Uncle Pad

Uncle Pad is a five-year-old making his racecourse debut, which is late enough that he will arrive at the track with genuine questions hanging over him. By the stallion Vadamos out of an Oscar mare, he has the breeding to run, but debut runners are always a mystery — five years old is not the age you'd normally see a horse appearing for the first time unless there have been setbacks or the trainer has simply taken his time.Based on TrackLab's analysis

Quick facts

Age

5 years old

Sex

Gelding

Colour

Bay

Father

Vadamos

Mother

Knock Down

Trainer

Gordon Elliott

Owner

Gigginstown House Stud

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Career totals for this horse

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Career races

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Top-3 rate

🏁 Next race

Today

Navan

About 2 miles · Slightly soft ground · 10 runners

🔍 Full analysis

Our model's view, based on this horse's career and recent runs

TrackLab's detailed breakdown

Gordon Elliott, who trains Uncle Pad at Longwood in Co Meath, runs one of the busiest yards in Britain and Ireland. His team has already sent out 210 winners this season alone, which gives some sense of the scale and ambition of the operation. That volume of winners suggests Elliott knows how to prepare a horse and when to send it out ready, so the fact that Uncle Pad is running now, rather than earlier, is deliberate. Whether the horse has the ability to justify that patience will be answered once the gates open. For now, there is nothing but potential — and no form to go on at all.