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Trainer profile

Francis-Henri Graffard

1,919 runners in the last 5 seasons · 525 individual horses
As at 21 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Non-runners: 2.1% of 569 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 For context, a typical day across all racing ends with about 6.5% withdrawn (middle half 5.3–8.1% over 364 racing days).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 21 Oct 2026.
In form — 7 winners last 14 days Won yesterday Last runner yesterday 100% of runners on the flat
from 1 Jan 2022
447–1,919
Wins / Runs
23.3%
Strike rate
n=1,919
968 (50%)
Placed
1.11
n=1,917 · 0.92 incl. margin
−42.86
£1 level stake
n=1,918 at SP · −2.2%
£29.6m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
27%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 380 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 23% of them — beating the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 1.11). The yard is in form now — 7 winners in the last fortnight, above its own baseline.

Deterministic profile computed from 1,919 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 21 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Nov–Dec Fresh horses: 24.6% 39.3% when favourite M Barzalona: 27.6% from 764 Sends off the favourite in 34% of races
The read

It is weakest at Ascot (13.2% over 38 runners) — the widest gap in the record. New recruits from other stables on their first run struggle at 9.8% (n=51, Fair A/E 0.46). Runners with a claiming rider up are the standout value angle: 19.9% strikes only just below baseline, but Fair A/E 1.27 and +33.20 to a £1 stake over 171 runners — a record the market has persistently underpriced. Right now the yard is firing: 7 winners from 25 runners in the last 14 days (28%, 4.7pts above the 23.3% baseline). M Barzalona rides 40% of the entries and edges the yard's average (27.6% vs 23.3%, A/E 1.12) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The yard also reads well on Good going (31.1%, n=222). The record reads poorly off a 8-14-day break — 13% over 54 runners, 10.3pts below the baseline. 217 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp (FR) (Oct 2026, £2,857,000). The stable star of the record: The Revenant (GB) — 9 wins from 21 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires Nov–Dec.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 23.3% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
24.6%+1.3
n=501 · A/E 1.22 · £1 +34.81
New recruits · first run for the yard
9.8%−13.5
n=51 · A/E 0.46 · £1 −36.20
Debutants · first career start
21.2%−2.1
n=433 · A/E 1.02 · £1 −98.06
First-time headgear · true-first definition
19.3%−4.0
n=275 · A/E 1.01 · £1 −33.84
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
13.6%−9.7
n=22 · A/E 0.75 · £1 −9.64
When favourite
39.3%
n=657 · A/E 1.12 · £1 −55.72
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
19.9%−3.4
n=171 · A/E 1.27 · £1 +33.20
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
21.6%−1.7
n=679 · A/E 1.08 · £1 +30.01

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 23.3% 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
With Leonard Plommee 43.3% vs 23.3% · n=30
With new recruits 9.8% vs 23.3% · n=51
On Good going 31.1% vs 23.3% · n=222
Off a 8-14-day break 13% vs 23.3% · n=54
With Hugo Journiac 14.5% vs 23.3% · n=69
At Ascot 13.2% vs 23.3% · n=38
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
Good to Soft 611 127 20.8% −105.28
Soft 511 113 22.1% −26.19
Standard (AW) 405 107 26.4% +64.69
Good 222 69 31.1% +35.90
Heavy 129 25 19.4% −17.91
Good to Firm 39 6 15.4% +7.93
Firm 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Chantilly 558 157 28.1% +140.31
Longchamp (FR) 415 90 21.7% −13.11
Deauville 363 72 19.8% −16.14
Saint-Cloud 358 71 19.8% −108.97
Ascot 38 5 13.2% +6.98
Compiegne (FR) 28 7 25% −13.21
Clairefontaine (FR) 28 8 28.6% +1.54
Vichy (FR) 25 9 36% −0.69
Dieppe (FR) 22 9 40.9% −5.49
Lyon Parilly (FR) 13 4 30.8% −3.00
La Teste De Buch (FR) 12 3 25% −2.50
Le Lion-D'Angers (FR) 8 3 37.5% −3.34
Fontainebleau (FR) 6 0 0% −6.00
York 4 0 0% −4.00
Craon (FR) 4 1 25% +0.60

