Dictionary Corner
Dictionary Corner is a five-year-old with a difficult record to spin: seven races, no wins, and a single placed finish to show for it. The horse has not found the winner's enclosure yet, and recent form makes for grim reading. In its last six outings, there has been just one placing—a sixth-place finish—while the rest have yielded nothing. It raced just yesterday, which means it is an active runner, but the pattern of disappointment has become entrenched.Based on TrackLab's analysis
Owner
Kevin Christine Monroe Partnership
📊 Key numbers
Career totals for this horse
🔍 Full analysis
Our model's view, based on this horse's career and recent runs
What makes Dictionary Corner worth watching is the yard behind it. Trainer Eoin Christopher McCarthy, based at Athea in County Limerick, is having a decent season with 15 winners sent out so far, which suggests he knows how to train a horse to the track. Whether McCarthy can figure out what Dictionary Corner needs to break through remains the question. At this stage of the horse's career—five years old and still searching for that elusive first win—time is running short. Some horses take longer to mature or need the right race, the right ground, or the right set of circumstances to click. Others simply do not have what it takes. The evidence so far points toward the latter, but as long as McCarthy keeps running the horse, there is always a chance that something might change.
🎯 Where this horse runs best
Results split by ground, distance, race level and track shape
🌧 Ground
Good (a little give)
Unknown
Good to yielding (mild give)
Unknown
Yielding (slightly soft)
Unknown
📏 Race distance
Long Distance (2M+)
Unknown
🏟 Track shape
Right-handed, long straights
Unknown
Right-handed, hilly
Unknown
Right-handed, tight turns
Unknown
📅 Recent runs
The last 10 races, most recent first
3 Aug
DNF
Cork
Long Distance (2m+) · Good · 21 runners
10 Jul
DNF
Cork
Long Distance (2m+) · Good · 26 runners
16 May
DNF
Wexford
Long Distance (2m+) · Good_To_Yielding · 12 runners
10 May
6th
Cork
Long Distance (2m+) · Good · 20 runners
5 Apr
8th
Cork
Long Distance (2m+) · Yielding · 14 runners
27 Nov
DNF
Thurles
Long Distance (2m+) · Good_To_Yielding · 19 runners
18 Nov
DNF
Limerick
Long Distance (2m+) · Heavy · 17 runners
🏇 Jockeys
Every jockey who has ridden this horse, most rides first
G B Noonan Current jockey
🏟 Course record
Win rate at each course this horse has visited
| Course | Races | Results | Last run | Win rate |
|---|
| Cork Galloping |
4 |
4 other |
3 Aug |
0% |
| Limerick Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
18 Nov |
0% |
| Thurles Undulating |
1 |
1 other |
27 Nov |
0% |
| Wexford Sharp |
1 |
1 other |
16 May |
0% |