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Trainer profile

Bruce Mactaggart

190 runners in the lifetime window · 20 individual horses
As at 22 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Apr 2017
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)
No runners in the last 5 seasons — showing the lifetime record, from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it.
9–190
Wins / Runs
4.7%
Strike rate
n=190
30 (16%)
Placed
0.86
Fair A/E
n=190 · 0.74 incl. margin
−143.75
£1 level stake
n=190 at SP · −75.7%
£51,738
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%
KTB Yard Profile

Sent out around 20 runners a season, winning with 5% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.86). With a claiming rider up the record reads 11% (66 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 190 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 22 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Claiming riders: 10.6%
The read

Runners with a claiming rider up have been a positive signal at 10.6% (n=66, Fair A/E 1.73), but horses returning fresh after 61+ days have been a poor signal at 0% (n=45, Fair A/E 0.00). The yard also read well in Chase races (10.9%, n=46) and off a 15-30-day break (8.3%, n=60). The market has consistently overbet the yard in Hurdle races: Fair A/E 0.58 across 82 runners (2.4% strike, −71.75 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperformed what the price implied. The stable star of the record was Red Tanber (IRE) — 5 wins from 40 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 4.7% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
0%−4.7
n=45 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −45.00
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−4.7
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00
Debutants · first career start
0%−4.7
n=13 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −13.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−4.7
n=5 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −5.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
0%−4.7
n=2 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −2.00
When favourite
54.5%
n=11 · A/E 2.13 · £1 +13.75
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
10.6%+5.9
n=66 · A/E 1.73 · £1 −30.00
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−4.7
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 4.7% 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
With claiming riders up 10.6% vs 4.7% · n=66
In Chase races 10.9% vs 4.7% · n=46
Off a 15-30-day break 8.3% vs 4.7% · n=60
On Good going 7.7% vs 4.7% · n=65
With a new jockey booking 2.3% vs 4.7% · n=87
In Hurdle races 2.4% vs 4.7% · n=82
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 82 2 2.4% −71.75
Chase 46 5 10.9% −25.50
Flat 39 2 5.1% −23.50
NH Flat 23 0 0% −23.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 65 5 7.7% −41.00
Good to Soft 45 1 2.2% −41.00
Soft 35 1 2.9% −32.25
Good to Firm 34 2 5.9% −18.50
Heavy 11 0 0% −11.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Kelso 51 2 3.9% −45.50
Carlisle 31 2 6.5% −15.50
Ayr 27 0 0% −27.00
Musselburgh 18 4 22.2% −0.25
Newcastle 17 1 5.9% −9.50
Perth 17 0 0% −17.00
Sedgefield 6 0 0% −6.00
Hexham 5 0 0% −5.00
Redcar 3 0 0% −3.00
Hamilton 3 0 0% −3.00
Aintree 2 0 0% −2.00
Cartmel 2 0 0% −2.00
Catterick 2 0 0% −2.00
Haydock 2 0 0% −2.00
Cheltenham 1 0 0% −1.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 4 84 5 6% −63.50
Class 5 41 1 2.4% −33.50
Class 6 35 2 5.7% −19.50
Class 3 23 1 4.3% −20.25
Class 2 4 0 0% −4.00
Class 1 3 0 0% −3.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 12 6 50% 2.00 +12.75
2nd–3rd fav 15 1 6.7% 0.41 −11.00
4th–6th fav 44 2 4.5% 0.77 −26.50
7th+ in betting 119 0 0% 0.00 −119.00
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
70.3% completed · 128 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 46 63% 2 2 13 0 0
Hurdle 82 74.4% 0 0 21 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
Red Tanber (IRE) 40 5 8 30 Jun 16
Hansomis (IRE) 39 2 12 25 Jul 11
Cassius (IRE) 32 2 8 9 Dec 12
Craicneasy (IRE)then Norman Sanderson 15 0 0 15 Jun 13
Steel Man (IRE) 11 0 1 18 May 11
Queens Regatta (IRE) 9 0 0 13 Apr 15
Beverley Beck (GB) 9 0 0 15 Jun 13
Executive Xpress (GB) 9 0 0 20 May 09
Katy Royal (GB)then Chris Fairhurst 4 0 0 28 Apr 17
Flowalong (IRE) 3 0 0 10 Mar 16
Winged Cavallo (IRE) 3 0 0 27 May 12
King Kalium (IRE)then Donald Whillans 3 0 0 23 Apr 11
All 20 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 20 horses listed, 1 arrived from another yard in our archive; 19 had their first archived run for this yard.

5 have since run for another yard, most often for Sandy Thomson (2); 15 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
RiderRWSR£1
Lucy Alexander 25 5 20% −4.50
Graham Lee 21 1 4.8% −18.25
Phil Kinsella 12 0 0% −12.00
Jamie Hamilton 11 0 0% −11.00
Adrian Lane 10 0 0% −10.00
Brian Hughes 10 0 0% −10.00
Dale Gibson 9 0 0% −9.00
Henry Brooke 8 0 0% −8.00
James Reveley 7 0 0% −7.00
Paddy Aspell 6 0 0% −6.00
Brian Harding 6 0 0% −6.00
Davy Condon 6 1 16.7% +1.50
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
10
Archived wins
£75,351
Prize money
2009
Best season · 4 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.
Cassius (IRE) — 'brian Meikle Is 50 Today' Handicap Hurdle Kelso · Dec 2009 · Class 3
£6,505
Red Tanber (IRE) — Bedmax Handicap Chase (For The Hamilton Memorial Trophy) Kelso · Mar 2012 · Class 4
£3,899
Red Tanber (IRE) — Turftv Novices' Handicap Chase Musselburgh · Feb 2012 · Class 4
£3,899
Notable horses
Red Tanber (IRE) Hansomis (IRE) Cassius (IRE) Buffy (GB)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Karinga Bay (GB) 11.9% · 5–42
Progeny have won 10.1% of 3,407 runs since 2008 (315 horses).
Titus Livius (FR) 5.1% · 2–39
Progeny have won 8.3% of 2,080 runs since 2008 (132 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 4.5% from 157.
Pistolet Bleu (IRE) 6.3% · 2–32
Progeny have won 11.2% of 1,371 runs since 2008 (131 horses).
Anshan (GB) 0% · 0–27
Progeny have won 9.6% of 4,216 runs since 2008 (387 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 14.2% from 520.
King's Theatre (IRE) 0% · 0–15
Progeny have won 14.4% of 12,129 runs since 2008 (746 horses). Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 4.8% from 125. Weakest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 7.9% from 203.
Executive Perk (GB) 0% · 0–9
Progeny have won 6.6% of 363 runs since 2008 (54 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 22 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 338 · newest first

