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Trainer profile

Craig Benton

148 runners in the last 5 seasons · 13 individual horses
As at 20 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner 5 days ago 100% of runners on the flat
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2024→)
from 1 Jan 2022
14–148
Wins / Runs
9.5%
Strike rate
n=148
37 (25%)
Placed
1.27
Fair A/E
n=146 · 1.05 incl. margin
−56.50
£1 level stake
n=148 at SP · −38.2%
£104k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
10.9%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 30 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 10% of them — beating the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 1.27).

Deterministic profile computed from 148 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 20 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Georgia Dobie: 13.3% from 98
The read

The record is strongest at Chelmsford City (AW) (14.7%, n=34), clear of the yard's 9.5% baseline. Georgia Dobie rides 66% of the entries and edges the yard's average (13.3% vs 9.5%, A/E 1.42) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The yard also reads well off a 15-30-day break (15%, n=60) and on Standard (AW) going (13.1%, n=99). The record reads poorly on Good to Firm going — 3.3% over 30 runners, 6.2pts below the baseline. The stable star of the record: Bold Suitor (GB) — 6 wins from 36 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 9.5% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
6.7%−2.8
n=15 · A/E 1.54 · £1 −5.50
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−9.5
n=5 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −5.00
Debutants · first career start
0%−9.5
n=8 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −8.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−9.5
n=7 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −7.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
0%−9.5
n=5 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −5.00
When favourite
36.4%
n=11 · A/E 1.33 · £1 +1.50
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
0%−9.5
n=17 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −17.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 9.5% 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 a new jockey booking 2.1% vs 9.5% · n=47
Off a 15-30-day break 15% vs 9.5% · n=60
On Good to Firm going 3.3% vs 9.5% · n=30
At Chelmsford City (AW) 14.7% vs 9.5% · n=34
With Georgia Dobie 13.3% vs 9.5% · n=98
On Standard (AW) going 13.1% vs 9.5% · n=99
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

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 99 13 13.1% −11.50
Good to Firm 30 1 3.3% −26.00
Good 12 0 0% −12.00
Good to Soft 4 0 0% −4.00
Soft 3 0 0% −3.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Chelmsford City (AW) 34 5 14.7% −1.00
Lingfield (AW) 27 3 11.1% −3.50
Kempton (AW) 18 2 11.1% +2.50
Wolverhampton (AW) 15 3 20% −4.50
Lingfield 14 1 7.1% −10.00
Windsor 12 0 0% −12.00
Epsom Downs 6 0 0% −6.00
Southwell (AW) 5 0 0% −5.00
Salisbury 4 0 0% −4.00
Brighton 3 0 0% −3.00
Chepstow 3 0 0% −3.00
Bath 2 0 0% −2.00
Newbury 2 0 0% −2.00
Nottingham 1 0 0% −1.00
Sandown 1 0 0% −1.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 6 100 12 12% −33.00
Class 5 35 2 5.7% −10.50
Class 4 10 0 0% −10.00
Class 2 3 0 0% −3.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 13 4 30.8% 1.25 −0.50
2nd–3rd fav 20 5 25% 1.57 +12.50
4th–6th fav 40 4 10% 1.39 −10.50
7th+ in betting 75 1 1.3% 0.56 −58.00
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
Bold Suitor (GB)from Ed Walker 36 6 18 14 Oct 26
Twitch (NZ) 28 3 8 5 Oct 26
Maury (IRE) 20 1 2 15 Oct 26
River Alwen (IRE)from Richard Hannon 19 2 4 7 Aug 25
Kodiac Brave (IRE) 8 0 0 17 Oct 24
Dreamcrafter (FR) 7 0 0 7 Jul 26
Showmedemoney (IRE)from Iain Jardine 6 0 1 30 Jul 26
Addictive (IRE)from George Boughey 5 0 0 5 Oct 26
Dupont Circle (IRE) 5 0 0 18 Aug 26
Nebula Stars (AUS) 4 2 4 2 Jan 26
Luzon Prince (GB) 4 0 0 4 Sep 25
Meimun Johnny (AUS) 4 0 0 24 Jul 24
All 13 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 13 horses listed, 5 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Ed Walker (2); 8 had their first archived run for this yard.

None of them has a 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
100·17708502602050
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 riderGeorgia Dobie
66% of all rides
13.3% SR · A/E 1.42
RiderRWSR£1
Georgia Dobie 98 13 13.3% −16.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2024→
14
Archived wins
£104k
Prize money
2026
Best season · 5 wins
Twitch (NZ) — Jjx Logistics Going The Distance Handicap Stakes (Div II) Wolverhampton (AW) · Sep 2026 · Class 6
£4,711
Bold Suitor (GB) — Highbet Weekly Racing Rewards Club Handicap Wolverhampton (AW) · Jun 2025 · Class 6
£4,711
Bold Suitor (GB) — Win 1M With BetMGM's Golden Goals Handicap (Div 1) Wolverhampton (AW) · Mar 2025 · Class 6
£4,711
Notable horses
Bold Suitor (GB) Twitch (NZ) River Alwen (IRE) Nebula Stars (AUS) Maury (IRE)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Brazen Beau (AUS) 16.7% · 6–36
Progeny have won 10.2% of 2,472 runs since 2008 (186 horses). Weakest on Good to Soft going: 3.7% from 162. Strongest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 15.8% from 158.
Power (GB) 10.7% · 3–28
Progeny have won 9.4% of 2,720 runs since 2008 (195 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 13.3% from 353. Weakest on Heavy going: 6.3% from 160.
Earthlight (IRE) 5% · 1–20
Progeny have won 8.4% of 888 runs since 2008 (128 horses). Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 12% from 167.
Dark Angel (IRE) 10.5% · 2–19
Progeny have won 11.3% of 21,876 runs since 2008 (1,594 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 15% from 107.
Kodiac (GB) 0% · 0–13
Progeny have won 10.4% of 23,534 runs since 2008 (1,665 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 14.3% from 147. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 7.1% from 252.
Dream Ahead (USA) 0% · 0–7
Progeny have won 9.1% of 5,678 runs since 2008 (528 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 6% from 184.
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 148 · newest first

