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Horse profile

Viva Lavilla (IRE)

9yo gelding (at last run, May 2025) · Last trainer Anthony Ward-Thomas · Last owner Anthony Ward Thomas
by Getaway (GER) out of Viva Forever (FR) (Lando)
11 runs · 10 courses · from Nov 2021
As at 6 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: GB, Ireland & France · 2005–present, updated daily
No run recorded since 2 May 2025 — 552 days ago. Our archive can't say whether the horse is still in training.
Last run May 2025 Won at Lingfield Headgear returns LTO Last raced off OR 110
KTB Profile

Viva Lavilla won a Class 4 maiden hurdle at Lingfield on good to soft ground in Nov 2021. The gelding recorded one win and three places from 11 starts on turf, all wins at Class 4 and over 2m1f – 2m4f. He last ran at Cheltenham in May 2025 when he was held in the Brooklands Watches Golden Miller Chronograph Open Hunters' Chase off an official rating of 110, 21lb below his highest ever mark. Headgear returned at that run.

Based on 11 archived runs · run-style from 2 commented runs since Jan 2025 · updated 6 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance Win at Class 4 OR ↓ 21lb off peak
Official rating110↓ 21lb off peak
110 110–131

KTB Speed and Rating

KTB Speed

Best recent Speed 148 the best of the last 3 graded (A or B) runs · Wetherby, 16 Feb 2022

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 7 figures · best 148B · median 112
GoingRunsBestMedianSince 6 Nov 2025
Soft3148B112—
Good276C63—
Good to Soft2130C122.5—
DistanceRunsBestMedianSince 6 Nov 2025
2m1f – 2m4f4148B122.5—
2m5f – 3m2112A94—
1m5f – 2m1———

Of 11 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 · 7 figures from 11 runs · as at 3 Oct 2026 · a record, not a forecast

KTB Rating

Best recent KTB Rating 121B the best of the last 3 rated runs · Ffos Las, 25 Apr 2023 Official rating 110 at the last run, 2 May 2025

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 — its best recent day. The KTB Rating on a racecard is a different reading of the same figures: the level the horse has been running to, an average of up to its last six runs with the latest counting most, so the two can differ. A, B or C on a run is how much known form was in that race. What this means →

Jumps 8 figures · best 134A · median 121
GoingRunsBestMedianSince 6 Nov 2025
Soft3134A121—
Good to Soft3129B124—
Good2121B115.5—
DistanceRunsBestMedianSince 6 Nov 2025
2m1f – 2m4f5134A124—
2m5f – 3m2121B120—
1m5f – 2m1———

Of 11 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 · 8 figures from 11 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.

Pedigree intelligence

Sire
Getaway (GER)

Progeny in our archive have won 11.3% of 10,994 runs since Mar 2016 (1,031 horses).

Strongest on good to firm going: 23.1% from 134.

GoingRunsWinsSRvs sireThis horse
Good to Firm1343123.1%+11.8—
Good3,90151413.2%+1.90 from 3
Good to Soft2,41226511%−0.31 from 3
Soft3,1662939.3%−20 from 4
Heavy1,25312610.1%−1.20 from 1
Standard (AW)1281310.2%−1.1—
Distance (all codes)RunsWinsSRvs sireThis horse
6f – 7f400%−11.3—
1m – 1m1f2414.2%−7.1—
1m2f – 1m4f7879%−2.3—
1m5f – 2m3,42237210.9%−0.40 from 1
2m1f – 2m4f4,12547711.6%+0.31 from 6
2m5f – 3m2,72331111.4%+0.10 from 2
Over 3m6187412%+0.70 from 2

Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since Mar 2016 · as at 5 Nov 2026 · rows under 30 runs muted · win % is the measure, a record not a forecast

Dam
Viva Forever (FR) (Lando)

3 siblings in the archive, 0 winners.

ProduceRunsWinsWin tripsBest grade
Viva Vamoos (IRE)10——
Get Real (IRE)60——
Creepy Crawly (IRE)20——

Record by conditions

GoingRunsWinsSR£1
Soft 4 0 0% −4.00
Good 3 0 0% −3.00
Good to Soft 3 1 33% −0.12
Heavy 1 0 0% −1.00

ClassRunsWinsSR£1
Class 4 5 1 20% −2.12
Class 3 3 0 0% −3.00
Class 1 2 0 0% −2.00
Class 5 1 0 0% −1.00

CourseRunsWinsSR£1
Wetherby 2 0 0% −2.00
Cheltenham 1 0 0% −1.00
Wincanton 1 0 0% −1.00
Huntingdon 1 0 0% −1.00
Ffos Las 1 0 0% −1.00
Kempton 1 0 0% −1.00
Carlisle 1 0 0% −1.00
Warwick 1 0 0% −1.00
Sandown 1 0 0% −1.00
Lingfield 1 1 100% +1.88

DistanceRunsWinsSR£1
2m1f – 2m4f 6 1 17% −3.12
Over 3m 2 0 0% −2.00
2m5f – 3m 2 0 0% −2.00
1m5f – 2m 1 0 0% −1.00

