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Jockey profile

Caroline Murtagh

100 rides in the lifetime window · 41 individual horses
As at 6 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last ride Aug 2017 100% of rides on the flat
No rides in the last 5 seasons — showing the lifetime record, from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it.
7–100
Wins / Runs
7%
Strike rate
n=100
21 (21%)
Placed
0.86
n=100 · 0.70 incl. margin
−36.00
£1 level stake
n=100 at SP · −36.0%
£86,578
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%
KTB Rider Profile

Rode around 20 times a season, almost all on the flat, winning on 7% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.86). Rode mostly for J P Murtagh — 69% of rides in the window.

Deterministic profile computed from 100 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 6 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance J P Murtagh: 10.1% from 69 Claiming: 7.1%
The read

Rides in big fields of 14 or more have been a poor signal at 2% (n=50, Fair A/E 0.41). J P Murtagh supplied 69% of the rides and edges the rider's average (10.1% vs 7%, A/E 1.06) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The record read poorly off a 15-30-day break — 2.9% over 34 rides, 4.1pts below the baseline.

Written from the figures on this page — every claim carries its sample. Descriptive, not a tip.

Riding patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 7% baseline
First ride on the horse · first captured pairing
2.4%−4.6
n=41 · A/E 0.32 · £1 −34.50
Last-time-out winners · previous run was a win
12.5%+5.5
n=8 · A/E 0.74 · £1 −4.00
Fresh horses · 61+ days off
12.5%+5.5
n=16 · A/E 2.12 · £1 −0.50
When favourite
28.6%
n=7 · A/E 1.13 · £1 +0.00
Claiming rides · riding with a claim
7.1%+0.1
n=99 · A/E 0.87 · £1 −35.00
Big fields · 14+ runners
2%−5.0
n=50 · A/E 0.41 · £1 −35.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 7% baseline — descriptive splits with the sample always shown, for you to weigh. Tiles under 30 runs render muted. First rides are the first captured pairing of horse and rider; last-time-out winners are horses whose previous captured run was a win; claiming rides are runs where the rider carried a weight claim. Group / Graded covers pattern and listed races.

Notable angles

vs their own baseline
On first rides for the horse 2.4% vs 7% · n=41
Off a 15-30-day break 2.9% vs 7% · n=34
With J P Murtagh 10.1% vs 7% · n=69
Descriptive splits ranked by divergence × sample — insight, not instruction. Every angle carries its N; nothing under 30 runs qualifies. Rows within 2pts of the baseline appear only when the market-relative read (Fair A/E) diverges, and show it.

Record by conditions

same window as header

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 38 2 5.3% −23.50
Soft 24 1 4.2% −9.00
Good 18 3 16.7% +12.50
Good to Firm 13 1 7.7% −9.00
Heavy 6 0 0% −6.00
Good to Soft 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Dundalk (AW) 37 2 5.4% −22.50
Curragh 13 1 7.7% +8.00
Naas 10 1 10% +5.00
Fairyhouse 6 0 0% −6.00
Gowran Park 5 0 0% −5.00
Cork 4 0 0% −4.00
Leopardstown 4 0 0% −4.00
Tipperary 3 0 0% −3.00
Sligo 3 0 0% −3.00
Down Royal 3 1 33.3% +1.00
Killarney 2 0 0% −2.00
Ballinrobe 2 1 50% +1.00
Navan 2 1 50% +4.50
Galway 1 0 0% −1.00
Bellewstown 1 0 0% −1.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 6 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 8 2 25% 1.06 −1.00
2nd–3rd fav 15 2 13.3% 0.89 −3.00
4th–6th fav 25 2 8% 0.97 +5.00
7th+ in betting 52 1 1.9% 0.51 −37.00
Fair A/E per band is the tell: near 1.00 the market had it priced right; well above, the wins came where the market didn't expect them.

Rows below n=30 are shown faded — a small sample is a fact, not a trend. Every figure carries its N.

Horses ridden

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Regal Power (GB) 15 1 3 23 Jul 16
Tagg's Island (IRE) 10 0 2 11 Mar 16
Fix It (IRE) 7 2 3 30 Sep 14
Maronella (IRE) 6 1 1 21 Jun 16
Stoichkhov (IRE) 6 0 0 12 Feb 16
Full Court Press (IRE) 5 1 1 30 Jun 17
Eye Of The Tiger (GER) 5 0 3 20 Nov 15
Stanley Daley (IRE) 4 0 0 1 Aug 16
Bumble Bee Slim (GB) 4 0 0 2 Apr 14
Akasaka (IRE) 3 0 1 28 Sep 14
Landsman (IRE) 2 1 1 3 Aug 16
Yulong Baozuo (IRE) 2 0 0 23 Sep 15
All 41 horses ridden in this window. Runs, wins and places only: a strike rate or a return on a handful of runs is noise, so none is quoted per horse — each horse's full record is on its own page.

