Skip to content
Horse profile

Shantou's Melody (IRE)

6yo gelding (at last run, Feb 2022) · Last trainer Jonjo O'Neill · Last owner Perfect Strangers Partnership
by Shantou (USA) out of Glens Melody (IRE) (King's Theatre)
4 runs · 4 courses · from Sep 2020
As at 5 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: GB, Ireland & France · 2005–present, updated daily
No run recorded since 22 Feb 2022 — 1,717 days ago. Our archive can't say whether the horse is still in training.
Last run Feb 2022 · 2nd of 7 Won at Huntingdon
KTB Profile

Shantou's Melody won one of four starts on turf between Sep 2020 and Feb 2022. The success came at Huntingdon in Apr 2021 in a Class 5 race over 1m5f – 2m on good ground. The gelding finished second of seven at Market Rasen in Feb 2022 in another Class 5 NH Flat race. All three other runs produced placed efforts.

Based on 4 archived runs · updated 5 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance Win at Class 5

KTB Speed and Rating

KTB Speed

Best recent Speed 124 the best of the last 3 graded (A or B) runs · Huntingdon, 12 Apr 2021

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 →

Jumps 4 figures · best 124A · median 110
GoingRunsBestMedianSince 5 Nov 2025
Soft2110B109—
Good2124A117—
DistanceRunsBestMedianSince 5 Nov 2025
1m5f – 2m3124A110—
2m1f – 2m4f1———

KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 4 figures from 4 runs · as at 3 Oct 2026 · a record, not a forecast

KTB Rating

Best recent KTB Rating 133A the best of the last 3 rated runs · Market Rasen, 22 Feb 2022

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 — its best recent day. The KTB Rating on a racecard is a different reading of the same figures: the level the horse has been running to, an average of up to its last six runs with the latest counting most, so the two can differ. A, B or C on a run is how much known form was in that race. What this means →

Jumps 4 figures · best 133A · median 123.5
GoingRunsBestMedianSince 5 Nov 2025
Soft2133A126—
Good2128A121.5—
DistanceRunsBestMedianSince 5 Nov 2025
1m5f – 2m3133A128—
2m1f – 2m4f1———

KTB Rating v1 · batch 3 Oct 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 4 figures from 4 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 is derived from in-running commentary, which our data provider does not supply for this horse's races.

Pedigree intelligence

Sire
Shantou (USA)

Progeny in our archive have won 13.6% of 7,833 runs since Feb 2008 (539 horses).

Strongest on good to firm going: 20.3% from 158.

GoingRunsWinsSRvs sireThis horse
Firm2150%+36.4—
Good to Firm1583220.3%+6.7—
Good2,29231113.6%01 from 2
Good to Soft1,43517612.3%−1.3—
Soft2,61236313.9%+0.30 from 2
Heavy1,28317813.9%+0.3—
Standard (AW)5159.8%−3.8—
Distance (all codes)RunsWinsSRvs sireThis horse
6f – 7f300%−13.6—
1m – 1m1f1100%−13.6—
1m2f – 1m4f6269.7%−3.9—
1m5f – 2m2,03127613.6%01 from 3
2m1f – 2m4f2,71337813.9%+0.30 from 1
2m5f – 3m2,34433414.2%+0.6—
Over 3m6697210.8%−2.8—

Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since Feb 2008 · as at 5 Nov 2026 · rows under 30 runs muted · win % is the measure, a record not a forecast

Dam
Glens Melody (IRE) (King's Theatre)

4 siblings in the archive, 2 winners — best of them Glens Lullaby (IRE) (1 win).

The wins came over 2m.

ProduceRunsWinsWin tripsBest grade
Glens Lullaby (IRE)812m—
Glens Anthem (IRE)212m—
Melodys Encore (IRE)10——
Glens Sensation (IRE)120——

Record by conditions

GoingRunsWinsSR£1
Soft 2 0 0% −2.00
Good 2 1 50% +0.38

ClassRunsWinsSR£1
Class 5 3 1 33% −0.62
Class 2 1 0 0% −1.00

CourseRunsWinsSR£1
Market Rasen 1 0 0% −1.00
Huntingdon 1 1 100% +1.38
Cheltenham 1 0 0% −1.00
Fontwell 1 0 0% −1.00

DistanceRunsWinsSR£1
1m5f – 2m 3 1 33% −0.62
2m1f – 2m4f 1 0 0% −1.00

SeasonRunsWinsSR£1
2022 1 0 0% −1.00
2021 1 1 100% +1.38
2020 2 0 0% −2.00

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 SpdKTB Jockey SP
2022 · 1 run
22 Feb 22+316d Market Rasen Read Davy Russell On starsportsbet.co.uk Open NH Flat Race (GBB Race) Class 5 · 2m½f · Soft · 7 ran 2/7 3¾ 11-9 108A133A Jonjo O'Neill Jr 10/3
2021 · 1 run
12 Apr 21+170d Huntingdon Racing TV Intermediate Open NH Flat Race (GBB Race) Class 5 · 2m · Good · 11 ran 1/11 11-0 124A128A Jonjo O'Neill Jr 11/8F
2020 · 2 runs
24 Oct 20+42d Cheltenham Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Standard Open NH Flat Race (GBB Race) Class 2 · 2m½f · Soft · 14 ran 5/14 3½ 11-0 110B119A Jonjo O'Neill Jr 15/2
12 Sep 20 Fontwell MansionBet Watch And Bet Intermediate Open NH Flat Race (GBB Race) Class 5 · 2m1½f · Good · 8 ran 2/8 hd 10-12 110A115A Jonjo O'Neill Jr 11/4

Quick answers

How many races has Shantou's Melody won?
Shantou's Melody (IRE) won 1 of 4 archived starts between 2020 and 2022, a strike rate of 25%. Placed 3 times in total (75% of starts).
Who trained Shantou's Melody?
Shantou's Melody (IRE) was trained by Jonjo O'Neill on the most recent run on record, at Market Rasen on 22 February 2022.
Who is Shantou's Melody's sire?
Shantou's Melody (IRE) is by Shantou (USA) out of Glens Melody (IRE), whose sire is King's Theatre.
What is Shantou's Melody's sire's record?
Shantou (USA)'s progeny in our archive have won 13.6% of 7,833 runs since Feb 2008 (539 horses), Flat and jumps together. Strongest on good to firm going: 20.3% from 158.
Who are Shantou's Melody's siblings?
Out of Glens Melody (IRE), Shantou's Melody (IRE) has 4 other produce in our archive, 2 of them winners. Most wins: Glens Lullaby (IRE) (1). The wins came over 2m. As at Nov 2026.

Record shown from September 2020. Our archive holds racing in Great Britain, Ireland and France from January 2005. Any runs before that, or in other countries, are not in it. In-running comments are available from 2024 onward.