Hold The Serve
Hold The Serve is a horse that knows how to find the winner's enclosure. The six-year-old has won three of its last six races, posting a 50% win rate across a career of six runs — a win rate that puts it firmly among the genuinely successful performers in its sphere. What makes this record even more striking is the consistency: beyond those three wins, it has finished in the top three in four races, meaning it has only once failed to get a top-three finish. That single eleventh-place finish aside, this is a horse that turns up to race and delivers.Based on TrackLab's analysis
Owner
Mcneill Family The Late Mavis Warren
📊 Key numbers
Career totals for this horse
🔍 Full analysis
Our model's view, based on this horse's career and recent runs
Trained by Olly Murphy at Wilmcote in Warwickshire, Hold The Serve has benefited from a yard in flying form. Murphy's operation sent out 146 winners this season alone, the kind of efficiency that speaks to how well horses are prepared and how shrewdly they are finished in the top 3. The horse broke its duck at Wincanton on 16 December 2025, but the real story is more recent: it won at Kempton Park on 21 February this year, and has posted four top-three finishes in its last five races. Currently active and last raced just a day ago, Hold The Serve remains a horse to watch — one that has proven it belongs among the winners and has the form to suggest another visit to the prize-money table is never far away.
🎯 Where this horse runs best
Results split by ground, distance, race level and track shape
🌧 Ground
Good to soft (some give)
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📏 Race distance
Long Distance (2M+)
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🏅 Race level
Class 2 (high-level)
Unknown
Class 3 (mid-level)
Unknown
Class 4 (standard)
Unknown
🏟 Track shape
Right-handed, long straights
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Left-handed, long straights
Unknown
Right-handed, tight turns
Unknown
📅 Recent runs
The last 10 races, most recent first
15 Oct
2nd
Perth
Long Distance (2m+) · Soft · 4 runners
11 Apr
5th
Aintree
Long Distance (2m+) · Good_To_Soft · 22 runners
21 Feb
🏆 Won
Kempton Park
Long Distance (2m+) · Good_To_Soft · 9 runners
16 Jan
🏆 Won
Market Rasen
Long Distance (2m+) · Good_To_Soft · 8 runners
16 Dec
🏆 Won
Wincanton
Long Distance (2m+) · Soft · 10 runners
16 Nov
11th
Cheltenham
Long Distance (2m+) · Soft · 17 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 |
|---|
| Kempton Park Galloping |
1 |
1 win |
21 Feb |
100% |
| Market Rasen Sharp |
1 |
1 win |
16 Jan |
100% |
| Wincanton Galloping |
1 |
1 win |
16 Dec |
100% |
| Aintree Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
11 Apr |
0% |
| Perth Galloping |
1 |
1 second |
15 Oct |
0% |
| Cheltenham Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
16 Nov |
0% |