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Aengus King

277 runners in the last 5 seasons · 15 individual horses
As at 21 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner yesterday
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)
from 1 Jan 2022
16–277
Wins / Runs
5.8%
Strike rate
n=277
45 (16%)
Placed
1.42
Fair A/E
n=277 · 1.12 incl. margin
−31.67
£1 level stake
n=277 at SP · −11.4%
£150k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
6.7%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 60 runners a season, across both codes, winning with 6% of them — beating the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 1.42).

Deterministic profile computed from 277 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 21 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Claiming riders: 6.2%
The read

The record is strongest at Limerick (10%, n=30), clear of the yard's 5.8% baseline. Runners with a claiming rider up are the standout value angle: 6.2% strikes only just above baseline, but Fair A/E 1.68 and +24.00 to a £1 stake over 193 runners — a record the market has persistently underpriced. The yard also reads well off a 15-30-day break (10.3%, n=68). The record reads poorly off a 0-7-day break — 0% over 38 runners, 5.8pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the yard over 2m1f – 2m4f: Fair A/E 0.64 across 80 runners (2.5% strike, −66.00 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperform what the price implies. The stable star of the record: Capture The Drama (IRE) — 10 wins from 113 runs for the yard.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 5.8% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
3%−2.8
n=33 · A/E 1.28 · £1 −20.00
New recruits · first run for the yard
16.7%+10.9
n=6 · A/E 10.87 · £1 +35.00
Debutants · first career start
0%−5.8
n=6 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −6.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−5.8
n=4 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −4.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
12%+6.2
n=25 · A/E 3.74 · £1 +17.00
When favourite
0%
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
6.2%+0.4
n=193 · A/E 1.68 · £1 +24.00
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−5.8
n=4 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −4.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 5.8% baseline — descriptive splits with the sample always shown, not tips. Tiles under 30 runs render muted. Headgear figures use the true-first definition (first gear appearance in the captured career); returns are gear back on after a bare run. Claiming riders are runs where the booked rider carried a weight claim. Group / Graded covers pattern and listed races.

Notable angles

vs their own baseline
Off a 0-7-day break 0% vs 5.8% · n=38
Over 1m2f – 1m4f 0% vs 5.8% · n=30
Off a 15-30-day break 10.3% vs 5.8% · n=68
With horses switching code 2.2% vs 5.8% · n=90
Over 2m1f – 2m4f 2.5% vs 5.8% · n=80
At Limerick 10% vs 5.8% · n=30
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

Race type

TypeRWSR£1
Hurdle 128 8 6.3% +2.33
Flat 95 5 5.3% −7.00
Chase 42 3 7.1% −15.00
NH Flat 12 0 0% −12.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Soft 99 8 8.1% +4.00
Good 80 3 3.8% −46.67
Good to Soft 45 3 6.7% +14.50
Heavy 28 1 3.6% −19.50
Standard (AW) 24 1 4.2% +17.00
Good to Firm 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Limerick 30 3 10% +34.00
Dundalk (AW) 24 1 4.2% +17.00
Wexford 24 4 16.7% +4.33
Cork 23 2 8.7% +7.00
Thurles 16 1 6.3% +25.00
Roscommon 15 2 13.3% −4.50
Listowel 15 2 13.3% +7.00
Clonmel 14 1 7.1% −5.50
Ballinrobe 12 0 0% −12.00
Tipperary 12 0 0% −12.00
Fairyhouse 11 0 0% −11.00
Punchestown 11 0 0% −11.00
Curragh 9 0 0% −9.00
Gowran Park 9 0 0% −9.00
Kilbeggan 7 0 0% −7.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 4 0 0% −4.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 4 1 25% 1.37 +0.33
2nd–3rd fav 14 2 14.3% 1.10 −5.00
4th–6th fav 55 6 10.9% 1.66 +10.00
7th+ in betting 204 7 3.4% 1.37 −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 trained

