Set The Tone
Seventeen races, zero wins — Set The Tone is one of those horses that keeps turning up without ever quite delivering the result everyone is waiting for. The five-year-old has managed three placed finishes across that run, meaning it has shown enough promise to suggest it belongs on a racecourse, but not enough to find the winner's enclosure. At this stage, that record is simply what it is: a horse that competes regularly and finishes in the frame occasionally, but hasn't yet found a way to get its nose in front.Based on TrackLab's AI analysis
Owner
OnlyfoolsnNorris's Syndicate
📊 Key Numbers
Career statistics for this horse
17.6%
Place rate (top 3)
avg ~30%
🔍 Full Analysis
TrackLab's AI-generated assessment based on career data and recent form
The partnership with jockey Sean Flanagan tells a similar story. The two have been paired together ten times — more than half of Set The Tone's entire career — and have yet to win together. That's a significant chunk of shared experience without a breakthrough, though it does suggest the team believe in the combination enough to keep coming back to it. Recent form shows a second-place finish as the standout moment, with a tenth and an eighth in between, and the dashes indicating non-completions give the record an added layer of frustration.
Trainer David M O'Brien operates out of Piltown in County Kilkenny, and it has been a quiet season for the yard — just one winner sent out so far. Set The Tone raced just one day ago, so this is very much a horse in active campaign mode, being kept busy and given every opportunity to break its duck. Sometimes that persistence pays off. Whether it does here remains the open question that seventeen races have so far left unanswered.
🎯 Where This Horse Thrives
Performance broken down by ground, distance, class, and track type
🌧 Ground Conditions
Yielding to soft (damp)
Unknown
Yielding (slightly soft)
Unknown
Good to yielding (mild give)
Unknown
📏 Race Distance
Long Distance (2M+)
Unknown
🏟 Track Shape
Right-handed, tight turns
Unknown
Right-handed, long straights
Unknown
Right-handed, hilly
Unknown
Left-handed, tight turns
Unknown
Right-handed, tight
Unknown
📅 Recent Runs
The last 10 races, most recent first
2 Jul
2nd
Limerick
Long Distance (2m+) · Good · 19 runners
29 May
DNF
Tramore
Long Distance (2m+) · Good · 19 runners
14 May
10th
Clonmel
Long Distance (2m+) · Good_To_Yielding · 19 runners
19 Apr
8th
Tramore
1m6f – 2m · Yielding · 10 runners
26 Feb
DNF
Clonmel
Long Distance (2m+) · Heavy · 8 runners
12 Feb
DNF
Clonmel
Long Distance (2m+) · Heavy · 16 runners
5 Feb
DNF
Thurles
Long Distance (2m+) · Soft · 19 runners
17 May
10th
Wexford
Long Distance (2m+) · Good · 17 runners
14 Apr
10th
Tramore
Long Distance (2m+) · Yielding · 14 runners
13 Apr
4th
Tramore
Long Distance (2m+) · Yielding · 14 runners
🏇 Jockey Partnerships
Every jockey who has ridden this horse, sorted by rides together
🏟 Track Record
Win rate at each course this horse has visited
| Course | Races | Results | Last visited | Win rate |
|---|
| Tramore Sharp |
4 |
4 other |
29 May |
0% |
| Clonmel Sharp |
3 |
3 other |
14 May |
0% |
| Ballinrobe Sharp |
2 |
2 other |
13 Sep |
0% |
| Limerick Galloping |
2 |
1 second, 1 other |
2 Jul |
0% |
| Killarney Sharp |
1 |
1 other |
22 Aug |
0% |
| Wexford Sharp |
1 |
1 other |
17 May |
0% |
| Gowran Park Undulating |
1 |
1 third |
5 Oct |
0% |
| Fairyhouse Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
22 Feb |
0% |
| Galway Tight |
1 |
1 other |
26 Oct |
0% |
| Thurles Undulating |
1 |
1 other |
5 Feb |
0% |