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Trainer profile

Barry Leavy

753 runners in the lifetime window · 84 individual horses
As at 5 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Dec 2021
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
52–753
Wins / Runs
6.9%
Strike rate
n=753
176 (23%)
Placed
0.88
Fair A/E
n=752 · 0.76 incl. margin
−348.02
£1 level stake
n=753 at SP · −46.2%
£301k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
7%
KTB Yard Profile

Sent out around 50 runners a season, across both codes, winning with 7% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.88).

Deterministic profile computed from 753 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 5 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance Fired Oct–Nov 24.2% when favourite Danny Cook: 13.8% from 94 New recruits: 7.6% Claiming riders: 7.3% Sent off the favourite in 4% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Huntingdon (12.5%, n=32), clear of the yard's 6.9% baseline. It is weakest at Wolverhampton (AW) (1.6% over 64 runners) — the widest gap in the record. Danny Cook rode 12% of the entries and beats the yard's average (13.8% vs 6.9%, A/E 1.48) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The record read poorly over 1m – 1m1f — 0% over 33 runners, 6.9pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the yard on Standard (AW) going: Fair A/E 0.45 across 93 runners (2.2% strike, −82.00 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperformed what the price implied. The stable star of the record was King Zeal (IRE) — 7 wins from 49 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fired Oct–Nov.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 6.9% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
4.9%−2.0
n=164 · A/E 0.87 · £1 −90.78
New recruits · first run for the yard
7.6%+0.7
n=79 · A/E 1.27 · £1 −25.78
Debutants · first career start
0%−6.9
n=6 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −6.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−6.9
n=16 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −16.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
4.8%−2.1
n=42 · A/E 0.70 · £1 −27.00
When favourite
24.2%
n=33 · A/E 0.90 · £1 −8.52
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
7.3%+0.4
n=411 · A/E 0.90 · £1 −178.37
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−6.9
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 6.9% 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
With Danny Cook 13.8% vs 6.9% · n=94
On last-time-out winners 14% vs 6.9% · n=57
Over 1m – 1m1f 0% vs 6.9% · n=33
At Wolverhampton (AW) 1.6% vs 6.9% · n=64
On Standard (AW) going 2.2% vs 6.9% · n=93
At Huntingdon 12.5% vs 6.9% · n=32
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 426 32 7.5% −165.02
Flat 221 12 5.4% −136.00
Chase 94 8 8.5% −35.00
NH Flat 12 0 0% −12.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 243 15 6.2% −111.00
Soft 136 9 6.6% −72.57
Good to Soft 132 14 10.6% −54.78
Standard (AW) 93 2 2.2% −82.00
Good to Firm 78 6 7.7% −8.50
Heavy 70 6 8.6% −18.17
Firm 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Uttoxeter 189 8 4.2% −113.60
Wolverhampton (AW) 64 1 1.6% −58.00
Leicester 57 5 8.8% −19.00
Bangor-on-Dee 50 5 10% −11.50
Market Rasen 34 4 11.8% −17.25
Huntingdon 32 4 12.5% +6.50
Haydock 29 2 6.9% −19.75
Wetherby 26 2 7.7% −13.67
Nottingham 25 2 8% −13.75
Southwell (AW) 24 1 4.2% −19.00
Stratford 23 3 13% −3.50
Chepstow 21 2 9.5% −4.00
Warwick 18 2 11.1% +3.00
Towcester 18 2 11.1% −1.50
Southwell 17 1 5.9% −11.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 5 290 25 8.6% −143.49
Class 4 239 14 5.9% −107.78
Class 6 148 9 6.1% −76.75
Class 3 67 4 6% −11.00
Class 7 6 0 0% −6.00
Class 2 2 0 0% −2.00
Class 1 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 46 12 26.1% 1.02 −6.02
2nd–3rd fav 124 19 15.3% 1.03 −1.00
4th–6th fav 244 16 6.6% 0.87 −93.00
7th+ in betting 339 5 1.5% 0.47 −248.00
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
83.8% completed · 520 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 94 76.6% 5 1 15 1 0
Hurdle 426 85.4% 13 3 46 0 0
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
Lean Burn (USA)from John Panvert 49 6 15 9 Jun 16
King Zeal (IRE)from Michael Wigham 49 7 16 8 Jan 15
Infiniti (IRE)from Rae Guest · then Kevin Frost 37 2 12 2 Dec 21
Kirkhammerton (IRE)from John Stimpson 35 2 13 28 Apr 13
Mohi Rahrere (IRE)from Richard Laurance Cully 34 4 8 12 Feb 15
Akula (IRE)from Tim Vaughan 27 2 8 7 Apr 18
Scent Of Power (GB)from Anthony Carson 23 1 4 16 Nov 17
Georgian Firebird (GB)from Alan Swinbank 22 1 7 3 Jan 21
The History Man (IRE)from Michael Mullineaux 18 2 7 7 Aug 10
Flobury (GB) 17 1 8 2 Dec 17
Remember Nerja (IRE)from Jarlath P Fahey 15 0 0 19 Jun 19
McQueen (IRE)from Heather Dalton 15 1 4 31 Oct 10
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 84 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 4 times. Horses with fewer runs aren't listed; search finds any horse since 2005. 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 60 horses listed, 58 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from John Stimpson (3) and Denis Quinn (2); 2 had their first archived run for this yard.

