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Trainer profile

Ian Semple

743 runners in the lifetime window · 119 individual horses
As at 15 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Nov 2015 97% of runners on the flat
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)
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.
51–743
Wins / Runs
6.9%
Strike rate
n=743
147 (20%)
Placed
0.90
Fair A/E
n=735 · 0.77 incl. margin
−323.30
£1 level stake
n=743 at SP · −43.5%
£331k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%
KTB Yard Profile

Sent out around 90 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 7% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.90).

Deterministic profile computed from 743 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 15 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Tom Eaves: 6.9% from 216
The read

Debutants struggle at 0% (n=38, Fair A/E 0.00). The market has consistently overbet horses returning fresh after 61+ days: 4% strike, Fair A/E 0.59 and −55.50 to a £1 stake over 100 runners — those runners underperformed what the price implied. Tom Eaves rode 29% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (6.9%, A/E 0.88). The yard also read well over 1m5f – 2m (14.1%, n=64). The record read poorly on Soft going — 1.3% over 76 runners, 5.6pts below the baseline. 5 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Symphony Group Acomb Stakes at York (Aug 2006, £23,708). The stable star of the record was Chookie Hamilton (GB) — 9 wins from 43 runs for the yard.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 6.9% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
4%−2.9
n=100 · A/E 0.59 · £1 −55.50
New recruits · first run for the yard
3.4%−3.5
n=87 · A/E 0.47 · £1 −54.00
Debutants · first career start
0%−6.9
n=38 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −38.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−6.9
n=34 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −34.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
2.3%−4.6
n=44 · A/E 0.36 · £1 −35.00
When favourite
29.2%
n=24 · A/E 1.00 · £1 −0.05
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
5.8%−1.1
n=191 · A/E 0.84 · £1 −95.50
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−6.9
n=12 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −12.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 6.9% 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
On last-time-out winners 21.6% vs 6.9% · n=51
With Phillip Makin 20% vs 6.9% · n=30
Over 1m5f – 2m 14.1% vs 6.9% · n=64
With debutants 0% vs 6.9% · n=38
With first-time headgear 0% vs 6.9% · n=34
On Soft going 1.3% vs 6.9% · n=76
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 721 48 6.7% −333.30
Hurdle 16 2 12.5% +6.00
NH Flat 6 1 16.7% +4.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 205 15 7.3% −72.25
Good to Firm 189 13 6.9% −90.87
Standard (AW) 148 13 8.8% −54.50
Good to Soft 109 5 4.6% −73.25
Soft 76 1 1.3% −67.50
Heavy 11 1 9.1% −9.43
Firm 5 3 60% +44.50

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Hamilton 161 8 5% −102.30
Ayr 138 11 8% −53.75
Musselburgh 118 5 4.2% −87.75
Wolverhampton (AW) 110 8 7.3% −57.25
Newcastle 52 2 3.8% −35.00
Southwell (AW) 21 1 4.8% −15.00
Haydock 16 2 12.5% +20.50
Beverley 14 2 14.3% +6.50
Carlisle 13 1 7.7% −8.00
Redcar 13 1 7.7% +0.00
Catterick 10 1 10% −2.00
Ripon 9 1 11.1% +3.00
York 9 1 11.1% +0.00
Lingfield (AW) 9 4 44.4% +25.75
Doncaster 8 0 0% −8.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 6 301 15 5% −191.87
Class 5 261 21 8% −107.18
Class 4 113 8 7.1% −48.50
Class 2 29 5 17.2% +36.25
Class 3 27 2 7.4% +0.00
Class 1 12 0 0% −12.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 30 7 23.3% 0.84 −6.05
2nd–3rd fav 124 22 17.7% 1.24 +11.75
4th–6th fav 273 18 6.6% 0.90 −86.00
7th+ in betting 316 4 1.3% 0.37 −243.00
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
Here Now And Why (IRE)from M J Grassick 24 3 8 28 Oct 14
Chookie Hamilton (GB)then Keith Dalgleish 24 5 8 30 Sep 12
Blues Jazz (GB)from John McShane 21 6 8 6 Oct 12
Gran Canaria Queen (GB)then David O'Meara 18 1 5 9 Nov 12
Missile Attack (IRE) 18 0 7 13 Oct 12
Argentine (IRE)from George Foster · then Lee Smyth 17 3 9 11 Aug 12
Cheviot (USA)from Reginald Roberts · then F Vermeulen 16 3 3 11 Oct 13
Burnwynd Boy (GB)then Keith Dalgleish 16 2 5 10 Sep 12
Ya Boy Sir (IRE)then Iain Jardine 16 0 1 26 Oct 11
Amno Dancer (IRE)from David Barron · then Keith Dalgleish 15 0 3 13 Sep 12
Silvanus (IRE)from William Haggas · then Paul Midgley 15 2 6 14 Aug 09
Clabare (GB) 14 0 3 31 Oct 15
The 60 most-raced of 119 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, 35 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Linda Perratt (4) and David Barron (2); 25 had their first archived run for this yard.

