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Trainer profile

C Byrnes

3,351 runners in the lifetime window · 410 individual horses
As at 27 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Non-runners: 9.1% of 276 declared in the last 365 days, counting all recorded withdrawals, including reserves. For context, a typical day across all racing ends with about 6.5% withdrawn (middle half 5.3–8.1% over 364 racing days). As at 27 Oct 2026.
In form — 3 winners last 14 days Last runner yesterday
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
410–3,351
Wins / Runs
12.2%
Strike rate
n=3,351
997 (30%)
Placed
1.04
n=3,348 · 0.82 incl. margin
−1,048.11
£1 level stake
n=3,351 at SP · −31.3%
£7.75m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
13.7%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 180 runners a season, winning with 12% of them — beating the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 1.04). In Group and Graded company the record reads 16% (304 runs). The yard is in form now — 3 winners in the last fortnight, above its own baseline.

Deterministic profile computed from 3,351 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 27 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance 36.7% when favourite Philip Byrnes: 12.4% from 580 Group/Graded: 15.8% Sends off the favourite in 16% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Downpatrick (27.5%, n=40), clear of the yard's 12.2% baseline. In Group and Graded company the record reads well at 15.8% (n=304, Fair A/E 1.26), but new recruits from other stables on their first run struggle at 5.4% (n=186, Fair A/E 0.69). The market has consistently overbet horses returning fresh after 61+ days: 7.1% strike, Fair A/E 0.72 and −342.64 to a £1 stake over 773 runners — those runners underperform what the price implies. Right now the yard is firing: 3 winners from 16 runners in the last 14 days (18.8%, 6.6pts above the 12.2% baseline). Philip Byrnes rides 17% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (12.4%, A/E 1.00) — the market has that partnership priced right. The yard also reads well on Good to Firm going (23.2%, n=125). 62 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Ladbrokes World Hurdle at Cheltenham (Mar 2013, £156,613). The stable star of the record: Solwhit (FR) — 14 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 12.2% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
7.1%−5.1
n=773 · A/E 0.72 · £1 −342.64
New recruits · first run for the yard
5.4%−6.8
n=186 · A/E 0.69 · £1 −67.37
Debutants · first career start
7.3%−4.9
n=218 · A/E 0.97 · £1 −127.76
First-time headgear · true-first definition
11.2%−1.0
n=98 · A/E 0.90 · £1 −56.35
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
11.5%−0.7
n=148 · A/E 0.94 · £1 −43.19
When favourite
36.7%
n=531 · A/E 1.22 · £1 −14.24
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
10.7%−1.5
n=1,421 · A/E 1.05 · £1 −384.27
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
15.8%+3.6
n=304 · A/E 1.26 · £1 −56.71

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 12.2% 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 Davy Russell 22.8% vs 12.2% · n=413
At Downpatrick 27.5% vs 12.2% · n=40
On last-time-out winners 21.5% vs 12.2% · n=400
On Good to Firm going 23.2% vs 12.2% · n=125
With Barry Geraghty 21.2% vs 12.2% · n=52
With new recruits 5.4% vs 12.2% · n=186
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 1,993 254 12.7% −593.63
Chase 642 74 11.5% −228.85
Flat 485 52 10.7% −222.87
NH Flat 231 30 13% −2.76

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Soft 1,141 116 10.2% −486.75
Heavy 854 98 11.5% −268.86
Good 814 110 13.5% −201.07
Good to Soft 345 47 13.6% −77.10
Good to Firm 125 29 23.2% +23.74
Standard (AW) 58 9 15.5% −28.07
Firm 14 1 7.1% −10.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Limerick 411 68 16.5% +25.93
Cork 312 28 9% −110.00
Punchestown 211 22 10.4% −101.68
Listowel 180 17 9.4% −80.94
Thurles 180 22 12.2% −8.07
Galway 166 12 7.2% −75.09
Clonmel 157 16 10.2% −78.06
Fairyhouse 144 16 11.1% −60.05
Killarney 137 21 15.3% −38.82
Gowran Park 124 10 8.1% −73.90
Leopardstown 124 21 16.9% −24.64
Navan 110 21 19.1% +26.72
Tipperary 107 7 6.5% −64.12
Naas 103 9 8.7% −65.98
Kilbeggan 98 12 12.2% −52.85

