Poppycon
Poppycon is a six-year-old who has not managed to break through to the winner's enclosure in ten career races, though the horse has shown enough promise to place three times.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
Based at Eoin Doyle's yard in Mooncoin, County Kilkenny, Poppycon is part of a small training operation that has managed just two winners all season, so expectations are modest. The horse's placing record suggests it is capable of running respectably against similar opposition, but the zero wins from ten races is telling: Poppycon sits in that large and somewhat unglamorous group of horses that turn up regularly, stay competitive enough to finish in the frame occasionally, but never quite find the front. At this stage of its career, at six years old and without a breakthrough win, Poppycon may well have found its level as a solid, if unspectacular, participant in modest company.
🎯 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
📏 Race distance
Long Distance (2M+)
Unknown
🏟 Track shape
Right-handed, tight turns
Unknown
Left-handed, tight turns
Unknown
Right-handed, hilly
Unknown
Right-handed, long straights
Unknown
📅 Recent runs
The last 10 races, most recent first
30 Sep
9th
Sligo
Long Distance (2m+) · Good · 15 runners
11 Sep
11th
Ballinrobe
Long Distance (2m+) · Yielding · 19 runners
7 Aug
10th
Wexford
Long Distance (2m+) · Good · 17 runners
12 Jul
2nd
Sligo
Long Distance (2m+) · Good · 18 runners
30 May
4th
Listowel
Long Distance (2m+) · Good · 21 runners
19 Apr
DNF
Tramore
Long Distance (2m+) · Yielding · 18 runners
17 Mar
2nd
Wexford
Long Distance (2m+) · Soft · 11 runners
18 Feb
8th
Punchestown
Long Distance (2m+) · Soft · 19 runners
29 Jan
16th
Thurles
1m6f – 2m · Heavy · 21 runners
1 Jan
3rd
Tramore
Long Distance (2m+) · Soft · 13 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 |
|---|
| Tramore Sharp |
2 |
1 third, 1 other |
19 Apr |
0% |
| Wexford Sharp |
2 |
1 second, 1 other |
7 Aug |
0% |
| Sligo Sharp |
2 |
1 second, 1 other |
30 Sep |
0% |
| Punchestown Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
18 Feb |
0% |
| Ballinrobe Sharp |
1 |
1 other |
11 Sep |
0% |
| Thurles Undulating |
1 |
1 other |
29 Jan |
0% |
| Listowel Sharp |
1 |
1 other |
30 May |
0% |