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Trainer profile

Chris Bealby

864 runners in the lifetime window · 131 individual horses
As at 15 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Feb 2021
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.
79–864
Wins / Runs
9.1%
Strike rate
n=864
194 (23%)
Placed
1.08
Fair A/E
n=863 · 0.93 incl. margin
−55.04
£1 level stake
n=864 at SP · −6.4%
£466k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%
KTB Yard Profile

Sent out around 60 runners a season, winning with 9% of them — beating the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 1.08).

Deterministic profile computed from 864 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 15 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance 37.5% when favourite Tom Messenger: 7.9% from 542 New recruits: 9.4% Claiming riders: 10.3% Sent off the favourite in 6% of races
The read

It is weakest at Southwell (AW) (2.9% over 34 runners) — the widest gap in the record. A horse in first-time headgear has been a poor signal at 0% (n=34, Fair A/E 0.00). Runners with a claiming rider up are the standout value angle: 10.3% strikes only just above baseline, but Fair A/E 1.26 and +113.87 to a £1 stake over 224 runners — a record the market has persistently underpriced. Tom Messenger rode 63% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (7.9%, A/E 0.99) — the market has that partnership priced right. The yard also read well beyond 3m (15.2%, n=46) and in Chase races (13.2%, n=266). One Group or Graded win sits in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Britannia English Summer National Handicap Chase at Uttoxeter (Jun 2008, £34,206). The stable star of the record was Leyte Gulf (USA) — 6 wins from 54 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 9.1% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
8.9%−0.2
n=224 · A/E 1.25 · £1 −22.00
New recruits · first run for the yard
9.4%+0.3
n=32 · A/E 1.53 · £1 +12.38
Debutants · first career start
3.7%−5.4
n=81 · A/E 0.64 · £1 +33.75
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−9.1
n=34 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −34.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
0%−9.1
n=24 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −24.00
When favourite
37.5%
n=48 · A/E 1.41 · £1 +13.21
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
10.3%+1.2
n=224 · A/E 1.26 · £1 +113.87
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
12.5%+3.4
n=8 · A/E 1.64 · £1 +3.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 9.1% 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 first-time headgear 0% vs 9.1% · n=34
On last-time-out winners 16% vs 9.1% · n=75
With debutants 3.7% vs 9.1% · n=81
Beyond 3m 15.2% vs 9.1% · n=46
In Chase races 13.2% vs 9.1% · n=266
At Southwell (AW) 2.9% vs 9.1% · 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 373 28 7.5% −140.25
Chase 266 35 13.2% −3.25
Flat 123 10 8.1% −14.29
NH Flat 102 6 5.9% +102.75

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 337 37 11% +104.12
Good to Soft 158 13 8.2% −1.12
Soft 148 8 5.4% −99.75
Standard (AW) 110 9 8.2% −18.29
Good to Firm 77 8 10.4% −38.50
Heavy 34 4 11.8% −1.50

