Glens Sensation
Glens Sensation has now completed twelve races without a win or place, and at eight years old, the horse finds itself in that difficult stretch where opportunities to break through are narrowing. The recent form tells the story: a sixth-place finish followed by tenth, and nothing better than an eighth in the last six outings. Having raced just yesterday, the horse remains in active work under trainer
Paul John Gilligan at Athenry in County Galway, a yard that has managed five winners this season despite the challenges of keeping horses competitive.
Based on TrackLab's analysis
📊 Key numbers
Career totals for this horse
🔍 Full analysis
Our model's view, based on this horse's career and recent runs
For a horse approaching the back end of its racing career with no success to its name, the path forward becomes increasingly limited. Glens Sensation has been given plenty of chances—twelve races is a reasonable number of opportunities—but has not managed to finish in the top three once. Without a breakthrough soon, the window for finding the right race at the right level will continue to close. Gilligan's yard is doing better than the numbers suggest it might, and that suggests the trainer still believes there may be something to work with, but Glens Sensation will need to find the form that has eluded it so far.
🎯 Where this horse runs best
Results split by ground, distance, race level and track shape
🌧 Ground
Good (a little give)
Unknown
Yielding (slightly soft)
Unknown
Good to yielding (mild give)
Unknown
Soft to heavy (wet)
Unknown
📏 Race distance
Long Distance (2M+)
Unknown
🏟 Track shape
Right-handed, long straights
Unknown
Right-handed, tight turns
Unknown
Left-handed, long straights
Unknown
Right-handed, tight
Unknown
Left-handed, tight turns
Unknown
📅 Recent runs
The last 10 races, most recent first
31 Jul
DNF
Galway
Long Distance (2m+) · Good · 10 runners
10 Feb
DNF
Limerick
1m6f – 2m · Heavy · 14 runners
15 Jan
6th
Fairyhouse
Long Distance (2m+) · Soft · 18 runners
2 Dec
10th
Clonmel
Long Distance (2m+) · Heavy · 19 runners
23 Aug
DNF
Killarney
Long Distance (2m+) · Good_To_Yielding · 7 runners
29 Jul
8th
Galway
Long Distance (2m+) · Good · 10 runners
22 Jul
12th
Ballinrobe
Long Distance (2m+) · Good · 19 runners
5 Jul
DNF
Bellewstown
Long Distance (2m+) · Good · 19 runners
11 Apr
12th
Ballinrobe
Long Distance (2m+) · Good · 18 runners
9 Feb
10th
Navan
1m6f – 2m · Soft_To_Heavy · 15 runners
🏇 Jockeys
Every jockey who has ridden this horse, most rides first
🏟 Course record
Win rate at each course this horse has visited
| Course | Races | Results | Last run | Win rate |
|---|
| Ballinrobe Sharp |
2 |
2 other |
22 Jul |
0% |
| Fairyhouse Galloping |
2 |
2 other |
15 Jan |
0% |
| Galway Tight |
2 |
2 other |
31 Jul |
0% |
| Killarney Sharp |
1 |
1 other |
23 Aug |
0% |
| Navan Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
9 Feb |
0% |
| Bellewstown Sharp |
1 |
1 other |
5 Jul |
0% |
| Clonmel Sharp |
1 |
1 other |
2 Dec |
0% |
| Limerick Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
10 Feb |
0% |
| Leopardstown Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
26 Dec |
0% |