Horse profile
Songo (IRE)
9yo gelding (at last run, Oct 2025) · Last trainer Richard Hawker · Last owner The Songo Partnership
by Most Improved (IRE) out of Sacre Fleur (IRE) (Acclamation)
32 runs · 15 courses · from Feb 2020
As at 18 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: GB, Ireland & France · 2005–present, updated daily
No run recorded since 6 Oct 2025 — 376 days ago. Our archive can't say whether the horse is still in training.
Last run Oct 2025 · 6th of 7
7 wins · 4 courses
Last raced off OR 96
KTB Profile
Songo is a gelding who has won seven of 32 starts. He gained two of those in Class 3 novices hurdles over 2m5f – 3m on good ground at Newton Abbot in Jun 2023 and Jul 2023, having earlier collected four handicaps on good to firm turf between 1m2f and 2m plus one on the all-weather. He has won twice at both Salisbury and Bath. Last ran at Stratford in Oct 2025, where he finished sixth of seven in a Class 5 handicap chase off an official rating of 96.
Based on 32 archived runs · run-style from 4 commented runs · updated 18 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance
OR ↓ 24lb off peak
- 7–32Wins / Runs
- 21.9%Strike rate
- 13 (40.6%)Placed
- −9.17£1 level staken=32 at SP
- 1.28Fair A/E n=32 · 1.12 incl. margin
- 120Highest OR
- 66dAvg 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.
Official rating96↓ 24lb off peak
96
53–120
KTB Speed and Rating
KTB Speed
Best recent Speed 112
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
| Going | Runs | Best | Median | Since 18 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | 11 | 146B | 94 | — |
| Good to Firm | 1 | — | — | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 18 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2m5f – 3m | 5 | 146B | 92 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 4 | 112A | 86.5 | — |
| 1m5f – 2m | 3 | 99B | 99 | — |
Flat
| Going | Runs | Best | Median | Since 18 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good to Firm | 7 | 129C | 93 | — |
| Standard (AW) | 4 | 93B | 89 | — |
| Good to Soft | 2 | 82C | 81.5 | — |
| Good | 2 | 82A | 74.5 | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 18 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m5f – 2m | 8 | 129C | 84 | — |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 7 | 93C | 90 | — |
Of 32 runs looked at, 5 have no figure: obstacles omitted — the race ran a shortened course (3) · did not complete (2).
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 27 figures from 32 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 from 4 analysed runs
- Held up 3 (75%) · 0 wins
- Led 1 (25%) · 0 wins
Pedigree intelligence
Sire
Progeny in our archive have won 6.6% of 1,099 runs since Jan 2008 (71 horses).
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firm | 5 | 1 | 20% | +13.4 | — |
| Good to Firm | 92 | 11 | 12% | +5.4 | 4 from 8 |
| Good | 259 | 13 | 5% | −1.6 | 2 from 18 |
| Good to Soft | 116 | 8 | 6.9% | +0.3 | 0 from 2 |
| Soft | 189 | 14 | 7.4% | +0.8 | — |
| Heavy | 88 | 5 | 5.7% | −0.9 | — |
| Standard (AW) | 349 | 21 | 6% | −0.6 | 1 from 4 |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 6f | 26 | 2 | 7.7% | +1.1 | — |
| 6f – 7f | 231 | 12 | 5.2% | −1.4 | — |
| 1m – 1m1f | 304 | 18 | 5.9% | −0.7 | — |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 235 | 19 | 8.1% | +1.5 | 3 from 7 |
| 1m5f – 2m | 180 | 15 | 8.3% | +1.7 | 2 from 12 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 88 | 2 | 2.3% | −4.3 | 0 from 8 |
| 2m5f – 3m | 31 | 5 | 16.1% | +9.5 | 2 from 5 |
| Over 3m | 4 | 0 | 0% | −6.6 | — |
Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since Jan 2008 · as at 18 Oct 2026 · rows under 30 runs muted · win % is the measure, a record not a forecast
Dam
Sacre Fleur (IRE) (Acclamation)
4 siblings in the archive, 1 winner — best of them Evening Blossom (IRE) (4 wins).
