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A R Dicken

66 runners in our archive record, 2005–2006 · 7 individual horses
As at 15 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Apr 2006
Archive record 2005–2006
No runners from 1 Jan 2008, where our aggregate statistics normally begin — showing the full archive record instead, 13 Jan 2005 to 15 Apr 2006. Figures that need a horse's earlier runs (debuts, time since a run, first-time headgear, new connections, last-time-out winners) are left out: for runs this early our archive cannot see what came before.
2–66
Wins / Runs
3%
Strike rate
n=66
11 (17%)
Placed
0.79
Fair A/E
n=66 · 0.68 incl. margin
−43.50
£1 level stake
n=66 at SP · −65.9%
£12,235
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
11.1%

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 3% baseline
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
6.9%+3.9
n=29 · A/E 1.67 · £1 −6.50

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 3% baseline — descriptive splits with the sample always shown, not tips. Tiles under 30 runs render muted. Claiming riders are runs where the booked rider carried a weight claim. Group / Graded covers pattern and listed races. Tiles that depend on a horse's earlier runs (debuts, time off, first-time headgear, new connections, last-time-out winners) are not shown on an archive-era record: for runs this early our archive cannot see what came before.

Record by conditions

same window as header

Race type

TypeRWSR£1
Hurdle 25 2 8% −2.50
Flat 23 0 0% −23.00
Chase 12 0 0% −12.00
NH Flat 6 0 0% −6.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Soft 26 1 3.8% −20.50
Good to Firm 18 1 5.6% −1.00
Good to Soft 8 0 0% −8.00
Heavy 7 0 0% −7.00
Good 5 0 0% −5.00
Firm 1 0 0% −1.00
Standard (AW) 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Musselburgh 14 1 7.1% +3.00
Ayr 14 0 0% −14.00
Kelso 8 0 0% −8.00
Carlisle 7 0 0% −7.00
Hamilton 6 0 0% −6.00
Hexham 5 0 0% −5.00
Newcastle 5 1 20% +0.50
Sedgefield 3 0 0% −3.00
Catterick 2 0 0% −2.00
Southwell (AW) 1 0 0% −1.00
Perth 1 0 0% −1.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 4 25 0 0% −25.00
Class 6 18 0 0% −18.00
Class 5 14 2 14.3% +8.50
Class 3 7 0 0% −7.00
Class 7 2 0 0% −2.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
2nd–3rd fav 3 0 0% 0.00 −3.00
4th–6th fav 18 2 11.1% 1.76 +4.50
7th+ in betting 45 0 0% 0.00 −45.00
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 trained

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Silver Seeker (USA)then Martin Todhunter 21 2 6 9 Mar 06
Wild About Harry (GB)then M I Mason 12 0 3 15 Apr 06
Mercari (GB)then Jean McGregor 10 0 1 2 Jan 06
Golden Remedy (GB) 9 0 0 13 Dec 05
Crackleando (GB)then Jean McGregor 8 0 1 3 Apr 06
Over'n Out (GB) 3 0 0 27 Feb 06
Beau Saddler (GB)then A M Crow 3 0 0 30 Jun 05
All 7 horses sent out 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.
Where they came from · where they went next

Of the 7 horses listed, 5 have since run for another yard, most often for Jean McGregor (2); 2 have no later run for another yard in our archive.

Read from each listed horse's whole archived career (2005 onwards), not only this window, and counted over the horses listed above, not the whole string. Where a horse came from is not stated on an archive-era record: our archive cannot see before 2005. A horse with no later run elsewhere may still be here, be off the track, or have run somewhere our archive does not cover — none of that is asserted.

When the yard fires

strike by month, 2005–2006
JFMAMJJASOND
10170000000000
Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first
RiderRWSR£1
Keith Mercer 14 0 0% −14.00
Peter Buchanan 5 0 0% −5.00
P J McDonald 5 2 40% +17.50
Paul Fessey 3 0 0% −3.00
Fergal Lynch 3 0 0% −3.00
Brian Harding 3 0 0% −3.00
Tom Messenger 3 0 0% −3.00
Larry McGrath 3 0 0% −3.00
Paddy Aspell 2 0 0% −2.00
Dean Mernagh 2 0 0% −2.00
Wilson Renwick 2 0 0% −2.00
Franny Norton 2 0 0% −2.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
2
Archived wins
£12,235
Prize money
2006
Best season · 2 wins
In our archive from its very first year (2005), so this career almost certainly began earlier than our record does. The figures above count 2005 onwards only — what the archive holds, not a full-career total. On this page the header statistics and this card both count from the archive floor (2005), so they agree.
Silver Seeker (USA) — John Smith's No Nonsense Handicap Hurdle Musselburgh · Feb 2006 · Class 5
£2,741
Silver Seeker (USA) — Gosforth Decorating Conditionals' Selling Handicap Hurdle Newcastle · Jan 2006 · Class 5
£2,082
Notable horses
Silver Seeker (USA)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Seeking The Gold (USA) 9.5% · 2–21
Progeny have won 11.3% of 850 runs since 2005 (94 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 14.6% from 268. Weakest on Good going: 7.4% from 202.
Romany Rye (GB) 0% · 0–12
Progeny have won 7.2% of 97 runs since 2005 (13 horses).
Bahamian Bounty (GB) 0% · 0–10
Progeny have won 9.4% of 10,803 runs since 2005 (673 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 0.8% from 251.
Dr Fong (USA) 0% · 0–9
Progeny have won 9.5% of 6,540 runs since 2005 (462 horses).
Forzando (GB) 0% · 0–8
Progeny have won 5.3% of 1,314 runs since 2005 (104 horses).
Accondy (IRE) 0% · 0–3
Progeny have won 5.6% of 142 runs since 2005 (15 horses).
Top line: the yard'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 2005, as at 15 Oct 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 66 · newest first

