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Trainer profile

Jo Davis

855 runners in the lifetime window · 133 individual horses
As at 29 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner yesterday 91% of runners over jumps
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
47–855
Wins / Runs
5.5%
Strike rate
n=855
165 (19%)
Placed
0.91
n=854 · 0.79 incl. margin
−447.06
£1 level stake
n=855 at SP · −52.3%
£439k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
6.3%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 50 runners a season, almost all over hurdles and fences, winning with 6% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.91).

Deterministic profile computed from 855 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 29 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fires May–Jul James Davies: 2.4% from 83
The read

New recruits from other stables on their first run struggle at 0% (n=65, Fair A/E 0.00). The market has consistently overbet runners with a claiming rider up: 4.4% strike, Fair A/E 0.78 and −163.92 to a £1 stake over 252 runners — those runners underperform what the price implies. James Davies rides 10% of the entries and sits below the yard's average (2.4% vs 5.5%, A/E 0.56). One Group or Graded win sits in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Lord Mildmay Memorial Handicap Chase at Newton Abbot (Aug 2010, £22,532). The stable star of the record: Passato (GER) — 9 wins from 57 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires 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 5.5% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
5.2%−0.3
n=288 · A/E 1.07 · £1 −143.99
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−5.5
n=65 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −65.00
Debutants · first career start
1.8%−3.7
n=57 · A/E 0.70 · £1 −36.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−5.5
n=65 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −65.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
4%−1.5
n=50 · A/E 0.70 · £1 −40.25
When favourite
44.4%
n=18 · A/E 1.59 · £1 +7.50
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
4.4%−1.1
n=252 · A/E 0.78 · £1 −163.92
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
7.1%+1.6
n=14 · A/E 2.28 · £1 +1.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 5.5% 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
On last-time-out winners 18.4% vs 5.5% · n=49
With C&D winners 15.9% vs 5.5% · n=44
With Danny Burton 12.8% vs 5.5% · n=39
With Gavin Sheehan 11.9% vs 5.5% · n=59
With first-time headgear 0% vs 5.5% · n=65
With new recruits 0% vs 5.5% · n=65
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
Hurdle 497 27 5.4% −228.02
Chase 184 13 7.1% −114.12
NH Flat 97 3 3.1% −53.00
Flat 77 4 5.2% −51.92

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 314 19 6.1% −172.50
Good to Soft 170 8 4.7% −73.37
Soft 166 10 6% −82.94
Good to Firm 91 5 5.5% −57.25
Heavy 71 3 4.2% −35.00
Standard (AW) 42 2 4.8% −25.00
Firm 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Worcester 73 6 8.2% −31.74
Fontwell 65 4 6.2% −9.40
Stratford 58 4 6.9% −40.00
Uttoxeter 51 4 7.8% −20.00
Huntingdon 50 4 8% −11.75
Newbury 47 1 2.1% −32.00
Chepstow 42 2 4.8% −33.25
Taunton 34 1 2.9% −25.50
Wincanton 33 2 6.1% −19.00
Warwick 32 1 3.1% −27.67
Plumpton 28 1 3.6% −18.00
Towcester 28 0 0% −28.00
Exeter 28 2 7.1% −14.00
Ffos Las 24 1 4.2% +2.00
Newton Abbot 23 1 4.3% −8.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 4 351 19 5.4% −213.36
Class 5 264 11 4.2% −150.65
Class 3 108 8 7.4% −26.25
Class 6 83 5 6% −31.42
Class 2 28 3 10.7% −19.38
Class 1 19 1 5.3% −4.00
Class 7 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 26 10 38.5% 1.50 +5.75
2nd–3rd fav 102 16 15.7% 1.04 −17.31
4th–6th fav 259 14 5.4% 0.78 −91.50
7th+ in betting 468 7 1.5% 0.61 −344.00
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.