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Tasmanian Girl (IRE)from M C Grassick · then Declan Queally 34 1 4 27 May 26
La Tulipe Noire (IRE)from Ciaran Murphy 32 2 5 20 Oct 26
Fill The Tank (IRE) 32 2 6 31 Oct 25
Miss Cunning (IRE)from Kevin Prendergast · then P G Fahey 30 3 8 15 Nov 23
Carslake (GB)from Kevin Prendergast 29 0 1 19 Dec 25
Chosen Shant (IRE)from Noel Meade 22 4 8 11 Oct 26
Midnight Eagle (IRE)then Andrew McNamara 21 1 3 14 May 26
The Shantou King (IRE) 16 1 2 7 Jun 24
Chainofconsequence (IRE)then Michael J McDonagh 16 1 3 30 Mar 23
Capture The Drama (IRE) 16 1 5 18 Mar 23
Gold Creek (IRE)then S Curling 14 0 0 2 Aug 22
Glanaree (FR) 7 0 0 3 Oct 22
All 15 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 15 horses listed, 5 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Kevin Prendergast (2); 10 had their first archived run for this yard.

5 have since run for another yard; 10 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. “First archived run” means our archive holds nothing earlier, not that the horse was unraced. 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.

Current form

significance-gated

Last 14 days

Small sample
0 from 5
Only 5 runners in the last 14 days — too few to read against the baseline (gate: n≥15). The card states the sample and stays neutral.

When the yard fires

strike by month, 5 seasons
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Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first
Go-to riderJessica O'Gorman
17% of all rides
8.7% SR · A/E 2.18
RiderRWSR£1
Jessica O'Gorman 46 4 8.7% +32.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
34
Archived wins
£350k
Prize money
2025
Best season · 6 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. This card is the full archive census (2005→); the statistics in the header aggregate from 2008 — the floor that guarantees every horse a complete captured career — so this card can legitimately show more wins than the header.
Capture The Drama (IRE) — Boylesports 500,000 Irish Grand National April 2nd Handicap Chase Fairyhouse · Jan 2018
£12,320
Capture The Drama (IRE) — Boylesports 500,000 Irish Grand National April 17th Handicap Chase Fairyhouse · Jan 2017
£12,300
Dego Dante (IRE) — Gurtinard Beginners Chase Listowel · Jun 2006
£10,365
Notable horses
Capture The Drama (IRE) Fill The Tank (IRE) Chosen Shant (IRE) Miss Cunning (IRE) Change The Rules (IRE) La Tulipe Noire (IRE)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Gold Well (GB) 4.3% · 2–46
Progeny have won 12.2% of 5,648 runs since 2008 (363 horses).
Shantou (USA) 13.2% · 5–38
Progeny have won 13.6% of 7,819 runs since 2008 (539 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 20.3% from 158.
Australia (GB) 2.9% · 1–34
Progeny have won 11.2% of 5,639 runs since 2008 (563 horses). Weakest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 6.5% from 108.
Berkshire (IRE) 6.3% · 2–32
Progeny have won 11.4% of 508 runs since 2008 (74 horses). Strongest on Soft going: 15.2% from 132. Strongest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 15.4% from 175.
Sir Prancealot (IRE) 10% · 3–30
Progeny have won 10.1% of 3,686 runs since 2008 (216 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 13.6% from 627. Weakest on Heavy going: 5.3% from 171.
Tamayuz (GB) 0% · 0–29
Progeny have won 10.4% of 5,181 runs since 2008 (401 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 2008, as at 21 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 521 · newest first

