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Trainer profile

C A Murphy

389 runners in the last 5 seasons · 75 individual horses
As at 20 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner 11 days ago 99% of runners over jumps
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)
from 1 Jan 2022
34–389
Wins / Runs
8.7%
Strike rate
n=389
88 (23%)
Placed
0.97
Fair A/E
n=389 · 0.78 incl. margin
−197.31
£1 level stake
n=389 at SP · −50.7%
£777k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
11.3%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 80 runners a season, almost all over hurdles and fences, winning with 9% of them — level with the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 0.97). In Group and Graded company the record reads 20% (40 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 389 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 20 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Jan–Apr 27.9% when favourite Brian Hayes: 19.1% from 94 Group/Graded: 20% Sends off the favourite in 11% of races
The read

It is weakest at Leopardstown (0% over 34 runners) — the widest gap in the record. In Group and Graded company the record reads well at 20% (n=40, Fair A/E 1.49), but runners with a claiming rider up have been a poor signal at 4.4% (n=225, Fair A/E 0.55). Brian Hayes rides 24% of the entries and beats the yard's average (19.1% vs 8.7%, A/E 1.70) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The yard also reads well in Class 1 (20%, n=40). 56 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham (Mar 2006, £202,683). The stable star of the record: Big Zeb (IRE) — 13 wins from 33 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires Jan–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 8.7% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
8.7%+0.0
n=103 · A/E 1.11 · £1 −48.02
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−8.7
n=5 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −5.00
Debutants · first career start
4.9%−3.8
n=61 · A/E 1.06 · £1 −29.50
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−8.7
n=28 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −28.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
0%−8.7
n=9 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −9.00
When favourite
27.9%
n=43 · A/E 0.97 · £1 −12.14
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
4.4%−4.3
n=225 · A/E 0.55 · £1 −162.33
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
20%+11.3
n=40 · A/E 1.49 · £1 −14.40

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 8.7% 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
On last-time-out winners 38.7% vs 8.7% · n=31
With Brian Hayes 19.1% vs 8.7% · n=94
In Class 1 20% vs 8.7% · n=40
In Group / Graded races 20% vs 8.7% · n=40
With Ross Berry 0% vs 8.7% · n=45
At Leopardstown 0% vs 8.7% · n=34
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 275 20 7.3% −152.66
Chase 85 11 12.9% −35.85
NH Flat 26 3 11.5% −5.80
Flat 3 0 0% −3.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Soft 176 15 8.5% −96.93
Heavy 80 9 11.3% −43.21
Good 77 6 7.8% −42.17
Good to Soft 56 4 7.1% −15.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Punchestown 54 5 9.3% −33.77
Fairyhouse 53 3 5.7% −28.50
Leopardstown 34 0 0% −34.00
Wexford 32 3 9.4% −25.18
Naas 31 4 12.9% −18.09
Navan 25 5 20% +16.92
Tramore 17 1 5.9% −15.27
Clonmel 17 1 5.9% −14.00
Cork 17 1 5.9% −14.38
Kilbeggan 15 2 13.3% +4.00
Downpatrick 13 1 7.7% −9.50
Gowran Park 13 1 7.7% −5.00
Galway 10 0 0% −10.00
Listowel 8 1 12.5% −3.67
Limerick 7 1 14.3% −4.25

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 40 8 20% −14.40
Class 3 2 0 0% −2.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 46 13 28.3% 1.01 −11.89
2nd–3rd fav 68 11 16.2% 1.04 −22.92
4th–6th fav 116 7 6% 0.91 −46.50
7th+ in betting 159 3 1.9% 0.77 −116.00
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
87.5% completed · 360 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 85 76.5% 4 3 13 0 0
Hurdle 275 90.9% 5 3 15 2 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
Cadatharla (IRE) 17 2 4 11 Jul 25
Macs Charm (IRE)then Ciaran Murphy 17 4 6 21 Apr 25
Savante (IRE) 14 3 4 6 Apr 26
Gondor (IRE) 14 1 6 12 May 25
Tangental (IRE)from Michael Butler · then Karl Thornton 13 1 5 25 Jan 25
Goraibhmaithagat (IRE) 12 2 6 2 May 26
Zanoosh (IRE) 12 6 8 29 Apr 26
The Lovely Man (IRE)then Gavin Cromwell 12 0 4 28 Dec 24
Elle Perfecta (IRE) 11 3 3 22 Mar 25
Depalma (IRE)then Dan Skelton 10 0 1 6 Aug 25
Aldo The Apache (IRE) 10 0 0 9 Jun 24
Lunar Majesty (IRE) 9 0 1 8 Oct 26
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 75 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 2 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, 5 arrived from another yard in our archive; 55 had their first archived run for this yard.