The latest 50 of 148 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 18 May 2024 to 15 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
15 Oct 26 Southwell (AW) Maury (IRE)J: Georgia Dobie Follow @AtTheRaces On X Handicap Stakes (Div I)Class 6 · 7f · Standard · 13 ran 5th 9/1
14 Oct 26 Kempton (AW) Bold Suitor (GB)J: Georgia Dobie Bet £20 Get £20 With Unibet Handicap Stakes (London Mile Series Qualifier) (Div II)Class 5 · 8f · Standard / Slow · 9 ran 2nd 22/1
05 Oct 26 Kempton (AW) Addictive (IRE)J: Olivia Tubb Set Your Limits With Unibet Handicap StakesClass 6 · 7f · Standard / Slow · 13 ran 13th 25/1
05 Oct 26 Kempton (AW) Twitch (NZ)J: Georgia Dobie Set Your Limits With Unibet Handicap StakesClass 6 · 7f · Standard / Slow · 13 ran 6th 15/2
05 Oct 26 Kempton (AW) Maury (IRE)J: Josephine Gordon Set Your Limits With Unibet Handicap StakesClass 6 · 7f · Standard / Slow · 13 ran 2nd 40/1
02 Oct 26 Wolverhampton (AW) Bold Suitor (GB)J: Georgia Dobie Appleby Mall Accountants Handicap StakesClass 5 · 7f · Standard · 9 ran 4th 20/1
21 Sep 26 Wolverhampton (AW) Maury (IRE)J: Georgia Dobie Race & Rest - Wolverhampton Holiday Inn Handicap Stakes (Div I)Class 6 · 7f · Standard · 10 ran 7th 11/2
18 Sep 26 Wolverhampton (AW) Twitch (NZ)J: Georgia Dobie Jjx Logistics Going The Distance Handicap Stakes (Div II)Class 6 · 7f · Standard · 8 ran 1st 7/2
09 Sep 26 Kempton (AW) Bold Suitor (GB)J: Georgia Dobie Unibet More Extra Place Races Handicap StakesClass 5 · 7f · Standard / Slow · 14 ran 1st 16/1
04 Sep 26 Ascot Bold Suitor (GB)J: Miss Taryn Cole Racing To School Celebrates 25 Years Lady Amateur Jockeys Handicap Stakes (For Female Amateur Jockeys)Class 4 · 8f · Good · 11 ran 6th 125/1
20 Aug 26 Lingfield (AW) Bold Suitor (GB)J: Georgia Dobie Follow @attheraces On X Handicap StakesClass 5 · 7f · Standard · 11 ran 6th 33/1
18 Aug 26 Lingfield (AW) Dupont Circle (IRE)J: Georgia Dobie Sky Sports Racing Sky 415 Classified Stakes (Div II)Class 6 · 7f · Standard · 10 ran 9th 18/1
18 Aug 26 Lingfield (AW) Maury (IRE)J: Georgia Dobie Sky Sports Racing Sky 415 Classified Stakes (Div I)Class 6 · 7f · Standard · 12 ran 9th 14/1
11 Aug 26 Lingfield (AW) Twitch (NZ)J: Charlie Tucker Follow @AtTheRaces On Instagram Apprentice Handicap StakesClass 6 · 7f · Standard · 10 ran 2nd 6/1
08 Aug 26 Lingfield (AW) Bold Suitor (GB)J: Georgia Dobie Hewanorra Handicap StakesClass 4 · 7f · Standard · 7 ran 7th 33/1
30 Jul 26 Nottingham Showmedemoney (IRE)J: Miss Taryn Cole oddschecker.com AJA Novice Amateur Jockeys' Handicap Stakes (For Riders With 3 Wins Or Fewer At Start Of Season)Class 5 · 10f · Good To Firm · 6 ran 6th 18/1
14 Jul 26 Wolverhampton (AW) Twitch (NZ)J: Georgia Dobie Free Bets On attheraces.com Handicap Stakes (Div I)Class 6 · 7f · Standard · 10 ran 4th 22/1
07 Jul 26 Wolverhampton (AW) Dreamcrafter (FR)J: Georgia Dobie Follow AtTheRaces On X Handicap (Div 2)Class 6 · 6f · Standard · 10 ran 9th 50/1
07 Jul 26 Wolverhampton (AW) Maury (IRE)J: Georgia Dobie Follow AtTheRaces On X Handicap (Div 1)Class 6 · 6f · Standard · 9 ran 7th 11/2
29 Jun 26 Windsor Showmedemoney (IRE)J: Kieren Fox Colenko Fast Track HandicapClass 6 · 8f · Good To Firm · 11 ran 2nd 11/1

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 Craig Benton's strike rate?
Craig Benton has won 14 of 148 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 9.5% (as at 20 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Craig Benton do best at?
Chelmsford City (AW) by strike rate: 5 wins from 34 runners (14.7%) 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 Craig Benton?
Georgia Dobie, with 98 runners since 2022 — 66% of the total. That pairing has won 13 (13.3%).
Is Craig Benton 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 Craig Benton's Fair A/E?
1.27, from 146 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).