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Trainer profile

James Toller

570 runners in the lifetime window · 71 individual horses
As at 15 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Oct 2015 100% of runners on the flat
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.
52–570
Wins / Runs
9.1%
Strike rate
n=570
148 (26%)
Placed
1.05
Fair A/E
n=564 · 0.91 incl. margin
−25.67
£1 level stake
n=569 at SP · −4.5%
£467k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
6.5%
KTB Yard Profile

Sent out around 70 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 9% of them — beating the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 1.05).

Deterministic profile computed from 570 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 15 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fired May–Jul Kirsty Milczarek: 10.5% from 153 Claiming riders: 9.4%
The read

The record is strongest at Yarmouth (16.4%, n=61) and Wolverhampton (AW) (13%, n=54) — all clear of the yard's 9.1% baseline. It is weakest at Kempton (AW) (4.5% over 89 runners) — the widest gap in the record. In Group and Graded company the record reads poorly at 4.7% (n=43, Fair A/E 0.37). Kirsty Milczarek rode 27% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (10.5%, A/E 1.30) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The record read poorly in Class 1 — 4.7% over 43 runners, 4.4pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the yard over 1m2f – 1m4f: Fair A/E 0.64 across 114 runners (5.3% strike, −14.50 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperformed what the price implied. 2 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the 32Red Festival Stakes at Goodwood (May 2013, £22,684). The stable star of the record was Doric Lady (GB) — 6 wins from 28 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fired May–Jul.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 9.1% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
8.9%−0.2
n=90 · A/E 1.15 · £1 −35.67
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−9.1
n=5 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −5.00
Debutants · first career start
5.5%−3.6
n=55 · A/E 1.23 · £1 +10.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
6.5%−2.6
n=31 · A/E 1.17 · £1 +29.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
0%−9.1
n=4 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −4.00
When favourite
22.2%
n=27 · A/E 0.74 · £1 −10.25
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
9.4%+0.3
n=64 · A/E 1.05 · £1 +13.00
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
4.7%−4.4
n=43 · A/E 0.37 · £1 −10.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 9.1% 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
At Yarmouth 16.4% vs 9.1% · n=61
At Kempton (AW) 4.5% vs 9.1% · n=89
Over 1m2f – 1m4f 5.3% vs 9.1% · n=114
In Class 1 4.7% vs 9.1% · n=43
In Group / Graded races 4.7% vs 9.1% · n=43
At Wolverhampton (AW) 13% vs 9.1% · n=54
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

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 247 21 8.5% +14.92
Good to Firm 128 12 9.4% −42.67
Good 88 6 6.8% −18.75
Good to Soft 57 7 12.3% +25.83
Soft 36 4 11.1% +3.00
Firm 9 1 11.1% −4.00
Heavy 5 1 20% −4.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Lingfield 96 10 10.4% +53.50
Kempton (AW) 89 4 4.5% −63.70
Yarmouth 61 10 16.4% +13.25
Newmarket 54 4 7.4% −4.67
Wolverhampton (AW) 54 7 13% +33.12
Newmarket 48 3 6.3% −35.75
Newbury 23 2 8.7% −9.50
Windsor 19 1 5.3% −10.50
Sandown 16 3 18.8% +8.00
Brighton 16 2 12.5% −2.17
Ascot 16 0 0% −16.00
Leicester 15 3 20% +27.00
Goodwood 10 1 10% +16.00
Warwick 8 0 0% −8.00
Doncaster 8 2 25% +10.75

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 5 213 19 8.9% +6.70
Class 4 131 14 10.7% −10.45
Class 6 103 11 10.7% +25.25
Class 1 43 2 4.7% −10.00
Class 3 43 4 9.3% −12.50
Class 2 37 2 5.4% −24.67

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 36 8 22.2% 0.82 −10.50
2nd–3rd fav 118 16 13.6% 0.90 −27.17
4th–6th fav 179 20 11.2% 1.48 +74.00
7th+ in betting 236 7 3% 0.93 −62.00
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
Loving Spirit (GB)then Richard Fahey 30 2 10 27 Oct 14
Doric Lady (GB) 25 6 8 6 Nov 10
Rosedale (GB) 24 4 6 17 Oct 11
Sohar (GB) 20 1 8 31 Oct 14
Dukes Art (GB)then David Pipe 20 3 6 25 Sep 11
Bassinet (USA)from D Smaga 20 2 9 9 Oct 09
Twice Bitten (GB) 19 2 5 26 Oct 12
Saigon (GB) 17 2 6 13 Oct 12
Saturation Point (GB) 16 2 4 20 Oct 15
Rewarded (GB) 15 4 6 25 Sep 13
Chaussini (GB) 15 1 3 12 Oct 11
Sunny Hollow (GB) 14 0 3 25 Oct 13
The 60 most-raced of 71 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, 3 arrived from another yard in our archive; 57 had their first archived run for this yard.

21 have since run for another yard, most often for David Pipe (2) and Giles Bravery (2); 39 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
Go-to riderKirsty Milczarek
27% of all rides
10.5% SR · A/E 1.30
RiderRWSR£1
Kirsty Milczarek 153 16 10.5% +35.58
Robert Havlin 85 10 11.8% +18.87
Robert Tart 45 5 11.1% −6.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
89
Archived wins
2
Pattern / graded wins
£824k
Prize money
2005
Best season · 17 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.
Rewarded (GB) — 32Red Festival Stakes (Listed) Goodwood · May 2013 · Listed
£22,684
Arm Candy (IRE) — Bet365 Handicap Newmarket · Oct 2006 · Class 2
£18,696
Loving Spirit (GB) — Squirrel Handicap (Rnd) Leicester · Oct 2014 · Class 2
£15,753

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Beat Hollow (GB) 8.2% · 4–49
Progeny have won 11.3% of 6,028 runs since 2008 (412 horses).
Royal Applause (GB) 10% · 4–40
Progeny have won 8.6% of 12,434 runs since 2008 (774 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 3.4% from 323.
Azamour (IRE) 5.4% · 2–37
Progeny have won 13.1% of 4,328 runs since 2008 (351 horses). Weakest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 8.8% from 215.
Bachelor Duke (USA) 11.1% · 3–27
Progeny have won 7.8% of 1,605 runs since 2008 (109 horses). Strongest on Good to Soft going: 11.2% from 143.
Kyllachy (GB) 24% · 6–25
Progeny have won 9.9% of 13,847 runs since 2008 (800 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 5.8% from 468.
Pastoral Pursuits (GB) 16.7% · 4–24
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.
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 1,007 · newest first

The latest 50 of 1,007 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 4 January 2005 to 20 October 2015.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
29 Jul 15 Leicester Wisewit (GB)J: Jamie Spencer Shangton Handicap (Rnd)Class 6 · 8f · Good To Soft · 9 ran 9th 16/1
18 Jul 15 Newbury Demonstration (IRE)J: Martin Lane John Hills Maiden StakesClass 4 · 10f · Good To Firm · 10 ran 2nd 66/1

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 Toller's strike rate?
James Toller has won 52 of 570 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 9.1% (as at 15 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does James Toller do best at?
Yarmouth by strike rate: 10 wins from 61 runners (16.4%) 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 Toller?
Kirsty Milczarek, with 153 runners since 2008 — 27% of the total. That pairing has won 16 (10.5%).
What is James Toller's Fair A/E?
1.05, from 564 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).