The latest 50 of 521 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 28 March 2005 to 20 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
20 Oct 26 Curragh (IRE) La Tulipe Noire (IRE)J: Jessica O'Gorman Always Gambling Responsibly With 1xBet.ie Handicap8f · Yielding · 23 ran 4th 16/1
15 Oct 26 Curragh (IRE) La Tulipe Noire (IRE)J: Seamie Heffernan Feel The Rush With 1xBet.ie Handicap7f · Soft · 20 ran 6th 25/1
15 Oct 26 Curragh (IRE) Blue Glory (IRE)J: Jessica O'Gorman Irish EBF Median Sires Series Maiden (Smullen Series)8f · Soft · 15 ran 15th 300/1
12 Oct 26 Roscommon (IRE) La Tulipe Noire (IRE)J: Jessica O'Gorman Roscommon Racecourse On Facebook Handicap (Div II)7.5f · Soft · 13 ran 7th 14/1
11 Oct 26 Cork (IRE) Chosen Shant (IRE)J: J J Slevin Friends Of Castlemagner LGFA Rated Novice Steeplechase17.5f · Good · 7 ran 4th 18/1
07 Oct 26 Navan (IRE) Blue Glory (IRE)J: Leigh Roche Navan Racecourse Welcomes Our Local Community Maiden8f · Yielding · 9 ran 9th 250/1
04 Oct 26 Killarney (IRE) Chosen Shant (IRE)J: J J Slevin Killarney Races Handicap Steeplechase17f · Good To Yielding · 10 ran 6th 17/2
28 Sep 26 Roscommon (IRE) Chosen Shant (IRE)J: Phillip Enright Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares Handicap Steeplechase21.5f · Yielding · 10 ran 3rd 5/1
22 Sep 26 Listowel (IRE) La Tulipe Noire (IRE)J: Jessica O'Gorman Edmund & Josie Whelan Memorial Listowel Stakes (Listed)Class 1 · 8f · Yielding · 11 ran 11th 200/1
20 Sep 26 Listowel (IRE) Chosen Shant (IRE)J: Phillip Enright Kinisla Bloom Feeds Irish EBF Mares Handicap Hurdle18f · Good · 18 ran 6th 12/1
28 Aug 26 Wexford (IRE) Chosen Shant (IRE)J: Phillip Enright Dan & Breda Byrne Memorial Handicap Steeplechase19.5f · Yielding · 9 ran 1st 15/2
07 Aug 26 Wexford (IRE) Chosen Shant (IRE)J: Phillip Enright Treo Eile Mares Handicap Hurdle17f · Good · 14 ran 5th 11/4F
22 Jul 26 Wexford (IRE) Chosen Shant (IRE)J: Phillip Enright Support The Irish Injured Jockeys Handicap Steeplechase15.5f · Good · 13 ran 2nd 100/30J
30 Jun 26 Wexford Chosen Shant (IRE)J: J J Slevin Duncannon Beach Handicap Chase (0-100)16f · Good · 14 ran 1st 9/1
08 Jun 26 Roscommon Chosen Shant (IRE)J: Philip Donovan Sweeney Oil Handicap Chase16.5f · Yielding To Soft · 14 ran 7th 16/1
01 Jun 26 Listowel Chosen Shant (IRE)J: Phillip Enright Southern Waste Management Mares Handicap Hurdle16f · Yielding · 10 ran 3rd 25/1
27 May 26 Wexford Tasmanian Girl (IRE)J: Phillip Enright Wexford Claiming Hurdle17f · Good To Yielding · 9 ran PU 50/1
16 May 26 Wexford Chosen Shant (IRE)J: Phillip Enright T.C. Cullen Memorial Novice Chase16f · Good To Yielding · 5 ran 4th 150/1
16 May 26 Wexford La Tulipe Noire (IRE)J: Danny Mullins Slaney River Handicap Hurdle (0-100) (Div 2)17f · Good To Yielding · 14 ran F 28/1
14 May 26 Clonmel Chosen Shant (IRE)J: Phillip Enright Clonmel Racecourse Supporters Club Handicap Hurdle16.5f · Good To Yielding · 11 ran 7th 66/1

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 Aengus King's strike rate?
Aengus King has won 16 of 277 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 5.8% (as at 21 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Aengus King do best at?
Limerick by strike rate: 3 wins from 30 runners (10%) since 2022. Read from the 15 courses with the most runners 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.
Is Aengus King in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 5 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is Aengus King's Fair A/E?
1.42, from 277 runners with a computed fair probability since 2022. 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 21 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).