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Trainer profile

James Bennett

256 runners in the lifetime window · 15 individual horses
As at 27 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner 14 days ago
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
10–256
Wins / Runs
3.9%
Strike rate
n=256
39 (15%)
Placed
0.92
Fair A/E
n=256 · 0.78 incl. margin
−142.50
£1 level stake
n=256 at SP · −55.7%
£76,072
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
8.7%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 10 runners a season, winning with 4% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.92).

Deterministic profile computed from 256 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 27 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Racheal Kneller: 6.1% from 82 Claiming riders: 4.3%
The read

The record is strongest at Wolverhampton (AW) (7%, n=100), clear of the yard's 3.9% baseline. Horses returning fresh after 61+ days have been a poor signal at 0% (n=44, Fair A/E 0.00). Racheal Kneller rides 32% of the entries and edges the yard's average (6.1% vs 3.9%, A/E 1.38) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The yard also reads well over 1m – 1m1f (9%, n=78) and in Class 5 (8.1%, n=74). The record reads poorly over 1m5f – 2m — 0% over 43 runners, 3.9pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the yard over 6f – 7f: Fair A/E 0.23 across 72 runners (1.4% strike, −66.00 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperform what the price implies. The stable star of the record: Idol Deputy (FR) — 7 wins from 65 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 3.9% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
0%−3.9
n=44 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −44.00
New recruits · first run for the yard
16.7%+12.8
n=6 · A/E 5.60 · £1 +15.00
Debutants · first career start
0%−3.9
n=9 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −9.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−3.9
n=7 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −7.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
0%−3.9
n=10 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −10.00
When favourite
0%
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
4.3%+0.4
n=185 · A/E 0.98 · £1 −100.50

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 3.9% 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
With C&D winners 12.5% vs 3.9% · n=56
Over 1m – 1m1f 9% vs 3.9% · n=78
In Class 5 8.1% vs 3.9% · n=74
Over 1m5f – 2m 0% vs 3.9% · n=43
At Wolverhampton (AW) 7% vs 3.9% · n=100
Over 6f – 7f 1.4% vs 3.9% · n=72
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 194 9 4.6% −88.50
Hurdle 43 1 2.3% −35.00
NH Flat 18 0 0% −18.00
Chase 1 0 0% −1.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 148 7 4.7% −58.50
Good 41 1 2.4% −31.00
Good to Firm 32 1 3.1% −26.00
Good to Soft 18 1 5.6% −10.00
Soft 10 0 0% −10.00
Heavy 5 0 0% −5.00
Firm 2 0 0% −2.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Wolverhampton (AW) 100 7 7% −10.50
Lingfield (AW) 27 0 0% −27.00
Kempton (AW) 16 0 0% −16.00
Lingfield 11 0 0% −11.00
Ffos Las 7 0 0% −7.00
Newton Abbot 7 0 0% −7.00
Chepstow 7 0 0% −7.00
Brighton 7 1 14.3% −1.00
Stratford 7 0 0% −7.00
Uttoxeter 6 0 0% −6.00
Fontwell 6 0 0% −6.00
Bath 5 1 20% +5.00
Plumpton 4 0 0% −4.00
Chelmsford City (AW) 4 0 0% −4.00
Ludlow 4 1 25% +4.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 6 137 3 2.2% −110.00
Class 5 74 6 8.1% +3.50
Class 4 40 1 2.5% −31.00
Class 3 2 0 0% −2.00
Class 7 2 0 0% −2.00
Class 2 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 2 0 0% 0.00 −2.00
2nd–3rd fav 19 3 15.8% 1.18 −0.50
4th–6th fav 61 5 8.2% 1.24 −10.00
7th+ in betting 174 2 1.1% 0.52 −130.00
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
Idol Deputy (FR) 65 7 14 30 Jan 19
Gonzaga (GB) 54 0 12 8 Aug 24
The Last Melon (GB) 29 0 1 27 Mar 25
Dark Sun (GB)from William Haggas 21 2 6 13 Sep 26
Mood For Mischief (GB)from Ed Walker 19 0 2 5 Jan 22
Bassino (USA) 16 0 1 25 Jun 18
Princesse Katie (IRE) 14 1 3 24 Nov 14
Pacific Prince (GB)from Hugo Palmer 13 0 0 13 Oct 26
Highly Elaborate (IRE) 7 0 0 28 Oct 10
Zac Courageous (IRE) 5 0 0 26 Apr 16
Parisian Princesse (GB) 3 0 0 23 Aug 22
Star Cloud (GB) 3 0 0 10 Dec 14
All 15 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 15 horses listed, 5 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Mark Bradstock (2); 10 had their first archived run for this yard.

None of them has a 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
07040401200140
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 riderRacheal Kneller
32% of all rides
6.1% SR · A/E 1.38
RiderRWSR£1
Racheal Kneller 82 5 6.1% −18.00
Laura Coughlan 43 1 2.3% −37.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2006→
10
Archived wins
£76,358
Prize money
2015
Best season · 4 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.
Idol Deputy (FR) — Coral.co.uk Handicap Wolverhampton (AW) · Feb 2016 · Class 4
£5,175
Dark Sun (GB) — Pockets Townhouse Bath Handicap Bath · Jun 2026 · Class 6
£3,768
Dark Sun (GB) — Ian Carnaby Handicap Stakes Brighton · Aug 2026 · Class 6
£3,454
Notable horses
Idol Deputy (FR) Dark Sun (GB) Princesse Katie (IRE)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Silver Deputy (CAN) 10.8% · 7–65
Progeny have won 12.6% of 254 runs since 2008 (11 horses). Strongest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 16.8% from 119.
Oasis Dream (GB) 0% · 0–54
Progeny have won 11.8% of 18,011 runs since 2008 (1,510 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 17.3% from 150. Weakest on Heavy going: 8.5% from 483. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 7.1% from 790.
Sir Percy (GB) 0% · 0–29
Progeny have won 11.1% of 7,149 runs since 2008 (473 horses).
Dark Angel (IRE) 9.5% · 2–21
Progeny have won 11.3% of 21,898 runs since 2008 (1,595 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 15% from 107.
Nathaniel (IRE) 0% · 0–19
Progeny have won 11.7% of 7,078 runs since 2008 (635 horses). Weakest over 6f – 7f (all codes): 6.5% from 325.
Street Cry (IRE) 0% · 0–16
Progeny have won 12.7% of 4,258 runs since 2008 (373 horses). Strongest on Standard (AW) going: 15.8% from 1,577. Weakest on Heavy going: 6.9% from 131.
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 27 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 264 · newest first

