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Trainer profile

D W Barker

352 runners in the lifetime window · 41 individual horses
As at 22 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Jul 2009 99% 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.
24–352
Wins / Runs
6.8%
Strike rate
n=352
83 (24%)
Placed
0.78
Fair A/E
n=348 · 0.65 incl. margin
−166.12
£1 level stake
n=352 at SP · −47.2%
£137k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
8.1%
KTB Yard Profile

Sent out around 180 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 7% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.78).

Deterministic profile computed from 352 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 22 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Tony Hamilton: 10.1% from 148 Claiming riders: 7.5%
The read

Tony Hamilton rode 42% of the entries and edges the yard's average (10.1% vs 6.8%, A/E 1.10) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The yard also read well at trips under 6f (11%, n=109) and in Class 4 (10.2%, n=59). The record read poorly over 6f – 7f — 3.6% over 138 runners, 3.2pts below the baseline. 5 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the betfair.com Temple Stakes at Sandown (May 2005, £52,200). The stable star of the record was Whinhill House (GB) — 13 wins from 58 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 6.8% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
5.7%−1.1
n=53 · A/E 0.78 · £1 −25.00
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−6.8
n=14 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −14.00
Debutants · first career start
0%−6.8
n=8 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −8.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−6.8
n=5 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −5.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
5.9%−0.9
n=17 · A/E 0.68 · £1 −11.50
When favourite
21.7%
n=23 · A/E 0.92 · £1 −5.12
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
7.5%+0.7
n=53 · A/E 0.99 · £1 −10.00
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−6.8
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 6.8% 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 C&D winners 15% vs 6.8% · n=60
At trips under 6f 11% vs 6.8% · n=109
With Tony Hamilton 10.1% vs 6.8% · n=148
Over 6f – 7f 3.6% vs 6.8% · n=138
In Class 4 10.2% vs 6.8% · n=59
With a new jockey booking 4.1% vs 6.8% · n=146
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 349 24 6.9% −163.12
Chase 1 0 0% −1.00
Hurdle 1 0 0% −1.00
NH Flat 1 0 0% −1.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good to Firm 126 8 6.3% −52.75
Good 83 5 6% −40.00
Good to Soft 60 3 5% −39.00
Soft 33 3 9.1% −20.50
Standard (AW) 31 3 9.7% −17.62
Firm 15 2 13.3% +7.75
Heavy 4 0 0% −4.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Catterick 58 4 6.9% −33.75
Redcar 51 3 5.9% −23.75
Musselburgh 26 2 7.7% −19.50
Thirsk 25 0 0% −25.00
Southwell (AW) 22 2 9.1% −14.62
Pontefract 22 2 9.1% −8.50
Newcastle 21 2 9.5% −0.50
Carlisle 17 0 0% −17.00
Hamilton 17 1 5.9% +0.00
Ayr 12 1 8.3% −3.00
Haydock 12 1 8.3% −2.00
Doncaster 11 1 9.1% +2.00
Ripon 11 0 0% −11.00
Beverley 10 1 10% −4.00
Wolverhampton (AW) 8 1 12.5% −2.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 5 132 12 9.1% −22.25
Class 6 127 6 4.7% −103.00
Class 4 59 6 10.2% −6.87
Class 3 20 0 0% −20.00
Class 2 12 0 0% −12.00
Class 1 1 0 0% −1.00
Class 7 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 30 5 16.7% 0.73 −12.12
2nd–3rd fav 61 11 18% 1.26 −2.00
4th–6th fav 119 3 2.5% 0.32 −93.00
7th+ in betting 142 5 3.5% 0.90 −59.00
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
Wovoka (IRE)from Mick Channon · then Kevin Ryan 24 3 8 11 Jul 09
Mr Wolf (GB)then John Quinn 22 2 9 7 Jul 09
Wulimaster (USA)from Sir Michael Stoute · then Paula Hearn 20 1 4 15 Jul 09
Dorn Dancer (IRE)then Mark Brisbourne 20 2 9 3 Jun 09
Brut (GB) 18 1 3 17 Jun 09
Darcy's Pride (IRE)then Paul Midgley 18 1 3 15 Jun 09
Cheery Cat (USA)then John Balding 17 1 1 6 Jul 09
Zabougg (GB)from Alan Swinbank 14 0 0 27 Apr 09
Legendary Guest (GB)from Mick Channon 14 1 2 13 Apr 09
Baronovici (IRE)from Richard Hannon Snr 13 0 2 11 May 09
Grudge (GB)then Ollie Pears 12 1 6 6 Jul 09
Zaplamation (IRE)then John Quinn 12 0 4 29 Jun 09
All 41 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 41 horses listed, 19 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Mick Channon (3) and David Nicholls (2); 22 had their first archived run for this yard.