JockeyRunsWinsSR£1
Harry Skelton 7 1 14% −4.12
Bridget Andrews 2 0 0% −2.00
Miss Molly Legg 1 0 0% −1.00
Mr Martin McIntyre 1 0 0% −1.00

HeadgearRunsWinsSR£1
None 8 1 13% −5.12
Cheekpieces 3 0 0% −3.00

SeasonRunsWinsSR£1
2025 2 0 0% −2.00
2023 3 0 0% −3.00
2022 4 0 0% −4.00
2021 2 1 50% +0.88

TypeRunsWinsSR£1
Chase 7 0 0% −7.00
Hurdle 4 1 25% −1.12

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 ORSpdKTB Jockey SP
2025 · 2 runs
02 May 25+92d Cheltenham Brooklands Watches Golden Miller Chronograph Open Hunters' Chase Class 4 · 4m½f · Good · 18 ran Held up at the back - dropping away well behind by the 14th after a blunder there - pulled up before the following obstacle PU/18 — 11-5 110—— Miss Molly Legg 125/1
30 Jan 25+630d Wincanton Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Stewart Tory Memorial Open Hunters' Chase Class 5 · 3m1f · Heavy · 6 ran Held up early - improved into contention by the 14th and up to 4th before blundering and being knocked sideways 4 out - retired from the contest approaching 2 out PU/6 — 11-9 114—— Mr Martin McIntyre 16/1
2023 · 3 runs
11 May 23+16d Huntingdon Bet At racingtv.com Handicap Chase Class 4 · 2m½f · Good · 7 ran 5/7 3¼ 12-0 12050B110A Bridget Andrews 10/3
25 Apr 23+89d Ffos Las CHC Country Fair 17th June At cothibridge Novices' Handicap Chase (GBB Race) Class 4 · 2m5f · Good · 5 ran 3/5 8 12-0 12276C121B Bridget Andrews 11/2
26 Jan 23+66d Wetherby Racing Tv Free For A Month Handicap Chase Class 3 · 2m3½f · Soft · 5 ran 3/5 1½ 11-2 12562C121B Harry Skelton 15/8F
2022 · 4 runs
21 Nov 22+22d Kempton racingtv.com Handicap Chase Class 3 · 2m4½f · Soft · 10 ran F/10 — 11-7 127—— Harry Skelton 3/1F
30 Oct 22+256d Carlisle Gordon Richards Novices' Limited Handicap Chase (GBB Race) Class 3 · 2m4f · Good To Soft · 11 ran 4/11 ½ 11-5 128—121A Harry Skelton 13/2
16 Feb 22+32d Wetherby Visit Irish Store Sales With ITM Novices' Hurdle (GBB Race) Class 4 · 2m3½f · Soft · 12 ran 2/12 5 11-7 128148B134A Harry Skelton 11/10F
15 Jan 22+43d Warwick Ballymore Leamington Novices' Hurdle (Grade 2) (GBB Race) Class 1 · 2m5f · Soft · 7 ran 4/7 3¾ 11-0 131112A119B Harry Skelton 4/1
2021 · 2 runs
03 Dec 21+17d Sandown Ballymore Winter Novices' Hurdle (Grade 2) (GBB Race) Class 1 · 2m4f · Good To Soft · 5 ran 2/5 14 11-0 —130C129B Harry Skelton 15/2
16 Nov 21 Lingfield Free Replays On attheraces.com Maiden Hurdle (GBB Race) Class 4 · 2m3½f · Good To Soft · 9 ran 1/9 11-4 —115B124A Harry Skelton 15/8

Quick answers

How many races has Viva Lavilla won?
Viva Lavilla (IRE) won 1 of 11 archived starts between 2021 and 2025, a strike rate of 9.1%. Placed 3 times in total (27.3% of starts).
Who trained Viva Lavilla?
Viva Lavilla (IRE) was trained by Anthony Ward-Thomas on the most recent run on record, at Cheltenham on 2 May 2025.
Who is Viva Lavilla's sire?
Viva Lavilla (IRE) is by Getaway (GER) out of Viva Forever (FR), whose sire is Lando.
What going does Viva Lavilla prefer?
Viva Lavilla (IRE) has the best record on good to soft going: 1 win from 3 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 Viva Lavilla's official rating?
The most recent official rating on record is 110, from the run on 2 May 2025. The highest on record is 131.
What is Viva Lavilla's sire's record?
Getaway (GER)'s progeny in our archive have won 11.3% of 10,994 runs since Mar 2016 (1,031 horses), Flat and jumps together. Strongest on good to firm going: 23.1% from 134.
Who are Viva Lavilla's siblings?
Out of Viva Forever (FR), Viva Lavilla (IRE) has 3 other produce in our archive, 0 of them winners. As at Nov 2026.

Record shown from November 2021. Our archive holds racing in Great Britain, Ireland and France from January 2005. Any runs before that, or in other countries, are not in it. In-running comments are available from 2024 onward.