Kilashee

The most interesting detail in the record is what happens when the ground gets soft and slightly wet underfoot. In those conditions, Kilashee has won 3 from 14 races — a win rate of 21%, or roughly 1 in every 5. That is more than double the overall career average, and it is exactly the kind of pattern that a trainer watches closely. John Patrick Ryan, who runs the yard out of Templemore in County Tipperary, has had a productive season with 21 winners sent out, and he will know that when the ground softens, Kilashee becomes a more interesting proposition.

The most recent win came at Galway in October 2025, and while that was nine months ago, the horse raced just one day ago — so this is very much an active campaigner. The last six runs show a sequence of pulled-up or unplaced efforts followed by that Galway success, which means Kilashee arrived in form and then has since gone quiet again. That is not unusual for a horse of this age, where peaks come less reliably, but the presence on a racecourse at eleven is itself a marker of soundness.

Regular partner Daniel King has ridden Kilashee in 17 of those 69 races together, winning just once — a win rate of around 6%, or 1 in every 17 rides. That is a modest return, though it perhaps reflects the company the horse has been kept in rather than anything else. The first career win came at Listowel back in September 2021, which means Kilashee has been finding ways to get the job done across four years of trying. At eleven, with soft ground in the forecast and a yard in decent form, there will likely be at least a few more chapters still to come.