19 have since run for another yard, most often for Neil Mulholland (11); 41 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 2
Only 2 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
121510118911851206
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 riderBrian Hayes
24% of all rides
19.1% SR · A/E 1.70
RiderRWSR£1
Brian Hayes 94 18 19.1% −12.73
Liam McKenna 55 2 3.6% −43.17
Ross Berry 45 0 0% −45.00
Conor Stone-Walsh 32 2 6.3% −28.27
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
260
Archived wins
56
Pattern / graded wins
£6.27m
Prize money
2011
Best season · 29 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.
Brave Inca (IRE) — Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle (Grade 1) Cheltenham · Mar 2006 · Class 1
£202,683
Big Zeb (IRE) — Seasons Holidays Queen Mother Champion Chase (Grade 1) Cheltenham · Mar 2010 · Class 1
£182,432
Brave Inca (IRE) — AIG Europe Champion Hurdle (Grade 1) Leopardstown · Jan 2006 · Grade 1
£100,000
Notable horses
Big Zeb (IRE) Voler La Vedette (IRE) Aladdins Cave (GB) Quito De La Roque (FR) Brave Inca (IRE) Impervious (IRE)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Flemensfirth (USA) 12.9% · 4–31
Progeny have won 11.9% of 17,274 runs since 2008 (1,594 horses).
Order Of St George (IRE) 0% · 0–24
Progeny have won 9.6% of 1,133 runs since 2008 (197 horses). Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 6.5% from 474.
Ocovango (GB) 0% · 0–22
Progeny have won 9.4% of 2,980 runs since 2008 (302 horses). Strongest beyond 3m (all codes): 14.1% from 191.
Getaway (GER) 0% · 0–21
Progeny have won 11.3% of 10,913 runs since 2008 (1,026 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 23.7% from 131.
Jet Away (GB) 0% · 0–18
Progeny have won 11.2% of 2,496 runs since 2008 (267 horses).
Le Fou (IRE) 23.5% · 4–17
Progeny have won 8.3% of 1,413 runs since 2008 (137 horses). Strongest on Good to Soft going: 12.2% from 238.
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 2,409 · newest first

The latest 50 of 2,409 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 19 January 2005 to 9 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
09 Oct 26 Downpatrick (IRE) River Tara (IRE)J: Brian Hayes McGrady Financial Services Beginners Steeplechase19.5f · Good · 8 ran PU 18/1
08 Oct 26 Tramore (IRE) Lunar Majesty (IRE)J: Brian Hayes Waterford Greenway Beginners Steeplechase20.5f · Yielding · 12 ran 7th 12/1
30 Sep 26 Sligo (IRE) River Tara (IRE)J: Brian Hayes Frank O'Beirne Memorial Beginners Steeplechase26f · Good · 8 ran 3rd 12/1
25 Sep 26 Listowel (IRE) Jetaway Mountain (IRE)J: Brian Hayes John J. Galvin Maiden Hurdle18f · Good To Yielding · 15 ran 8th 66/1
20 Sep 26 Listowel (IRE) River Tara (IRE)J: Brian Hayes Kinisla Bloom Feeds Irish EBF Mares Handicap Hurdle18f · Good · 18 ran 9th 80/1
11 Sep 26 Ballinrobe (IRE) Lunar Majesty (IRE)J: Ross Berry Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares Maiden Hurdle18f · Good To Yielding · 15 ran 6th 18/1
07 Aug 26 Wexford (IRE) Thurman (IRE)J: Ross Berry Pat Farrell Memorial Handicap Hurdle (Div II)20f · Good · 14 ran 8th 50/1
07 Aug 26 Wexford (IRE) Layenda (IRE)J: Ross Berry Pat Farrell Memorial Handicap Hurdle (Div I)20f · Good · 14 ran 12th 28/1
23 Jul 26 Wexford (IRE) Lunar Majesty (IRE)J: Donagh Meyler Curragh To Curragh Charity Cycle On August 29th Mares Maiden Hurdle20f · Good · 11 ran 6th 9/2
14 Jun 26 Downpatrick Layenda (IRE)J: Ross Berry Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares Handicap Hurdle19f · Good · 12 ran 9th 25/1
14 Jun 26 Downpatrick Lunar Majesty (IRE)J: Ross Berry Adare Manor Opportunity Maiden Hurdle22f · Good · 12 ran 5th 5/1
08 Jun 26 Roscommon Haveigotnewsforyou (IRE)J: Aidan Kelly McGowan Accountancy Services Novice Chase16.5f · Yielding To Soft · 8 ran 4th 25/1
08 May 26 Downpatrick Layenda (IRE)J: Ross Berry SIS, Supporting Irish Racing Maiden Hurdle19f · Good · 14 ran 3rd 200/1
07 May 26 Wexford Jetaway Mountain (IRE)J: Mr J P O'Rourke Racing Again 16th May (C & G) Point-To-Point Flat Race17f · Good To Yielding · 8 ran 6th 13/2
02 May 26 Punchestown Goraibhmaithagat (IRE)J: Simon Torrens Palmerstown House Estate Pat Taaffe Handicap Chase (0-150) (Listed)24.5f · Yielding · 21 ran PU 12/1
29 Apr 26 Punchestown Zanoosh (IRE)J: Brian Hayes Channor Real Estate Group Novice Hurdle (Grade 1)24f · Yielding · 14 ran 2nd 11/4F
24 Apr 26 Kilbeggan Thurman (IRE)J: Ross Berry William Hill Each Way Extra Challenge Series Handicap Hurdle (0-100) (Div 2)19f · Good To Yielding · 15 ran 9th 33/1
20 Apr 26 Tramore River Tara (IRE)J: Brian Hayes O'Driscolls Irish Whiskey Beginners Chase21.5f · Good To Yielding · 12 ran F 50/1
20 Apr 26 Tramore Regno (IRE)J: Brian Hayes O'Driscolls Irish Whiskey Handicap Hurdle (0-100)16.5f · Good To Yielding · 16 ran 7th 12/1
19 Apr 26 Tramore Lunar Majesty (IRE)J: Ross Berry Adare Manor Opportunity Maiden Hurdle20.5f · Yielding · 10 ran 6th 16/1

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 C A Murphy's strike rate?
C A Murphy has won 34 of 389 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 8.7% (as at 20 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does C A Murphy do best at?
Naas by strike rate: 4 wins from 31 runners (12.9%) 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 C A Murphy?
Brian Hayes, with 94 runners since 2022 — 24% of the total. That pairing has won 18 (19.1%).
Is C A Murphy in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 2 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is C A Murphy's Fair A/E?
0.97, from 389 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).