13 have since run for another yard, most often for Jim Best (2); 47 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.

When the yard fires

strike by month, lifetime
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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 Cook
12% of all rides
13.8% SR · A/E 1.48
RiderRWSR£1
Danny Cook 94 13 13.8% +25.50
Harry Challoner 74 5 6.8% −36.20
Ciaran Gethings 62 3 4.8% −34.00
Liam Heard 49 2 4.1% −27.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
61
Archived wins
£343k
Prize money
2010
Best season · 12 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.
Rojabaa (GB) — Betfairgames.com Handicap Hurdle Stratford · Mar 2006 · Class 3
£10,021
Elaala (USA) — Herefordshire Handicap Hurdle Hereford · Jun 2009 · Class 3
£9,393
Mohi Rahrere (IRE) — Anne Duchess Of Westminster Memorial Handicap Chase Bangor-on-Dee · Nov 2011 · Class 3
£8,862
Notable horses
King Zeal (IRE) Lean Burn (USA) Mohi Rahrere (IRE) Elaala (USA) Ministerofinterior (GB) Infiniti (IRE)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Johannesburg (USA) 12.2% · 6–49
Progeny have won 9.8% of 2,562 runs since 2008 (191 horses). Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 16% from 244. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 3.8% from 104.
King's Best (USA) 14.3% · 7–49
Progeny have won 9.9% of 7,763 runs since 2008 (574 horses). Weakest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 6.8% from 249.
Arcano (IRE) 5.4% · 2–37
Progeny have won 10.6% of 4,647 runs since 2014 (262 horses). Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 6.8% from 147.
Grand Lodge (USA) 5.7% · 2–35
Progeny have won 8.3% of 1,359 runs since 2008 (104 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 11.6% from 250. Weakest on Soft going: 4.4% from 182.
New Frontier (IRE) 11.8% · 4–34
Progeny have won 9.1% of 857 runs since 2008 (62 horses).
Firebreak (GB) 3.7% · 1–27
Progeny have won 8.4% of 2,474 runs since 2009 (150 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 5 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 879 · newest first

