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Trainer profile

Jimmy O'Reilly

166 runners in the lifetime window · 23 individual horses
As at 15 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Nov 2010 100% 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.
8–166
Wins / Runs
4.8%
Strike rate
n=166
22 (13%)
Placed
0.95
Fair A/E
n=165 · 0.80 incl. margin
−60.75
£1 level stake
n=166 at SP · −36.6%
£29,615
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
6.9%
KTB Yard Profile

Sent out around 60 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 5% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.95). With a claiming rider up the record reads 9% (80 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 166 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 15 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance James O'Reilly: 10.4% from 67 Claiming riders: 8.8%
The read

Runners with a claiming rider up have been a positive signal at 8.8% (n=80, Fair A/E 1.48). James O'Reilly rode 40% of the entries and beats the yard's average (10.4% vs 4.8%, A/E 1.61) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The yard also read well at trips under 6f (11.4%, n=44) and on Good to Firm going (8.3%, n=60). The market has consistently overbet the yard over 6f – 7f: Fair A/E 0.39 across 98 runners (2% strike, −58.00 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperformed what the price implied. The stable star of the record was Greek Secret (GB) — 6 wins from 53 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 4.8% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
2.8%−2.0
n=36 · A/E 0.68 · £1 −19.00
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−4.8
n=10 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −10.00
Debutants · first career start
0%−4.8
n=4 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −4.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−4.8
n=5 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −5.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
0%−4.8
n=13 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −13.00
When favourite
33.3%
n=3 · A/E 1.31 · £1 +0.75
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
8.8%+4.0
n=80 · A/E 1.48 · £1 +8.25

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 4.8% 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 trips under 6f 11.4% vs 4.8% · n=44
With James O'Reilly 10.4% vs 4.8% · n=67
With a new jockey booking 0% vs 4.8% · n=85
With claiming riders up 8.8% vs 4.8% · n=80
On Good to Firm going 8.3% vs 4.8% · n=60
Over 6f – 7f 2% vs 4.8% · n=98
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
Good to Firm 60 5 8.3% −11.75
Standard (AW) 52 2 3.8% −24.00
Good 26 1 3.8% +3.00
Good to Soft 17 0 0% −17.00
Soft 7 0 0% −7.00
Firm 4 0 0% −4.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Southwell (AW) 24 0 0% −24.00
Redcar 19 0 0% −19.00
Beverley 18 1 5.6% −1.00
Catterick 11 1 9.1% +18.00
Doncaster 11 1 9.1% +4.00
Wolverhampton (AW) 10 0 0% −10.00
Pontefract 10 0 0% −10.00
Kempton (AW) 9 1 11.1% +2.00
Thirsk 8 0 0% −8.00
Lingfield (AW) 8 1 12.5% +9.00
Nottingham 8 1 12.5% −4.25
Newcastle 6 0 0% −6.00
Yarmouth 5 2 40% +7.50
Ripon 4 0 0% −4.00
Carlisle 4 0 0% −4.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 6 86 5 5.8% −10.50
Class 5 49 1 2% −45.25
Class 4 21 1 4.8% −6.00
Class 2 4 0 0% −4.00
Class 3 4 0 0% −4.00
Class 7 2 1 50% +9.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 4 1 25% 1.11 −0.25
2nd–3rd fav 15 1 6.7% 0.51 −9.50
4th–6th fav 21 2 9.5% 1.31 +1.00
7th+ in betting 126 4 3.2% 0.99 −52.00
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
Greek Secret (GB)from Tim Easterby · then Deborah Sanderson 33 4 5 5 Nov 10
Monte Cassino (IRE)then Bryan Smart 26 0 5 26 Apr 10
He's A Humbug (IRE)from Kevin Ryan · then Paul Midgley 24 1 3 13 Aug 10
Jellytot (USA)from Kevin Ryan · then Ian McInnes 10 0 1 14 Dec 08
Toto Skyllachy (GB)from Steve Gollings · then Ollie Pears 8 1 2 17 Jul 10
Bertie Southstreet (GB)from Karen George · then Deborah Sanderson 7 2 4 10 Aug 10
Northern Chorus (IRE)from A Dickman 7 0 0 9 Dec 08
Scarboro Warning (IRE)from James Given 6 0 0 13 Jul 10
Last Sovereign (GB)from Jane Chapple-Hyam · then Ollie Pears 5 0 0 26 Oct 10
Prigsnov Dancer (IRE)from P C Haslam · then Owen Brennan 5 0 0 24 Sep 08
Marramed (GB)from E J O'Neill 5 0 0 19 Jun 08
Crow's Nest Lad (GB)from Tim Easterby 4 0 0 24 Apr 08
All 23 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 23 horses listed, 15 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Kevin Ryan (3) and Tim Easterby (2); 8 had their first archived run for this yard.

