Horse record. UK and Irish racing.
Never Dark
We hold 77 runs for this horse, all of them before 12 October 2026.
- Age
- 9yo
- Sex
- gelding
- Last declared
- Musselburgh, 15:17 BST, 12 October 2026
- Our record of that day
- each-way terms and order book
- Going on the card
- softgood to soft, good to yielding, yielding or soft; standard to slow on all-weather
- Distance band
- sprintup to 6f
- Trainer
- Iain Jardine
- Owner
- Alison Walker Sarah Cousins
- Jockey that day
- Jack Nicholls(3)
- Sire
- No Nay Never
- Dam
- Dark Missile
- Figures as at
- 12 October 2026
- Archive through
- 23 October 2026
- Sample held
- 77 runs
- State
- Record held
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
| Record | Runs | Wins | Placed | Win rate | Placed rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All runs we hold | 77 | 7 | 27 | 9.1% | 35.1% |
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.
By going, course and distance
The portals show a rolling recent window because that is what their feed delivers. These are every run we hold, split by the conditions of the day and cut at the archive date — with the sample beside each rate, because a rate without one is a guess with a decimal point.
| Going | Runs | Wins | Placed | Win rate | Placed rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| goodgood or good to firm; standard or standard to fast on all-weather | 44 | 4 | 17 | 9.1% | 38.6% |
| softgood to soft, good to yielding, yielding or soft; standard to slow on all-weather | 31 | 3 | 9 | 9.7% | 29.0% |
| heavysoft to heavy or heavy | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 50.0% |
| Course | Runs | Wins | Placed | Win rate | Placed rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton | 13 | 1 | 5 | 7.7% | 38.5% |
| Musselburgh | 10 | 2 | 5 | 20.0% | 50.0% |
| Ayr | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 11.1% |
| Haydock | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 11.1% |
| Wolverhampton (AW) | 7 | 2 | 5 | 28.6% | 71.4% |
| Newcastle (AW) | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0.0% | 50.0% |
| York | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Carlisle | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0.0% | 50.0% |
| Chester | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Chelmsford (AW) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Southwell (AW) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 50.0% |
| Nottingham | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0% | 50.0% |
| Distance band | Runs | Wins | Placed | Win rate | Placed rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sprintup to 6f | 77 | 7 | 27 | 9.1% | 35.1% |
A going, course or distance band appears only where we hold at least two runs of it. A single run is not a strike rate, and rounding one run to “100%” would be noise wearing the clothes of a finding. Going and distance are grouped into bands by us, and each band carries the range it covers, because a rate over “staying” is unreadable without it; the course is as the record names it, with all-weather and turf at the same course kept apart.
Recent activity
It had not run for 14 days. It had run 2 times in the last 30 days, without a win, and 8 times in the last 90 days, without a win.
Counts, not rates — one win from two runs is not a fifty per cent strike rate, it is two runs. Everything here is cut at 12 October 2026.
Jockey and trainer
| Connection | Runs | Wins | Placed | Win rate | Placed rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JockeyJack Nicholls(3) | 585 | 69 | 201 | 11.8% | 34.4% |
| TrainerIain Jardine | 3855 | 377 | 1227 | 9.8% | 31.8% |
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. What follows is narrower.
Iain Jardine has saddled it 68 times, for 6 wins.
The pairing itself — Jack Nicholls(3) riding for Iain Jardine — is 10 from 45 in our archive, a 22.2% strike rate.
Under today’s conditions, at Musselburgh, Jack Nicholls(3) is 2 from 13 — a 15.4%, and over up to 6f, 38 from 255 — a 14.9%; at Musselburgh, Iain Jardine is 52 from 523 — a 9.9%, and over up to 6f, 118 from 1,187 — a 9.9%. Course and distance are taken one at a time, not together.
Sire
| Sire | Runs | Wins | Placed | Win rate | Placed rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Nay Neverprogeny we hold — see the note below | 4343 | 503 | 1450 | 11.6% | 33.4% |
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 — up to 6f — that same progeny record is 247 from 1,894, a 13% 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 12 October 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.