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Market Rasen 143 19 13.3% −12.71
Southwell 104 11 10.6% −47.75
Uttoxeter 72 4 5.6% −31.00
Towcester 69 7 10.1% −7.04
Fakenham 52 6 11.5% −14.25
Wolverhampton (AW) 52 6 11.5% −9.04
Huntingdon 44 2 4.5% +61.00
Wetherby 44 4 9.1% −19.50
Southwell (AW) 34 1 2.9% +7.00
Catterick 29 3 10.3% +12.50
Leicester 24 1 4.2% −9.00
Doncaster 18 2 11.1% +83.00
Warwick 18 1 5.6% −15.00
Worcester 14 1 7.1% −7.50
Ludlow 14 1 7.1% −10.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 4 374 30 8% −115.37
Class 5 246 25 10.2% −103.50
Class 6 129 10 7.8% +62.83
Class 3 91 12 13.2% +47.00
Class 2 12 1 8.3% +55.00
Class 1 11 1 9.1% +0.00
Class 7 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 63 21 33.3% 1.31 +15.21
2nd–3rd fav 164 26 15.9% 1.02 −29.75
4th–6th fav 295 20 6.8% 0.92 −95.50
7th+ in betting 342 12 3.5% 1.23 +55.00
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
81.1% completed · 639 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 266 77.8% 7 10 42 0 0
Hurdle 373 83.4% 4 3 55 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
Leyte Gulf (USA)from J E Pease 52 6 23 24 Apr 12
Persian Gates (IRE) 25 5 9 1 Sep 12
Roi De Garde (FR) 23 2 6 29 Apr 13
Ifonlyalfie (GB)then C H G Davies 22 1 8 18 Jun 14
Bennynthejets (IRE) 22 4 9 29 May 12
Chac Du Cadran (FR) 21 3 9 20 May 15
L'eldorado (FR) 21 4 6 10 May 13
Ruaraidh Hugh (IRE)then L J Morgan 19 6 7 31 Jul 16
Rocky Rebel (GB)from Ralph Beckett · then Michael Blake 18 2 5 23 Jul 13
Legendary Hop (GB) 17 2 4 18 Dec 14
The Purchaser (IRE) 16 1 3 8 Oct 15
Sir Lynx (IRE)from M O Cullinane 16 2 5 9 May 15
The 60 most-raced of 131 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 60 horses listed, 19 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Jason Ward (2) and Ralph Beckett (2); 41 had their first archived run for this yard.

15 have since run for another yard, most often for L J Morgan (4); 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.

When the yard fires

strike by month, lifetime
JFMAMJJASOND
83116139154179117
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 riderTom Messenger
63% of all rides
7.9% SR · A/E 0.99
RiderRWSR£1
Tom Messenger 542 43 7.9% −172.37
Adam Wedge 53 2 3.8% +37.00
Dane O'Neill 34 5 14.7% +3.21
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
106
Archived wins
1
Pattern / graded wins
£698k
Prize money
2011
Best season · 16 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.
Surface To Air (GB) — Britannia English Summer National Handicap Chase (Listed) Uttoxeter · Jun 2008 · Listed
£34,206
Di Kaprio (FR) — DBS Spring Sales Bumper Standard Open NH Flat Race Doncaster · Mar 2010 · Class 2
£32,607
Moustique de L'Isle (FR) — totesport.com Handicap Chase Bangor-on-Dee · Oct 2006 · Class 3
£13,944

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Cozzene (USA) 11.5% · 6–52
Progeny have won 9% of 498 runs since 2008 (36 horses).
Kapgarde (FR) 9.8% · 4–41
Progeny have won 12.5% of 6,598 runs since 2008 (721 horses).
Beneficial (GB) 18.4% · 7–38
Progeny have won 10.5% of 17,043 runs since 2008 (1,155 horses).
Anshan (GB) 24.1% · 7–29
Progeny have won 9.6% of 4,216 runs since 2008 (387 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 14.2% from 520.
Samraan (USA) 12% · 3–25
Progeny have won 6.1% of 131 runs since 2008 (23 horses).
Alflora (IRE) 4.2% · 1–24
Progeny have won 9.8% of 5,312 runs since 2008 (535 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 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 1,254 · newest first

The latest 50 of 1,254 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 3 January 2005 to 3 February 2021.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
10 Jul 16 Southwell Ruaraidh Hugh (IRE)J: Mr Tommie M O'Brien HSS Hire Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 20.5f · Good To Soft · 8 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 Chris Bealby's strike rate?
Chris Bealby has won 79 of 864 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 9.1% (as at 15 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Chris Bealby do best at?
Market Rasen by strike rate: 19 wins from 143 runners (13.3%) 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 Chris Bealby?
Tom Messenger, with 542 runners since 2008 — 63% of the total. That pairing has won 43 (7.9%).
What is Chris Bealby's Fair A/E?
1.08, from 863 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).