Tantalus (IRE)
Tantalus is a gelding who won one of 18 starts, the success coming in a Class 6 handicap at Thirsk over 6f to 7f on good to soft in Jul 2024. All wins are at Class 6. He has raced 13 times on turf for that one win and is zero from five on all-weather. His last run, at Thirsk in Sep 2024, saw him finish seventh of 11 in a Class 6 selling handicap off an official rating of 55, 15lb below his highest ever mark.
- 1–18Wins / Runs
- 5.6%Strike rate
- 5 (27.8%)Placed
- −10.50£1 level staken=18 at SP
- 0.59Fair A/E n=18 · 0.50 incl. margin
- 70Highest OR
- 50dAvg 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 102
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 22 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good to Firm | 6 | 92A | 72 | — |
| Standard (AW) | 5 | 100A | 82 | — |
| Good to Soft | 2 | 102A | 90 | — |
| Good | 2 | 98A | 59 | — |
| Soft | 1 | — | — | — |
| Heavy | 1 | — | — | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 22 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6f – 7f | 10 | 102A | 72 | — |
| Under 6f | 7 | 100A | 86 | — |
Of 18 runs looked at, 1 has no figure: did not complete (1).
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 17 figures from 18 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 10.4% of 23,541 runs since Jan 2008 (1,665 horses).
Strongest on firm going: 14.3% from 147. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 7.1% from 252.
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firm | 147 | 21 | 14.3% | +3.9 | — |
| Good to Firm | 4,208 | 496 | 11.8% | +1.4 | 0 from 7 |
| Good | 5,159 | 548 | 10.6% | +0.2 | 0 from 2 |
| Good to Soft | 2,367 | 218 | 9.2% | −1.2 | 1 from 2 |
| Soft | 2,462 | 218 | 8.9% | −1.5 | 0 from 1 |
| Heavy | 679 | 68 | 10% | −0.4 | 0 from 1 |
| Standard (AW) | 8,519 | 871 | 10.2% | −0.2 | 0 from 5 |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 6f | 5,120 | 591 | 11.5% | +1.1 | 0 from 7 |
| 6f – 7f | 11,591 | 1,187 | 10.2% | −0.2 | 1 from 11 |
| 1m – 1m1f | 3,884 | 392 | 10.1% | −0.3 | — |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 1,927 | 182 | 9.4% | −1 | — |
| 1m5f – 2m | 696 | 66 | 9.5% | −0.9 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 252 | 18 | 7.1% | −3.3 | — |
| 2m5f – 3m | 60 | 4 | 6.7% | −3.7 | — |
| Over 3m | 11 | 0 | 0% | −10.4 | — |
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
8 siblings in the archive, 7 winners — best of them Artistic Rifles (IRE) (8 wins).
The wins came over 5f–1m2f; the highest grade won is Group 3 (Artistic Rifles (IRE)).
| Produce | Runs | Wins | Win trips | Best grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artistic Rifles (IRE) | 20 | 8 | 7f–1m½f | Group 3 |
| Shore Step (IRE) | 56 | 8 | 5f–6½f | Class 3 |
| Balty Boys (IRE) | 55 | 7 | 6f–1m1f | Group 3 |
| Black Star Boy (IRE) | 9 | 3 | 5f–6f | Class 2 |
| Maori Knight (IRE) | 16 | 2 | 1m–1m2f | Class 4 |
| Paper View (IRE) | 9 | 2 | 6f | Class 5 |
| Catsbury (IRE) | 2 | 1 | 1m2f | Class 4 |
| Hamilton Island (IRE) | 3 | 0 | — | — |
Record by conditions
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good to Firm | 7 | 0 | 0% | −7.00 |
| Standard (AW) | 5 | 0 | 0% | −5.00 |
| Good to Soft | 2 | 1 | 50% | +5.50 |
| Good | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Soft | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Heavy | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Class | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class 6 | 12 | 1 | 8% | −4.50 |
| Class 5 | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Class 4 | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Class 2 | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newcastle (AW) | 5 | 0 | 0% | −5.00 |
| Catterick | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Thirsk | 3 | 1 | 33% | +4.50 |
| Redcar | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Ripon | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Beverley | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Wetherby | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Haydock | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| York | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Distance | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6f – 7f | 11 | 1 | 9% | −3.50 |
| Under 6f | 7 | 0 | 0% | −7.00 |
| Jockey | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Mulrennan | 7 | 0 | 0% | −7.00 |
| Joanna Mason | 2 | 1 | 50% | +5.50 |
