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Speed Master (IRE)

9yo gelding (at last run, Oct 2015) · Last trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies · Last owner Spiers Hartwell And N A Twiston Davies
by King's Theatre (IRE) out of Handy Lass (GB) (Nicholas Bill)
21 runs · 13 courses · from Mar 2011
As at 22 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: GB, Ireland & France · 2005–present, updated daily
No run recorded since 17 Oct 2015 — 4,022 days ago. Our archive can't say whether the horse is still in training.
Last run Oct 2015 · 5th of 6 6 wins · 6 courses Last raced off OR 130
KTB Profile

Speed Master (IRE) is 6 from 21. Hasn't won since May 2015. Last raced off a career-high mark of 130.

Based on 21 archived runs · updated 22 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance OR at career high
Official rating130At career-high mark
130 118–130

KTB Speed and Rating

KTB Speed

No KTB Speed figures for this horse. The engine scores GB and Irish racing from Oct 2016; runs elsewhere, or earlier, have no figure.

KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 0 figures from 0 runs · a record, not a forecast

KTB Rating

Best recent KTB Rating 133B the best of the last 3 rated runs · Stratford, 29 May 2015 Official rating 130 at the last run, 17 Oct 2015

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 →

Jumps 18 figures · best 143A · median 132
GoingRunsBestMedianSince 22 Oct 2025
Good9143A133—
Good to Soft5135A131—
Heavy3138B104—
Good to Firm1———
DistanceRunsBestMedianSince 22 Oct 2025
2m1f – 2m4f7143A131—
2m5f – 3m5138B115—
1m5f – 2m4139A134—
Over 3m2133B129.5—

Of 21 runs looked at, 3 have no figure: did not complete (or a non-runner row) (3).

KTB Rating v1 · batch 3 Oct 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 18 figures from 21 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
King's Theatre (IRE)

Progeny in our archive have won 14.4% of 12,129 runs since Jan 2008 (746 horses).

Weakest on standard (aw) going: 4.8% from 125. Weakest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 7.9% from 203.

GoingRunsWinsSRvs sireThis horse
Firm4449.1%−5.3—
Good to Firm78612015.3%+0.91 from 1
Good4,05559514.7%+0.33 from 10
Good to Soft2,13431614.8%+0.42 from 6
Soft3,30046414.1%−0.30 from 1
Heavy1,68424614.6%+0.20 from 3
Standard (AW)12564.8%−9.6—
Distance (all codes)RunsWinsSRvs sireThis horse
Under 6f400%−14.4—
6f – 7f1715.9%−8.5—
1m – 1m1f2800%−14.4—
1m2f – 1m4f203167.9%−6.5—
1m5f – 2m3,34447614.2%−0.23 from 4
2m1f – 2m4f4,31465115.1%+0.72 from 7
2m5f – 3m3,30847914.5%+0.10 from 6
Over 3m91112914.2%−0.21 from 4

Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since Jan 2008 · as at 22 Oct 2026 · rows under 30 runs muted · win % is the measure, a record not a forecast

Dam
Handy Lass (GB) (Nicholas Bill)

No other produce in our archive. It holds racing in Great Britain, Ireland and France from 2005, so siblings racing elsewhere won’t appear here.

Record by conditions

GoingRunsWinsSR£1
Good 10 3 30% +2.94
Good to Soft 6 2 33% −1.58
Heavy 3 0 0% −3.00
Soft 1 0 0% −1.00
Good to Firm 1 1 100% +0.33

ClassRunsWinsSR£1
Class 3 12 1 8% −6.50
Class 4 4 4 100% +6.57
Class 1 2 0 0% −2.00
Class 6 2 1 50% +0.62
Class 2 1 0 0% −1.00

CourseRunsWinsSR£1
Ffos Las 6 1 17% −3.38
Ludlow 2 0 0% −2.00
Southwell 2 1 50% −0.56
Cheltenham 2 0 0% −2.00
Uttoxeter 1 0 0% −1.00
Stratford 1 1 100% +4.50
Sedgefield 1 0 0% −1.00
Warwick 1 1 100% +5.00
Newbury 1 0 0% −1.00
Sandown 1 0 0% −1.00
Towcester 1 1 100% +0.80
Leicester 1 1 100% +0.33
Hereford 1 0 0% −1.00

DistanceRunsWinsSR£1
2m1f – 2m4f 7 2 29% +0.33
2m5f – 3m 6 0 0% −6.00
Over 3m 4 1 25% +1.50
1m5f – 2m 4 3 75% +1.86

JockeyRunsWinsSR£1
Sam Twiston-Davies 8 2 25% +3.50
Ryan Hatch 5 0 0% −5.00
A P McCoy 3 3 100% +2.39
Andrew Tinkler 2 0 0% −2.00
J J Slevin 1 0 0% −1.00
Barry Geraghty 1 0 0% −1.00
David Bass 1 1 100% +0.80

HeadgearRunsWinsSR£1
None 9 4 44% −1.81
Visor 7 1 14% −1.00
Tongue tie + visor 5 1 20% +0.50

SeasonRunsWinsSR£1
2015 7 1 14% −1.50
2014 5 1 20% +1.00
2013 2 0 0% −2.00
2012 2 0 0% −2.00
2011 5 4 80% +2.19