The wins came over 1m.
| Produce | Runs | Wins | Win trips | Best grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evening Blossom (IRE) | 17 | 4 | 1m | — |
| Shilo (IRE) | 1 | 0 | — | — |
| Smudo (IRE) | 3 | 0 | — | — |
| Salitos (IRE) | 4 | 0 | — | — |
Record by conditions
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | 18 | 2 | 11% | −14.54 |
| Good to Firm | 8 | 4 | 50% | +3.37 |
| Standard (AW) | 4 | 1 | 25% | +4.00 |
| Good to Soft | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Class | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class 4 | 13 | 1 | 8% | −10.00 |
| Class 5 | 7 | 1 | 14% | −4.38 |
| Class 3 | 6 | 3 | 50% | +0.71 |
| Class 6 | 4 | 2 | 50% | +6.50 |
| Class 2 | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newton Abbot | 6 | 2 | 33% | −2.54 |
| Salisbury | 5 | 2 | 40% | +1.25 |
| Kempton (AW) | 4 | 1 | 25% | +4.00 |
| Stratford | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Goodwood | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Bath | 2 | 2 | 100% | +3.12 |
| Wincanton | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Uttoxeter | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Fontwell | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Worcester | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Kempton | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Doncaster | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Haydock | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Ludlow | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Huntingdon | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Distance | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m5f – 2m | 12 | 2 | 17% | −5.75 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 8 | 0 | 0% | −8.00 |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 7 | 3 | 43% | +6.12 |
| 2m5f – 3m | 5 | 2 | 40% | −1.54 |
| Jockey | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Cobden | 6 | 2 | 33% | −2.54 |
| Robert Dunne | 5 | 0 | 0% | −5.00 |
| Pat Dobbs | 4 | 3 | 75% | +4.12 |
| Rob Hornby | 3 | 1 | 33% | +5.00 |
| Aidan Keeley | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Kielan Woods | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Harry Reed | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| James Best | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Jim Crowley | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Josephine Gordon | 1 | 1 | 100% | +2.25 |
| William Carver | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| David Probert | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Charlie Deutsch | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Mitchell Bastyan | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Kieran O'Neill | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Finley Marsh | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Headgear | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hood | 25 | 7 | 28% | −2.17 |
| HT | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| None | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Season | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | 0 | 0% | −6.00 |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| 2023 | 6 | 2 | 33% | −2.54 |
| 2022 | 8 | 3 | 38% | +0.87 |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| 2020 | 6 | 2 | 33% | +4.50 |
