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Trainer profile

Joel Phelippon

878 runners in the lifetime window · 203 individual horses
As at 4 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Feb 2023 96% of runners on the flat
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
86–878
Wins / Runs
9.8%
Strike rate
n=878
257 (29%)
Placed
0.76
n=860 · 0.69 incl. margin
−344.40
£1 level stake
n=874 at SP · −39.4%
£1.67m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 50 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 10% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.76). New recruits from other yards win at 13% first time out (179 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 878 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 4 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Oct–Nov 20.4% when favourite Ronan Thomas: 9.1% from 232 New recruits: 13.4% Sends off the favourite in 17% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Longchamp (FR) (14.3%, n=84), clear of the yard's 9.8% baseline. It is weakest at Deauville (FR) (5.5% over 127 runners) — the widest gap in the record. New recruits from other stables on their first run win at 13.4% (n=179, Fair A/E 0.93), but a horse having headgear put back on after a bare run has been a poor signal at 6.7% (n=45, Fair A/E 0.69). The market has consistently overbet horses returning fresh after 61+ days: 8.1% strike, Fair A/E 0.77 and −109.60 to a £1 stake over 285 runners — those runners underperform what the price implies. Ronan Thomas rides 26% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (9.1%, A/E 0.78). The yard also reads well over 2m1f – 2m4f (25%, n=32) and off a 0-7-day break (17.9%, n=39). One Group or Graded win sits in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Grand Prix du Departement 06 - Defi du Galop 2016 at Cagnes-Sur-Mer (FR) (Feb 2016, £27,574). Seasonally, the yard fires Oct–Nov.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 9.8% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
8.1%−1.7
n=285 · A/E 0.77 · £1 −109.60
New recruits · first run for the yard
13.4%+3.6
n=179 · A/E 0.93 · £1 −73.60
Debutants · first career start
3.7%−6.1
n=27 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −20.10
First-time headgear · true-first definition
11.4%+1.6
n=35 · A/E 0.76 · £1 −15.10
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
6.7%−3.1
n=45 · A/E 0.69 · £1 −28.10
When favourite
20.4%
n=152 · A/E 0.73 · £1 −48.50
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
9.7%−0.1
n=113 · A/E 0.97 · £1 −25.10
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
5.3%−4.5
n=19 · A/E 0.61 · £1 −3.80

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 9.8% 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
Over 2m1f – 2m4f 25% vs 9.8% · n=32
With Mr Florent Guy 24.2% vs 9.8% · n=33
Off a 0-7-day break 17.9% vs 9.8% · n=39
On Heavy going 15.8% vs 9.8% · n=95
At Deauville (FR) 5.5% vs 9.8% · n=127
At Longchamp (FR) 14.3% vs 9.8% · n=84
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 845 79 9.3% −347.50
Hurdle 19 6 31.6% +13.60
Chase 14 1 7.1% −10.50

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 319 25 7.8% −181.60
Soft 196 21 10.7% −47.70
Good 183 16 8.7% −85.70
Heavy 95 15 15.8% −4.20
Good to Soft 85 9 10.6% −25.20

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Chantilly (FR) 265 21 7.9% −144.00
Saint-Cloud (FR) 179 15 8.4% −86.30
Deauville (FR) 127 7 5.5% −96.50
Maisons-Laffitte (FR) 126 14 11.1% −30.50
Longchamp (FR) 84 12 14.3% −11.50
Compiegne 18 3 16.7% +1.70
Auteuil (FR) 16 2 12.5% −4.20
Lyon Parilly 9 2 22.2% +3.70
Cagnes-Sur-Mer 7 2 28.6% +12.90
Clairefontaine 6 1 16.7% −1.60
Enghien (FR) 6 2 33.3% +1.30
Dieppe 5 1 20% +0.80
Fontainebleau (FR) 4 0 0% −4.00
Le Croise-Laroche (FR) 4 0 0% −4.00
Strasbourg (FR) 4 0 0% −1.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 19 1 5.3% −3.80

