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Padraig Gerard Higgins

20 runners in the lifetime window · 5 individual horses
As at 29 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Jun 2016 95% of runners over jumps
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)
No runners in the last 5 seasons — showing the lifetime record, from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it.
2–20
Wins / Runs
10%
Strike rate
n=20
4 (20%)
Placed
1.20
Fair A/E
n=20 · 0.96 incl. margin
−7.10
£1 level stake
n=20 at SP · −35.5%
£14,533
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 10% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
11.1%+1.1
n=9 · A/E 1.32 · £1 +2.00
Debutants · first career start
0%−10.0
n=4 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −4.00
When favourite
50%
n=2 · A/E 1.71 · £1 −0.10
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
11.8%+1.8
n=17 · A/E 1.37 · £1 −4.10

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 10% 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
Chase 9 2 22.2% +3.90
Hurdle 8 0 0% −8.00
NH Flat 2 0 0% −2.00
Flat 1 0 0% −1.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Soft 8 1 12.5% +3.00
Heavy 7 1 14.3% −5.10
Good 4 0 0% −4.00
Good to Firm 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Cork 5 0 0% −5.00
Limerick 4 0 0% −4.00
Clonmel 2 0 0% −2.00
Listowel 2 1 50% −0.10
Thurles 2 0 0% −2.00
Wexford 1 0 0% −1.00
Gowran Park 1 0 0% −1.00
Killarney 1 1 100% +10.00
Tramore 1 0 0% −1.00
Tipperary 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 2 1 50% 1.71 −0.10
2nd–3rd fav 3 0 0% 0.00 −3.00
4th–6th fav 8 1 12.5% 1.87 +3.00
7th+ in betting 7 0 0% 0.00 −7.00
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.

Jumping record

completion over obstacles · same window as header
76.5% completed · 17 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 9 55.6% 2 0 2 0 0
Hurdle 8 100% 0 0 0 0 0
Chases and hurdles only — bumpers have no obstacles, so completion is not a question there. F fell · UR unseated rider · PU pulled up · BD brought down · Oth covers refusals, slip-ups, run-outs and the rare disqualification. Non-runners are excluded throughout. Rows under n=30 are shown faded. A descriptive record, not a tip.

Horses trained

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Gentle Cloud (GB) 9 2 3 1 Jun 15
Golden Crisp (IRE) 4 0 0 6 Jun 16
Ballyknock Hill (IRE) 3 0 1 28 Mar 16
Sarellia (IRE) 2 0 0 19 May 12
Ballyknock Blaze (IRE)from R A Cotter 2 0 0 20 Mar 08
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.

None of them has a 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
Patrick Mangan 6 0 0% −6.00
Mr J C Barry 5 2 40% +7.90
Mr L C Murphy 2 0 0% −2.00
Alan Crowe 1 0 0% −1.00
Mr G M Mangan 1 0 0% −1.00
Miss G P Thompson 1 0 0% −1.00
Mr J W Spillane 1 0 0% −1.00
Mr E P O'Brien 1 0 0% −1.00
Jonathan Burke 1 0 0% −1.00
Andrew J McNamara 1 0 0% −1.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
2
Archived wins
£15,394
Prize money
2015
Best season · 2 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.
Gentle Cloud (GB) — Dan Linehan's Bar And B&b Hunters Chase Killarney · May 2015
£5,865
Gentle Cloud (GB) — Join The Listowel Races Supporters Club Hunters Chase Listowel · Jun 2015
£5,520
Notable horses
Gentle Cloud (GB)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Cloudings (IRE) 18.2% · 2–11
Progeny have won 10.5% of 3,885 runs since 2008 (309 horses). Strongest beyond 3m (all codes): 14.6% from 410. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 7.5% from 815.
Gold Well (GB) 0% · 0–4
Progeny have won 12.2% of 5,648 runs since 2008 (363 horses).
Indian Danehill (IRE) 0% · 0–3
Progeny have won 8.6% of 2,742 runs since 2008 (216 horses). Strongest beyond 3m (all codes): 11.9% from 143.
Dr Massini (IRE) 0% · 0–2
Progeny have won 10.6% of 4,942 runs since 2008 (406 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 14% from 421.
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 29 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

