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Trainer profile

Daragh Bourke

683 runners in the lifetime window · 82 individual horses
As at 30 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner 3 days ago
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2018→)
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
57–683
Wins / Runs
8.3%
Strike rate
n=683
164 (24%)
Placed
0.96
Fair A/E
n=679 · 0.82 incl. margin
−181.24
£1 level stake
n=683 at SP · −26.5%
£479k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
13.7%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 40 runners a season, across both codes, winning with 8% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.96). New recruits from other yards win at 15% first time out (62 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 683 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 30 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Jun–Aug 39.4% when favourite Alain Cawley: 3.3% from 90 New recruits: 14.5% Sends off the favourite in 5% of races
The read

New recruits from other stables on their first run win at 14.5% (n=62, Fair A/E 1.95). Alain Cawley rides 13% of the entries and sits below the yard's average (3.3% vs 8.3%, A/E 0.33). The yard also reads well in Class 6 (15.5%, n=174) and over 1m – 1m1f (15.5%, n=97). Seasonally, the yard fires Jun–Aug.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 8.3% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
5.7%−2.6
n=157 · A/E 0.88 · £1 −14.17
New recruits · first run for the yard
14.5%+6.2
n=62 · A/E 1.95 · £1 +107.16
Debutants · first career start
5%−3.3
n=20 · A/E 0.81 · £1 −17.12
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−8.3
n=20 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −20.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
7.5%−0.8
n=40 · A/E 1.21 · £1 +3.00
When favourite
39.4%
n=33 · A/E 1.27 · £1 +1.35
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
7.9%−0.4
n=89 · A/E 1.02 · £1 +26.25
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−8.3
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 8.3% 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 19.3% vs 8.3% · n=57
In Class 6 15.5% vs 8.3% · n=174
Over 1m – 1m1f 15.5% vs 8.3% · n=97
With Jason Hart 15.4% vs 8.3% · n=52
On Standard (AW) going 14.1% vs 8.3% · n=99
With new recruits 14.5% vs 8.3% · n=62
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 372 22 5.9% −91.87
Flat 231 30 13% −48.25
Chase 50 3 6% −26.00
NH Flat 30 2 6.7% −15.12

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 216 15 6.9% −69.75
Soft 156 9 5.8% −92.42
Good to Soft 153 9 5.9% −90.24
Standard (AW) 99 14 14.1% −5.78
Heavy 36 5 13.9% +81.50
Good to Firm 23 5 21.7% −4.55

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Ayr 97 6 6.2% −49.17
Carlisle 83 6 7.2% −48.50
Newcastle (AW) 72 9 12.5% −2.67
Perth 69 4 5.8% −4.00
Musselburgh 54 3 5.6% −17.75
Kelso 45 4 8.9% −13.50
Hexham 44 3 6.8% +45.88
Newcastle 43 1 2.3% −38.00
Sedgefield 34 2 5.9% −14.62
Hamilton 29 4 13.8% −1.50
Catterick 17 2 11.8% −2.75
Market Rasen 15 3 20% +0.00
Wolverhampton (AW) 10 3 30% −0.84
Southwell 9 0 0% −9.00
Cartmel 8 0 0% −8.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 5 282 20 7.1% −29.87
Class 4 199 9 4.5% −112.37
Class 6 174 27 15.5% −13.75
Class 3 20 1 5% −17.25
Class 2 6 0 0% −6.00
Class 1 2 0 0% −2.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 44 15 34.1% 1.20 −1.40
2nd–3rd fav 121 17 14% 0.88 −39.84
4th–6th fav 239 15 6.3% 0.80 −79.00
7th+ in betting 279 10 3.6% 1.09 −61.00
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
We Still Believe (IRE)from Ben Haslam 49 4 21 14 Oct 25
Old Jewry (IRE)from Linda Perratt 38 4 9 29 Nov 22
Coral Blue (IRE)from S M Duffy 34 4 6 1 Jan 26
Gainsbourg (GB)from Edward Bethell 27 3 4 8 Oct 26
Vampire Slayer (IRE)from Joseph Patrick O'Brien 27 2 10 8 Oct 26
Golden Chancer (GB) 27 2 6 5 Oct 22
Game Beaaa (IRE)from Paul Power 26 3 8 23 Apr 26
Pads (IRE)from Iain Jardine 23 1 6 25 Mar 21
Busty Boy (IRE)from M A Gunn 19 1 12 14 May 26
Paco's Pride (GB)from Roger Varian 17 0 4 12 Aug 25
Paddy The Panda (IRE) 17 0 2 25 Apr 25
Non Mollare (IRE)from John M Burke 15 3 7 30 Aug 23
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 82 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 3 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, 47 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Andrew Slattery (2) and Iain Jardine (2); 13 had their first archived run for this yard.

