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Trainer profile

Ben Clarke

347 runners in the last 5 seasons · 49 individual horses
As at 20 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner 3 days ago 100% of runners over jumps
from 1 Jan 2022
50–347
Wins / Runs
14.4%
Strike rate
n=347
137 (40%)
Placed
1.15
n=347 · 0.99 incl. margin
+1.58
£1 level stake
n=347 at SP · +0.5%
£603k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
12.1%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 70 runners a season, almost all over hurdles and fences, winning with 14% of them — beating the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 1.15). Debutants are a strength: 20% on first career starts (30 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 347 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 20 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance 36% when favourite Ben Jones: 18% from 133 Sends off the favourite in 14% of races
The read

It is weakest at Exeter (9.3% over 43 runners) — the widest gap in the record. Debutants strike at 20% (n=30, Fair A/E 2.58), but runners with a claiming rider up have been a poor signal at 9.1% (n=44, Fair A/E 0.65). Ben Jones rides 38% of the entries and edges the yard's average (18% vs 14.4%, A/E 1.56) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The record reads poorly off a 61-180-day break — 6.5% over 31 runners, 7.9pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the yard on Good going: Fair A/E 0.83 across 104 runners (9.6% strike, −53.15 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperform what the price implies. 2 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the BetMGM Warfield Mares' Hurdle at Ascot (Jan 2026, £34,170). The stable star of the record: Ooh Betty (IRE) — 7 wins from 26 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 14.4% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
12.9%−1.5
n=70 · A/E 1.19 · £1 −12.00
New recruits · first run for the yard
16.7%+2.3
n=6 · A/E 2.87 · £1 +7.00
Debutants · first career start
20%+5.6
n=30 · A/E 2.58 · £1 +42.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−14.4
n=25 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −25.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
10%−4.4
n=10 · A/E 1.27 · £1 −3.50
When favourite
36%
n=50 · A/E 1.20 · £1 +1.08
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
9.1%−5.3
n=44 · A/E 0.65 · £1 −21.42
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
15.4%+1.0
n=13 · A/E 1.66 · £1 +0.50

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 14.4% 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 61-180-day break 6.5% vs 14.4% · n=31
On Good going 9.6% vs 14.4% · n=104
With Rex Dingle 8.9% vs 14.4% · n=45
With claiming riders up 9.1% vs 14.4% · n=44
On last-time-out winners 19.6% vs 14.4% · n=46
At Exeter 9.3% vs 14.4% · n=43
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 240 35 14.6% +28.46
Chase 68 11 16.2% −20.88
NH Flat 39 4 10.3% −6.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 104 10 9.6% −53.15
Soft 100 16 16% +56.20
Good to Soft 83 15 18.1% −6.71
Heavy 57 9 15.8% +8.24
Good to Firm 3 0 0% −3.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Chepstow 47 5 10.6% −26.02
Exeter 43 4 9.3% −20.43
Ffos Las 33 6 18.2% +1.67
Fontwell 28 4 14.3% +19.50
Lingfield 23 5 21.7% +48.08
Wincanton 20 3 15% −2.25
Newton Abbot 15 5 33.3% +12.75
Taunton 13 1 7.7% −10.75
Uttoxeter 12 3 25% −1.90
Hereford 11 2 18.2% +1.00
Sandown 10 3 30% +16.70
Warwick 9 1 11.1% +0.50
Cheltenham 9 0 0% −9.00
Plumpton 9 1 11.1% −5.50
Ascot 8 1 12.5% +0.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 4 155 24 15.5% +2.15
Class 5 111 16 14.4% −17.60
Class 3 40 6 15% −7.47
Class 2 21 2 9.5% +31.00
Class 1 20 2 10% −6.50

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 56 19 33.9% 1.16 −1.67
2nd–3rd fav 87 14 16.1% 0.93 −15.25
4th–6th fav 114 15 13.2% 1.62 +54.50
7th+ in betting 90 2 2.2% 0.70 −36.00
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
85.1% completed · 308 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 68 75% 1 0 15 1 0
Hurdle 240 87.9% 3 0 25 1 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
Ooh Betty (IRE) 26 7 14 18 Apr 26
Good Friday Fairy (IRE) 22 6 13 24 Mar 26
Cast's Tasha (IRE) 22 3 11 15 Mar 26
Ri Na Cuirte (IRE) 18 2 6 22 Mar 26
Dr Kananga (GB) 18 2 7 17 Mar 25
Bobalot (GB)then Laura Horsfall 17 2 4 1 Jun 24
Game Colours (IRE) 14 3 11 18 Apr 26
Risk De Pluie (FR) 14 2 8 17 Apr 26
Renoir (GB)from Thomas Faulkner 13 1 5 13 Jul 26
El Bandido Pancho (GB) 11 2 5 8 Dec 25
The Galloping Bear (GB) 11 2 4 7 Apr 24
All 49 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 49 horses listed, 8 arrived from another yard in our archive; 41 had their first archived run for this yard.

5 have since run for another yard; 44 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 3
Only 3 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
JFMAMJJASOND
1426711112533100013219
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 riderBen Jones
38% of all rides
18% SR · A/E 1.56
RiderRWSR£1
Ben Jones 133 24 18% +57.01
Rex Dingle 45 4 8.9% −21.50
Tom Bellamy 40 5 12.5% +12.17
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2017→
56
Archived wins
2
Pattern / graded wins
£633k
Prize money
2022
Best season · 13 wins
Ooh Betty (IRE) — BetMGM Warfield Mares' Hurdle (Grade 2) (GBB Race) Ascot · Jan 2026 · Grade 2
£34,170
Game Colours (IRE) — Jordan Electrics Ltd Seafield Trophy Mares' Handicap Hurdle (GBB Race) Ayr · Apr 2026 · Class 2
£23,771
The Galloping Bear (GB) — Racehorselotto.com Surrey National Handicap Chase Lingfield · Jan 2022 · Class 3
£15,843

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Westerner (GB) 21.2% · 14–66
Progeny have won 12.1% of 11,823 runs since 2008 (941 horses). Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 8.5% from 188.
Getaway (GER) 24% · 6–25
Progeny have won 11.3% of 10,913 runs since 2008 (1,026 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 23.7% from 131.
Shantou (USA) 20% · 5–25
Progeny have won 13.6% of 7,819 runs since 2008 (539 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 20.3% from 158.
Fairly Ransom (USA) 27.3% · 6–22
Progeny have won 9.8% of 542 runs since 2008 (48 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 4.8% from 104.
Court Cave (IRE) 11.1% · 2–18
Progeny have won 10.1% of 7,928 runs since 2008 (551 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 6.9% from 934.
Dapper (GB) 11.1% · 2–18
Progeny have won 12.5% of 240 runs since 2008 (18 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 20 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 397 · newest first

The latest 50 of 397 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 18 May 2017 to 17 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
13 Jul 26 Newton Abbot Renoir (GB)J: David Noonan Racing Club Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 18.5f · Good To Firm · 12 ran 8th 14/1

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 Ben Clarke's strike rate?
Ben Clarke has won 50 of 347 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 14.4% (as at 20 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Ben Clarke do best at?
Ffos Las by strike rate: 6 wins from 33 runners (18.2%) 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.
Who rides most for Ben Clarke?
Ben Jones, with 133 runners since 2022 — 38% of the total. That pairing has won 24 (18%).
Is Ben Clarke in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 3 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is Ben Clarke's Fair A/E?
1.15, from 347 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 20 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).