Defining Battle (IRE)
Owner: Darren & Annaley Yates Trainer: D Skelton Sex: colt Age: 9
Breeding: Lope De Vega / Royal Fortune (Invincible Spirit)
Form Summary
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Starts | Wins | 2nds | 3rds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
| Good (Good to Soft in places) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Good to Soft (Soft In Places) | 1 | |||
| Good to Yielding (Good in places) | 1 | |||
| Soft | 1 | |||
| Soft ( ) | 1 | |||
| Standard | 1 | |||
| Yielding | 1 | 1 | ||
| Totals | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Race History
| Date | Course | Going | Distance | Class | Race Winner | Weight | Position | Jockey | SP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 May 2021 | Haydock | Soft ( ) | 1m 7f 144y | 1 | Copperless | 10st 2lbs | 9 of 17 | Bridget Andrews | 16/1 |
| 16 Apr 2021 | Ayr | Good (Good to Soft in places) | 2m | 3 | Dubai Days | 11st 5lbs | 3 of 9 | Harry Skelton | 9/4 |
| held up towards rear, raced keenly, jumped left and not fluent 1st, headway on outside from 4 out, led 3 out, headed flat, 3rd and held towards finish | |||||||||
| 23 Mar 2021 | Taunton | Good | 2m 104y | 4 | Camprond | 11st 4lbs | 2 of 14 | Harry Skelton | 6/4 |
| led, niggled along before 2 out, not fluent last and headed, lacked pace of winner flat | |||||||||
| 21 Feb 2021 | Newbury | Good to Soft (Soft In Places) | 2m 69y | 3 | Gowel Road | 11st 2lbs | 4 of 15 | Harry Skelton | 18/1 |
| raced keenly in rear, headway when hampered 3 out, kept on steadily to grab fourth after last | |||||||||
| 05 Dec 2019 | Market Rasen | Soft | 2m 125y | 4 | Lord Lamington | 10st 12lbs | of 15 | Non Runner | 0/0 |
| NonRunner | |||||||||
| 17 Jul 2019 | Killarney | Good | 1m 3f 40y | 0 | Defining Battle | 9st 2lbs | 1 of 7 | C P Hoban | 11/2 |
| 08 Jul 2019 | Roscommon | Good | 1m 2f 11y | 0 | Heliac | 9st 2lbs | of 6 | C P Hoban | 0/0 |
| 02 Jun 2019 | Listowel | Yielding | 1m | 0 | Defining Battle | 9st 5lbs | 1 of 8 | Rory Cleary | 6/4 |
| pushed along to lead on inner early, headed 1 1/2f out, ridden over 1f out, rallied to lead under 1f out, kept on best under pressure closing stages | |||||||||
| 20 Apr 2019 | Cork | Good to Yielding (Good in places) | 7f | 0 | Opening Verse | 9st 5lbs | 4 of 18 | Ronan Whelan | 13/8 |
| tracked leaders, 5th halfway, pushed along and no impression under 2f out, kept on well inside final furlong | |||||||||
| 23 Nov 2018 | Dundalk | Standard | 1m | 0 | Karasi | 9st 5lbs | 5 of 17 | Rory Cleary | 10/1 |
| tracked leaders, ran freely, 4th halfway, pushed along 2f out and no impression in 5th 1f out, kept on inside final furlong | |||||||||