8 have since run for another yard, most often for R Mike Smith (2); 52 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
0 from 5
Only 5 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, lifetime
JFMAMJJASOND
11138241315157556
Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first
Go-to riderAlain Cawley
13% of all rides
3.3% SR · A/E 0.33
RiderRWSR£1
Alain Cawley 90 3 3.3% −42.00
Callum Bewley 67 3 4.5% −30.62
Ross Chapman 56 6 10.7% −6.50
Jason Hart 52 8 15.4% +1.50
Danny McMenamin 36 4 11.1% −21.37
Andrew Mullen 35 4 11.4% −6.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2018→
57
Archived wins
£479k
Prize money
2026
Best season · 13 wins
Barbados Buck's (IRE) — Bet In Play On Rhino.Bet Handicap Hurdle Carlisle · Dec 2023 · Class 3
£7,922
Gainsbourg (GB) — Book Scottish Sun Ladies Night Handicap Ayr · Jul 2023 · Class 4
£5,574
Gainsbourg (GB) — DX Home Improvements Ltd, Bellshill Handicap Hamilton · Jul 2024 · Class 4
£5,286
Notable horses
We Still Believe (IRE) Old Jewry (IRE) Coral Blue (IRE) Evita Du Mesnil (FR) Gainsbourg (GB) Game Beaaa (IRE)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Lawman (FR) 8.2% · 4–49
Progeny have won 8.9% of 9,423 runs since 2008 (730 horses).
Le Fou (IRE) 10.5% · 4–38
Progeny have won 8.3% of 1,414 runs since 2008 (137 horses). Strongest on Good to Soft going: 12.2% from 238.
Big Bad Bob (IRE) 11.8% · 4–34
Progeny have won 8.8% of 4,568 runs since 2008 (314 horses).
Gold Well (GB) 8.8% · 3–34
Progeny have won 12.2% of 5,648 runs since 2008 (363 horses).
Camacho (GB) 7.4% · 2–27
Progeny have won 8.1% of 9,322 runs since 2008 (596 horses).
Sixties Icon (GB) 11.1% · 3–27
Progeny have won 9.9% of 5,671 runs since 2008 (337 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 13.3% from 264. Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 6.4% from 1,332.
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 30 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 683 · newest first

