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Trainer profile

Daniel James Murphy

440 runners in the last 5 seasons · 77 individual horses
As at 21 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner 5 days ago 100% of runners on the flat
from 1 Jan 2022
44–440
Wins / Runs
10%
Strike rate
n=440
120 (27%)
Placed
1.09
n=439 · 0.89 incl. margin
−70.19
£1 level stake
n=440 at SP · −16.0%
£797k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
6.3%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 90 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 1.09).

Deterministic profile computed from 440 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 21 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance 31.4% when favourite Shane Foley: 15.6% from 64 Sends off the favourite in 8% of races
The read

Debutants struggle at 2.4% (n=41, Fair A/E 0.40). Shane Foley rides 15% of the entries and beats the yard's average (15.6% vs 10%, A/E 1.50) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The yard also reads well off a 15-30-day break (15.8%, n=139). 2 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the William Hill Top Price Guarantee Mercury Stakes at Dundalk (AW) (Oct 2024, £32,450).

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 10% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
6.7%−3.3
n=75 · A/E 0.80 · £1 −37.84
New recruits · first run for the yard
7.9%−2.1
n=38 · A/E 0.86 · £1 −3.25
Debutants · first career start
2.4%−7.6
n=41 · A/E 0.40 · £1 −26.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
2.4%−7.6
n=41 · A/E 0.29 · £1 −35.50
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
20.7%+10.7
n=29 · A/E 1.94 · £1 +6.08
When favourite
31.4%
n=35 · A/E 1.06 · £1 −6.68
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
8.4%−1.6
n=143 · A/E 0.93 · £1 −75.04
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
7.7%−2.3
n=26 · A/E 1.60 · £1 +67.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 10% 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 Colin Keane 23.7% vs 10% · n=38
With C&D winners 22% vs 10% · n=50
On last-time-out winners 21.1% vs 10% · n=38
Off a 15-30-day break 15.8% vs 10% · n=139
With debutants 2.4% vs 10% · n=41
With first-time headgear 2.4% vs 10% · n=41
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 439 44 10% −69.19
Hurdle 1 0 0% −1.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 170 26 15.3% +44.15
Good 117 12 10.3% −6.17
Soft 72 4 5.6% −38.67
Good to Soft 35 1 2.9% −30.50
Good to Firm 24 0 0% −24.00
Heavy 22 1 4.5% −15.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Dundalk (AW) 164 24 14.6% +43.48
Curragh 75 6 8% −25.67
Cork 39 2 5.1% −30.50
Navan 38 1 2.6% −29.50
Naas 37 4 10.8% −7.00
Gowran Park 12 1 8.3% +3.00
Fairyhouse 10 1 10% −5.67
Tipperary 9 0 0% −9.00
Bellewstown 8 2 25% +28.00
Down Royal 8 0 0% −8.00
Galway 7 0 0% −7.00
Sligo 6 1 16.7% −2.00
Leopardstown 6 0 0% −6.00
Roscommon 4 0 0% −4.00
Limerick 3 0 0% −3.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 26 2 7.7% +67.00
Class 6 3 2 66.7% +3.67
Class 2 2 0 0% −2.00
Class 5 2 0 0% −2.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 41 12 29.3% 1.06 −8.18
2nd–3rd fav 84 14 16.7% 1.04 −21.51
4th–6th fav 136 9 6.6% 0.85 −55.50
7th+ in betting 179 9 5% 1.82 +15.00
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
Eclairage (IRE) 20 4 7 2 Oct 26
Unique Journey (IRE) 19 4 9 15 Oct 26
Tribal Moon (IRE)from Charlie Appleby · then Noel C Kelly 17 2 8 24 Oct 25
Erosandpsyche (IRE)from P Twomey 16 0 5 26 Sep 26
Go Out (FR)from Harry Charlton 15 0 5 16 Oct 26
Crystal Luna (IRE) 15 2 5 21 Mar 25
Eichan San (IRE) 14 0 3 15 Oct 26
Sovereign Cry (IRE) 14 2 3 21 Sep 26
Ostraka (IRE)from M Halford & T Collins 14 3 4 13 Jun 25
Tam Lin (IRE)then Alice Haynes 14 2 4 29 May 25
This Guy (IRE)from Clive Cox 11 0 5 19 Jun 26
Kilmood Susan (IRE)then Michael Mulvany 11 1 5 1 Oct 25
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 77 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 2 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, 26 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Kieran P Cotter (5) and A P O'Brien (2); 34 had their first archived run for this yard.

13 have since run for another yard; 47 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

Small sample
1 from 8
Only 8 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
1314414544159102513
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 riderShane Foley
15% of all rides
15.6% SR · A/E 1.50
RiderRWSR£1
Shane Foley 64 10 15.6% +19.66
Colin Keane 38 9 23.7% +7.61
Terry Casey 34 3 8.8% −16.25
Oisin McSweeney 33 5 15.2% +5.80
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2023→
44
Archived wins
2
Pattern / graded wins
£797k
Prize money
2025
Best season · 20 wins
Ostraka (IRE) — William Hill Top Price Guarantee Mercury Stakes (Group 3) Dundalk (AW) · Oct 2024 · Group 3
£32,450
Dun Na Sead (IRE) — Al Basti Equiworld, Dubai Pat Smullen Mercury Stakes (Group 3) Dundalk (AW) · Oct 2023 · Group 3
£32,450
Ocean Baroque (IRE) — Irish Ebf Auction Series Nursery Handicap Cork · Sep 2023
£29,500

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Ten Sovereigns (IRE) 12.1% · 4–33
Progeny have won 11% of 1,578 runs since 2008 (239 horses). Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 17.2% from 157. Weakest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 7.4% from 148.
Caravaggio (USA) 23.8% · 5–21
Progeny have won 11.7% of 1,769 runs since 2008 (201 horses). Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 16.4% from 165.
Kuroshio (AUS) 20% · 4–20
Progeny have won 7.3% of 1,298 runs since 2008 (118 horses). Weakest on Good going: 3.8% from 288.
Starspangledbanner (AUS) 17.6% · 3–17
Progeny have won 11.1% of 7,147 runs since 2008 (659 horses). Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 14.5% from 1,187.
Teofilo (IRE) 11.8% · 2–17
Progeny have won 12.5% of 10,070 runs since 2008 (907 horses). Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 7% from 625.
Sepoy (AUS) 0% · 0–16
Progeny have won 10.1% of 3,372 runs since 2008 (279 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 21 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 440 · newest first

The latest 50 of 440 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 26 September 2023 to 16 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP

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 Daniel James Murphy's strike rate?
Daniel James Murphy has won 44 of 440 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 10% (as at 21 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Daniel James Murphy do best at?
Dundalk (AW) by strike rate: 24 wins from 164 runners (14.6%) 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 Daniel James Murphy?
Shane Foley, with 64 runners since 2022 — 15% of the total. That pairing has won 10 (15.6%).
Is Daniel James Murphy in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 8 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is Daniel James Murphy's Fair A/E?
1.09, from 439 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 21 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).