The latest 50 of 879 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 12 January 2005 to 9 December 2021.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
09 Dec 21 Chelmsford City (AW) Top Drop (IRE)J: Joe Leavy chelmsfordcityracecourse.com Amateur Jockeys' HandicapClass 5 · 10f · Standard · 15 ran 7th 125/1
09 Dec 21 Taunton Colonel Lesley (IRE)J: Chris Ward Kings College Taunton Selling HurdleClass 5 · 16.5f · Good · 5 ran 4th 15/2
05 Dec 21 Huntingdon Generator City (IRE)J: Fergus Gregory Fitzdares Wishes Everyone A Merry Christmas Handicap ChaseClass 4 · 23.5f · Good · 8 ran 3rd 14/1
02 Dec 21 Leicester Infiniti (IRE)J: Sean Bowen Next Meeting Wednesday 15th December Mares' Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 15.5f · Good To Soft · 10 ran 3rd 7/2J
28 Nov 21 Leicester Colonel Lesley (IRE)J: Peter Kavanagh Visit leicester-racecourse.co.uk For Tickets Selling HurdleClass 4 · 15.5f · Good To Soft · 4 ran 2nd 13/2
25 Nov 21 Wolverhampton (AW) Top Drop (IRE)J: Kieran O'Neill Read Katie Walsh On Betway Insider HandicapClass 6 · 12f · Standard · 12 ran 12th 100/1
18 Nov 21 Market Rasen Infiniti (IRE)J: Sean Bowen Pertemps Network Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 16.5f · Good · 9 ran 2nd 9/2
13 Nov 21 Wolverhampton (AW) Top Drop (IRE)J: Trevor Whelan Betway HandicapClass 5 · 12f · Standard · 11 ran 9th 100/1
09 Nov 21 Newcastle (AW) Rainbow's Pony (IRE)J: Joe Leavy Betway Amateur Jockeys' HandicapClass 6 · 6f · Standard · 13 ran 13th 150/1
03 Nov 21 Musselburgh Generator City (IRE)J: Brian Hughes Lothians Racing Syndicate Handicap ChaseClass 3 · 30f · Good To Soft · 4 ran F 5/2
29 Oct 21 Uttoxeter Colonel Lesley (IRE)J: Brian Hughes Geoff Goodwin 70th Birthday Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 16f · Good To Soft · 13 ran 10th 25/1
28 Oct 21 Stratford He's A Goer (IRE)J: Fergus Gregory Claire Dyson Equine Water Treadmill Conditional Jockeys' Selling HurdleClass 5 · 18.5f · Good · 8 ran PU 22/1
27 Oct 21 Nottingham Top Drop (IRE)J: Joe Leavy AJA Handicap (Gentleman Amateurs)Class 6 · 10f · Good · 14 ran 12th 100/1
26 Oct 21 Chepstow Infiniti (IRE)J: James Davies Winning Post Bookmakers Bristol & Wales Mares' Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 16f · Good · 15 ran 8th 14/1
21 Oct 21 Carlisle Generator City (IRE)J: Sean Quinlan Antonia Reid Lifetime In Racing Winner Handicap ChaseClass 3 · 26f · Good · 7 ran 1st 5/1
15 Oct 21 Uttoxeter He's A Goer (IRE)J: Fergus Gregory Toyo Tires Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 16f · Good · 15 ran 7th 150/1
05 Oct 21 Huntingdon He's A Goer (IRE)J: Ciaran Gethings Racing TV Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 25f · Good · 7 ran PU 50/1
04 Oct 21 Stratford Generator City (IRE)J: Tabitha Worsley Pertemps Network Group Conditional Jockeys' Handicap ChaseClass 4 · 22.5f · Good To Soft · 7 ran 3rd 6/1
24 Sep 21 Worcester Colonel Lesley (IRE)J: Chris Ward Cazoo Conditional Jockeys' Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 16f · Good · 12 ran 7th 100/1
31 Aug 21 Hexham Colonel Lesley (IRE)J: James Davies Free Tips Available On attheraces.com Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 16f · Good · 8 ran 5th 28/1

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 Barry Leavy's strike rate?
Barry Leavy has won 52 of 753 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 6.9% (as at 5 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Barry Leavy do best at?
Huntingdon by strike rate: 4 wins from 32 runners (12.5%) 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 Barry Leavy?
Danny Cook, with 94 runners since 2008 — 12% of the total. That pairing has won 13 (13.8%).
What is Barry Leavy's Fair A/E?
0.88, from 752 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 5 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).