Sounds Russian (IRE)
Sounds Russian won five of 17 starts on turf between May 2021 and Apr 2025. His biggest success came in the British EBF Gold Castle National Hunt Novices Hurdle a Listed race at Perth in Apr 2024 when he carried an official rating of 149 over 2m5f-3m on soft ground. Four of those wins came over 2m5f-3m including two on heavy ground at Kelso. He last ran at Aintree in Apr 2025 off an official rating of 145 which was 16lb below his highest ever mark of 161.
- 5–17Wins / Runs
- 29.4%Strike rate
- 11 (64.7%)Placed
- +2.42£1 level staken=17 at SP
- 1.82Fair A/E n=17 · 1.62 incl. margin
- 161Highest 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 132
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 | 6 | 118A | 113.5 | — |
| Soft | 3 | 121A | 101 | — |
| Heavy | 3 | 132A | 106 | — |
| Good | 1 | — | — | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 28 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2m5f – 3m | 8 | 132A | 109.5 | — |
| Over 3m | 3 | 118A | 115 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 2 | 91A | 85.5 | — |
Of 17 runs looked at, 4 have no figure: did not complete (2) · obstacles omitted — the race ran a shortened course (2).
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 13 figures from 17 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.
Pedigree intelligence
Progeny in our archive have won 12.5% of 4,261 runs since Jan 2008 (421 horses).
Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 8.9% from 157.
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good to Firm | 99 | 14 | 14.1% | +1.6 | — |
| Good | 1,270 | 146 | 11.5% | −1 | 0 from 2 |
| Good to Soft | 816 | 111 | 13.6% | +1.1 | 1 from 7 |
| Soft | 1,304 | 169 | 13% | +0.5 | 2 from 5 |
| Heavy | 549 | 69 | 12.6% | +0.1 | 2 from 3 |
| Standard (AW) | 222 | 23 | 10.4% | −2.1 | — |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6f – 7f | 39 | 6 | 15.4% | +2.9 | — |
| 1m – 1m1f | 157 | 14 | 8.9% | −3.6 | — |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 326 | 32 | 9.8% | −2.7 | — |
| 1m5f – 2m | 1,053 | 128 | 12.2% | −0.3 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 1,456 | 192 | 13.2% | +0.7 | 0 from 4 |
| 2m5f – 3m | 991 | 125 | 12.6% | +0.1 | 4 from 9 |
| Over 3m | 239 | 35 | 14.6% | +2.1 | 1 from 4 |
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
2 siblings in the archive, 0 winners.
| Produce | Runs | Wins | Win trips | Best grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perpignan (IRE) | 14 | 0 | — | — |
| Clondaw Tonic (IRE) | 1 | 0 | — | — |
Record by conditions
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good to Soft | 7 | 1 | 14% | −2.50 |
| Soft | 5 | 2 | 40% | +5.00 |
| Heavy | 3 | 2 | 67% | +1.92 |
| Good | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Class | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | 8 | 1 | 13% | −2.00 |
| Class 4 | 5 | 1 | 20% | −1.00 |
| Class 2 | 2 | 1 | 50% | +2.50 |
| Class 3 | 2 | 2 | 100% | +2.92 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kelso | 3 | 3 | 100% | +6.42 |
| Aintree | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Haydock | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Cheltenham | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Sedgefield | 2 | 1 | 50% | +2.00 |
| Southwell | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Perth | 1 | 1 | 100% | +5.00 |
| Wetherby | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Ayr | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Hexham | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Distance | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2m5f – 3m | 9 | 4 | 44% | +5.92 |
| Over 3m | 4 | 1 | 25% | +0.50 |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Jockey | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Callum Bewley | 6 | 3 | 50% | +4.17 |
| Jamie Hamilton | 5 | 1 | 20% | −1.75 |
| Brian Hughes | 4 | 1 | 25% | +2.00 |
| Sean Quinlan | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Season | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | 50% | +4.00 |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| 2022 | 5 | 2 | 40% | +1.17 |
| 2021 | 6 | 2 | 33% | +1.25 |
| Type | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chase | 10 | 4 | 40% | +3.42 |
| Hurdle | 7 | 1 | 14% | −1.00 |
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 Sounds Russian won?
- Sounds Russian (IRE) won 5 of 17 archived starts between 2021 and 2025, a strike rate of 29.4%. Placed 11 times in total (64.7% of starts).
- Who trained Sounds Russian?
- Sounds Russian (IRE) was trained by Ruth Jefferson on the most recent run on record, at Aintree on 5 April 2025.
- Who is Sounds Russian's sire?
- Sounds Russian (IRE) is by Sholokhov (IRE) out of Reevolesa (IRE), whose sire is Revoque.
- What going does Sounds Russian prefer?
- Sounds Russian (IRE) has the best record on heavy 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 Sounds Russian's official rating?
- The most recent official rating on record is 145, from the run on 5 April 2025. The highest on record is 161.
- What is Sounds Russian's sire's record?
- Sholokhov (IRE)'s progeny in our archive have won 12.5% of 4,261 runs since Jan 2008 (421 horses), Flat and jumps together. Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 8.9% from 157.
- Who are Sounds Russian's siblings?
- Out of Reevolesa (IRE), Sounds Russian (IRE) has 2 other produce in our archive, 0 of them winners. As at Oct 2026.