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 694 148 21.3% +16.26
Class 2 39 11 28.2% +1.87
Class 3 9 6 66.7% +2.36
Class 4 2 0 0% −2.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 688 266 38.7% 1.12 −62.09
2nd–3rd fav 702 130 18.5% 1.04 −93.17
4th–6th fav 364 38 10.4% 1.14 +11.30
7th+ in betting 164 13 7.9% 1.89 +101.10
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
Le Nomade (IRE) 18 5 8 14 Feb 25
Calandagan (IRE) 16 8 15 17 Oct 26
Goliath (GER) 15 7 10 25 Jul 26
Melo Melo (GB) 15 3 7 13 Sep 24
Cankoura (FR) 13 5 7 4 Oct 26
Rayevka (IRE) 13 3 8 13 Sep 26
Mont De Soleil (IRE) 13 5 6 5 Sep 26
Map Of Stars (GB) 13 6 9 15 Aug 26
Daryz (FR) 12 9 11 4 Oct 26
Behtar (FR) 12 1 9 5 Nov 23
Parachutiste (IRE) 11 4 9 8 Aug 26
Magellan (FR)from J De Mieulle 11 1 4 26 Jul 26
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 525 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 7 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, 3 arrived from another yard in our archive; 57 had their first archived run for this yard.

3 have since run for another yard; 57 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

In form
7 from 25 28% · +4.7pts vs baseline
Last 14 days28%
5-season base23.3%
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
223224292020332018202532
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 riderM Barzalona
40% of all rides
27.6% SR · A/E 1.12
RiderRWSR£1
M Barzalona 764 211 27.6% −49.07
C. Soumillon 268 63 23.5% −32.80
Stephane Pasquier 128 25 19.5% −35.50
C Lecoeuvre 126 25 19.8% +11.60
Maxime Guyon 97 25 25.8% +38.30
Hugo Journiac 69 10 14.5% +47.50
Tony Piccone 67 12 17.9% −23.30
Marie Velon 64 11 17.2% −6.70
Luca Carboni 63 11 17.5% +28.20
Leonard Plommee 30 13 43.3% +23.61
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2011→
717
Archived wins
217
Pattern / graded wins
£40.9m
Prize money
2026
Best season · 137 wins
Daryz (FR) — Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (Group 1) Longchamp (FR) · Oct 2026 · Group 1
£2,857,000
Daryz (FR) — Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (3yo+ No Geldings) (Grande Course) (Turf) Longchamp (FR) · Oct 2025 · Group 1
£2,361,157
Calandagan (IRE) — King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes (Group 1) Ascot · Jul 2025 · Group 1
£850,650

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Siyouni (FR) 24.8% · 57–230
Progeny have won 13% of 8,321 runs since 2008 (975 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 9.3% from 454.
Frankel (GB) 34.7% · 33–95
Progeny have won 18% of 7,499 runs since 2008 (875 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 12.3% from 324. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 12.4% from 267.
Dubawi (IRE) 24.4% · 20–82
Progeny have won 18.4% of 12,936 runs since 2008 (1,520 horses). Weakest at trips under 6f (all codes): 9.8% from 429.
Wootton Bassett (GB) 20.5% · 15–73
Progeny have won 13.1% of 5,637 runs since 2008 (788 horses). Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 16.1% from 161.
Lope De Vega (IRE) 16.9% · 11–65
Progeny have won 13.8% of 12,152 runs since 2008 (1,099 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 9.3% from 953.
Kingman (GB) 26.6% · 17–64
Progeny have won 14.6% of 7,471 runs since 2008 (775 horses). Weakest on Soft going: 11.1% from 959. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 9.1% from 121.
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 3,555 · newest first

The latest 50 of 3,555 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 17 December 2011 to 20 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
18 Oct 26 Longchamp (FR) Shuwaib (IRE)J: Clement Lecoeuvre Prix De Belleville9f · Good To Soft · 12 ran 6th 3/1
10 Oct 26 Chantilly (FR) Regal Resolve (GB)J: Colin Keane Prix Le FabuleuxClass 1 · 9f · Soft · 9 ran 8th 100/30F

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 Francis-Henri Graffard's strike rate?
Francis-Henri Graffard has won 447 of 1,919 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 23.3% (as at 21 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Francis-Henri Graffard do best at?
Chantilly by strike rate: 157 wins from 558 runners (28.1%) 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 Francis-Henri Graffard?
M Barzalona, with 764 runners since 2022 — 40% of the total. That pairing has won 211 (27.6%).
Is Francis-Henri Graffard in form?
In the last 14 days: 25 runners, 7 winners, a strike rate of 28%. That is above the baseline of 23.3% since 2022.
What is Francis-Henri Graffard's Fair A/E?
1.11, from 1,917 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).