The latest 50 of 338 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 7 January 2005 to 28 April 2017.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
28 Apr 17 Perth Katy Royal (GB)J: Jamie Hamilton Saltire Stables Mares' 'national Hunt' Novices' HurdleClass 4 · 16f · Good · 10 ran PU 250/1
15 Apr 17 Carlisle Cheenys Venture (GB)J: Jamie Hamilton Collect totepool Winnings At Betfred Shops Mares' Standard Open NH Flat RaceClass 5 · 17f · Good To Soft · 8 ran 8th 100/1
14 Mar 17 Sedgefield Cheenys Venture (GB)J: Jamie Hamilton bookies.com Wednesday Cheltenham Tips Mares' Standard Open NH Flat RaceClass 6 · 17f · Soft · 8 ran 7th 100/1
08 Mar 17 Catterick Katy Royal (GB)J: Jamie Hamilton Akebar Park Leisure Ltd Mares' Standard NH Flat Race (Conditional Jockeys' And Amateur Riders')Class 6 · 15.5f · Soft · 8 ran 7th 250/1
14 Feb 17 Ayr Sophie Fatale (GB)J: Jamie Hamilton Racing UK Standard Open NH Flat RaceClass 6 · 16f · Soft · 8 ran 7th 100/1
20 Jan 17 Musselburgh Katy Royal (GB)J: Jamie Hamilton Start Your RacingUK Free Trial Now Standard Open NH Flat RaceClass 6 · 15.5f · Good · 12 ran 11th 125/1
11 Dec 16 Carlisle Katy Royal (GB)J: Jamie Hamilton Racing UK Mares' Standard Open NH Flat RaceClass 6 · 17f · Soft · 12 ran 9th 100/1
11 Dec 16 Carlisle Sophie Fatale (GB)J: Brian Hughes Racing UK Mares' Standard Open NH Flat RaceClass 6 · 17f · Soft · 12 ran 8th 50/1
30 Jun 16 Perth Red Tanber (IRE)J: Jamie Hamilton Meikleour Handicap ChaseClass 4 · 16f · Good · 9 ran PU 125/1
24 Jun 16 Cartmel Red Tanber (IRE)J: Jamie Hamilton Heart North West Handicap ChaseClass 5 · 21f · Good · 14 ran UR 33/1
05 Jun 16 Perth Red Tanber (IRE)J: Jamie Hamilton Range Rover Evoque Convertible Handicap ChaseClass 3 · 20f · Good To Firm · 9 ran 9th 150/1
11 May 16 Perth Red Tanber (IRE)J: Jamie Hamilton Distinctive Publishing Handicap ChaseClass 5 · 20f · Good · 13 ran 6th 33/1
10 Mar 16 Carlisle Flowalong (IRE)J: Brian Hughes ApolloBet Intermediate Open NH Flat RaceClass 6 · 17f · Soft · 6 ran 6th 250/1
13 Dec 15 Carlisle Flowalong (IRE)J: Brian Hughes Premier League Betting At 188BET Mares' Standard Open NH Flat RaceClass 6 · 17f · Heavy · 5 ran 5th 150/1
07 May 15 Carlisle Flowalong (IRE)J: Henry Brooke ApolloBet Mares' Standard Open NH Flat RaceClass 6 · 17f · Good To Soft · 12 ran 12th 50/1
13 Apr 15 Kelso Queens Regatta (IRE)J: Brian Hughes Langdale Bloodstock Handicap Hurdle (Div 1)Class 4 · 22.5f · Good · 11 ran 11th 100/1
28 Feb 15 Kelso Red Tanber (IRE)J: Brian Harding Premier Traffic Management Handicap Chase (For The Hamilton Memorial Trophy)Class 4 · 21.5f · Good To Soft · 12 ran PU 50/1
19 Feb 15 Musselburgh Red Tanber (IRE)J: Brian Harding William Hill - The Home Of Betting Handicap ChaseClass 4 · 20f · Good · 8 ran 5th 33/1
11 Feb 15 Musselburgh Red Tanber (IRE)J: Brian Hughes New Racing Uk Ipad App Handicap ChaseClass 4 · 20f · Good · 9 ran 7th 28/1
10 Feb 15 Ayr Queens Regatta (IRE)J: Brian Hughes BetVictor Svengali Stakes Novices' Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 24.5f · Soft · 7 ran 5th 250/1

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 Bruce Mactaggart's strike rate?
Bruce Mactaggart has won 9 of 190 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 4.7% (as at 22 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Bruce Mactaggart do best at?
Carlisle by strike rate: 2 wins from 31 runners (6.5%) 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.
What is Bruce Mactaggart's Fair A/E?
0.86, from 190 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 22 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).