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 333 53 15.9% −26.21
Class 2 39 7 17.9% +9.63
Class 4 29 3 10.3% −20.57
Class 5 19 2 10.5% −14.25
Class 3 16 5 31.3% −0.52
Class 6 4 1 25% +0.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 606 207 34.2% 1.19 −41.86
2nd–3rd fav 758 121 16% 1.03 −140.25
4th–6th fav 960 60 6.3% 0.87 −348.50
7th+ in betting 1,027 22 2.1% 0.66 −517.50
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
87.1% completed · 2,635 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 642 78.3% 49 24 57 2 7
Hurdle 1,993 89.9% 52 24 105 12 8
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
Shanpallas (IRE) 47 5 8 15 Oct 19
Doctor Duffy (IRE) 40 6 18 20 Aug 22
Cafe Con Leche (IRE)from Noel C Kelly 38 3 8 10 Feb 26
Lash It On (IRE) 38 4 7 22 Jul 18
Spy (GB)from Charlie & Mark Johnston 37 3 13 20 Oct 26
Run For Oscar (IRE) 36 8 20 2 Jul 26
Sea Light (IRE)then Thomas P O'Connor 34 6 9 20 Jul 18
Domination (GB)from Hughie Morrison 34 9 16 8 May 16
From The Ashes (IRE) 32 2 11 14 Jan 26
Rock On Fruity (IRE)from Ray Hackett · then Ben Haslam 31 3 9 15 Sep 18
Aodhan May (IRE) 30 5 7 15 Mar 25
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 410 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 17 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, 28 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Henry Candy (2) and Kevin Prendergast (2); 32 had their first archived run for this yard.

15 have since run for another yard, most often for Gordon Elliott (3); 45 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

In form
3 from 16 18.8% · +6.6pts vs baseline
Last 14 days18.8%
Lifetime base12.2%
Shown only when the 14-day window is large enough to mean anything (n≥15). A cold run renders the same card with a quiet badge — never hidden.

When the yard fires

strike by month, lifetime
JFMAMJJASOND
121113131013121612101214
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 riderPhilip Byrnes
17% of all rides
12.4% SR · A/E 1.00
RiderRWSR£1
Philip Byrnes 580 72 12.4% −212.76
Davy Russell 413 94 22.8% −52.27
Phillip Enright 275 22 8% −125.43
Kevin Brouder 126 20 15.9% −35.46
Niall P Madden 101 12 11.9% −39.02
B C Byrnes 99 6 6.1% −58.63
Robert Jones 92 7 7.6% −24.25
Mr R W Barron 88 16 18.2% +42.67
Sean Davis 57 4 7% −43.00
Cathal Landers 53 5 9.4% −33.00
Donal McInerney 53 9 17% −12.94
Mark Walsh 52 9 17.3% −9.38
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
467
Archived wins
62
Pattern / graded wins
£8.92m
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.
Solwhit (FR) — Ladbrokes World Hurdle (Grade 1) Cheltenham · Mar 2013 · Class 1
£156,613
Solwhit (FR) — Rabobank Champion Hurdle (Grade 1) Punchestown · May 2009 · Grade 1
£120,000
Run For Oscar (IRE) — Club Godolphin Cesarewitch Handicap (Heritage Handicap) Newmarket · Oct 2022 · Class 2
£103,080

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Mahler (GB) 12.5% · 14–112
Progeny have won 10.8% of 8,852 runs since 2008 (785 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 15.1% from 119.
Presenting (GB) 14.5% · 16–110
Progeny have won 11% of 20,050 runs since 2008 (1,686 horses). Strongest on Standard (AW) going: 24.3% from 136.
Beneficial (GB) 10% · 10–100
Progeny have won 10.4% of 17,044 runs since 2008 (1,155 horses).
Vinnie Roe (IRE) 13.5% · 13–96
Progeny have won 11.3% of 3,061 runs since 2008 (236 horses). Weakest on Good to Firm going: 7.8% from 166.
Milan (GB) 8.5% · 7–82
Progeny have won 11.3% of 16,858 runs since 2008 (1,463 horses).
Flemensfirth (USA) 21.9% · 16–73
Progeny have won 11.8% of 17,280 runs since 2008 (1,594 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 27 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 3,852 · newest first

The latest 50 of 3,852 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 9 January 2005 to 26 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
26 Oct 26 Galway (IRE) King Idaho (IRE)J: Philip Byrnes Corrib Oil Maiden Hurdle16.5f · Soft To Heavy · 20 ran 13th 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 C Byrnes's strike rate?
C Byrnes has won 410 of 3,351 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 12.2% (as at 27 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does C Byrnes do best at?
Navan by strike rate: 21 wins from 110 runners (19.1%) 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 C Byrnes?
Philip Byrnes, with 580 runners since 2008 — 17% of the total. That pairing has won 72 (12.4%).
Is C Byrnes in form?
In the last 14 days: 16 runners, 3 winners, a strike rate of 18.8%. That is above the baseline of 12.2% since 2008.
What is C Byrnes's Fair A/E?
1.04, from 3,348 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 27 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).