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Trainer profile

F-M Cottin

3,989 runners in the lifetime window · 560 individual horses
As at 15 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Jul 2021 99% of runners over jumps
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.
355–3,989
Wins / Runs
8.9%
Strike rate
n=3,989
934 (23%)
Placed
1.02
Fair A/E
n=3,627 · 0.90 incl. margin
−588.65
£1 level stake
n=3,739 at SP · −15.7%
£19.5m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
2.4%
KTB Yard Profile

Sent out around 280 runners a season, almost all over hurdles and fences, winning with 9% of them — level with the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 1.02).

Deterministic profile computed from 3,989 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 15 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fired Jun–Jul Fresh horses: 9.9% 28.5% when favourite Regis Schmidlin: 8.3% from 962 Sent off the favourite in 5% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Pau (31.1%, n=45) and Cagnes-Sur-Mer (19.6%, n=51) — all clear of the yard's 8.9% baseline. A horse in first-time headgear has been a poor signal at 4.4% (n=136, Fair A/E 0.84). The market has consistently overbet debutants: 6% strike, Fair A/E 0.50 and −140.35 to a £1 stake over 403 runners — those runners underperformed what the price implied. Regis Schmidlin rode 24% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (8.3%, A/E 0.96). 84 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Gras Savoye Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris at Auteuil (FR) (May 2008, £271,324). The stable star of the record was Corazones (FR) — 8 wins from 39 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fired Jun–Jul.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 8.9% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
9.9%+1.0
n=1,010 · A/E 1.11 · £1 +167.90
New recruits · first run for the yard
7.3%−1.6
n=137 · A/E 0.81 · £1 −86.70
Debutants · first career start
6%−2.9
n=403 · A/E 0.50 · £1 −140.35
First-time headgear · true-first definition
4.4%−4.5
n=136 · A/E 0.84 · £1 −62.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
6.1%−2.8
n=66 · A/E 1.03 · £1 −27.20
When favourite
28.5%
n=193 · A/E 0.99 · £1 +47.65
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
7%−1.9
n=845 · A/E 0.90 · £1 −277.80
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
8%−0.9
n=910 · A/E 1.01 · £1 −259.90

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 8.9% 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 Pau 31.1% vs 8.9% · n=45
With D Gallagher 26.9% vs 8.9% · n=52
On last-time-out winners 16.9% vs 8.9% · n=338
At Cagnes-Sur-Mer 19.6% vs 8.9% · n=51
With Guillaume Javoy 18.2% vs 8.9% · n=33
With C&D winners 13.2% vs 8.9% · n=992
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 2,218 184 8.3% −264.05
Chase 1,714 163 9.5% −331.00
Flat 57 8 14% +6.40

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Soft 2,671 245 9.2% −437.30
Heavy 1,253 101 8.1% −124.35
Good to Soft 32 5 15.6% −4.00
Good 17 2 11.8% −14.00
Standard (AW) 14 1 7.1% −8.00
Good to Firm 2 1 50% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Auteuil (FR) 2,902 268 9.2% −253.35
Enghien (FR) 550 29 5.3% −251.30
Compiegne 278 16 5.8% −160.50
Clairefontaine 52 6 11.5% −2.00
Cagnes-Sur-Mer 51 10 19.6% +21.00
Pau 45 14 31.1% +71.10
Dieppe 37 2 5.4% −26.30
Fontainebleau 17 3 17.6% −7.30
Lyon Parilly 10 1 10% +43.00
Saint-Cloud (FR) 7 0 0% −7.00
Deauville (FR) 5 0 0% −5.00
Maisons-Laffitte (FR) 4 0 0% −4.00
Le Touquet 3 0 0% —
Le Lion-D'Angers 3 0 0% −3.00
Argentan 3 2 66.7% +10.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 911 73 8% −260.90
Class 2 2 0 0% −2.00
Class 3 2 0 0% −2.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 199 57 28.6% 1.00 +48.05
2nd–3rd fav 562 81 14.4% 0.95 +7.50
4th–6th fav 1,007 97 9.6% 1.26 +143.40
7th+ in betting 1,971 45 2.3% 0.80 −787.60
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.

