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Trainer profile

F Vermeulen

2,123 runners in the lifetime window · 601 individual horses
As at 11 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Sep 2024 100% of runners on the flat
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
209–2,123
Wins / Runs
9.8%
Strike rate
n=2,123
570 (27%)
Placed
1.00
n=2,062 · 0.86 incl. margin
−454.90
£1 level stake
n=2,091 at SP · −21.8%
£5.60m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
6.5%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 110 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 10% of them — level with the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 1.00).

Deterministic profile computed from 2,123 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 11 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Feb–Mar Fresh horses: 10.4% 27.6% when favourite Christophe Soumillon: 16.6% from 253 New recruits: 10.8% Sends off the favourite in 11% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Marseille Borely (20.6%, n=34) and Cagnes-Sur-Mer (18.5%, n=65) — all clear of the yard's 9.8% baseline. Debutants struggle at 6.1% (n=261, Fair A/E 0.73). New recruits from other stables on their first run are the standout value angle: 10.8% strikes only just above baseline, but Fair A/E 1.16 and +27.10 to a £1 stake over 370 runners — a record the market has persistently underpriced. Christophe Soumillon rides 12% of the entries and beats the yard's average (16.6% vs 9.8%, A/E 1.03) — the market has that partnership priced right. 21 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Qatar Prix Marcel Boussac - Criterium des Pouliches at Longchamp (FR) (Oct 2018, £202,265). The stable star of the record: Prophets Pride (GB) — 7 wins from 22 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires Feb–Mar.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 9.8% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
10.4%+0.6
n=739 · A/E 1.16 · £1 −124.90
New recruits · first run for the yard
10.8%+1.0
n=370 · A/E 1.16 · £1 +27.10
Debutants · first career start
6.1%−3.7
n=261 · A/E 0.73 · £1 −107.60
First-time headgear · true-first definition
8.5%−1.3
n=199 · A/E 0.99 · £1 −57.90
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
7.4%−2.4
n=81 · A/E 0.87 · £1 −14.00
When favourite
27.6%
n=228 · A/E 1.09 · £1 −19.20
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
9.6%−0.2
n=312 · A/E 1.21 · £1 −60.30
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
9.6%−0.2
n=218 · A/E 1.01 · £1 −5.30

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 9.8% baseline — descriptive splits with the sample always shown, for you to weigh. 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. The same beliefs, tested across every yard and every GB and Irish race since 2005: Racing myths.

Notable angles

vs their own baseline
With Pierre-Charles Boudot 20.9% vs 9.8% · n=43
With Mickael Barzalona 19.6% vs 9.8% · n=51
At Marseille Borely 20.6% vs 9.8% · n=34
With Christophe Soumillon 16.6% vs 9.8% · n=253
At Cagnes-Sur-Mer 18.5% vs 9.8% · n=65
On last-time-out winners 15.7% vs 9.8% · n=229
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 2,117 209 9.9% −448.90
Hurdle 6 0 0% −6.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 946 106 11.2% −139.00
Soft 358 28 7.8% −159.10
Good 341 31 9.1% −30.10
Good to Soft 308 24 7.8% −86.60
Heavy 164 17 10.4% −40.80
Good to Firm 5 2 40% +0.70

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Deauville 596 65 10.9% −47.90
Chantilly (FR) 549 41 7.5% −280.00
Saint-Cloud (FR) 315 35 11.1% −35.70
Longchamp (FR) 298 24 8.1% −69.40
Maisons-Laffitte (FR) 140 10 7.1% −32.30
Cagnes-Sur-Mer 65 12 18.5% +31.40
Marseille Borely 34 7 20.6% −5.70
Vichy 29 3 10.3% +5.70
Lyon Parilly (FR) 17 1 5.9% −11.70
Marseille Pont-de-Vivaux 14 3 21.4% +0.60
Clairefontaine 13 0 0% −13.00
Compiegne 8 2 25% +5.90
Fontainebleau 7 0 0% −6.00
Lyon-La Soie 6 1 16.7% +1.40
Enghien (FR) 5 0 0% −5.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 218 21 9.6% −5.30

