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Trainer profile

James Fanshawe

5,209 runners in the lifetime window · 645 individual horses
As at 13 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Non-runners: 6.4% of 392 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 For context, a typical day across all racing ends with about 6.5% withdrawn (middle half 5.3–8.1% over 364 racing days).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 13 Nov 2026.
Last runner 6 days ago 99% of runners on the flat
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
778–5,209
Wins / Runs
14.9%
Strike rate
n=5,209
2,038 (39%)
Placed
1.02
n=5,180 · 0.87 incl. margin
−919.51
£1 level stake
n=5,209 at SP · −17.7%
£15.1m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
19.1%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 270 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 15% of them — level with the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 1.02). Horses with headgear back on after a bare run strike at 17% (66 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 5,209 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 13 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Feb–Mar 33.6% when favourite Daniel Muscutt: 15.5% from 1,103 New recruits: 16.3% Sends off the favourite in 18% of races
The read

It is weakest at Newmarket (5.1% over 158 runners) — the widest gap in the record. Debutants struggle at 6.7% (n=553, Fair A/E 0.97). Daniel Muscutt rides 21% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (15.5%, A/E 1.01) — the market has that partnership priced right. 62 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Ascot (Jun 2017, £340,260). The stable star of the record: The Tin Man (GB) — 9 wins from 31 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 14.9% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
14.5%−0.4
n=880 · A/E 1.01 · £1 −152.09
New recruits · first run for the yard
16.3%+1.4
n=49 · A/E 1.15 · £1 −15.88
Debutants · first career start
6.7%−8.2
n=553 · A/E 0.97 · £1 −128.87
First-time headgear · true-first definition
14.1%−0.8
n=297 · A/E 1.29 · £1 −23.13
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
16.7%+1.8
n=66 · A/E 1.24 · £1 +18.63
When favourite
33.6%
n=920 · A/E 1.07 · £1 −92.14
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
13.5%−1.4
n=400 · A/E 0.92 · £1 −103.51
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
11.5%−3.4
n=434 · A/E 1.01 · £1 −55.93

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 14.9% 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
At Windsor 3.6% vs 14.9% · n=111
With debutants 6.7% vs 14.9% · n=553
At Warwick 0% vs 14.9% · n=31
At Newmarket 5.1% vs 14.9% · n=158
With Oisin Murphy 24.4% vs 14.9% · n=119
With Tom Marquand 24.7% vs 14.9% · n=81
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 5,144 769 14.9% −882.94
Hurdle 51 6 11.8% −29.03
Chase 8 2 25% −4.79
NH Flat 6 1 16.7% −2.75

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 2,327 397 17.1% −485.25
Good 977 133 13.6% −27.89
Good to Firm 936 127 13.6% −292.84
Good to Soft 463 63 13.6% −75.13
Soft 418 48 11.5% −1.81
Heavy 75 9 12% −34.59
Firm 13 1 7.7% −2.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Kempton 1,048 181 17.3% −113.01
Wolverhampton (AW) 408 69 16.9% −128.17
Lingfield 347 62 17.9% −95.83
Yarmouth 334 47 14.1% −1.81
Doncaster 321 53 16.5% +39.70
Nottingham 217 28 12.9% −67.68
Ascot 216 25 11.6% −25.29
Newcastle (AW) 204 39 19.1% −36.18
Newmarket 183 17 9.3% −64.37
Chelmsford (AW) 179 23 12.8% −80.93
Leicester 162 31 19.1% +17.85
Newmarket 158 8 5.1% −85.50
Southwell (AW) 138 22 15.9% −32.83
Newbury 129 17 13.2% −25.47
Goodwood 125 20 16% −26.89

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 5 2,143 298 13.9% −520.42
Class 4 1,130 193 17.1% −176.96
Class 6 533 105 19.7% +19.13
Class 2 484 57 11.8% −86.09
Class 3 474 75 15.8% −88.24
Class 1 441 50 11.3% −62.93

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 1,082 339 31.3% 1.04 −139.05
2nd–3rd fav 1,656 287 17.3% 1.03 −217.36
4th–6th fav 1,599 119 7.4% 0.93 −378.10
7th+ in betting 872 33 3.8% 1.05 −185.00
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
Fresh (GB) 42 5 16 3 Dec 25
Knight Owl (GB) 38 6 17 22 Aug 18
He's My Boy (IRE) 33 4 7 19 Aug 17
Incendo (GB)then Ian Williams 33 4 14 4 Oct 12
The Tin Man (GB) 31 9 15 17 Oct 20
Mazzini (GB) 30 6 16 10 Oct 18
Wannabe Brave (IRE) 29 5 13 24 May 25
Envisaging (IRE) 28 2 7 1 Oct 21
Lord George (IRE) 28 4 10 3 Sep 19
Spensley (IRE) 28 5 9 12 Dec 12
Serenading (GB) 27 4 9 20 Aug 22
Mac's Power (IRE)from P O'Gorman · then Willie Musson 26 3 11 11 Oct 12
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 645 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 16 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, 2 arrived from another yard in our archive; 58 had their first archived run for this yard.