The latest 50 of 264 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 19 November 2006 to 13 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
13 Oct 26 Wolverhampton (AW) Pacific Prince (GB)J: Oliver Carmichael Download The Raceday Ready App Apprentice Handicap Stakes (Div II)Class 6 · 7f · Standard · 9 ran 9th 40/1
27 Sep 26 Ffos Las Pacific Prince (GB)J: Laura Coughlan Alex And Salvo Welcome You To The Bridge Handicap StakesClass 6 · 6f · Good To Soft · 11 ran 5th 40/1
13 Sep 26 Bath Dark Sun (GB)J: Laura Coughlan Loud Hire Production Services Bath Summer Sprint Series Final Handicap Stakes (Series Final - Qualified Horses Only)Class 2 · 5.5f · Good To Soft · 17 ran 12th 9/1
07 Sep 26 Windsor Pacific Prince (GB)J: Laura Coughlan Bet £20 Get £40 In Free Bets At matchbook.com Handicap StakesClass 6 · 5f · Good · 11 ran 8th 50/1
31 Aug 26 Chepstow Pacific Prince (GB)J: Laura Coughlan Runtech Ltd Handicap Stakes (Div I)Class 6 · 7f · Good To Soft · 11 ran 8th 100/1
24 Aug 26 Brighton Dark Sun (GB)J: Laura Coughlan Ian Carnaby Handicap StakesClass 6 · 6f · Good To Firm · 5 ran 1st 5/1
12 Aug 26 Ffos Las Dark Sun (GB)J: Laura Coughlan Birthday Boy Leighton Happy 80th Handicap StakesClass 6 · 5f · Good · 8 ran 4th 13/2
25 Jul 26 Lingfield Dark Sun (GB)J: Millie Wonnacott Indigo Lifts Group Fillies' Handicap StakesClass 5 · 6f · Good To Firm · 7 ran 3rd 13/2
11 Jul 26 Salisbury Dark Sun (GB)J: Matthew Lloyd Slater Al Basti Equiworld, Dubai Apprentice HandicapClass 6 · 6f · Good To Firm · 5 ran 4th 15/2
13 Jun 26 Bath Dark Sun (GB)J: Millie Wonnacott Pockets Townhouse Bath HandicapClass 6 · 5f · Good · 14 ran 1st 9/1
09 Jun 26 Brighton Pacific Prince (GB)J: Laura Coughlan Bet Now With fairplaybet.co.uk Apprentice Classified StakesClass 6 · 7f · Good · 8 ran BD 40/1
02 Jun 26 Wolverhampton (AW) Pacific Prince (GB)J: Laura Coughlan Sky Sports Racing Virgin 512 Classified Stakes (Div 1)Class 6 · 7f · Standard · 10 ran 10th 22/1
29 May 26 Brighton Dark Sun (GB)J: Laura Coughlan fairplaybet.co.uk Bet 20 Get 20 Free Bets HandicapClass 6 · 6f · Good To Firm · 13 ran 4th 7/1
07 May 26 Windsor Dark Sun (GB)J: Laura Coughlan attheraces.com/marketmovers HandicapClass 6 · 6f · Good To Firm · 8 ran 4th 9/1
25 Apr 26 Leicester Dark Sun (GB)J: Laura Coughlan Alpacalypse Session IPA HandicapClass 6 · 6f · Good To Firm · 10 ran 7th 12/1
17 Mar 26 Wolverhampton (AW) Pacific Prince (GB)J: Laura Coughlan Midnite, Building The Future Of Betting Classified Stakes (Div 2)Class 6 · 9.5f · Standard · 7 ran 6th 17/2
25 Feb 26 Lingfield (AW) Dark Sun (GB)J: Laura Coughlan Join The Midnite Movement HandicapClass 6 · 6f · Standard · 7 ran 5th 8/1
16 Feb 26 Wolverhampton (AW) Dark Sun (GB)J: Laura Coughlan Midnite Are Upping The Betting Game Handicap (Rider Restricted Race)Class 6 · 6f · Standard · 8 ran 2nd 22/1
10 Feb 26 Lingfield (AW) Pacific Prince (GB)J: Laura Coughlan Make The Move To Midnite HandicapClass 6 · 12f · Standard · 11 ran 10th 125/1
10 Feb 26 Lingfield (AW) Dark Sun (GB)J: Laura Coughlan Create Your Bet Builders At Midnite HandicapClass 6 · 6f · Standard · 12 ran 10th 9/1

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 James Bennett's strike rate?
James Bennett has won 10 of 256 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 3.9% (as at 27 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does James Bennett do best at?
Wolverhampton (AW) by strike rate: 7 wins from 100 runners (7%) 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 James Bennett?
Racheal Kneller, with 82 runners since 2008 — 32% of the total. That pairing has won 5 (6.1%).
What is James Bennett's Fair A/E?
0.92, from 256 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 27 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).