 10 ran 6/10 nk 9-11 7769A76A Sean Levey 12/1
23 Jun 22+14d Leicester British Stallion Studs EBF Novice Stakes (GBB Race) Class 4 · 7f · Good To Firm · 5 ran 4/5 1¼ 9-4 —91C61B Pat Dobbs 13/2
09 Jun 22+17d Newbury Watch RacingTV With Free Trial Now Novice Stakes (GBB Race) Class 4 · 6.5f · Good To Soft · 10 ran 6/10 1¾ 9-7 —73A76A Pat Dobbs 16/1
23 May 22 Windsor British Stallion Studs EBF Novice Stakes (GBB Race) Class 4 · 6f · Good To Firm · 6 ran 3/6 nk 9-7 —98A80B Pat Dobbs 4/1

Quick answers

How many races has Optiva Star (IRE) won?
Optiva Star (IRE) won 3 of 25 archived starts between 2022 and 2024, a strike rate of 12%. Placed 9 times in total (36% of starts).
Who trained Optiva Star (IRE)?
Optiva Star (IRE) was trained by Charlie Wallis on the most recent run on record, at Newmarket on 1 November 2024.
Who is Optiva Star (IRE)'s sire?
Optiva Star (IRE) is by U S Navy Flag (USA) out of Leaf (IRE), whose sire is Montjeu.
What going does Optiva Star (IRE) prefer?
Optiva Star (IRE) has the best record on good going: 3 wins from 6 starts (50%). Only going bands with at least three archived starts are read, so this is a direction rather than a settled preference.
What is Optiva Star (IRE)'s official rating?
The most recent official rating on record is 69, from the run on 1 November 2024. The highest on record is 77.
What is Optiva Star (IRE)'s sire's record?
U S Navy Flag (USA)'s progeny in our archive have won 8.4% of 1,397 runs since Jan 2008 (147 horses), Flat and jumps together. Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 12.2% from 181.
Who are Optiva Star (IRE)'s siblings?
Out of Leaf (IRE), Optiva Star (IRE) has 2 other produce in our archive, 0 of them winners. As at Oct 2026.

Record shown from May 2022. Our archive holds racing in Great Britain, Ireland and France from January 2005. Runs in other countries are not in it, and earlier runs are not available from our data provider. In-running comments are available from 2024 onward.