Brave Crogha
Brave Crogha is a 6-year-old with a career record that tells an honest story: 1 win and 2 places from 16 races, which works out to winning roughly 1 in every 16 outings. That single win came at Galway in August 2024, now some 20 months ago, and it remains the defining moment of a career that has been largely spent finishing in the middle of the pack. The last six runs — positions of 10th, 5th, 13th, 9th, 15th, and 9th — paint a picture of a horse that is competitive enough to keep finding its way onto a racecard, but not one that has been troubling the judge lately.Based on TrackLab's AI analysis
📊 Key Numbers
Career statistics for this horse
12.5%
Place rate (top 3)
avg ~30%
🔍 Full Analysis
TrackLab's AI-generated assessment based on career data and recent form
Miss A B O'Connor has been the regular partner, riding Brave Crogha in 9 of those 16 races and sharing that sole win together. Their combined record of 1 win from 9 races is modest, but there is clearly a familiarity and a working relationship there that the team keeps coming back to.
The horse is now returning from a break of around five months, which is a significant chunk of time off. That kind of absence can go either way — sometimes a horse comes back refreshed and sharper, sometimes the rust takes a few runs to shake off. With form figures as quiet as these, the question going into the next outing is less about recapturing past glory and more about whether the time away has done Brave Crogha some good. Galway 2024 proved this horse can win. Getting back there is the challenge.
⚡ Strengths & Risks
What the data says works for and against this horse
✓ What works in their favour
✔ Excellent record on good ground: 1 wins from 4 starts (25%)
⚠ What to watch out for
⚠ Poor record on good_to_yielding ground: 0 wins from 7 starts
⚠ Poor record on yielding ground: 0 wins from 3 starts
⚠ Returning from a 154-day absence
🎯 Where This Horse Thrives
Performance broken down by ground, distance, class, and track type
🌧 Ground Conditions
Yielding to soft (damp)
Unknown
Good to yielding (mild give)
Avoids
Yielding (slightly soft)
Avoids
📏 Race Distance
Long Distance (2M+)
Likes
🏟 Track Shape
Right-handed, tight
Loves
Left-handed, tight turns
Unknown
Left-handed, long straights
Unknown
Right-handed, long straights
Avoids
Right-handed, tight turns
Avoids
📅 Recent Runs
The last 10 races, most recent first
26 Oct
9th
Galway
Long Distance (2m+) · Good_To_Yielding · 11 runners
8 Sep
15th
Galway
Long Distance (2m+) · Good_To_Yielding · 23 runners
22 Jul
9th
Ballinrobe
Long Distance (2m+) · Good · 9 runners
3 Jul
13th
Tipperary
Long Distance (2m+) · Good_To_Yielding · 19 runners
27 May
5th
Ballinrobe
Long Distance (2m+) · Good · 15 runners
1 May
10th
Punchestown
Long Distance (2m+) · Yielding · 14 runners
13 Oct
5th
Cork
Long Distance (2m+) · Good · 6 runners
24 Aug
3rd
Killarney
Long Distance (2m+) · Good_To_Yielding · 10 runners
1 Aug
🏆 Won
Galway
Long Distance (2m+) · Good · 14 runners
23 Jul
13th
Ballinrobe
1m6f – 2m · Good_To_Yielding · 16 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 |
|---|
| Galway Tight |
4 |
1 win, 3 other |
26 Oct |
25% |
| Cork Galloping |
3 |
3 other |
13 Oct |
0% |
| Ballinrobe Sharp |
3 |
3 other |
22 Jul |
0% |
| Killarney Sharp |
2 |
1 third, 1 other |
24 Aug |
0% |
| Tipperary Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
3 Jul |
0% |
| Kilbeggan Tight |
1 |
1 other |
8 Sep |
0% |
| Leopardstown Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
26 Dec |
0% |
| Punchestown Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
1 May |
0% |