Horse profile
Victory Sound (IRE)
by Churchill (IRE) out of Darajaat (USA) (Elusive Quality)
21 runs · 13 courses · from Jun 2024
As at 5 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: GB, Ireland & France · 2005–present, updated daily
2 wins · Newcastle (AW) & Haydock
Last run 30 Oct 2026 · 2nd of 10
Last raced off OR 51
KTB Profile
Typically ridden with patience — held up in 9 of 16 analysed runs — Victory Sound (IRE) is 2 from 21. Last raced off 51, 41lb below the career-high mark.
Based on 21 archived runs · run-style from 16 commented runs since Aug 2024 · updated 5 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance
Typically held up
OR ↓ 41lb off peak
- 2–21Wins / Runs
- 9.5%Strike rate
- 7 (33.3%)Placed
- −3.00£1 level staken=21 at SP
- 1.48Fair A/E n=21 · 1.22 incl. margin
- 92Highest OR
- 20dBetween runs (median)longest 210 d
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 rating51↓ 41lb off peak
51
49–92
KTB Speed and Rating
KTB Speed
Best recent Speed 108
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 →
Flat
| Going | Runs | Best | Median | Since 5 Nov 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard (AW) | 10 | 108B | 86 | 8 runs · 108 / 90.5 |
| Good | 4 | 84A | 73 | 1 run · — |
| Good to Firm | 4 | 78A | 67.5 | — |
| Good to Soft | 1 | — | — | 1 run · — |
| Soft | 1 | — | — | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 5 Nov 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6f – 7f | 17 | 108B | 78 | 10 runs · 108 / 86 |
| 1m – 1m1f | 2 | 79A | 19.5 | — |
| Under 6f | 1 | — | — | — |
Of 21 runs looked at, 1 has no figure: not enough races on the card to set the day (under 4) (1).
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 20 figures from 21 runs · as at 5 Nov 2026 · 1 recent figure provisional (may move for 7 days) · 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.
The forward record. KTB’s figures on this horse since 30 Oct 2026: fastest on KTB Speed in 1 run (won 0) · to 30 Oct 2026. Each pick was the figure’s choice before the off, settled against the result the next morning; “did not run” is counted apart. GB and Irish races since 5 Oct 2026.
Run style from 16 analysed runs since Aug 2024
- Held up 9 (56%) · 0 wins
- Mid-division 4 (25%) · 0 wins
- Prominent 3 (19%) · 0 wins
Pedigree intelligence
Sire
Progeny in our archive have won 11% of 4,841 runs since Apr 2021 (462 horses).
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firm | 9 | 1 | 11.1% | +0.1 | — |
| Good to Firm | 648 | 79 | 12.2% | +1.2 | 1 from 4 |
| Good | 1,384 | 166 | 12% | +1 | 0 from 4 |
| Good to Soft | 534 | 51 | 9.6% | −1.4 | 0 from 1 |
| Soft | 724 | 63 | 8.7% | −2.3 | 0 from 1 |
| Heavy | 227 | 20 | 8.8% | −2.2 | — |
| Standard (AW) | 1,315 | 153 | 11.6% | +0.6 | 1 from 11 |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 6f | 148 | 17 | 11.5% | +0.5 | 0 from 1 |
| 6f – 7f | 1,311 | 148 | 11.3% | +0.3 | 2 from 17 |
| 1m – 1m1f | 1,127 | 119 | 10.6% | −0.4 | 0 from 3 |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 1,306 | 139 | 10.6% | −0.4 | — |
| 1m5f – 2m | 653 | 81 | 12.4% | +1.4 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 251 | 28 | 11.2% | +0.2 | — |
| 2m5f – 3m | 45 | 1 | 2.2% | −8.8 | — |
Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since Apr 2021 · as at 5 Nov 2026 · rows under 30 runs muted · win % is the measure, a record not a forecast
Dam
Darajaat (USA) (Elusive Quality)
7 siblings in the archive, 6 winners — best of them Raatea (GB) (5 wins).
The wins came over 5f–1m; the highest grade won is Class 2 (Raatea (GB)).