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 240 65 27.1% 1.08 −23.60
2nd–3rd fav 403 60 14.9% 0.93 −66.10
4th–6th fav 580 49 8.4% 1.03 −90.80
7th+ in betting 868 29 3.3% 0.93 −274.40
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
Prophets Pride (GB)from Jeremy Noseda · then Mme C Nicot 22 7 12 17 Aug 17
Richemont (FR) 20 4 7 21 Oct 21
Skaters Waltz (IRE)from D & P Prod'Homme · then R Aon Picardo 20 4 9 4 Jun 19
Mr Majeika (IRE)from Richard Hannon Snr 20 2 5 17 May 13
Cozy Girl (FR) 19 5 9 1 Sep 17
Mubaarez (GB)from F Head · then M Boutin 19 2 6 24 Oct 13
Garnica (FR)from David Nicholls 19 0 3 4 Jan 13
Le Pin (FR)from P Bary 16 4 5 17 Aug 21
Bunraku (GB)from Charles Hills 16 4 6 31 Oct 17
Bakhchisaray (FR)from Vaclav Luka Jr · then C Escuder 15 1 5 15 Sep 24
Hootton (FR)then Y Barberot 15 2 5 5 Apr 22
Raison d'Etre (FR) 15 2 4 2 Feb 17
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 601 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 8 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, 37 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from J-C Rouget (3) and Matthieu Palussiere (3); 23 had their first archived run for this yard.

26 have since run for another yard, most often for M Boutin (3) and J-M Capitte (2); 34 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 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
12% of all rides
16.6% SR · A/E 1.03
RiderRWSR£1
Christophe Soumillon 253 42 16.6% −42.40
Maxime Guyon 221 29 13.1% −34.70
Antoine Hamelin 151 9 6% −25.70
Cristian Demuro 141 15 10.6% −8.20
Sylvain Ruis 99 8 8.1% −18.10
Aurelien Lemaitre 82 5 6.1% −41.20
Eddy Hardouin 60 3 5% +8.90
Ioritz Mendizabal 53 3 5.7% −18.00
Alexandre Chesneau 52 4 7.7% −23.40
Mickael Barzalona 51 10 19.6% +20.20
Johan Victoire 46 2 4.3% −20.50
Pierre-Charles Boudot 43 9 20.9% +30.90
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2007→
210
Archived wins
21
Pattern / graded wins
£5.61m
Prize money
2018
Best season · 27 wins
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.
Lily's Candle (FR) — Qatar Prix Marcel Boussac - Criterium des Pouliches (2yo Fillies) (Turf) Longchamp (FR) · Oct 2018 · Group 1
£202,265
Pretty Tiger (IRE) — Prix Eugene Adam (3yo) (Turf) Saint-Cloud (FR) · Jul 2021 · Group 2
£66,161
Barkaa (FR) — Prix Vanteaux (3yo Fillies) (Turf) Longchamp (FR) · Apr 2018 · Group 3
£35,398

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Elusive City (USA) 17.1% · 13–76
Progeny have won 9.7% of 8,431 runs since 2008 (636 horses). Weakest on Soft going: 6.4% from 1,123.
Verglas (IRE) 17.8% · 8–45
Progeny have won 10.2% of 6,977 runs since 2008 (499 horses).
Wootton Bassett (GB) 7.5% · 3–40
Progeny have won 13% of 5,710 runs since 2015 (793 horses). Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 16% from 162.
Dutch Art (GB) 17.6% · 6–34
Progeny have won 12.1% of 8,109 runs since 2011 (600 horses). Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 18.1% from 700. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 9% from 365.
Invincible Spirit (IRE) 23.5% · 8–34
Progeny have won 11.9% of 20,875 runs since 2008 (1,574 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 16.1% from 161. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 7.8% from 844.
Kheleyf (USA) 0% · 0–34
Progeny have won 8.7% of 10,552 runs since 2008 (676 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 12.2% from 131. Weakest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 5.6% from 880.
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 11 Nov 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 2,127 · newest first

The latest 50 of 2,127 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 24 February 2007 to 16 September 2024.

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 Vermeulen's strike rate?
F Vermeulen has won 209 of 2,123 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 9.8% (as at 11 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does F Vermeulen do best at?
Marseille Borely by strike rate: 7 wins from 34 runners (20.6%) 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 Vermeulen?
Christophe Soumillon, with 253 runners since 2008 — 12% of the total. That pairing has won 42 (16.6%).
What is F Vermeulen's Fair A/E?
1.00, from 2,062 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 11 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).