| Type | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hurdle | 15 | 2 | 13% | −11.54 |
| Flat | 15 | 5 | 33% | +4.37 |
| Chase | 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
| Date | Course | Race | Pos | Btn | Wgt | OR | Spd | KTB | Jockey | SP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 Oct 25+30d | Stratford | Best Odds Guaranteed On dragonbet.co.uk Handicap Chase Up with early pace - untidy at the 1st and rider shed the stirrups - fell back before recovering to a central position by the 2nd - well behind and in trouble 2 out | 6/7 | 25 | 11-10 | 96 | — | 94C | Harry Reed | 6/1 |
| 06 Sep 25+16d | Stratford | Genair Handicap Chase Held up towards the back - improved into the pack around the 12th - moved up to third after three out - driven approaching the home bend before weakening near the last | 5/9 | 3¾ | 12-0 | 99 | 77B | 101B | Robert Dunne | 10/1 |
| 21 Aug 25+38d | Newton Abbot | South West Rail Solutions Ltd. Handicap Hurdle Held up in the back markers - improved into 4th after the third-last then pressed for effort before the second-last - couldn't quicken from the last and finished 4th | 4/13 | 10 | 12-0 | 100 | 98B | 116A | Robert Dunne | 14/1 |
| 14 Jul 25+15d | Newton Abbot | Par Inn Sponsors St. Blazey CC Handicap Hurdle Set the pace early - drifted right after the 5th - overtaken 2 out and blundered at the last - held finishing position 4th | 4/7 | 4¼ | 12-0 | 103 | — | 116B | Robert Dunne | 25/1 |
| 29 Jun 25+19d | Uttoxeter | Best Odds Guaranteed At bet365 Handicap Hurdle Settled towards the back - never able to land a challenge - dropped away steadily from 2 out - finished well beaten in 10th | 10/14 | 16 | 11-11 | 107 | 75C | 99C | Robert Dunne | 80/1 |
| 10 Jun 25+295d | Fontwell | Weatherbys ePassport Handicap Hurdle Raced with plenty of enthusiasm early - travelled up on the outer to sit second - moved ahead at the 2nd but blundered the following fence - lost command after the 5th - lost pace 3 out - eased to a halt before the second last | PU/6 | — | 11-12 | 111 | — | — | Robert Dunne | 16/1 |
| 19 Aug 24+36d | Worcester | Vickers.Bet For Best Prices Guaranteed Handicap Hurdle Went wide early and hit the front - clipped first fence - driven up and lost the advantage before 3 out - dropped away fast at the finish | 5/7 | 21 | 11-6 | 114 | 73C | 99C | James Best | 18/1 |
| 14 Jul 24+55d | Stratford | Barry The Butcher Raise The Steaks Handicap Hurdle | 4/8 | 3 | 11-3 | 117 | 112A | 117A | Harry Cobden | 10/1 |
| 20 May 24+211d | Newton Abbot | Eddie Fullalove Celebration Handicap Hurdle | 2/7 | 7½ | 12-0 | 118 | — | 132A | Harry Cobden | 18/1 |
| 22 Oct 23+50d | Kempton | TrustATrader trustatrader.com Novices' Hurdle (GBB Race) | 3/8 | 23 | 11-12 | 120 | 90C | 110C | Harry Cobden | 10/1 |
| 02 Sep 23+33d | Newton Abbot | Neil Evans Memorial Handicap Hurdle (GBB Race) | 7/8 | 4¼ | 10-10 | 120 | 146B | 102A | Harry Cobden | 7/2F |
| 31 Jul 23+34d | Newton Abbot | Racing Partnership Novices' Hurdle (GBB Race) | 1/6 | 11-8 | 107 | 92B | 130B | Harry Cobden | 8/11F | |
| 27 Jun 23+11d | Newton Abbot | Strategic Solutions Chartered Financial Planners Novices' Hurdle (GBB Race) | 1/8 | 11-2 | 107 | 106B | 115B | Harry Cobden | 8/11F | |
| 16 Jun 23+20d | Goodwood | William Hill Epic Boost Handicap | 5/10 | hd | 9-3 | 78 | 101B | 77A | Jim Crowley | 14/1 |
