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Mervyn Torrens

16 runners in the last 5 seasons · 5 individual horses
As at 15 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Dec 2023
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)
from 1 Jan 2022
0–16
Wins / Runs
0%
Strike rate
n=16
2 (13%)
Placed
0.00
Fair A/E
n=16 · 0.00 incl. margin
−16.00
£1 level stake
n=16 at SP · −100.0%
£2,205
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%

Small sample — fewer than 30 runs in this window. Read the Ns before the percentages.

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 0% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
0%+0.0
n=4 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −4.00
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%+0.0
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00
Debutants · first career start
0%+0.0
n=2 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −2.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%+0.0
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
0%+0.0
n=9 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −9.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 0% baseline — descriptive splits with the sample always shown, not tips. Tiles under 30 runs render muted. Headgear figures use the true-first definition (first gear appearance in the captured career); returns are gear back on after a bare run. Claiming riders are runs where the booked rider carried a weight claim. Group / Graded covers pattern and listed races.

Record by conditions

same window as header

Race type

TypeRWSR£1
Flat 8 0 0% −8.00
Hurdle 7 0 0% −7.00
Chase 1 0 0% −1.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Soft 6 0 0% −6.00
Good 5 0 0% −5.00
Good to Soft 4 0 0% −4.00
Heavy 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Down Royal 3 0 0% −3.00
Roscommon 3 0 0% −3.00
Fairyhouse 2 0 0% −2.00
Navan 2 0 0% −2.00
Sligo 2 0 0% −2.00
Downpatrick 1 0 0% −1.00
Galway 1 0 0% −1.00
Gowran Park 1 0 0% −1.00
Listowel 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
4th–6th fav 2 0 0% 0.00 −2.00
7th+ in betting 14 0 0% 0.00 −14.00
Fair A/E per band is the tell: near 1.00 the market had it priced right; well above, the wins came where the market didn't expect them.

Rows below n=30 are shown faded — a small sample is a fact, not a trend. Every figure carries its N.

Horses trained

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Pretty Soldier (GER)then Wayne Swindle 5 0 1 9 Dec 23
Ballybeg Boy (IRE)from John C McConnell · then Steve Jones 3 0 0 3 May 23
Back To Bataan (IRE) 3 0 0 16 Sep 22
Askann (IRE) 3 0 1 26 Feb 22
Mister Vic (IRE)then Barry J Fitzgerald 2 0 0 21 Oct 22
All 5 horses sent out in this window. Runs, wins and places only: a strike rate or a return on a handful of runs is noise, so none is quoted per horse — each horse's full record is on its own page.
Where they came from · where they went next

Of the 5 horses listed, 1 arrived from another yard in our archive; 4 had their first archived run for this yard.

3 have since run for another yard; 2 have no later run for another yard in our archive.

Read from each listed horse's whole archived career (2005 onwards), not only this window, and counted over the horses listed above, not the whole string. “First archived run” means our archive holds nothing earlier, not that the horse was unraced. A horse with no later run elsewhere may still be here, be off the track, or have run somewhere our archive does not cover — none of that is asserted.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first
RiderRWSR£1
Jennifer Torrens 5 0 0% −5.00
Simon Torrens 3 0 0% −3.00
Emmet McNamara 2 0 0% −2.00
Mr L T Turner 2 0 0% −2.00
Conor Maxwell 1 0 0% −1.00
Dylan Browne McMonagle 1 0 0% −1.00
Daniel King 1 0 0% −1.00
Cian Horgan 1 0 0% −1.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
44
Archived wins
1
Pattern / graded wins
£470k
Prize money
2008
Best season · 12 wins
In our archive from its very first year (2005), so this career almost certainly began earlier than our record does. The figures above count 2005 onwards only — what the archive holds, not a full-career total. This card is the full archive census (2005→); the statistics in the header aggregate from 2008 — the floor that guarantees every horse a complete captured career — so this card can legitimately show more wins than the header.
Hughies Grey (IRE) — Toals Bookmakers Ulster Grand National E.B.F. Handicap Chase (0-130) Downpatrick · Mar 2011
£16,250
Isabellareine (GER) — Midland Breeders Supporting Kilbeggan E.B.F. Mares Hurdle Kilbeggan · Sep 2010
£10,695
Dancera (GER) — Mullingar Handicap Hurdle (81-123) Kilbeggan · Jun 2010
£10,350
Notable horses
Isabellareine (GER) Hughies Grey (IRE) Dancera (GER) Bella's Baileys (IRE) Arondo (GER) Quartetto (GER)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Soldier hollow (GB) 0% · 0–5
Progeny have won 11.4% of 1,900 runs since 2008 (266 horses). Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 7.9% from 484. Strongest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 14.8% from 379.
Ask (GB) 0% · 0–3
Progeny have won 10.6% of 3,214 runs since 2008 (283 horses).
Camacho (GB) 0% · 0–3
Progeny have won 8.1% of 9,316 runs since 2008 (596 horses).
Millenary (GB) 0% · 0–3
Progeny have won 9.7% of 1,412 runs since 2008 (120 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 13.3% from 233.
Masterofthehorse (IRE) 0% · 0–2
Progeny have won 6.5% of 587 runs since 2008 (61 horses). Weakest on Soft going: 2.4% from 166.
Top line: the yard's own record with each sire's runners (win %, wins–runs), same window as the header; faded under 30 runs. Beneath it: every run by that sire's progeny in our archive since 2008, as at 15 Oct 2026 — what they have done, not a forecast. A going or a distance is named only where at least 100 progeny runs sit 3 or more points from the sire's own win rate. Distance bands cover Flat and jumps together.

