Playful Saint (FR)
Playful Saint won four of ten starts all at Class 3 level. He gained two of those wins over 2m1f to 2m4f on good to soft and two over 1m5f to 2m on heavy ground. Each success came on his first visit to the course. Aged 9 at his last run in May 2024 he won the Armstrong Watson Novices Limited Handicap Chase at Cartmel off a mark of 136 which was also his career highest.
- 4–10Wins / Runs
- 40%Strike rate
- 7 (70%)Placed
- +9.00£1 level staken=10 at SP
- 2.22Fair A/E n=10 · 1.97 incl. margin
- 136Highest OR
- 90dAvg 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 129
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 to Soft | 3 | 123A | 101 | — |
| Soft | 3 | 129B | 99 | — |
| Heavy | 2 | 106C | 99 | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 28 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m5f – 2m | 5 | 129B | 101 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 3 | 123A | 95 | — |
Of 10 runs looked at, 2 have no figure: obstacles omitted — the race ran a shortened course (2).
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 8 figures from 10 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 15.1% of 5,345 runs since Jan 2008 (643 horses).
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firm | 1 | 0 | 0% | −15.1 | — |
| Good to Firm | 35 | 5 | 14.3% | −0.8 | — |
| Good | 689 | 98 | 14.2% | −0.9 | — |
| Good to Soft | 650 | 92 | 14.2% | −0.9 | 2 from 3 |
| Soft | 2,443 | 348 | 14.2% | −0.9 | 0 from 3 |
| Heavy | 1,506 | 258 | 17.1% | +2 | 2 from 4 |
| Standard (AW) | 16 | 2 | 12.5% | −2.6 | — |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m – 1m1f | 2 | 0 | 0% | −15.1 | — |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 41 | 4 | 9.8% | −5.3 | — |
| 1m5f – 2m | 1,001 | 169 | 16.9% | +1.8 | 2 from 7 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 2,781 | 404 | 14.5% | −0.6 | 2 from 3 |
| 2m5f – 3m | 1,236 | 191 | 15.5% | +0.4 | — |
| Over 3m | 284 | 37 | 13% | −2.1 | — |
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
5 siblings in the archive, 3 winners — best of them Pierrot Lunaire (USA) (2 wins).
The wins came over 2m½f–3m½f; the highest grade won is Grade 2 (Pierrot Lunaire (USA)).
| Produce | Runs | Wins | Win trips | Best grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pierrot Lunaire (USA) | 10 | 2 | 2m½f | Grade 2 |
| Colonel Manderson (FR) | 28 | 2 | 2m7½f–3m½f | Class 4 |
| Miss Rail Link (IRE) | 9 | 1 | 2m3f | — |
| Sharp Acting (USA) | 1 | 0 | — | — |
| Playland (GB) | 5 | 0 | — | — |
Record by conditions
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy | 4 | 2 | 50% | +4.00 |
| Good to Soft | 3 | 2 | 67% | +8.00 |
| Soft | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Class | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class 3 | 6 | 4 | 67% | +13.00 |
| Class 1 | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Class 2 | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandown | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Cartmel | 1 | 1 | 100% | +3.00 |
| Hexham | 1 | 1 | 100% | +6.00 |
| Aintree | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Haydock | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Stratford | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Leicester | 1 | 1 | 100% | +2.00 |
| Chepstow | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Wetherby | 1 | 1 | 100% | +4.00 |
| Distance | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m5f – 2m | 7 | 2 | 29% | +1.00 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 3 | 2 | 67% | +8.00 |
| Jockey | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Skelton | 7 | 3 | 43% | +5.00 |
| Fergus Gillard | 2 | 1 | 50% | +5.00 |
| Kielan Woods | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Season | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | 2 | 40% | +6.00 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| 2022 | 4 | 2 | 50% | +4.00 |
| Type | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hurdle | 8 | 2 | 25% | +0.00 |
| Chase | 2 | 2 | 100% | +9.00 |
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 Playful Saint won?
- Playful Saint (FR) won 4 of 10 archived starts between 2022 and 2024, a strike rate of 40%. Placed 7 times in total (70% of starts).
- Who trained Playful Saint?
- Playful Saint (FR) was trained by Dan Skelton on the most recent run on record, at Cartmel on 25 May 2024.
- Who is Playful Saint's sire?
- Playful Saint (FR) is by Saint Des Saints (FR) out of Playact (IRE), whose sire is Hernando.
- What going does Playful Saint prefer?
- Playful Saint (FR) has the best record on good to soft going: 2 wins from 3 starts (66.7%). Only going bands with at least three archived starts are read, so this is a direction rather than a settled preference.
- What is Playful Saint's official rating?
- The most recent official rating on record is 136, from the run on 25 May 2024. That is also the highest on record.
- What is Playful Saint's sire's record?
- Saint Des Saints (FR)'s progeny in our archive have won 15.1% of 5,345 runs since Jan 2008 (643 horses), Flat and jumps together.
- Who are Playful Saint's siblings?
- Out of Playact (IRE), Playful Saint (FR) has 5 other produce in our archive, 3 of them winners. Most wins: Pierrot Lunaire (USA) (2). Highest grade won: Grade 2 (Pierrot Lunaire (USA)). The wins came over 2m½f–3m½f. As at Oct 2026.