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Trainer profile

Charles Smith

789 runners in the lifetime window · 43 individual horses
As at 15 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Jan 2020 96% of runners on the flat
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.
43–789
Wins / Runs
5.4%
Strike rate
n=789
147 (19%)
Placed
0.91
Fair A/E
n=785 · 0.78 incl. margin
−310.01
£1 level stake
n=789 at SP · −39.3%
£200k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
33.3%
KTB Yard Profile

Sent out around 60 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 5% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.91). With a claiming rider up the record reads 7% (402 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 789 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 15 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fired Dec–Feb Robbie Fitzpatrick: 2.5% from 81 Claiming riders: 7%
The read

Robbie Fitzpatrick rode 10% of the entries and sits below the yard's average (2.5% vs 5.4%, A/E 0.54). The yard also read well off a 0-7-day break (10%, n=150). The record read poorly in Class 4 — 0% over 53 runners, 5.4pts below the baseline. The stable star of the record was General Tufto (GB) — 17 wins from 213 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fired Dec–Feb.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 5.4% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
4.2%−1.2
n=95 · A/E 1.31 · £1 −47.50
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−5.4
n=26 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −26.00
Debutants · first career start
0%−5.4
n=18 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −18.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−5.4
n=11 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −11.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
3.4%−2.0
n=29 · A/E 0.82 · £1 −3.00
When favourite
11.1%
n=18 · A/E 0.36 · £1 −14.00
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
7%+1.6
n=402 · A/E 1.22 · £1 −75.50

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 5.4% 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
On last-time-out winners 18.6% vs 5.4% · n=43
Off a 0-7-day break 10% vs 5.4% · n=150
In Class 4 0% vs 5.4% · n=53
On Good to Soft going 0% vs 5.4% · n=49
With Noel Garbutt 0% vs 5.4% · n=49
With C&D winners 9% vs 5.4% · n=244
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
Flat 760 43 5.7% −281.01
NH Flat 17 0 0% −17.00
Hurdle 11 0 0% −11.00
Chase 1 0 0% −1.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 428 31 7.2% −105.01
Good to Firm 139 5 3.6% −85.50
Good 96 4 4.2% −52.50
Good to Soft 49 0 0% −49.00
Soft 48 2 4.2% −6.00
Heavy 22 1 4.5% −5.00
Firm 7 0 0% −7.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Southwell (AW) 317 24 7.6% −49.13
Wolverhampton (AW) 85 3 3.5% −59.50
Beverley 64 3 4.7% −28.00
Yarmouth 51 2 3.9% +0.00
Leicester 45 1 2.2% −36.50
Doncaster 36 0 0% −36.00
Nottingham 33 1 3% −18.00
Catterick 20 1 5% −12.00
Thirsk 13 1 7.7% −5.00
Chelmsford (AW) 12 1 8.3% −1.00
Redcar 10 1 10% +7.00
Market Rasen 9 0 0% −9.00
Hamilton 9 0 0% −9.00
Lingfield (AW) 8 2 25% −0.38
Chester 8 0 0% −8.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 6 483 29 6% −158.63
Class 5 229 14 6.1% −74.38
Class 4 53 0 0% −53.00
Class 7 13 0 0% −13.00
Class 3 7 0 0% −7.00
Class 2 4 0 0% −4.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 23 3 13% 0.44 −16.38
2nd–3rd fav 80 12 15% 0.96 −12.13
4th–6th fav 204 18 8.8% 1.24 −19.50
7th+ in betting 482 10 2.1% 0.74 −262.00
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.

Horses trained

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
General Tufto (GB)from Roger Charlton 213 17 59 20 Dec 18
Alpha Tauri (USA)from David C Griffiths 85 7 22 28 Jan 20
Sairaam (IRE)from John Dunlop 77 4 15 4 Nov 15
Robbian (GB) 51 3 9 5 Jan 20
Fathey (IRE)from Richard Fahey 36 1 5 12 Jun 13
Penderyn (GB)from Amanda Perrett 29 0 1 26 Nov 13
Ejabah (IRE)from Chris Wall 23 0 1 20 May 19
Red Shanghai (IRE)from Tom Dascombe 22 0 0 22 Feb 18
Nine Before Ten (IRE)from Richard Guest · then Deborah Sanderson 18 0 2 6 Jun 13
Munaawib (GB)from David C Griffiths · then David C Griffiths 17 1 3 15 Nov 13
Majuro (IRE)from Richard Guest · then Violet M Jordan 17 4 10 11 Jan 13
Coastal Passage (GB)from Richard Guest · then Gordon Elliott 16 1 3 30 Nov 13
All 43 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 43 horses listed, 23 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Richard Guest (6) and Amanda Perrett (2); 20 had their first archived run for this yard.