The record

latest 50 of 726 · newest first

The latest 50 of 726 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 9 January 2005 to 9 December 2023.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
09 Dec 23 Navan Pretty Soldier (GER)J: Simon Torrens Headfort Arms Hotel Maiden Hurdle16f · Heavy · 25 ran 20th 150/1
08 Sep 23 Down Royal Pretty Soldier (GER)J: Dylan Browne McMonagle Grant Thornton Ulster Cesarewitch Handicap (50-80)18f · Good · 14 ran 11th 12/1
28 Jul 23 Down Royal Pretty Soldier (GER)J: Cian Horgan Tote Apprentice Handicap13f · Good · 10 ran 3rd 14/1
10 Jul 23 Roscommon Pretty Soldier (GER)J: Simon Torrens Frenchpark Maiden Hurdle15.5f · Good To Yielding · 14 ran 8th 10/1
24 Jun 23 Down Royal Pretty Soldier (GER)J: Daniel King New Pravha Suite Handicap (47-70)10.5f · Good · 14 ran 7th 16/1
03 May 23 Gowran Park Ballybeg Boy (IRE)J: Conor Maxwell Save 33% Buying Tickets Online Handicap (47-65) (Div 1)8f · Yielding · 16 ran 10th 125/1
21 Oct 22 Sligo Mister Vic (IRE)J: Mr L T Turner Lough Gill Flat Race18f · Yielding To Soft · 13 ran 9th 100/1
26 Sep 22 Roscommon Mister Vic (IRE)J: Mr L T Turner Roscommon On-Course Vets Flat Race15.5f · Good · 10 ran 7th 50/1
20 Sep 22 Listowel Ballybeg Boy (IRE)J: Emmet McNamara Jet, Peggy & Eamonn O'Carroll Memorial (C & G) Maiden7f · Good To Yielding · 6 ran 6th 125/1
16 Sep 22 Downpatrick Back To Bataan (IRE)J: Simon Torrens Irish Stallion Farms EBF Beginners Chase18f · Good To Yielding · 12 ran 10th 80/1
05 Sep 22 Galway Back To Bataan (IRE)J: Jennifer Torrens Galway Handicap Hurdle (80-95) (Div 2)22.5f · Yielding · 17 ran 12th 16/1
17 Aug 22 Sligo Back To Bataan (IRE)J: Jennifer Torrens Adare Manor Opportunity Handicap Hurdle25.5f · Good To Yielding · 12 ran 9th 11/1
15 Aug 22 Roscommon Ballybeg Boy (IRE)J: Emmet McNamara Eurona Brisknet Maiden7.5f · Good · 11 ran 7th 150/1
26 Feb 22 Fairyhouse Askann (IRE)J: Jennifer Torrens Easter Festival 16th - 18th April Handicap Hurdle (80-109)23.5f · Soft · 18 ran 10th 22/1
22 Jan 22 Navan Askann (IRE)J: Jennifer Torrens Ardmulchan Handicap Hurdle (80-109)20f · Yielding · 26 ran 11th 33/1
01 Jan 22 Fairyhouse Askann (IRE)J: Jennifer Torrens Tote+ Pays You More At Tote.ie Handicap Hurdle (80-109) (Div 1)24.5f · Yielding · 19 ran 3rd 14/1
11 Dec 21 Fairyhouse Presenting Meghan (IRE)J: Jody McGarvey Happy Christmas From Everyone At Fairyhouse Handicap Hurdle (80-109)16f · Yielding To Soft · 15 ran PU 28/1
30 Oct 21 Down Royal Aragon (IRE)J: Simon Torrens Tayto Group Maiden Hurdle17f · Soft · 15 ran 8th 14/1
09 Oct 21 Fairyhouse Presenting Meghan (IRE)J: Simon Torrens Welcome Back To Fairyhouse Handicap Hurdle (80-116)16f · Good · 12 ran 11th 22/1
17 Sep 21 Downpatrick Back To Bataan (IRE)J: Jennifer Torrens Franco Hughes Bookmaker Handicap Hurdle (80-109)19f · Yielding · 12 ran 5th 9/1

Drawn from the whole archive (2005 onwards), so it can include runs outside the window the header statistics cover. Non-runners are not listed. A finish shown in letters is a non-completion (F fell · UR unseated · PU pulled up · BD brought down).

Quick answers

What is Mervyn Torrens's strike rate?
Mervyn Torrens has won 0 of 16 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 0% (as at 15 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive. A small sample — fewer than 30 runners, so read the count before the percentage.
Fair A/E compares wins with a margin-stripped market expectation. Favourite-heavy samples — top yards, leading riders — naturally read a few points warm, so 1.05 means "beat the margin-free market read", not "the market underrates this by 5%". Three sample sizes are reported and never blended: runs (n), the ROI basis (n at SP), and the fair-A/E basis (n with a computed fair probability).

Strike rate is wins over all runs (n). ROI is £1 level stakes at SP over runs with a parseable price (n at SP). Fair A/E is wins over margin-stripped market expectation, over runs with a computed fair probability (n fair). The three Ns can legitimately differ and are always shown. Figures as at 15 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).