| Produce | Runs | Wins | Win trips | Best grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raatea (GB) | 43 | 5 | 6f–1m | Class 2 |
| Buniann (IRE) | 43 | 5 | 5f | Class 4 |
| Reinforce (IRE) | 36 | 2 | 5f | — |
| Amthaal (GB) | 10 | 1 | 5f | — |
| Mabdaa (GB) | 14 | 1 | 7f | Class 5 |
| Fakhoor (IRE) | 7 | 1 | 7f | Class 4 |
| Dawreya (IRE) | 1 | 0 | — | — |
Record by conditions
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard (AW) | 11 | 1 | 9% | −8.00 |
| Good | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Good to Firm | 4 | 1 | 25% | +11.00 |
| Good to Soft | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Soft | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Class | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class 6 | 8 | 1 | 13% | −5.00 |
| Class 4 | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Class 2 | 4 | 1 | 25% | +11.00 |
| Class 5 | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Class 3 | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Class 1 | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lingfield (AW) | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Newcastle (AW) | 3 | 1 | 33% | +0.00 |
| Doncaster | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Kempton (AW) | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Wolverhampton (AW) | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Ffos Las | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Nottingham | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Chelmsford City (AW) | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Newmarket | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Ascot | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Sandown | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Haydock | 1 | 1 | 100% | +14.00 |
| Goodwood | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Distance | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6f – 7f | 17 | 2 | 12% | +1.00 |
| 1m – 1m1f | 3 | 0 | 0% | −3.00 |
| Under 6f | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Jockey | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhys Clutterbuck | 4 | 0 | 0% | −4.00 |
| Connor Beasley | 2 | 1 | 50% | +1.00 |
| Tom Kiely-Marshall | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Tom Marquand | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Rhys Elliott | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Harry Burns | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Gina Mangan | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Ben Ffrench Davis | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Ben Sanderson | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Paddy Bradley | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Pierre-Louis Jamin | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Silvestre De Sousa | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| William Cox | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Billy Loughnane | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Franny Norton | 1 | 1 | 100% | +14.00 |
| Headgear | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| None | 10 | 1 | 10% | +5.00 |
| Cheekpieces | 9 | 1 | 11% | −6.00 |
| Blinkers | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Hood + cheekpieces | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Season | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 11 | 1 | 9% | −8.00 |
| 2025 | 5 | 0 | 0% | −5.00 |
| 2024 | 5 | 1 | 20% | +10.00 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 · 11 runs | ||||||||||
| 30 Oct 26+28d | Newcastle (AW) | AW Trials Day - Lingfield 2nd Jan 2027 Handicap Stakes (Div II) Raced just behind the front group - sent to the front over 2f out and urged on over 1f out - overhauled over 110yds out - outpaced by the winner late on to finish second | 2/10 | 1 | 8-9 | 51 | 97A | 70A | Rhys Elliott | 17/2 |
| 02 Oct 26+9d | Newcastle (AW) | Armah Switchgear Handicap Stakes Raced in the pack's midst - urged 2f out and gained ground - third over 1f out and stayed on without reaching the two ahead | 3/13 | ¾ | 8-10 | 51 | 108B | 75A | Connor Beasley | 4/1 |
| 23 Sep 26+20d | Kempton (AW) | Unibet Supports Safer Gambling Handicap Stakes | 5/13 | hd | 8-11 | 51 | 84B | 62A | Harry Burns | 14/1 |
| 03 Sep 26+16d | Newcastle (AW) | Mini Golf At High Gosforth Park Handicap Stakes | 1/13 | 9-6 | 49 | 67B | 74A | Connor Beasley | 2/1F | |
| 18 Aug 26+35d | Lingfield (AW) | Sky Sports Racing Sky 415 Classified Stakes (Div I) Slow to break - settled midpack - urged into contention 2f out - up to fourth with a furlong left - stayed on to snatch second near the line without threatening the winner | 2/12 | 1¾ | 9-9 | 50 | 93A | 72A | Rhys Clutterbuck | 4/1 |
| 14 Jul 26+15d | Wolverhampton (AW) | Free Bets On attheraces.com Handicap Stakes (Div II) settled in the pack - pushed along 3f out - stayed on at one speed entering the final furlong | 6/9 | 3½ | 9-1 | 51 | 88A | 57A | Rhys Clutterbuck | 8/1 |
