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Trainer profile

Ann Hamilton

710 runners in the lifetime window · 43 individual horses
As at 4 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner 3 days ago 100% of runners over jumps
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
125–710
Wins / Runs
17.6%
Strike rate
n=710
249 (35%)
Placed
1.27
n=706 · 1.12 incl. margin
+0.08
£1 level stake
n=710 at SP · +0.0%
£1.53m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
10%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 40 runners a season, almost all over hurdles and fences, winning with 18% of them — beating the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 1.27).

Deterministic profile computed from 710 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 4 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Feb–Apr 40.2% when favourite Danny McMenamin: 25.5% from 165 Claiming riders: 18.9% Sends off the favourite in 13% of races
The read

Horses returning fresh after 61+ days have been a poor signal at 11.6% (n=146, Fair A/E 1.03). Runners with a claiming rider up are the standout value angle: 18.9% strikes only just above baseline, but Fair A/E 1.48 and +31.43 to a £1 stake over 217 runners — a record the market has persistently underpriced. Danny McMenamin rides 23% of the entries and beats the yard's average (25.5% vs 17.6%, A/E 1.37) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The record reads poorly in NH Flat races — 2.3% over 43 runners, 15.3pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the yard in Class 5: Fair A/E 0.76 across 80 runners (8.8% strike, −38.62 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperform what the price implies. 5 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the New One Unibet Hurdle at Haydock (Jan 2022, £42,713). The stable star of the record: Nuts Well (GB) — 13 wins from 49 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires Feb–Apr.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 17.6% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
11.6%−6.0
n=146 · A/E 1.03 · £1 −62.88
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−17.6
n=16 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −16.00
Debutants · first career start
7.7%−9.9
n=26 · A/E 0.92 · £1 −14.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
13%−4.6
n=23 · A/E 1.58 · £1 +2.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
10%−7.6
n=10 · A/E 0.84 · £1 +1.00
When favourite
40.2%
n=92 · A/E 1.19 · £1 +7.76
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
18.9%+1.3
n=217 · A/E 1.48 · £1 +31.43
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
20.8%+3.2
n=24 · A/E 1.81 · £1 +21.57

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 17.6% baseline — descriptive splits with the sample always shown, for you to weigh. 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. The same beliefs, tested across every yard and every GB and Irish race since 2005: Racing myths.

Notable angles

vs their own baseline
In NH Flat races 2.3% vs 17.6% · n=43
With horses switching code 7.2% vs 17.6% · n=83
On last-time-out winners 26.2% vs 17.6% · n=122
With Danny McMenamin 25.5% vs 17.6% · n=165
In Class 5 8.8% vs 17.6% · n=80
With C&D winners 25.2% vs 17.6% · n=131
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
Chase 415 82 19.8% +68.97
Hurdle 252 42 16.7% −32.39
NH Flat 43 1 2.3% −36.50

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 230 32 13.9% −70.87
Good to Soft 179 33 18.4% +3.43
Soft 176 35 19.9% +33.36
Heavy 88 17 19.3% −11.72
Good to Firm 36 8 22.2% +46.88
Standard (AW) 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Kelso 130 26 20% +24.52
Newcastle 109 18 16.5% −49.14
Carlisle 91 19 20.9% −7.42
Sedgefield 84 16 19% +52.70
Hexham 79 16 20.3% +6.98
Wetherby 45 6 13.3% −22.33
Musselburgh 36 7 19.4% +14.12
Ayr 28 8 28.6% +27.25
Catterick 25 2 8% −11.25
Perth 25 1 4% −14.00
Doncaster 14 2 14.3% −7.25
Cartmel 14 1 7.1% −9.00
Haydock 12 2 16.7% −6.10
Aintree 11 1 9.1% +8.00
Cheltenham 3 0 0% −3.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 4 289 60 20.8% +91.90
Class 3 187 35 18.7% −39.18
Class 2 94 16 17% −14.59
Class 5 80 7 8.8% −38.62
Class 1 34 6 17.6% +20.07
Class 6 26 1 3.8% −19.50

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 114 45 39.5% 1.24 +14.26
2nd–3rd fav 201 43 21.4% 1.19 −11.18
4th–6th fav 247 31 12.6% 1.47 +27.00
7th+ in betting 148 6 4.1% 1.15 −30.00
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.

Jumping record

completion over obstacles · same window as header
88.5% completed · 667 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 415 86.3% 9 8 40 0 0
Hurdle 252 92.1% 1 4 13 1 1
Chases and hurdles only — bumpers have no obstacles, so completion is not a question there. F fell · UR unseated rider · PU pulled up · BD brought down · Oth covers refusals, slip-ups, run-outs and the rare disqualification. Non-runners are excluded throughout. Rows under n=30 are shown faded. A descriptive record, not a tip.