12 have since run for another yard, most often for David C Griffiths (2) and Gordon Elliott (2); 31 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
JFMAMJJASOND
1213301210073410
A flat yard: the season runs Mar–Oct. Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first
Go-to riderRobbie Fitzpatrick
10% of all rides
2.5% SR · A/E 0.54
RiderRWSR£1
Robbie Fitzpatrick 81 2 2.5% −53.00
Joey Haynes 66 5 7.6% −22.00
Martin Lane 60 4 6.7% −32.75
Noel Garbutt 49 0 0% −49.00
R P Walsh 34 3 8.8% +10.62
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
50
Archived wins
£237k
Prize money
2010
Best season · 7 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.
Smart Boy Prince (IRE) — Legsby Road Handicap Hurdle Market Rasen · Dec 2005 · Class 3
£5,920
Smart Boy Prince (IRE) — Jewson Novices' Hurdle (Qualifier) Towcester · Oct 2005 · Class 3
£5,512
Majuro (IRE) — Tilley & Barrett Demolition Handicap (Div 1) Epsom Downs · Sep 2012 · Class 5
£4,528
Notable horses
General Tufto (GB) Alpha Tauri (USA) Sairaam (IRE) Smart Boy Prince (IRE) Majuro (IRE) Atwaar (GB)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Fantastic Light (USA) 7.7% · 17–221
Progeny have won 9.9% of 3,570 runs since 2008 (223 horses). Weakest on Good to Soft going: 5.8% from 377.
Aldebaran (USA) 8.2% · 7–85
Progeny have won 13.8% of 305 runs since 2008 (15 horses).
Marju (IRE) 5.2% · 4–77
Progeny have won 10.2% of 3,553 runs since 2008 (286 horses).
Bertolini (USA) 5.9% · 3–51
Progeny have won 8% of 7,851 runs since 2008 (518 horses).
Fath (USA) 2.8% · 1–36
Progeny have won 8.9% of 2,349 runs since 2008 (98 horses). Strongest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 14.3% from 112. Weakest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 4.2% from 167.
Sakhee (USA) 0% · 0–29
Progeny have won 11.1% of 3,981 runs since 2008 (296 horses). Weakest on Soft going: 7.9% from 611. Weakest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 7.2% from 139.
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 15 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 967 · newest first

The latest 50 of 967 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 2 January 2005 to 28 January 2020.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
28 Jan 20 Southwell (AW) Alpha Tauri (USA)J: Faye McManoman Bombardier British Hopped Amber Beer HandicapClass 6 · 8f · Standard · 14 ran 6th 10/1
21 Jan 20 Newcastle (AW) Atwaar (GB)J: Faye McManoman Betyourway At Betway HandicapClass 6 · 6f · Standard To Slow · 13 ran 1st 10/1
15 Jan 20 Wolverhampton (AW) Atwaar (GB)J: Faye McManoman Betway Selling HandicapClass 6 · 6f · Standard · 12 ran 1st 14/1
07 Jan 20 Southwell (AW) Atwaar (GB)J: Faye McManoman BetYourWay At Betway HandicapClass 6 · 6f · Standard · 10 ran 5th 15/8F
05 Jan 20 Southwell (AW) Robbian (GB)J: Aled Beech Bombardier 'March To Your Own Drum' Classified StakesClass 6 · 8f · Standard · 10 ran 6th 40/1
01 Jan 20 Southwell (AW) Alpha Tauri (USA)J: Faye McManoman Bombardier 'March To Your Own Drum' HandicapClass 6 · 8f · Standard · 9 ran 5th 16/1
29 Dec 19 Southwell (AW) Atwaar (GB)J: Faye McManoman Betway Classified StakesClass 6 · 6f · Standard · 9 ran 2nd 15/8F
05 Dec 19 Southwell (AW) Alpha Tauri (USA)J: Ben Robinson Bombardier British Hopped Amber Beer HandicapClass 6 · 7f · Standard · 12 ran 10th 12/1
27 Nov 19 Southwell (AW) Robbian (GB)J: Aled Beech Betway Classified Claiming StakesClass 5 · 6f · Standard · 8 ran 7th 50/1
25 Nov 19 Chelmsford City (AW) Atwaar (GB)J: Faye McManoman Bet In Play At totesport.com HandicapClass 6 · 7f · Standard · 14 ran 1st 10/1
18 Nov 19 Southwell (AW) Alpha Tauri (USA)J: Aled Beech Bombardier British Hopped Amber Beer HandicapClass 6 · 8f · Standard · 13 ran 7th 16/1
07 Nov 19 Southwell (AW) Alpha Tauri (USA)J: Aled Beech Bombardier 'March To Your Own Drum' HandicapClass 6 · 8f · Standard · 9 ran 4th 14/1
07 Nov 19 Southwell (AW) Atwaar (GB)J: Faye McManoman Betway Classified StakesClass 6 · 6f · Standard · 12 ran 1st 10/1
06 Nov 19 Nottingham Robbian (GB)J: Aled Beech MansionBet Offer Deposit HandicapClass 6 · 5f · Heavy · 8 ran 2nd 12/1
31 Oct 19 Chelmsford City (AW) Atwaar (GB)J: Faye McManoman Bet At Totesport.com Classified StakesClass 6 · 7f · Standard · 10 ran 3rd 33/1
29 Oct 19 Catterick Robbian (GB)J: Aled Beech Alan Bond Memorial HandicapClass 6 · 5f · Heavy · 12 ran 11th 7/1
21 Oct 19 Southwell (AW) Alpha Tauri (USA)J: Aled Beech Southwell Racecourse Irish Night On 9th November HandicapClass 6 · 8f · Standard · 11 ran 4th 22/1
16 Oct 19 Nottingham Robbian (GB)J: John Fahy Countryside Properties HandicapClass 6 · 5f · Heavy · 17 ran 6th 50/1
10 Oct 19 Southwell (AW) Robbian (GB)J: Aled Beech Sky Sports Racing On Virgin 535 HandicapClass 6 · 6f · Standard · 13 ran 9th 100/1
03 Oct 19 Chelmsford City (AW) Atwaar (GB)J: Noel Garbutt Bet Totescoop6 At Totesport.com HandicapClass 7 · 6f · Standard · 13 ran 5th 50/1

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 Charles Smith's strike rate?
Charles Smith has won 43 of 789 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 5.4% (as at 15 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Charles Smith do best at?
Southwell (AW) by strike rate: 24 wins from 317 runners (7.6%) 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 Charles Smith?
Robbie Fitzpatrick, with 81 runners since 2008 — 10% of the total. That pairing has won 2 (2.5%).
What is Charles Smith's Fair A/E?
0.91, from 785 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 15 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).