| 29 Jun 26+28d | Ffos Las | Dress For The Occasions Handicap Held up at back - made steady progress into contention over 2f out - pushed along a furlong later - kept on well inside final furlong to finish third closest at the line | 3/7 | ½ | 8-12 | 51 | 64A | 65A | Gina Mangan | 9/2 |
| 01 Jun 26+35d | Lingfield (AW) | Free Tips On attheraces.com Handicap Fought for control early - settled mid-pack then pushed into contention approaching final furlong - stayed on at one rate but edged out of second close home to finish third | 3/11 | 1¼ | 8-5 | 52 | — | 68A | Ben Ffrench Davis | 22/1 |
| 27 Apr 26+13d | Lingfield (AW) | Sky Sports Racing Virgin 512 Handicap Settled towards the back - pushed along with two furlongs left - failed to land a blow - finished seventh | 7/10 | 1¼ | 8-13 | 55 | 77A | 66A | Rhys Clutterbuck | 25/1 |
| 14 Apr 26+16d | Lingfield (AW) | attheraces.com/marketmovers Handicap Settled at the back of the field - lost touch inside final 2f - well held at the finish | 10/11 | 1 | 8-13 | 60 | 108A | 58A | Rhys Clutterbuck | 40/1 |
| 29 Mar 26+151d | Doncaster | William Hill Epic Boosts Handicap (Div 1) Held a forward position early - asked for effort with 2f left - faded quickly to finish well beaten in 15th | 15/16 | 1 | 8-3 | 65 | 52C | 49A | Tom Kiely-Marshall | 80/1 |
| 2025 · 5 runs | ||||||||||
| 29 Oct 25+13d | Nottingham | PricedUp Sheriff Of Nottingham Handicap Held up in the pack early - urged forward before halfway - struggled to find rhythm - dropped away and finished well held in 9th | 9/9 | 8 | 9-9 | 70 | 91C | 37C | Ben Sanderson | 150/1 |
| 16 Oct 25+68d | Chelmsford City (AW) | Betfair Racing Podcasts Handicap Settled at the back throughout - a long way adrift from over 1f out | 10/10 | 5½ | 8-13 | 75 | 55C | 51C | Paddy Bradley | 100/1 |
| 09 Aug 25+7d | Newmarket | Close Brothers Handicap Held up at back - dropped away over 3f out - beaten a long way home | 6/6 | 74 | 9-0 | 81 | -40C | 53C | Pierre-Louis Jamin | 80/1 |
| 02 Aug 25+85d | Doncaster | UNISON Supporting Your NHS Handicap Held up at the back throughout - never involved - finished well held in 9th | 9/9 | 3½ | 9-3 | 84 | 78A | 53A | Tom Kiely-Marshall | 40/1 |
| 09 May 25+210d | Ascot | Peroni Nastro Azzurro 0.0% Handicap Restrained in the rear group - no meaningful part in proceedings | 9/10 | ½ | 8-6 | 86 | 71A | 67A | Silvestre De Sousa | 22/1 |
| 2024 · 5 runs | ||||||||||
| 11 Oct 24+29d | Kempton (AW) | Juddmonte/EBF Restricted Novice Stakes (GBB Race) Sat behind front pack early - moved into 2nd from halfway to a furlong out then reclaimed the spot inside the final furlong - kept on to finish 2nd | 2/12 | 1 | 9-7 | 89 | 79A | 89A | William Cox | 11/1 |
| 12 Sep 24+12d | Doncaster | Weatherbys Scientific 300,000 2-Y-O Stakes (GBB Race) Settled towards the back off the gallop - pushed along in the closing stages but unable to close - beaten into 13th | 13/20 | ¾ | 9-2 | 92 | 82C | 77A | Billy Loughnane | 125/1 |
| 31 Aug 24+70d | Sandown | Sky Bet Solario Stakes (Group 3) Settled at the back on the rail - urged forward as the pace quickened inside the last two furlongs but could not go with them - soon dropped away - finished sixth | 6/7 | 1¾ | 9-3 | — | 63A | 78A | Tom Marquand | 50/1 |
| 22 Jun 24+13d | Haydock | Juddmonte EBF Restricted Maiden Stakes (GBB Race) | 1/8 | 9-7 | — | 64B | 82A | Franny Norton | 14/1 | |
| 09 Jun 24 | Goodwood | Hallgarten & Novum Wines / British EBF Novice Stakes (GBB Race) | 5/8 | 1¼ | 9-7 | — | 84A | 78A | Tom Marquand | 20/1 |
Quick answers
- How many races has Victory Sound won?
- Victory Sound (IRE) won 2 of 21 archived starts between 2024 and 2026, a strike rate of 9.5%. Placed 7 times in total (33.3% of starts).
- Who trains Victory Sound?
- Victory Sound (IRE) is trained by Mark Usher, who saddled the horse on its most recent run on 30 October 2026.
- Who is Victory Sound's sire?
- Victory Sound (IRE) is by Churchill (IRE) out of Darajaat (USA), whose sire is Elusive Quality.
- What going does Victory Sound prefer?
- Victory Sound (IRE) has the best record on good to firm going: 1 win from 4 starts (25%). Only going bands with at least three archived starts are read, so this is a direction rather than a settled preference.
- What is Victory Sound's official rating?
- The most recent official rating on record is 51, from the run on 30 October 2026. The highest on record is 92.
- What is Victory Sound's sire's record?
- Churchill (IRE)'s progeny in our archive have won 11% of 4,841 runs since Apr 2021 (462 horses), Flat and jumps together.
- Who are Victory Sound's siblings?
- Out of Darajaat (USA), Victory Sound (IRE) has 7 other produce in our archive, 6 of them winners. Most wins: Raatea (GB) (5). Highest grade won: Class 2 (Raatea (GB)). The wins came over 5f–1m. As at Nov 2026.