The latest 50 of 66 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 13 January 2005 to 15 April 2006.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
15 Apr 06 Carlisle Wild About Harry (GB)J: Larry McGrath Robert Elliott Memorial Handicap ChaseClass 5 · 26f · Soft · 16 ran 5th 20/1
03 Apr 06 Kelso Crackleando (GB)J: Tom Messenger Princess Royal Trust For Carers Oregon Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 22.5f · Soft · 17 ran 10th 14/1
03 Apr 06 Kelso Wild About Harry (GB)J: Keith Mercer Paul Burton Drinks Wholesale Beginners' ChaseClass 4 · 25f · Soft · 10 ran 4th 20/1
23 Mar 06 Ayr Wild About Harry (GB)J: Keith Mercer Alexander Morton Homes At Symington Handicap ChaseClass 4 · 21.5f · Good · 8 ran 3rd 8/1
18 Mar 06 Newcastle Crackleando (GB)J: Tom Messenger St James Security Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 20.5f · Heavy · 8 ran 5th 16/1
11 Mar 06 Ayr Crackleando (GB)J: Tom Messenger Bull Handicap HurdleClass 3 · 20f · Soft · 9 ran 3rd 33/1
09 Mar 06 Carlisle Silver Seeker (USA)J: P J McDonald Conditionals' Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 20f · Heavy · 7 ran 4th 9/2
09 Mar 06 Carlisle Wild About Harry (GB)J: Keith Mercer Betfred Million Beginners' ChaseClass 4 · 20f · Heavy · 8 ran 5th 33/1
27 Feb 06 Ayr Over'n Out (GB)J: Brian Harding NH Flat RaceClass 6 · 16f · Soft · 16 ran 15th 100/1
11 Feb 06 Ayr Crackleando (GB)J: P J McDonald Lloyds TSB Scotland Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 22f · Soft · 15 ran PU 33/1
05 Feb 06 Musselburgh Silver Seeker (USA)J: P J McDonald John Smith's No Nonsense Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 19.5f · Good To Firm · 17 ran 1st 16/1
18 Jan 06 Newcastle Silver Seeker (USA)J: P J McDonald Gosforth Decorating Conditionals' Selling Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 20.5f · Soft · 8 ran 1st 9/2
18 Jan 06 Newcastle Wild About Harry (GB)J: Sean Curran Miller Homes Handicap ChaseClass 4 · 23.5f · Soft · 7 ran 4th 10/1
13 Jan 06 Kelso Crackleando (GB)J: P J McDonald Weatherbys Insurance Morebattle Handicap HurdleClass 3 · 16f · Good To Soft · 16 ran 8th 100/1
10 Jan 06 Sedgefield Wild About Harry (GB)J: Jimmy McCarthy Gg.com Handicap ChaseClass 5 · 21f · Soft · 14 ran 3rd 16/1
02 Jan 06 Ayr Silver Seeker (USA)J: Keith Mercer Orangina Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 24.5f · Soft · 15 ran 7th 6/1
02 Jan 06 Ayr Crackleando (GB)J: Keith Mercer Diet Irn Bru Handicap HurdleClass 3 · 20f · Soft · 7 ran 5th 25/1
02 Jan 06 Ayr Mercari (GB)J: Keith Mercer Phenomenal Juvenile Novices' HurdleClass 4 · 16f · Soft · 15 ran PU 150/1
22 Dec 05 Ayr Silver Seeker (USA)J: Keith Mercer Subscribe To Racing UK On 08700 860 432 Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 20f · Soft · 23 ran 6th 25/1
13 Dec 05 Southwell (AW) Golden Remedy (GB)J: Vince Slattery More Offers At betdirect.co.uk Banded StakesClass 7 · 8f · Standard · 11 ran 11th 100/1

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 A R Dicken's strike rate?
A R Dicken has won 2 of 66 runners between 2005 and 2006, a strike rate of 3% (as at 15 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive. Our archive begins in 2005, so anything earlier is not counted.
What is A R Dicken's Fair A/E?
0.79, from 66 runners with a computed fair probability between 2005 and 2006. 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 15 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008). This profile has no runs from 2008, so every figure on this page counts from the start of the archive instead.