14 have since run for another yard, most often for Ollie Pears (3) and Paul Midgley (3); 9 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 riderJames O'Reilly
40% of all rides
10.4% SR · A/E 1.61
RiderRWSR£1
James O'Reilly 67 7 10.4% +21.25
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
20
Archived wins
£83,748
Prize money
2006
Best season · 6 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.
Toto Skyllachy (GB) — Doncaster Racecourse Book Your Christmas Party Handicap (Rnd) Doncaster · Jun 2010 · Class 4
£4,533
Mighty Moon (GB) — NH Season Starts 29th November Handicap Catterick · Oct 2006 · Class 5
£3,886
Garibaldi (GER) — Sheffield Insulations Handicap Newcastle · Sep 2007 · Class 6
£3,239
Notable horses
Greek Secret (GB) Larky's Lob (GB) Zaville (GB) Bertie Southstreet (GB) He's A Humbug (IRE) Lizzie Rocket (GB)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Josr Algarhoud (IRE) 11.4% · 4–35
Progeny have won 8.4% of 1,548 runs since 2008 (146 horses).
Choisir (AUS) 0% · 0–26
Progeny have won 10.7% of 5,779 runs since 2008 (392 horses).
Tagula (IRE) 4% · 1–25
Progeny have won 9.1% of 5,557 runs since 2008 (382 horses). Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 6.1% from 909.
Minardi (USA) 0% · 0–10
Progeny have won 1.9% of 105 runs since 2008 (7 horses).
Kyllachy (GB) 12.5% · 1–8
Progeny have won 9.9% of 13,847 runs since 2008 (800 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 5.8% from 468.
Bertolini (USA) 28.6% · 2–7
Progeny have won 8% of 7,851 runs since 2008 (518 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 449 · newest first

The latest 50 of 449 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 2 January 2005 to 6 November 2010.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
06 Nov 10 Doncaster Jo'burg (USA)J: David Allan totesport.com November Handicap (Heritage Handicap)Class 2 · 12f · Good To Soft · 22 ran 15th 25/1
05 Nov 10 Wolverhampton (AW) Greek Secret (GB)J: James O'Reilly Breeders' Cup Live Only On ATR HandicapClass 6 · 5f · Standard · 12 ran 8th 25/1
26 Oct 10 Catterick Last Sovereign (GB)J: James O'Reilly TurfTV.co.uk Handicap (Div 2)Class 4 · 7f · Good To Soft · 10 ran 7th 14/1
15 Oct 10 Redcar Always Gunner (GB)J: James O'Reilly Racing UK On Sky 432 Maiden StakesClass 5 · 6f · Good · 17 ran 2nd 66/1
14 Oct 10 Nottingham Jo'burg (USA)J: James O'Reilly Denman - Building For You - HandicapClass 3 · 10f · Good · 16 ran 2nd 7/1
02 Oct 10 Newmarket Jo'burg (USA)J: James O'Reilly totesport.com Cambridgeshire (Heritage Handicap)Class 2 · 9f · Soft · 35 ran 7th 80/1
30 Sep 10 Kempton (AW) Last Sovereign (GB)J: James O'Reilly Ultimate HandicapClass 4 · 7f · Standard · 12 ran 6th 20/1
29 Sep 10 Kempton (AW) Greek Secret (GB)J: James O'Reilly Sponsor At Kempton Handicap (Div 1)Class 6 · 6f · Standard · 12 ran 4th 16/1
22 Sep 10 Redcar Greek Secret (GB)J: James O'Reilly Buy Your Tickets Online At redcarracing.co.uk HandicapClass 5 · 5f · Good To Firm · 10 ran 7th 33/1
18 Sep 10 Newmarket Last Sovereign (GB)J: James O'Reilly Bloodstock South Africa HandicapClass 4 · 6f · Good · 17 ran 10th 20/1
21 Aug 10 Chester Last Sovereign (GB)J: James O'Reilly totepool Handicap (Div 2)Class 4 · 6f · Good To Soft · 11 ran 7th 11/2J
15 Aug 10 Pontefract Greek Secret (GB)J: James O'Reilly Trevor Woods Memorial HandicapClass 5 · 5f · Good · 8 ran 8th 14/1
13 Aug 10 Newcastle He's A Humbug (IRE)J: James O'Reilly Northumbrian Water HandicapClass 6 · 6f · Soft · 7 ran 6th 2/1F
13 Aug 10 Newcastle Last Sovereign (GB)J: James O'Reilly Fastflow HandicapClass 4 · 7f · Soft · 10 ran 7th 14/1
10 Aug 10 Nottingham Bertie Southstreet (GB)J: James O'Reilly Simply Cartons HandicapClass 5 · 5f · Good To Firm · 11 ran 1st 11/4F
10 Aug 10 Nottingham He's A Humbug (IRE)J: James O'Reilly Nottingham Racecourse HandicapClass 6 · 6f · Good To Firm · 13 ran 2nd 7/1
08 Aug 10 Redcar Greek Secret (GB)J: James O'Reilly Guisborough And District Round Table Handicap (Div 2)Class 6 · 6f · Good To Firm · 13 ran 10th 12/1
08 Aug 10 Redcar He's A Humbug (IRE)J: James O'Reilly Guisborough And District Round Table Handicap (Div 1)Class 6 · 6f · Good To Firm · 14 ran 7th 11/2
04 Aug 10 Yarmouth Bertie Southstreet (GB)J: James O'Reilly Thistles & Thorns Florist Caister HandicapClass 5 · 6f · Good · 7 ran 2nd 4/1
28 Jul 10 Redcar Greek Secret (GB)J: James O'Reilly Racing UK On Channel 432 Handicap (Div 2)Class 6 · 6f · Firm · 10 ran 4th 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 Jimmy O'Reilly's strike rate?
Jimmy O'Reilly has won 8 of 166 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 4.8% (as at 15 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Who rides most for Jimmy O'Reilly?
James O'Reilly, with 67 runners since 2008 — 40% of the total. That pairing has won 7 (10.4%).
What is Jimmy O'Reilly's Fair A/E?
0.95, from 165 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).