Horses trained

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Trust Thomas (GB)then Philip Kirby 52 6 20 12 May 18
Nuts Well (GB) 49 13 23 28 Oct 22
Tommy's Oscar (IRE) 43 13 22 25 Oct 26
Rolecarr (IRE) 40 7 18 15 Jan 14
Pay The Piper (IRE) 37 8 17 17 Sep 25
Edmund (IRE)from Howard Johnson 32 6 9 28 Feb 17
Hello Judge (GB) 31 9 12 22 Oct 26
Runswick Royal (IRE)from Tim Easterby 28 7 12 1 Mar 20
Oak Vintage (IRE)then Philip Kirby 28 7 9 28 Nov 18
Dare To Shout (GB) 27 5 11 22 Oct 26
Treehouse (GB) 26 5 8 24 Jun 12
All 43 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 43 horses listed, 14 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Howard Johnson (7) and Brian Ellison (2); 29 had their first archived run for this yard.

9 have since run for another yard, most often for Philip Kirby (2); 34 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 4
Only 4 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, lifetime
JFMAMJJASOND
1124242215100135151914
A jumps yard: the season runs Oct–Apr. Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first
Go-to riderDanny McMenamin
23% of all rides
25.5% SR · A/E 1.37
RiderRWSR£1
Danny McMenamin 165 42 25.5% +24.12
Brian Hughes 104 19 18.3% −4.99
Paddy Aspell 80 8 10% +12.80
Jamie Hamilton 51 6 11.8% −0.50
Wilson Renwick 38 7 18.4% −4.37
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
136
Archived wins
5
Pattern / graded wins
£1.60m
Prize money
2021
Best season · 14 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.
Tommy's Oscar (IRE) — New One Unibet Hurdle (Grade 2) (Registered As The Champion Hurdle Trial Race) Haydock · Jan 2022 · Grade 2
£42,713
Nuts Well (GB) — Monet's Garden Old Roan Limited Handicap Chase (Grade 2) Aintree · Oct 2020 · Grade 2
£36,013
Tommy's Oscar (IRE) — MND Association Race For Research Lightning Novices' Chase (Grade 2) (GBB Race) Doncaster · Jan 2023 · Grade 2
£28,810

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Court Cave (IRE) 25% · 15–60
Progeny have won 10.1% of 7,953 runs since 2008 (553 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 6.8% from 937.
Martaline (GB) 24.1% · 14–58
Progeny have won 14.2% of 7,347 runs since 2008 (723 horses). Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 9.4% from 128. Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 10% from 120.
Erhaab (USA) 11.5% · 6–52
Progeny have won 8% of 1,060 runs since 2008 (86 horses).
Dylan Thomas (IRE) 26.5% · 13–49
Progeny have won 10.5% of 7,493 runs since 2011 (533 horses). Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 17.7% from 192.
Scribano (GB) 15.6% · 7–45
Progeny have won 7.4% of 309 runs since 2008 (36 horses). Strongest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 11% from 109.
Oscar (IRE) 30.2% · 13–43
Progeny have won 10.9% of 16,543 runs since 2008 (1,456 horses). Strongest on Standard (AW) going: 18.1% from 105.
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 4 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 800 · newest first

The latest 50 of 800 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 11 January 2005 to 1 November 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP

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).

KTB’s figures

the forward record · since 5 Oct 2026

KTB’s figures on this yard’s runners since 22 Oct 2026: the KTB Selection in 4 runs (won 0) · top-rated on KTB Rating in 2 runs (won 0) · fastest on KTB Speed in 1 run (won 0) · to 1 Nov 2026.

Each pick was a KTB figure’s choice before the off — the published KTB Selection, the top-rated horse on KTB Rating, the fastest on KTB Speed — settled against the result the next morning and never worked out again; “did not run” is counted apart. GB and Irish races only. A record of weeks so far: read it as a count, not a verdict.

Quick answers

What is Ann Hamilton's strike rate?
Ann Hamilton has won 125 of 710 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 17.6% (as at 4 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Ann Hamilton do best at?
Carlisle by strike rate: 19 wins from 91 runners (20.9%) since 2008. 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.
Who rides most for Ann Hamilton?
Danny McMenamin, with 165 runners since 2008 — 23% of the total. That pairing has won 42 (25.5%).
Is Ann Hamilton in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 4 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is Ann Hamilton's Fair A/E?
1.27, from 706 runners 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 4 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).