Kiltybo

The overall numbers are just as striking. From six career races, Kiltybo has won three and placed in three more, meaning the horse has never once finished out of the frame. That's a win rate of exactly 50% — winning 3 of every 6 races — which is an extraordinary return at any level of the sport. Most racehorses with decent careers win somewhere between 1 in 5 and 1 in 6 races. Kiltybo is winning half. The recent form reads 10-7-1-1-1-5 going back through the last six runs, and while those two results at the start of the sequence stand out as off days, the three wins in the middle of that run suggest a horse who found a real purple patch.

The career got started at Thurles in February 2026, and within weeks Kiltybo had added a win at Naas — a track that attracts stronger, better-funded yards and stiffer competition. Winning there matters. It suggests this isn't just a horse who beats modest rivals on a small track on a rainy Tuesday; Kiltybo has done it somewhere that counts.

Behind the horse is trainer Conor Houlihan, operating out of Dungarven in County Waterford. The yard is relatively small in the context of Irish racing, but has already sent out three winners this season — and Kiltybo accounts for three of those wins across the horse's career, making this partnership central to everything Houlihan's team is building. Small yards that produce horses with a 50% win rate tend to punch well above their weight, and this looks like one of those stories. Keep an eye on the forecast. When the rain comes, so does Kiltybo.