all 36 archived runs · newest first

Every one of Padraig Gerard Higgins's 36 archived runners, from 31 December 2005 to 6 June 2016, newest first — 2 winners among them.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
06 Jun 16 Listowel Golden Crisp (IRE)J: Mr E P O'Brien Join The Listowel Races Supporters Club Hunters Chase24f · Good · 11 ran 4th 8/1
28 Mar 16 Cork Golden Crisp (IRE)J: Mr J C Barry Coolmore N.h. Sires Leading Light & Ocovango Maiden Hunters Chase24f · Heavy · 11 ran PU 8/1
28 Mar 16 Cork Ballyknock Hill (IRE)J: Mr J C Barry Glenview & Rathbarry Studs Mares Maiden Hunters Chase24f · Heavy · 11 ran F 7/2
01 Jun 15 Listowel Gentle Cloud (GB)J: Mr J C Barry Join The Listowel Races Supporters Club Hunters Chase24f · Heavy · 6 ran 1st 9/10F
11 May 15 Killarney Gentle Cloud (GB)J: Mr J C Barry Dan Linehan's Bar And B&b Hunters Chase22f · Yielding · 9 ran 1st 10/1
06 Apr 15 Cork Golden Crisp (IRE)J: Mr L C Murphy Coolmore N.h. Sires Leading Light & Ocovango Maiden Hunters Chase24f · Yielding · 13 ran PU 14/1
06 Apr 15 Cork Ballyknock Hill (IRE)J: Mr L C Murphy Glenview & Rathbarry Studs Mares Maiden Hunters Chase24f · Yielding · 11 ran 2nd 9/2
15 May 14 Tipperary Gentle Cloud (GB)J: Mr J C Barry Glenview And Rathbarry Stud Novice Hunters Chase23f · Yielding · 15 ran F 11/1
21 Apr 14 Cork Ballyknock Hill (IRE)J: Mr G M Mangan Cork & Waterford Mares Point-to-point Flat Race16f · Yielding · 16 ran 14th 11/1
23 Jun 13 Gowran Park Golden Crisp (IRE)J: Jonathan Burke Joe Bollard Memorial Flat Race (Div 2)20f · Good To Firm · 14 ran 11th 13/2
20 May 12 Limerick Gentle Cloud (GB)J: Andrew J McNamara Limerick G.A.A. Handicap Hurdle (80-95) (Div 1)21f · Good · 18 ran 9th 9/2F
19 May 12 Wexford Sarellia (IRE)J: Mr J W Spillane Borro Mares Flat Race16f · Yielding · 16 ran 12th 40/1
05 May 12 Limerick Gentle Cloud (GB)J: Patrick Mangan Kelloggs Cul Camps Handicap Hurdle (80-102) (Div 2)24f · Good · 14 ran 2nd 20/1
15 Apr 12 Tramore Sarellia (IRE)J: Patrick Mangan Irish Stallion Farms E.B.F. Mares Maiden Hurdle16f · Good · 15 ran 8th 50/1
23 Feb 12 Thurles Gentle Cloud (GB)J: Patrick Mangan Cashel Maiden Hurdle22f · Heavy · 13 ran 4th 16/1
09 Feb 12 Thurles Gentle Cloud (GB)J: Patrick Mangan Thurles.ie Maiden Hurdle16f · Soft To Heavy · 18 ran 7th 100/1
25 Jan 12 Limerick Gentle Cloud (GB)J: Patrick Mangan I.n.h. Stallion Owners E.B.F. Maiden Hurdle19f · Heavy · 13 ran 9th 66/1
28 Dec 11 Limerick Gentle Cloud (GB)J: Patrick Mangan Friends Of Limerick Racecourse Maiden Hurdle21f · Heavy · 6 ran 5th 16/1
20 Mar 08 Clonmel Ballyknock Blaze (IRE)J: Alan Crowe Clonmel Beginners Chase17f · Soft · 14 ran 9th 50/1
21 Feb 08 Clonmel Ballyknock Blaze (IRE)J: Miss G P Thompson Suir Ladies Handicap Hurdle (77-90)16f · Yielding To Soft · 18 ran 10th 33/1

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 Padraig Gerard Higgins's strike rate?
Padraig Gerard Higgins has won 2 of 20 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 10% (as at 29 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 29 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).