| Andrew Mullen | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Aiden Brookes | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Andrew Breslin | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Cieren Fallon | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Christian Howarth | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Graham Lee | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Harrison Shaw | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Billy Garritty | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Headgear | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| None | 15 | 1 | 7% | −7.50 |
| Cheekpieces | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Season | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | 1 | 17% | +1.50 |
| 2023 | 9 | 0 | 0% | −9.00 |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Sep 24+47d | Thirsk | Join RacingTV Today Selling Handicap Handy early - urged into effort with 3f left - lost ground inside final furlong and dropped away | 7/11 | 8 | 9-9 | 55 | 78C | 44C | Paul Mulrennan | 22/1 |
| 31 Jul 24+28d | Redcar | Visit Racingtv.Com Handicap | 8/11 | 1¼ | 9-9 | 55 | 79B | 58A | Joanna Mason | 6/1 |
| 03 Jul 24+25d | Thirsk | Great Prices On bresbet.com Handicap (Div 2) | 1/11 | 9-8 | 53 | 102A | 82A | Joanna Mason | 13/2 | |
| 08 Jun 24+39d | Catterick | Racing TV Free Trial Handicap | UR/9 | — | 8-1 | 53 | — | — | Aiden Brookes | 18/1 |
| 30 Apr 24+36d | Catterick | Racing TV Free Trial Handicap | 5/8 | nk | 9-1 | 55 | 98A | 71A | Paul Mulrennan | 25/1 |
| 25 Mar 24+230d | Newcastle (AW) | Build Your Acca With BetUK Handicap | 12/13 | 1½ | 9-5 | 57 | 86B | 47A | Andrew Breslin | 28/1 |
| 08 Aug 23+42d | Ripon | Ripon Racecourse Stable Staff Championships Handicap | 4/4 | 2¼ | 9-3 | 59 | 69C | 44B | Cieren Fallon | 6/1 |
| 27 Jun 23+21d | Beverley | Go Racing In Yorkshire Future Stars Apprentice Handicap | 7/8 | ¾ | 9-9 | 60 | 56A | 60A | Christian Howarth | 13/2 |
| 06 Jun 23+12d | Wetherby | wetherbyracing.co.uk Handicap | 2/10 | 1¾ | 9-9 | 60 | 92A | 75A | Paul Mulrennan | 13/8F |
| 25 May 23+43d | Catterick | Join Racing TV Now Handicap | 2/10 | 1¼ | 9-9 | 60 | 65A | 81A | Graham Lee | 3/1 |
| 12 Apr 23+28d | Catterick | Racing Again 26th April Handicap | 5/9 | 1½ | 9-5 | 61 | 47A | 59A | Paul Mulrennan | 4/1 |
| 15 Mar 23+29d | Newcastle (AW) | talkSPORT Download The App Handicap | 3/11 | hd | 9-11 | 62 | 100A | 80A | Paul Mulrennan | 7/2J |
| 14 Feb 23+20d | Newcastle (AW) | talkSPORT Powered By Fans Handicap | 5/8 | ¾ | 9-3 | 64 | 77A | 65A | Paul Mulrennan | 33/1 |
| 25 Jan 23+21d | Newcastle (AW) | Talksport Download The App Handicap | 7/9 | ½ | 9-11 | 67 | 82A | 67A | Paul Mulrennan | 28/1 |
| 04 Jan 23+145d | Newcastle (AW) | talkSPORT Download The App Handicap | 6/6 | 4¾ | 9-9 | 70 | 24A | 42B | Harrison Shaw | 25/1 |
| 12 Aug 22+28d | Thirsk | Pailor Family Memorial EBF Novice Stakes (GBB Race) | 7/12 | 5 | 9-4 | — | 71C | 50C | Andrew Mullen | 40/1 |
| 15 Jul 22+64d | Haydock | British Stallion Studs EBF Novice Stakes (GBB Race) | 3/8 | 2¼ | 9-7 | — | 73B | 75A | Billy Garritty | 18/1 |
| 12 May 22 | York | Frank Whittle Partnership ebfstallions.com Maiden Stakes (GBB Race) | 7/10 | nk | 9-7 | — | 20A | 51A | Andrew Mullen | 33/1 |
Quick answers
- How many races has Tantalus (IRE) won?
- Tantalus (IRE) won 1 of 18 archived starts between 2022 and 2024, a strike rate of 5.6%. Placed 5 times in total (27.8% of starts).
- Who trained Tantalus (IRE)?
- Tantalus (IRE) was trained by Ben Haslam on the most recent run on record, at Thirsk on 16 September 2024.
- Who is Tantalus (IRE)'s sire?
- Tantalus (IRE) is by Kodiac (GB) out of Chatham Islands (USA), whose sire is Elusive Quality.
- What is Tantalus (IRE)'s official rating?
- The most recent official rating on record is 55, from the run on 16 September 2024. The highest on record is 70.
- What is Tantalus (IRE)'s sire's record?
- Kodiac (GB)'s progeny in our archive have won 10.4% of 23,541 runs since Jan 2008 (1,665 horses), Flat and jumps together. Strongest on firm going: 14.3% from 147. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 7.1% from 252.
- Who are Tantalus (IRE)'s siblings?
- Out of Chatham Islands (USA), Tantalus (IRE) has 8 other produce in our archive, 7 of them winners. Most wins: Artistic Rifles (IRE) (8). Highest grade won: Group 3 (Artistic Rifles (IRE)). The wins came over 5f–1m2f. As at Oct 2026.