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Trainer profile

David O'Meara

4,443 runners in the last 5 seasons · 375 individual horses
As at 20 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Non-runners: 7.3% of 967 declared in the last 365 days, counting all recorded withdrawals, including reserves. For context, a typical day across all racing ends with about 6.5% withdrawn (middle half 5.3–8.1% over 364 racing days). As at 20 Oct 2026.
Won yesterday Last runner yesterday 100% of runners on the flat
from 1 Jan 2022
523–4,443
Wins / Runs
11.8%
Strike rate
n=4,443
1,408 (32%)
Placed
1.00
n=4,417 · 0.86 incl. margin
−814.29
£1 level stake
n=4,443 at SP · −18.3%
£10.4m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
10.4%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 890 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 12% of them — level with the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 1.00). The yard is quiet just now — 3 winners in the last fortnight, below its own baseline.

Deterministic profile computed from 4,443 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 20 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Jul–Aug 30.9% when favourite Daniel Tudhope: 14.7% from 1,323 Sends off the favourite in 11% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Newmarket (20.4%, n=54) and Wetherby (20.5%, n=44) — all clear of the yard's 11.8% baseline. It is weakest at Ascot (4.9% over 163 runners) — the widest gap in the record. In Group and Graded company the record reads poorly at 6.6% (n=212, Fair A/E 0.94). A horse having headgear put back on after a bare run are the standout value angle: 12.6% strikes only just above baseline, but Fair A/E 1.17 and +10.75 to a £1 stake over 143 runners — a record the market has persistently underpriced. Right now the yard is in a quiet spell: 3 from 47 runners in the last 14 days (6.4%, 5.4pts below the 11.8% baseline). Daniel Tudhope rides 30% of the entries and edges the yard's average (14.7% vs 11.8%, A/E 1.02) — the market has that partnership priced right. 62 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Queen Anne Stakes at Ascot (Jun 2019, £340,260). The stable star of the record: Muscika (GB) — 18 wins from 130 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires Jul–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 11.8% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
10.3%−1.5
n=409 · A/E 1.02 · £1 −40.92
New recruits · first run for the yard
8.3%−3.5
n=120 · A/E 0.79 · £1 +23.00
Debutants · first career start
10.2%−1.6
n=186 · A/E 1.03 · £1 −61.39
First-time headgear · true-first definition
11.7%−0.1
n=137 · A/E 1.13 · £1 −13.92
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
12.6%+0.8
n=143 · A/E 1.17 · £1 +10.75
When favourite
30.9%
n=469 · A/E 1.05 · £1 −47.07
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
11.8%+0.0
n=416 · A/E 1.08 · £1 −56.64
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
6.6%−5.2
n=212 · A/E 0.94 · £1 −94.01

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 11.8% 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
At Newmarket 2.4% vs 11.8% · n=84
At York 5.3% vs 11.8% · n=360
At Ascot 4.9% vs 11.8% · n=163
With Cian Horgan 3.8% vs 11.8% · n=78
At Newmarket 20.4% vs 11.8% · n=54
At Wetherby 20.5% vs 11.8% · n=44
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 4,430 521 11.8% −808.69
Chase 5 1 20% +1.00
Hurdle 5 1 20% −3.60
NH Flat 3 0 0% −3.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 1,239 134 10.8% −345.88
Standard (AW) 1,150 140 12.2% −229.09
Good to Firm 1,029 135 13.1% −95.88
Good to Soft 480 52 10.8% −63.60
Soft 427 54 12.6% −18.42
Heavy 118 8 6.8% −61.42

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Newcastle (AW) 418 57 13.6% −79.00
York 360 19 5.3% −192.55
Doncaster 273 29 10.6% −111.97
Wolverhampton (AW) 273 29 10.6% −17.62
Redcar 231 37 16% +42.45
Ayr 227 29 12.8% −24.22
Ripon 218 28 12.8% −47.39
Southwell (AW) 207 22 10.6% −53.17
Haydock 200 26 13% +50.68
Thirsk 193 32 16.6% −5.56
Beverley 188 17 9% −71.79
Ascot 163 8 4.9% −18.34
Hamilton 163 23 14.1% +26.96
Pontefract 127 16 12.6% −48.10
Lingfield (AW) 110 13 11.8% −53.92

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 5 1,290 195 15.1% −99.12
Class 4 1,148 149 13% −25.63
Class 2 744 54 7.3% −256.33
Class 6 568 70 12.3% −107.98
Class 3 468 41 8.8% −218.22
Class 1 212 14 6.6% −94.01