33 have since run for another yard, most often for Keith Dalgleish (4) and Noel Wilson (4); 27 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
JFMAMJJASOND
4023010541436115
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 riderTom Eaves
29% of all rides
6.9% SR · A/E 0.88
RiderRWSR£1
Tom Eaves 216 15 6.9% −115.05
Garry Whillans 48 4 8.3% −3.50
Paul Mulrennan 45 3 6.7% −15.25
Duran Fentiman 38 3 7.9% −16.50
Patrick Donaghy 32 2 6.3% −19.00
Phillip Makin 30 6 20% +8.25
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
186
Archived wins
5
Pattern / graded wins
£1.39m
Prize money
2006
Best season · 49 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.
Big Timer (USA) — Symphony Group Acomb Stakes (Group 3) York · Aug 2006 · Group 3
£23,708
Chookie Heiton (IRE) — Totesport.com Beverley Bullet Sprint Stakes (Listed) Beverley · Aug 2005 · Listed
£17,400
Curtail (IRE) — Scottish Daily Mirror Harry Rosebery Stakes (Listed) Ayr · Sep 2005 · Listed
£16,240
Notable horses
Chookie Hamilton (GB) Abbondanza (IRE) Blues Jazz (GB) Appalachian Trail (IRE) Writ (IRE) Millagros (IRE)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Compton Place (GB) 13.6% · 6–44
Progeny have won 8.5% of 8,347 runs since 2008 (515 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 11.5% from 165.
Pastoral Pursuits (GB) 9.4% · 3–32
Progeny have won 9.5% of 7,215 runs since 2008 (437 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 17.4% from 109. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 1.5% from 133.
Josr Algarhoud (IRE) 21.4% · 6–28
Progeny have won 8.4% of 1,548 runs since 2008 (146 horses).
Fasliyev (USA) 13% · 3–23
Progeny have won 8.3% of 4,140 runs since 2008 (273 horses). Strongest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 12.1% from 124.
Statue Of Liberty (USA) 18.2% · 4–22
Progeny have won 8.5% of 2,513 runs since 2008 (210 horses). Strongest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 12.6% from 119.
Alhaarth (IRE) 0% · 0–20
Progeny have won 9.7% of 4,158 runs since 2008 (308 horses).
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 1,874 · newest first