By month

strike by month, lifetime
JFMAMJJASOND
7000992900000
A flat rider: the season runs Mar–Oct. Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Riding for

same window · biggest samples first
Main yardJ P Murtagh
69% of all rides
10.1% SR · A/E 1.06
TrainerRWSR£1
J P Murtagh 69 7 10.1% −5.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2013→
7
Archived wins
£86,578
Prize money
2016
Best season · 3 wins
Jocular (GB) — Donedeal Apprentice Derby Curragh · Jun 2015
£13,650
Full Court Press (IRE) — Follow thetotecom On Twitter Handicap Ballinrobe · Jul 2016
£7,688
Maronella (IRE) — Download The At The Races App Apprentice Maiden Dundalk (AW) · Jan 2016
£7,590

Sires of the horses ridden

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Excellent Art (GB) 11.1% · 2–18
Progeny have won 9.9% of 4,555 runs since 2011 (298 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 5.8% from 451.
Royal Applause (GB) 6.7% · 1–15
Progeny have won 8.6% of 12,434 runs since 2008 (774 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 3.4% from 323.
Fast Company (IRE) 16.7% · 1–6
Progeny have won 9.4% of 7,601 runs since 2014 (492 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 12.7% from 558. Strongest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 12.8% from 109.
Ivan Denisovich (IRE) 0% · 0–6
Progeny have won 8.7% of 1,019 runs since 2010 (71 horses). Strongest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 13.5% from 192.
Frozen Power (IRE) 20% · 1–5
Progeny have won 8.4% of 1,887 runs since 2015 (132 horses).
Tiger Hill (IRE) 0% · 0–5
Progeny have won 9.5% of 3,823 runs since 2008 (360 horses).
Top line: the rider's own record with each sire's runners (win %, wins–runs), same window as the header; faded under 30 runs. Beneath it: every run by that sire's progeny in our archive since 2008, as at 6 Nov 2026 — what they have done, not a forecast. A going or a distance is named only where at least 100 progeny runs sit 3 or more points from the sire's own win rate. Distance bands cover Flat and jumps together.

The record

latest 50 of 100 · newest first

The latest 50 of 100 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 6 December 2013 to 19 August 2017.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
26 Mar 16 Cork Maronella (IRE)T: J P Murtagh Newmarket Handicap7f · Heavy · 17 ran 6th 10/1

Drawn from the whole archive (2005 onwards), so it can include runs outside the window the header statistics cover. Non-runners are not listed. A finish shown in letters is a non-completion (F fell · UR unseated · PU pulled up · BD brought down).

Quick answers

What is Caroline Murtagh's strike rate?
Caroline Murtagh has won 7 of 100 rides since 2008, a strike rate of 7% (as at 6 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Caroline Murtagh do best at?
Dundalk (AW) by strike rate: 2 wins from 37 rides (5.4%) since 2008. Read from the 15 courses with the most rides on the same basis, and only those with at least 30 — a small sample cannot top the list, and a rarely-visited course is not in the comparison.
Which yard does Caroline Murtagh ride most for?
J P Murtagh, with 69 rides since 2008 — 69% of the total. That pairing has won 7 (10.1%).
What is Caroline Murtagh's Fair A/E?
0.86, from 100 rides with a computed fair probability since 2008. Fair A/E compares actual wins with a margin-stripped market expectation, so 1.00 is par: above it the wins came at bigger prices than the margin-free market implied, below it they did not.
Fair A/E compares wins with a margin-stripped market expectation. Favourite-heavy samples — top yards, leading riders — naturally read a few points warm, so 1.05 means "beat the margin-free market read", not "the market underrates this by 5%". Three sample sizes are reported and never blended: runs (n), the ROI basis (n at SP), and the fair-A/E basis (n with a computed fair probability).

Strike rate is wins over all runs (n). ROI is £1 level stakes at SP over runs with a parseable price (n at SP). Fair A/E is wins over margin-stripped market expectation, over runs with a computed fair probability (n fair). The three Ns can legitimately differ and are always shown. Figures as at 6 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).