Jumping record

completion over obstacles · same window as header
78.2% completed · 3,932 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 1,714 79.8% 113 8 206 0 19
Hurdle 2,218 77% 79 3 366 0 62
Chases and hurdles only — bumpers have no obstacles, so completion is not a question there. F fell · UR unseated rider · PU pulled up · BD brought down · Oth covers refusals, slip-ups, run-outs and the rare disqualification. Non-runners are excluded throughout. Rows under n=30 are shown faded. A descriptive record, not a tip.

Horses trained

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Achour (FR)then T Poche 45 4 12 25 Dec 20
Parigny (FR) 45 4 10 4 May 14
Rasique (FR)then Y Fertillet 44 6 15 14 May 19
Cafertiti (FR) 43 3 15 7 Mar 21
Hawk The Talk (IRE) 41 2 13 13 Apr 17
Pibrac (FR)then C Scandella 40 4 11 8 Jun 14
Corazones (FR)then Louisa Carberry 39 8 20 29 Jun 21
Roxinela (FR) 37 8 16 29 Nov 20
Vapalo (FR) 37 3 9 19 May 18
Curly Basc (FR) 35 6 17 23 Dec 20
Vado Via (FR) 35 1 3 16 May 17
Le Bel Anjou (FR) 35 6 15 25 Jun 15
The 60 most-raced of 560 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 60 horses listed, 9 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from T Civel (3); 51 had their first archived run for this yard.

19 have since run for another yard, most often for Josef Vana (2) and Micky Hammond (2); 41 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
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A jumps yard: the season runs Oct–Apr. Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first
Go-to riderRegis Schmidlin
24% of all rides
8.3% SR · A/E 0.96
RiderRWSR£1
Regis Schmidlin 962 80 8.3% −140.90
Damien Mescam 515 29 5.6% −170.90
P A Carberry 434 59 13.6% +92.45
David Cottin 224 28 12.5% −15.40
Jonathan Plouganou 203 20 9.9% +42.90
Kevin Nabet 169 11 6.5% −43.10
Raymond O'Brien 167 20 12% −27.60
Julien Tabary 142 10 7% −75.00
Dylan Ubeda 114 6 5.3% −19.00
David Brassil 113 8 7.1% −51.40
Nicolas Chevreux 99 5 5.1% −77.80
Michael Delmares 81 4 4.9% −2.10
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
388
Archived wins
84
Pattern / graded wins
£22.0m
Prize money
2011
Best season · 41 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.
Princesse D'Anjou (FR) — Gras Savoye Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris (Chase) Auteuil (FR) · May 2008 · Grade 1
£271,324
Princesse D'Anjou (FR) — Gras Savoye Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris (Chase) Auteuil (FR) · May 2006 · Grade 1
£223,448
Princesse D'Anjou (FR) — Prix La Haye Jousselin (Chase) Auteuil (FR) · Nov 2006 · Grade 1
£145,862

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Antarctique (IRE) 15.4% · 19–123
Progeny have won 12.2% of 830 runs since 2008 (87 horses). Weakest on Good going: 8.7% from 127.
Forestier (FR) 3.5% · 4–115
Progeny have won 8.8% of 454 runs since 2008 (44 horses).
Limnos (JPN) 5.1% · 5–98
Progeny have won 7.9% of 619 runs since 2008 (75 horses).
Dream Well (FR) 7.4% · 7–94
Progeny have won 11.6% of 1,165 runs since 2008 (135 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 15.2% from 210. Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 0% from 111. Strongest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 16.3% from 190. Weakest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 6.5% from 185.
Discover D'Auteuil (FR) 7.4% · 6–81
Progeny have won 10.2% of 954 runs since 2008 (87 horses). Strongest on Good to Soft going: 18.4% from 103. Weakest on Soft going: 7.1% from 408. Strongest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 13.3% from 195.
Secret Singer (FR) 9.6% · 7–73
Progeny have won 10% of 617 runs since 2008 (72 horses). Strongest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 13.5% from 148.
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 15 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 4,176 · newest first

The latest 50 of 4,176 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 9 January 2005 to 5 July 2021.

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 F-M Cottin's strike rate?
F-M Cottin has won 355 of 3,989 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 8.9% (as at 15 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does F-M Cottin do best at?
Pau by strike rate: 14 wins from 45 runners (31.1%) 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 F-M Cottin?
Regis Schmidlin, with 962 runners since 2008 — 24% of the total. That pairing has won 80 (8.3%).
What is F-M Cottin's Fair A/E?
1.02, from 3,627 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 15 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).