The latest 50 of 1,874 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 7 January 2005 to 20 November 2015.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
20 Nov 15 Wolverhampton (AW) Knotty Jack (IRE)J: Barry McHugh Bet And Watch Every Race At Unibet Maiden StakesClass 5 · 6f · Standard · 10 ran 8th 10/1
10 Nov 15 Wolverhampton (AW) Tombe Girl (GB)J: Tom Eaves 32Red Casino Maiden Fillies' Stakes (Plus 10) (Div 1)Class 5 · 7f · Standard · 9 ran 5th 100/1
31 Oct 15 Wolverhampton (AW) L'ami Louis (IRE)J: Paul Mulrennan Download The New Unibet Racing App Handicap (Div 2)Class 6 · 5f · Standard · 8 ran 7th 20/1
31 Oct 15 Wolverhampton (AW) Clabare (GB)J: Paul Mulrennan Download The New Unibet Racing App Handicap (Div 1)Class 6 · 5f · Standard · 8 ran 4th 10/1
26 Oct 15 Redcar Brooke's Bounty (GB)J: Graham Lee Racing UK Anywhere Available Now Selling StakesClass 6 · 10f · Soft · 15 ran 13th 14/1
17 Oct 15 Wolverhampton (AW) Knotty Jack (IRE)J: Barry McHugh Bet365 Maiden StakesClass 5 · 5f · Standard · 10 ran 4th 16/1
08 Oct 15 Ayr Tombe Girl (GB)J: David Nolan Ben Maiden StakesClass 5 · 6f · Good · 9 ran 7th 50/1
21 Sep 15 Hamilton Judith Gardenier (GB)J: Barry McHugh totetrifecta Pick The 1,2 3 Maiden StakesClass 5 · 8.5f · Good · 7 ran 6th 100/1
21 Sep 15 Hamilton Clabare (GB)J: Ian Brennan toteexacta Pick The 1st And 2nd Handicap (Div 1)Class 6 · 6f · Good · 10 ran 6th 25/1
04 Sep 15 Newcastle Brooke's Bounty (GB)J: Paul Mulrennan ESH Construction HandicapClass 6 · 12.5f · Good To Soft · 10 ran 7th 14/1
04 Sep 15 Newcastle Docali (IRE)J: Tom Eaves Stonbury Maiden Stakes (Rnd)Class 5 · 8f · Good To Soft · 6 ran 6th 33/1
03 Sep 15 Haydock Judith Gardenier (GB)J: David Nolan Betfred Home Of Goals Galore Maiden StakesClass 5 · 11.5f · Good · 9 ran 7th 200/1
27 Aug 15 Musselburgh Clabare (GB)J: Neil Farley Ecph HandicapClass 6 · 5f · Good · 10 ran 7th 10/1
26 Aug 15 Musselburgh Docali (IRE)J: Keagan Latham Ray Hawthorne Memorial HandicapClass 5 · 8f · Good · 7 ran 7th 22/1
20 Aug 15 Hamilton Clabare (GB)J: Keagan Latham Racing Uk On Sky 432 HandicapClass 5 · 5f · Good · 7 ran 7th 8/1
15 Aug 15 Doncaster Docali (IRE)J: Keagan Latham Betfred Racing 'Like Us On Facebook' Handicap (Div 2)Class 5 · 7f · Good · 9 ran 6th 20/1
14 Aug 15 Newcastle Judith Gardenier (GB)J: Keagan Latham North Sea Logistics Maiden StakesClass 5 · 10f · Good To Soft · 8 ran 8th 25/1
31 Jul 15 Musselburgh Brooke's Bounty (GB)J: Ian Brennan Nairns Oatcakes HandicapClass 5 · 9f · Good · 8 ran 7th 18/1
25 Jul 15 Newcastle Clabare (GB)J: Ian Brennan Collingwood Short Term Learner Driver Insurance HandicapClass 6 · 5f · Good To Firm · 12 ran 2nd 12/1
21 Jul 15 Musselburgh Brooke's Bounty (GB)J: Paul Mulrennan Rural Insurance HandicapClass 6 · 9f · Good · 8 ran 2nd 14/1

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).

Quick answers

What is Ian Semple's strike rate?
Ian Semple has won 51 of 743 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 6.9% (as at 15 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Ian Semple do best at?
Ayr by strike rate: 11 wins from 138 runners (8%) 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 Ian Semple?
Tom Eaves, with 216 runners since 2008 — 29% of the total. That pairing has won 15 (6.9%).
What is Ian Semple's Fair A/E?
0.90, from 735 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).