| 27 May 23+199d | Salisbury | Molson Coors Handicap | 9/9 | 36 | 9-2 | 78 | 52C | 57C | Aidan Keeley | 15/2 |
| 09 Nov 22+41d | Kempton (AW) | Unibet Extra Place Offers Every Day Handicap | 6/6 | shd | 9-1 | 79 | 85A | 68B | Aidan Keeley | 33/1 |
| 29 Sep 22+18d | Salisbury | Weatherbys Stallion Book Handicap | 9/9 | 1½ | 10-0 | 80 | 81A | 78A | Rob Hornby | 11/2 |
| 11 Sep 22+45d | Doncaster | Coral Mallard Handicap | 9/10 | 4 | 8-12 | 81 | 82C | 58C | Pat Dobbs | 9/1 |
| 28 Jul 22+19d | Salisbury | Edwards Ford, Foray Motor Group Handicap | 1/5 | 8-6 | 77 | 129C | 78B | Josephine Gordon | 9/4F | |
| 09 Jul 22+42d | Salisbury | Shipseys Marquees Handicap | 2/5 | 1 | 9-1 | 75 | 119C | 78B | William Carver | 5/4F |
| 28 May 22+7d | Salisbury | Molson Coors Handicap | 1/7 | 9-0 | 71 | 83A | 79A | Pat Dobbs | 2/1F | |
| 21 May 22+19d | Haydock | Cazoo Florida Handicap | 3/11 | 3½ | 9-5 | 71 | 82A | 81A | David Probert | 4/1F |
| 02 May 22+376d | Bath | At The Races App Market Movers Handicap | 1/4 | 9-5 | 66 | 93C | 85B | Pat Dobbs | 13/8F | |
| 21 Apr 21+3d | Ludlow | Join RacingTV Novices' Hurdle (GBB Race) | 4/8 | nk | 10-12 | — | 94A | 114A | Charlie Deutsch | 5/1 |
| 18 Apr 21+22d | Wincanton | Visit Wincanton Golf Online Membership Now Novices' Hurdle (GBB Race) | UR/6 | — | 10-11 | — | — | — | Mitchell Bastyan | 17/2 |
| 27 Mar 21+163d | Kempton (AW) | Play Ladbrokes 1-2-Free On Football Handicap (Div 1) | 2/11 | 3 | 9-11 | 66 | 88A | 82A | Kieran O'Neill | 17/2 |
| 15 Oct 20+15d | Wincanton | Join Racing TV Now Maiden Hurdle (GBB Race) | 9/10 | 2½ | 11-0 | — | 99B | 80A | Kielan Woods | 2/1F |
| 30 Sep 20+22d | Huntingdon | MansionBet Beaten By A Head Novices' Hurdle (GBB Race) | 4/8 | 5 | 10-12 | — | 99A | 107A | Kielan Woods | 13/2 |
| 08 Sep 20+26d | Goodwood | Rod Gaskin Handicap | 5/11 | nk | 9-3 | 66 | 67A | 72A | Rob Hornby | 9/2J |
| 13 Aug 20+162d | Bath | Follow At The Races On Twitter Handicap (Div 1) | 1/10 | 10-3 | 61 | 92A | 84A | Pat Dobbs | 6/4F | |
| 04 Mar 20+7d | Kempton (AW) | 100% Profit Boost At 32RedSport.com Handicap (Div 1) | 3/9 | 1 | 8-10 | 53 | 90A | 71A | Finley Marsh | 11/10F |
| 26 Feb 20 | Kempton (AW) | Wise Betting At racingtv.com Handicap | 1/13 | 8-13 | 53 | 93B | 82A | Rob Hornby | 7/1 |
Quick answers
- How many races has Songo (IRE) won?
- Songo (IRE) won 7 of 32 archived starts between 2020 and 2025, a strike rate of 21.9%. Placed 13 times in total (40.6% of starts).
- Who trained Songo (IRE)?
- Songo (IRE) was trained by Richard Hawker on the most recent run on record, at Stratford on 6 October 2025.
- Who is Songo (IRE)'s sire?
- Songo (IRE) is by Most Improved (IRE) out of Sacre Fleur (IRE), whose sire is Acclamation.
- What going does Songo (IRE) prefer?
- Songo (IRE) has the best record on good to firm going: 4 wins from 8 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 Songo (IRE)'s official rating?
- The most recent official rating on record is 96, from the run on 6 October 2025. The highest on record is 120.
- What is Songo (IRE)'s sire's record?
- Most Improved (IRE)'s progeny in our archive have won 6.6% of 1,099 runs since Jan 2008 (71 horses), Flat and jumps together.
- Who are Songo (IRE)'s siblings?
- Out of Sacre Fleur (IRE), Songo (IRE) has 4 other produce in our archive, 1 of them a winner. Most wins: Evening Blossom (IRE) (4). The wins came over 1m. As at Oct 2026.