TypeRunsWinsSR£1
Hurdle 12 4 33% −1.93
Chase 7 1 14% −1.00
NH Flat 2 1 50% +0.62

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 ORKTB Jockey SP
17 Oct 15+111d Ffos Las Bridgestone Handicap Hurdle Class 3 · 24f · Good · 6 ran 5/6 9 10-11 130102B J J Slevin 4/1
28 Jun 15+30d Uttoxeter John Smith's Summer Cup (A Handicap Chase) () Class 1 · 26f · Good · 17 ran 5/17 shd 10-4 128126A Sam Twiston-Davies 17/2
29 May 15+38d Stratford Sims Garden Machinery Handicap Hurdle Class 3 · 26.5f · Good · 5 ran 1/5 11-2 127133B Sam Twiston-Davies 9/2
21 Apr 15+26d Ludlow Michael Lumsden Memorial Handicap Hurdle (For The Henley Hall Gold Cup) Class 3 · 24f · Good · 6 ran 2/6 1¼ 11-10 126133B Sam Twiston-Davies 13/2
26 Mar 15+32d Ffos Las Centerplate Banquet Catering Handicap Hurdle Class 3 · 22f · Heavy · 10 ran 7/10 51 11-5 12899C Ryan Hatch 25/1
22 Feb 15+51d Southwell Southwell-racecourse.co.uk Handicap Hurdle Class 3 · 24f · Soft · 7 ran PU/7 — 10-11 129— Ryan Hatch 10/1
02 Jan 15+21d Ffos Las Totepool Racing's Biggest Supporter Handicap Hurdle Class 3 · 22f · Heavy · 7 ran 2/7 2½ 11-11 128138B Sam Twiston-Davies 15/2
12 Dec 14+43d Cheltenham Citipost Handicap Hurdle Class 2 · 24f · Good To Soft · 10 ran 6/10 3¼ 10-4 128115A Ryan Hatch 33/1
30 Oct 14+196d Sedgefield Sean Magee's Sedgefielders Durham National (handicap Chase) Class 3 · 29f · Good To Soft · 12 ran PU/12 — 11-2 130— Ryan Hatch 17/2
17 Apr 14+7d Cheltenham Nicholson Holman Novices' Limited Handicap Chase Class 3 · 25.5f · Good · 10 ran PU/10 — 11-5 125— Sam Twiston-Davies 9/2
10 Apr 14+22d Ludlow Alfa Aggregates Products Novices' Limited Handicap Chase Class 3 · 20f · Good · 7 ran 2/7 1¼ 11-8 125143A Sam Twiston-Davies 5/4F
19 Mar 14+110d Warwick Executive Hire Show Handicap Chase (For The Stephen Allday Perpetual Plate) Class 4 · 20.5f · Good · 8 ran 1/8 11-12 118139A Sam Twiston-Davies 5/1
29 Nov 13+19d Newbury bet365 Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Chase Class 3 · 18.5f · Good To Soft · 8 ran 8/8 41 11-2 123101C Ryan Hatch 7/1
10 Nov 13+574d Ffos Las Coolmore National Hunt Sires Novices' Limited Handicap Chase Class 3 · 19.5f · Heavy · 8 ran 5/8 nse 11-5 125104B Sam Twiston-Davies 11/4F
15 Apr 12+36d Ffos Las Shadow Scaffolding Handicap Hurdle Class 3 · 20f · Good · 13 ran 2/13 4 11-5 126134A Andrew Tinkler 2/1F
10 Mar 12+75d Sandown European Breeders' Fund paddypower.com 'National Hunt' Novices' Handicap Hurdle Final (Grade 3) Class 1 · 20f · Good To Soft · 18 ran 4/18 nse 11-6 126131A Barry Geraghty 8/1
26 Dec 11+29d Towcester toteplacepot E.B.F. 'National Hunt' Novices' Hurdle (Qualifier) (Div 1) Class 4 · 16f · Good To Soft · 11 ran 1/11 11-5 126135A David Bass 4/5F
27 Nov 11+20d Leicester Fernie Novices' Hurdle Class 4 · 20.5f · Good To Firm · 5 ran 1/5 11-5 —130B A P McCoy 1/3F
07 Nov 11+214d Southwell Plan Your Betting Strategy At Racingprofits.net 'national Hunt' Novices' Hurdle Class 4 · 15.5f · Good · 5 ran 1/5 10-12 —126B A P McCoy 4/9F
07 Apr 11+31d Hereford Lindley Catering Standard Open NH Flat Race Class 6 · 16f · Good · 15 ran 2/15 2¾ 11-11 —139A Andrew Tinkler 9/4
07 Mar 11 Ffos Las Longford Standard Open NH Flat Race Class 6 · 16f · Good To Soft · 8 ran 1/8 11-4 —133A A P McCoy 13/8F

Quick answers

How many races has Speed Master (IRE) won?
Speed Master (IRE) won 6 of 21 archived starts between 2011 and 2015, a strike rate of 28.6%. Placed 12 times in total (57.1% of starts).
Who trained Speed Master (IRE)?
Speed Master (IRE) was trained by Nigel Twiston-Davies on the most recent run on record, at Ffos Las on 17 October 2015.
Who is Speed Master (IRE)'s sire?
Speed Master (IRE) is by King's Theatre (IRE) out of Handy Lass (GB), whose sire is Nicholas Bill.
What going does Speed Master (IRE) prefer?
Speed Master (IRE) has the best record on good to soft going: 2 wins from 6 starts (33.3%). Only going bands with at least three archived starts are read, so this is a direction rather than a settled preference.
What is Speed Master (IRE)'s official rating?
The most recent official rating on record is 130, from the run on 17 October 2015. That is also the highest on record.
What is Speed Master (IRE)'s sire's record?
King's Theatre (IRE)'s progeny in our archive have won 14.4% of 12,129 runs since Jan 2008 (746 horses), Flat and jumps together. Weakest on standard (aw) going: 4.8% from 125. Weakest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 7.9% from 203.

Record shown from March 2011. 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.