Jumping record

completion over obstacles · same window as header
78.6% completed · 681 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 184 63% 11 10 46 0 1
Hurdle 497 84.3% 3 2 73 0 0
Chases and hurdles only — bumpers have no obstacles, so completion is not a question there. F fell · UR unseated rider · PU pulled up · BD brought down · Oth covers refusals, slip-ups, run-outs and the rare disqualification. Non-runners are excluded throughout. Rows under n=30 are shown faded. A descriptive record, not a tip.

Horses trained

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Passato (GER)from Ronald Harris 57 9 17 25 Aug 15
Festival Dreams (GB) 34 3 12 10 Jun 12
Mr Fitzroy (IRE)from Andrew Balding 31 3 8 25 Nov 21
Star Foot (IRE)from D Buckley 28 5 10 19 May 19
John Biscuit (IRE)from Andrew Balding 25 1 3 18 Jun 19
Marmont (GB) 23 2 8 19 Aug 20
Nataani (IRE)from John Daniel Moore 22 3 9 25 May 14
Heroes Or Ghosts (IRE) 20 1 5 23 Feb 18
It's For Alan (GB) 19 1 4 29 Jul 21
Jolie Baie (FR) 18 4 8 14 Mar 26
Ceejaybe (GB) 18 0 4 19 Feb 26
Indiefront (GB) 16 0 1 27 Aug 15
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 133 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 5 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, 26 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Andrew Balding (4) and Ronald Harris (3); 34 had their first archived run for this yard.

4 have since run for another yard; 56 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 4
Only 4 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
31103118862525
A jumps yard: the season runs Oct–Apr. 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 Davies
10% of all rides
2.4% SR · A/E 0.56
RiderRWSR£1
James Davies 83 2 2.4% −65.50
Gavin Sheehan 59 7 11.9% +7.50
Page Fuller 49 2 4.1% −37.25
Danny Burton 39 5 12.8% −2.00
Mark Grant 35 1 2.9% −24.00
Sam Jones 35 3 8.6% +8.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
57
Archived wins
1
Pattern / graded wins
£500k
Prize money
2012
Best season · 7 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.
Passato (GER) — Lord Mildmay Memorial Handicap Chase (Listed) Newton Abbot · Aug 2010 · Listed
£22,532
Benvoy (IRE) — Sodexo Live! Juvenile Handicap Hurdle (GBB Race) Ascot · Mar 2025 · Class 2
£20,812
Passato (GER) — Jon Pinfold Industrial Cleaners Handicap Chase Stratford · May 2010 · Class 3
£9,428

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Lando (GER) 15.8% · 9–57
Progeny have won 10.6% of 1,772 runs since 2008 (190 horses). Strongest on Good going: 14.2% from 431. Weakest on Heavy going: 4.8% from 168.
Largesse (GB) 8.8% · 3–34
Progeny have won 7.3% of 368 runs since 2008 (25 horses).
Indian River (FR) 6.3% · 2–32
Progeny have won 11.2% of 1,381 runs since 2008 (99 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 8% from 224.
Kyllachy (GB) 9.7% · 3–31
Progeny have won 9.9% of 13,847 runs since 2008 (800 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 5.8% from 468.
Soviet Star (USA) 16.1% · 5–31
Progeny have won 8.7% of 2,621 runs since 2008 (171 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 5% from 160. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 5.6% from 320.
Free Eagle (IRE) 0% · 0–26
Progeny have won 10.6% of 2,405 runs since 2008 (189 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 6.1% 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 29 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 1,065 · newest first

The latest 50 of 1,065 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 2 January 2005 to 28 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
06 Mar 26 Exeter Benvoy (IRE)J: Gavin Sheehan Brett Martin Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 16.5f · Good To Soft · 10 ran PU 25/1

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 Jo Davis's strike rate?
Jo Davis has won 47 of 855 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 5.5% (as at 29 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Jo Davis do best at?
Worcester by strike rate: 6 wins from 73 runners (8.2%) 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 Jo Davis?
James Davies, with 83 runners since 2008 — 10% of the total. That pairing has won 2 (2.4%).
Is Jo Davis in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 4 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is Jo Davis's Fair A/E?
0.91, from 854 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 29 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).