27 have since run for another yard, most often for Ollie Pears (4) and Noel Wilson (3); 14 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
50001484639000
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 riderTony Hamilton
42% of all rides
10.1% SR · A/E 1.10
RiderRWSR£1
Tony Hamilton 148 15 10.1% −28.62
Fergal Lynch 44 4 9.1% −24.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
104
Archived wins
5
Pattern / graded wins
£936k
Prize money
2007
Best season · 31 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.
Celtic Mill (GB) — betfair.com Temple Stakes (Group 2) Sandown · May 2005 · Group 2
£52,200
Sierra Vista (GB) — Betfair Temple Stakes (Group 2) Sandown · May 2007 · Group 2
£48,263
Sierra Vista (GB) — Lester Piggott Start To Finish Handicap Haydock · Sep 2006 · Class 2
£19,431
Notable horses
Whinhill House (GB) Mr Wolf (GB) Sierra Vista (GB) Brut (GB) Mecca's Mate (GB) Dorn Dancer (IRE)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Mind Games (GB) 7.7% · 2–26
Progeny have won 8.3% of 1,234 runs since 2008 (80 horses). Strongest on Soft going: 12.5% from 104.
Danetime (IRE) 4% · 1–25
Progeny have won 11.1% of 2,846 runs since 2008 (149 horses). Weakest on Good to Soft going: 7.3% from 218.
Mujadil (USA) 12.5% · 3–24
Progeny have won 8.2% of 2,379 runs since 2008 (132 horses). Strongest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 11.7% from 111.
Namid (GB) 12.5% · 3–24
Progeny have won 8.2% of 4,102 runs since 2008 (276 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 2.4% from 164. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 0.8% from 119.
Wolfhound (USA) 9.1% · 2–22
Progeny have won 7.4% of 190 runs since 2008 (12 horses).
Danehill Dancer (IRE) 10% · 2–20
Progeny have won 11.2% of 10,094 runs since 2008 (783 horses). Weakest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 6.2% from 130.
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 22 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 1,196 · newest first

The latest 50 of 1,196 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 4 January 2005 to 15 July 2009.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
15 Jul 09 Catterick Wulimaster (USA)J: Paul Mulrennan Subscribe To Racing Uk Claiming StakesClass 6 · 12f · Good To Soft · 13 ran 6th 16/1
14 Jul 09 Beverley Half A Crown (IRE)J: Paul Mulrennan Go Racing In Yorkshire Summer Festival HandicapClass 6 · 5f · Good To Firm · 14 ran 6th 8/1
11 Jul 09 York Wovoka (IRE)J: Barry McHugh John Smith's 'No Nonsense Racing' HandicapClass 2 · 8f · Good To Firm · 17 ran 11th 25/1
07 Jul 09 Pontefract Mr Wolf (GB)J: Tony Hamilton King Richard IIi HandicapClass 3 · 6f · Good To Soft · 13 ran 12th 28/1
06 Jul 09 Musselburgh Cheery Cat (USA)J: Tony Hamilton Blue Square Sp Guarantee HandicapClass 6 · 7f · Good To Soft · 10 ran 5th 6/1
06 Jul 09 Musselburgh Grudge (GB)J: Tony Hamilton Freddie Williams Selling StakesClass 6 · 5f · Good · 8 ran 3rd 9/4
02 Jul 09 Redcar Reel Bluff (GB)J: Tom Eaves Win A Vip Day Out at Redcarracing.co.uk Selling StakesClass 5 · 8f · Firm · 10 ran 8th 33/1
29 Jun 09 Pontefract Kersivay (GB)J: Tony Hamilton Mr Wolf Sprint HandicapClass 4 · 6f · Good To Firm · 6 ran 4th 3/1C
29 Jun 09 Pontefract Zaplamation (IRE)J: Miss Alyson Deniel Pontefract Ladies' Handicap (Lady Amateur Riders)Class 5 · 10f · Good To Firm · 16 ran 10th 18/1
27 Jun 09 Chester Mr Wolf (GB)J: Robert Winston Horseracing Abroad HandicapClass 3 · 5f · Good To Firm · 7 ran 6th 13/2
26 Jun 09 Doncaster Blue Noodles (GB)J: Adrian McCarthy Cw Racing Club HandicapClass 5 · 6f · Good · 8 ran 3rd 7/1
25 Jun 09 Hamilton Wulimaster (USA)J: Miss Serena Brotherton Support Andy Murray Lady Amateur Riders' HandicapClass 6 · 13f · Good To Firm · 11 ran 4th 14/1
25 Jun 09 Newcastle Wovoka (IRE)J: Tony Hamilton Seaton Delaval Handicap (Str)Class 2 · 8f · Good To Firm · 12 ran 4th 28/1
19 Jun 09 Redcar Dolly No Hair (GB)J: Greg Fairley Boddingtons Redcar Straight-mile Championship Handicap (Qualifier)Class 5 · 8f · Good To Firm · 11 ran 11th 28/1
19 Jun 09 Redcar Zaplamation (IRE)J: Greg Fairley Win A Vip Day Out at redcarracing.co.uk Claiming StakesClass 6 · 10f · Good To Firm · 12 ran 4th 25/1
19 Jun 09 Musselburgh Reel Bluff (GB)J: Tony Hamilton Mapei Uk And Scotmat Carpets HandicapClass 6 · 7f · Good To Firm · 10 ran 7th 66/1
18 Jun 09 Ripon Cheery Cat (USA)J: Tony Hamilton Racing At Redcar Tomorrow And Saturday HandicapClass 6 · 8f · Good To Soft · 18 ran 15th 20/1
17 Jun 09 Hamilton Brut (GB)J: Tony Hamilton Lanarkshire Chamber Of Commerce Claiming StakesClass 6 · 5f · Good · 9 ran 5th 4/1
16 Jun 09 Thirsk Half A Crown (IRE)J: Tony Hamilton Ladies Day HandicapClass 6 · 5f · Good To Firm · 17 ran 9th 25/1
15 Jun 09 Carlisle Blue Noodles (GB)J: Tony Hamilton Levy Board HandicapClass 5 · 6f · Good To Firm · 11 ran 2nd 9/1

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 D W Barker's strike rate?
D W Barker has won 24 of 352 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 6.8% (as at 22 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does D W Barker do best at?
Catterick by strike rate: 4 wins from 58 runners (6.9%) 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 D W Barker?
Tony Hamilton, with 148 runners since 2008 — 42% of the total. That pairing has won 15 (10.1%).
What is D W Barker's Fair A/E?
0.78, from 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 22 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).