Horse record. UK and Irish racing.
Ask The Lord
No recorded run before 18 September 2026. That is a statement about the horse: our archive holds no earlier race for it.
- Age
- 5yo
- Sex
- gelding
- Last declared
- Downpatrick, 17:37 BST, 18 September 2026non-runner: withdrawn by the card we last read that day
- Our record of that day
- each-way terms and order book
- Going on the card
- goodgood or good to firm; standard or standard to fast on all-weather
- Distance band
- staying1m5f and beyond
- Trainer
- Michael Mulvany
- Owner
- L Mulvany
- Jockey that day
- Mr H C Swan
- Sire
- Tough As Nails
- Dam
- Stepping Down
- Figures as at
- 18 September 2026
- Archive through
- 23 October 2026
- Sample held
- none
- State
- No recorded run
This horse was not on the card we last read. The figures above are carried forward from the day it was, and nothing about it has changed since.
collected through 2026-10-24 15:00:04 UTCderived 2026-10-24 16:00:40 UTC
Finished first, second or third, whatever the number of runners. Not the each-way place terms of the race, which depend on the field and the bookmaker.
Every figure below uses only races run before the date above. Nothing here is a prediction, and nothing here is a price.
The record we hold
There is no record line, no going split, no course split and no distance split, because there is nothing to split. The tables that would carry them are absent rather than empty, which is the same thing said honestly.
Our archive runs to 23 October 2026. A run after that date is missing from these figures, so read them as what we hold, not as a complete record. The blocks below are records of other parties — the yard, the rider, the sire — and they stand whatever this horse has done.
Jockey and trainer
| Connection | Runs | Wins | Placed | Win rate | Placed rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JockeyMr H C Swan | 573 | 68 | 228 | 11.9% | 39.8% |
| TrainerMichael Mulvany | 1080 | 85 | 261 | 7.9% | 24.2% |
The table above is the whole-archive record, not this pairing. Those figures are the rider’s across every ride we hold and the yard’s across every runner we hold, to 23 October 2026.
Under today’s conditions, at Downpatrick, Mr H C Swan is 1 from 17 — a 5.9%, and over 1m5f and beyond, 65 from 563 — an 11.5%; over 1m5f and beyond, 11 from 130 — an 8.5%. Course and distance are taken one at a time, not together.
Sire
| Sire | Runs | Wins | Placed | Win rate | Placed rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tough As Nailsprogeny we hold — see the note below | 432 | 26 | 90 | 6.0% | 20.8% |
The sire’s progeny across every run we hold to 23 October 2026. It is a statement about the stallion’s stock in general, not about this horse.
Breeding is complete for races up to 22 July 2026. For races since, we hold the sire for 96.9% of runners (32,943 of 34,011), so progeny totals under-count recent runs.
Narrowed to the distance of this race — 1m5f and beyond — that same progeny record is 6 from 99, a 6.1% strike rate. Going and course are not held constant here.
Figures are our own count over an archive of published race results, computed using only races run before 18 September 2026. A rate is shown only where we hold at least two runs of that kind. Race times are BST. mazetick publishes measurements, not tips: nothing here is advice to bet, and no price appears on this page. All horses in the archive.