14 have since run for another yard, most often for Adrian McGuinness (2) and Denis Coakley (2); 46 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

Small sample
0 from 6
Only 6 runners in the last 14 days — too few to read against the baseline (gate: n≥15). The card states the sample and stays neutral.

When the yard fires

strike by month, lifetime
JFMAMJJASOND
152720131216131716151315
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 riderDaniel Muscutt
21% of all rides
15.5% SR · A/E 1.01
RiderRWSR£1
Daniel Muscutt 1,103 171 15.5% −179.98
George Wood 488 68 13.9% −86.74
Tom Queally 325 43 13.2% −120.90
Frederik Tylicki 308 60 19.5% −6.10
Hayley Turner 231 39 16.9% −6.27
Pat Cosgrave 156 21 13.5% +4.29
Jamie Spencer 154 24 15.6% −39.08
Ross Coakley 120 17 14.2% −31.99
Oisin Murphy 119 29 24.4% −2.67
Shane Kelly 117 20 17.1% +4.21
Eddie Ahern 96 13 13.5% +15.54
Tom Marquand 81 20 24.7% +16.37
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
918
Archived wins
62
Pattern / graded wins
£17.4m
Prize money
2026
Best season · 67 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.
The Tin Man (GB) — Diamond Jubilee Stakes (Group 1) Ascot · Jun 2017 · Group 1
£340,260
The Tin Man (GB) — Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes (Group 1) Ascot · Oct 2016 · Group 1
£340,260
Seal Of Approval (GB) — Qipco British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes (Group 1) Ascot · Oct 2013 · Group 1
£300,563

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Pivotal (GB) 16.7% · 20–120
Progeny have won 13.6% of 12,790 runs since 2008 (1,019 horses). Weakest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 7.4% from 108.
Iffraaj (GB) 16.2% · 19–117
Progeny have won 10.5% of 13,998 runs since 2010 (1,093 horses).
Acclamation (GB) 17.7% · 20–113
Progeny have won 10% of 19,719 runs since 2008 (1,327 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 15.2% from 151. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 6.7% from 195.
Exceed and Excel (AUS) 19.1% · 21–110
Progeny have won 11.9% of 16,039 runs since 2008 (1,161 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 20.7% from 198. Weakest on Soft going: 7.9% from 1,194.
Dark Angel (IRE) 12.4% · 13–105
Progeny have won 11.3% of 21,957 runs since 2011 (1,596 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 15% from 107.
Rock Of Gibraltar (IRE) 16.8% · 17–101
Progeny have won 9.8% of 11,568 runs since 2008 (872 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 13 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 6,117 · newest first

The latest 50 of 6,117 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 12 January 2005 to 7 November 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
14 Oct 26 Kempton (AW) Philanthropist (GB)J: George Wood Racing TV Handicap StakesClass 4 · 7f · Standard / Slow · 12 ran 4th 5/1
12 Oct 26 Yarmouth So Sassy (IRE)J: Daniel Muscutt First Furnishings Handicap StakesClass 5 · 6f · Good To Soft · 13 ran 2nd 12/1

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).

KTB’s figures

the forward record · since 5 Oct 2026

KTB’s figures on this yard’s runners since 6 Oct 2026: the KTB Selection in 4 runs (won 2) · top-rated on KTB Rating in 3 runs (won 1) · fastest on KTB Speed in 3 runs (won 2) · to 26 Oct 2026.

Each pick was a KTB figure’s choice before the off — the published KTB Selection, the top-rated horse on KTB Rating, the fastest on KTB Speed — settled against the result the next morning and never worked out again; “did not run” is counted apart. GB and Irish races only. A record of weeks so far: read it as a count, not a verdict.

Quick answers

What is James Fanshawe's strike rate?
James Fanshawe has won 778 of 5,209 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 14.9% (as at 13 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does James Fanshawe do best at?
Newcastle (AW) by strike rate: 39 wins from 204 runners (19.1%) 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 James Fanshawe?
Daniel Muscutt, with 1,103 runners since 2008 — 21% of the total. That pairing has won 171 (15.5%).
Is James Fanshawe in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 6 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is James Fanshawe's Fair A/E?
1.02, from 5,180 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 13 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).