The latest 50 of 683 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 23 April 2018 to 27 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
27 Oct 26 Catterick Habari (IRE)J: Shane Gray Bet At racingtv.com Handicap StakesClass 6 · 16f · Soft · 12 ran 12th 15/2
27 Oct 26 Newcastle Plane Sailing (IRE)J: Callum Bewley High Gosforth Park Golf Club Handicap Hurdle RaceClass 5 · 17f · Good · 10 ran PU 66/1
22 Oct 26 Carlisle Is She Now (IRE)J: Callum Bewley Race Home With Genesis Homes Handicap Hurdle Race (Div II)Class 5 · 20f · Good · 13 ran 9th 12/1
20 Oct 26 Hexham Myluckymaker (IRE)J: Brian Hughes Download The At The Races App Mares' Novices' Hurdle Race (GBB Race)Class 4 · 20f · Good · 5 ran 3rd 7/2
17 Oct 26 Southwell (AW) Adelaide Bay (GB)J: Shane Gray Book The Bistro In Seasons Restaurant Handicap StakesClass 6 · 8f · Standard · 11 ran 10th 4/1
16 Oct 26 Newcastle (AW) Cavallo Pazzo (IRE)J: Shane Gray Central Employment & Training Partnership Handicap Stakes (Div I)Class 6 · 7f · Standard · 9 ran 1st 13/2
16 Oct 26 Newcastle (AW) Habari (IRE)J: Shane Gray quinnbet.com Handicap StakesClass 5 · 12.5f · Standard · 12 ran 7th 16/1
15 Oct 26 Perth Matching Energy (GB)J: Callum Bewley Every Irish Race Live On RacingTV Handicap Hurdle RaceClass 4 · 16f · Soft · 9 ran 5th 25/1
08 Oct 26 Ayr Vampire Slayer (IRE)J: Shane Gray Magners Original Cider Handicap StakesClass 6 · 13f · Heavy · 5 ran 2nd 14/1
08 Oct 26 Ayr Gainsbourg (GB)J: Shane Gray Outcider Handicap StakesClass 6 · 8f · Heavy · 13 ran 12th 22/1
07 Oct 26 Sedgefield Palavar (IRE)J: Callum Bewley Mowden Park Rfc Maiden Hurdle Race (gbb Race)Class 4 · 17f · Good · 9 ran PU 250/1
30 Sep 26 Catterick Neddies Boy (IRE)J: Shane Gray Watch All Races Live On Racingtv Handicap StakesClass 6 · 16f · Good · 9 ran 2nd 25/1
25 Sep 26 Newcastle (AW) Adelaide Bay (GB)J: Shane Gray Mwh Treatment Handicap StakesClass 6 · 8f · Standard · 11 ran 1st 20/1
23 Sep 26 Perth Wherearethejudges (IRE)J: Callum Bewley Thank You To Kinneston Owners Handicap Steeple ChaseClass 5 · 20f · Good · 9 ran PU 40/1
23 Sep 26 Perth Plane Sailing (IRE)J: Callum Bewley Harvesting What Matters Most Novices' Hurdle Race (GBB Race)Class 4 · 16f · Good · 10 ran 7th 300/1
21 Sep 26 Hamilton Hale Bopp (IRE)J: Amie Waugh Racing TV Apprentice Handicap StakesClass 6 · 8.5f · Soft · 7 ran 6th 14/1
17 Sep 26 Ayr Cavallo Pazzo (IRE)J: Oisin Orr Ladbrokes 'Get Racing Bet Builder Winnings Boosts' Handicap StakesClass 6 · 7f · Soft · 14 ran 8th 5/1
12 Sep 26 Musselburgh Hale Bopp (IRE)J: Cian Horgan No Napier No Party Apprentice Handicap StakesClass 6 · 8f · Good · 8 ran 6th 4/1
09 Sep 26 Carlisle Mighty Wave (IRE)J: David Nolan Lpd Maiden Stakes (gbb/gbbplus Race)Class 3 · 11f · Good · 12 ran 8th 200/1
03 Sep 26 Newcastle (AW) Neddies Boy (IRE)J: Shane Gray Border Minstrel Pub Handicap StakesClass 6 · 12.5f · Standard · 9 ran 6th 4/1

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).

KTB’s figures

the forward record · since 5 Oct 2026

KTB’s figures on this yard’s runners since 8 Oct 2026: the KTB Selection in 1 run (won 1) · top-rated on KTB Rating in 2 runs (won 1) · fastest on KTB Speed in 1 run (won 0) · to 20 Oct 2026.

Each pick was a KTB figure’s choice before the off — the published KTB Selection, the top-rated horse on KTB Rating, the fastest on KTB Speed — settled against the result the next morning and never worked out again; “did not run” is counted apart. GB and Irish races only. A record of weeks so far: read it as a count, not a verdict.

Quick answers

What is Daragh Bourke's strike rate?
Daragh Bourke has won 57 of 683 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 8.3% (as at 30 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Daragh Bourke do best at?
Newcastle (AW) by strike rate: 9 wins from 72 runners (12.5%) 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 Daragh Bourke?
Alain Cawley, with 90 runners since 2008 — 13% of the total. That pairing has won 3 (3.3%).
Is Daragh Bourke in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 5 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is Daragh Bourke's Fair A/E?
0.96, from 679 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 30 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).