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James Nicol

2 runners in the lifetime window · 2 individual horses
As at 22 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Mar 2008 100% 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.
0–2
Wins / Runs
0%
Strike rate
n=2
0 (0%)
Placed
0.00
n=2 · 0.00 incl. margin
−2.00
£1 level stake
n=2 at SP · −100.0%

Small sample — fewer than 30 runs in this window. Read the Ns before the percentages.

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 0% baseline
Debutants · first career start
0%+0.0
n=2 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −2.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 0% 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.

Record by conditions

same window as header

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 1 0 0% −1.00
Standard (AW) 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Lingfield (AW) 1 0 0% −1.00
Doncaster 1 0 0% −1.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 5 1 0 0% −1.00
Class 6 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
2nd–3rd fav 1 0 0% 0.00 −1.00
4th–6th fav 1 0 0% 0.00 −1.00
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
Oujamaflip (GB)then Carl Llewellyn 1 0 0 6 Mar 08
Holy Moly (IRE) 1 0 0 26 Jan 08
All 2 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 2 horses listed, none arrived from another yard in our archive — all 2 had their first archived run here.

1 has since run for another yard; 1 has 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.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first
RiderRWSR£1
Mick Fitzgerald 2 0 0% −2.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
6
Archived wins
£20,185
Prize money
2005
Best season · 4 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.
Arctic Cove (GB) — Choices Insurance Maiden Handicap Bath · Sep 2005 · Class 5
£4,064
Shakerattleandroll (IRE) — Coverdale Maiden Stakes Ripon · Sep 2005 · Class 5
£3,478
Prime Meridian (GB) — Median Auction Maiden Stakes (Div 2) Wolverhampton (AW) · Nov 2005 · Class 6
£2,498

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Alhaarth (IRE) 0% · 0–1
Progeny have won 9.7% of 4,158 runs since 2008 (308 horses).
Vettori (IRE) 0% · 0–1
Progeny have won 7.2% of 1,775 runs since 2008 (163 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 22 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

all 29 archived runs · newest first

Every one of James Nicol's 29 archived runners, from 10 February 2005 to 6 March 2008, newest first — 6 winners among them.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
25 Nov 05 Wolverhampton (AW) Prime Meridian (GB)J: Neil Callan Median Auction Maiden Stakes (Div 2)Class 6 · 8.5f · Standard To Fast · 12 ran 1st 11/10F
29 Oct 05 Wolverhampton (AW) Prime Meridian (GB)J: Ted Durcan Maiden Auction StakesClass 5 · 8.5f · Standard · 10 ran 3rd 13/2
10 Oct 05 Wolverhampton Arctic Cove (GB)J: Brian Reilly Redman Fisher HandicapClass 5 · 14f · Fast · 13 ran 3rd 12/1
28 Sep 05 Salisbury Arctic Cove (GB)J: Richard Hughes Famous Grouse HandicapClass 5 · 14f · Good · 13 ran 10th 11/1
24 Sep 05 Ripon Shakerattleandroll (IRE)J: Neil Callan Coverdale Maiden StakesClass 5 · 11f · Good · 10 ran 1st 9/2
05 Sep 05 Bath Arctic Cove (GB)J: Ted Durcan Choices Insurance Maiden HandicapClass 5 · 13f · Firm · 8 ran 1st 11/1
03 Sep 05 Folkestone Red Rackham (IRE)J: Michael Tebbutt Foxy Oksana Banded StakesClass 7 · 12f · Good To Firm · 13 ran 12th 16/1

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 Nicol's strike rate?
James Nicol has won 0 of 2 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 0% (as at 22 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive. A small sample — fewer than 30 runners, so read the count before the percentage.
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 22 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).