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 577 172 29.8% 1.07 −41.33
2nd–3rd fav 1,143 182 15.9% 0.96 −215.86
4th–6th fav 1,457 127 8.7% 1.03 −232.10
7th+ in betting 1,266 42 3.3% 0.88 −325.00
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
Young Fire (FR)from F Head 73 7 20 27 Oct 25
Aberama Gold (GB)from Keith Dalgleish 65 7 24 5 Aug 26
Cosmos Raj (GB) 64 11 24 5 Oct 26
Muscika (GB)from Richard Hannon 62 8 25 10 Jul 25
Rhoscolyn (GB)from Charles Hills 61 6 13 16 Oct 26
Pisanello (IRE)from F Chappet 59 7 19 15 Sep 26
Orbaan (GB)from A Fabre 58 4 16 25 Nov 25
Riot (IRE)from J P Murtagh · then Charlie Wallis 56 7 20 25 Oct 25
Darkness (FR)from J-C Rouget 53 5 15 16 Oct 26
Bopedro (FR)from Mrs John Harrington 48 2 16 14 Apr 26
Star Of Lady M (GB) 48 11 21 24 Oct 25
Alligator Alley (GB)from Joseph Patrick O'Brien · then Ruth Carr 44 6 12 22 Oct 24
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 375 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 20 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, 30 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Charles Hills (2) and D K Weld (2); 30 had their first archived run for this yard.

12 have since run for another yard, most often for Philip Kirby (2); 48 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

Quiet spell
3 from 47 6.4% · −5.4pts vs baseline
Last 14 days6.4%
5-season base11.8%
Shown only when the 14-day window is large enough to mean anything (n≥15). A cold run renders the same card with a quiet badge — never hidden.

When the yard fires

strike by month, 5 seasons
JFMAMJJASOND
1112141112111315118819
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 riderDaniel Tudhope
30% of all rides
14.7% SR · A/E 1.02
RiderRWSR£1
Daniel Tudhope 1,323 194 14.7% −283.88
Jason Watson 648 66 10.2% −174.64
David Nolan 536 64 11.9% −117.56
Mark Winn 535 59 11% −54.44
Ben Robinson 194 14 7.2% −37.17
Cian Horgan 78 3 3.8% −50.88
Conor Whiteley 67 9 13.4% −26.07
Cieren Fallon 53 9 17% +10.63
David Probert 44 6 13.6% +83.00
Oisin Murphy 40 8 20% −13.68
Rossa Ryan 40 5 12.5% +1.00
Jason Hart 36 6 16.7% +20.50
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2010→
1,760
Archived wins
62
Pattern / graded wins
£28.4m
Prize money
2013
Best season · 140 wins
Lord Glitters (FR) — Queen Anne Stakes (Group 1) (Str) Ascot · Jun 2019 · Group 1
£340,260
Estrange (IRE) — Paddy Power Pretty Polly Stakes (Fillies' And Mares' Group 1) Curragh · Jun 2026 · Group 1
£235,600
Move In Time (GB) — QNB Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp (2yo+) (Turf) Longchamp (FR) · Oct 2014 · Group 1
£166,658

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Lope De Vega (IRE) 13.4% · 23–172
Progeny have won 13.8% of 12,150 runs since 2008 (1,099 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 9.3% from 953.
Kingman (GB) 13% · 21–161
Progeny have won 14.6% of 7,470 runs since 2008 (775 horses). Weakest on Soft going: 11.1% from 959. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 9.1% from 121.
Mehmas (IRE) 15.5% · 23–148
Progeny have won 11.6% of 8,107 runs since 2008 (747 horses).
Kodiac (GB) 6.2% · 8–130
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.
Zoustar (AUS) 12.4% · 13–105
Progeny have won 10.8% of 2,736 runs since 2008 (313 horses). Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 14.3% from 328. Weakest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 3.6% from 193.
Night Of Thunder (IRE) 19.2% · 20–104
Progeny have won 16.3% of 5,064 runs since 2008 (561 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 7% from 157.
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 14,607 · newest first

The latest 50 of 14,607 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 12 June 2010 to 19 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
16 Oct 26 Newcastle (AW) Saxophonist (IRE)J: Daniel Tudhope quinnbet.com Handicap StakesClass 5 · 12.5f · Standard · 12 ran 2nd 5/2F

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 David O'Meara's strike rate?
David O'Meara has won 523 of 4,443 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 11.8% (as at 20 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does David O'Meara do best at?
Thirsk by strike rate: 32 wins from 193 runners (16.6%) 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 David O'Meara?
Daniel Tudhope, with 1,323 runners since 2022 — 30% of the total. That pairing has won 194 (14.7%).
Is David O'Meara in form?
In the last 14 days: 47 runners, 3 winners, a strike rate of 6.4%. That is below the baseline of 11.8% since 2022.
What is David O'Meara's Fair A/E?
1.00, from 4,417 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).