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 159 32 20.1% 0.73 −51.20
2nd–3rd fav 240 34 14.2% 0.85 −52.10
4th–6th fav 234 12 5.1% 0.61 −132.40
7th+ in betting 241 8 3.3% 0.81 −108.70
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
Storm River (FR)from C Gourdain 20 3 5 3 Jul 17
Mazeltof (FR)from Matthieu Palussiere · then C Escuder 17 1 4 27 Sep 19
Iron Spirit (FR)from Mme M Bollack-Badel 16 3 6 17 Jun 20
Barzini (GER)from Uwe Ostmann 16 2 6 5 Feb 15
Campillo (FR)from C Laffon-Parias 15 3 7 26 Dec 18
Insild (FR)from X Nakkachdji 14 1 3 9 Nov 15
Garlin Blues (FR)from Mme C Barande-Barbe 14 1 5 25 Oct 15
La Dame En Rouge (FR)from M Pimbonnet 13 1 2 22 Jul 18
Paques Island (FR)from P Demercastel · then A Zimmer 13 0 2 2 Oct 17
Berlin Calling (IRE)from Gerald Geisler · then A Zimmer 12 1 3 27 Nov 20
Jasnin (FR)from Matthieu Palussiere · then Waldemar Hickst 12 1 6 21 Dec 15
Mobi (FR)from F-M Cottin 12 3 6 1 Sep 15
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 203 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, 57 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Mme C Barande-Barbe (6) and F-H Graffard (3); 3 had their first archived run for this yard.

28 have since run for another yard, most often for A Zimmer (2); 32 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
JFMAMJJASOND
51591199159511183
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 riderRonan Thomas
26% of all rides
9.1% SR · A/E 0.78
RiderRWSR£1
Ronan Thomas 232 21 9.1% −69.50
Pierre-Charles Boudot 163 18 11% −68.70
Stephane Pasquier 44 5 11.4% −20.70
Alexis Badel 44 5 11.4% −11.60
Mickael Barzalona 38 2 5.3% −30.60
Mr Florent Guy 33 8 24.2% +3.10
Mlle Amelie Foulon 31 2 6.5% −14.60
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2011→
86
Archived wins
1
Pattern / graded wins
£1.67m
Prize money
2016
Best season · 13 wins
Storm River (FR) — Grand Prix du Departement 06 - Defi du Galop 2016 () (4yo+) (Turf) Cagnes-Sur-Mer (FR) · Feb 2016 · Listed
£27,574
Attentionadventure (GB) — Prix du Val d'Oise (Handicap) (4yo+) (Turf) Saint-Cloud (FR) · Oct 2019
£23,423
Grand Banks (GB) — Prix Orvilliers (Hurdle) (Conditions) (4yo) (Turf) Compiegne (FR) · Apr 2018
£19,115

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Stormy River (FR) 10% · 4–40
Progeny have won 9.2% of 2,229 runs since 2011 (253 horses).
Lando (GER) 16.1% · 5–31
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.
Turtle Bowl (IRE) 15.4% · 4–26
Progeny have won 9.6% of 1,307 runs since 2011 (145 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 14% from 136. Weakest on Good going: 6.1% from 293. Strongest over 6f – 7f (all codes): 14.4% from 146.
Muhtathir (GB) 0% · 0–20
Progeny have won 11.3% of 4,718 runs since 2008 (494 horses). Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 7.9% from 967.
Indian Rocket (GB) 10.5% · 2–19
Progeny have won 7.7% of 1,230 runs since 2008 (129 horses). Strongest on Good to Soft going: 11.1% from 171. Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 4.7% from 301.
Anabaa Blue (GB) 5.9% · 1–17
Progeny have won 9.3% of 1,937 runs since 2008 (227 horses). Strongest on Good to Soft going: 12.6% from 278. Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 6% from 417.
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 4 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 878 · newest first

The latest 50 of 878 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 8 October 2011 to 24 February 2023.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP

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 Joel Phelippon's strike rate?
Joel Phelippon has won 86 of 878 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 9.8% (as at 4 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Joel Phelippon do best at?
Longchamp (FR) by strike rate: 12 wins from 84 runners (14.3%) 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 Joel Phelippon?
Ronan Thomas, with 232 runners since 2008 — 26% of the total. That pairing has won 21 (9.1%).
What is Joel Phelippon's Fair A/E?
0.76, from 860 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 4 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).