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Trainer profile

John Quinn

6,622 runners in the lifetime window · 628 individual horses
As at 31 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Jan 2024
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
807–6,622
Wins / Runs
12.2%
Strike rate
n=6,622
2,235 (34%)
Placed
0.99
n=6,585 · 0.85 incl. margin
−1,233.32
£1 level stake
n=6,622 at SP · −18.6%
£11.0m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 350 runners a season, winning with 12% of them — level with the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.99). In Group and Graded company the record reads 15% (238 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 6,622 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 31 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance 30.6% when favourite Jason Hart: 12.9% from 1,719 New recruits: 12.8% Claiming riders: 13.1% Group/Graded: 15.1% Sends off the favourite in 13% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Chelmsford (AW) (20.5%, n=122), clear of the yard's 12.2% baseline. Debutants struggle at 7.8% (n=436, Fair A/E 0.87). The market has consistently overbet a horse in first-time headgear: 8.6% strike, Fair A/E 0.80 and −87.05 to a £1 stake over 233 runners — those runners underperform what the price implies. Jason Hart rides 26% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (12.9%, A/E 1.08) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The yard also reads well in Hurdle races (18.2%, n=753). 43 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Coolmore Wootton Bassett Nunthorpe Stakes at York (Aug 2022, £302,690). The stable star of the record: Mr Wagyu (IRE) — 15 wins from 83 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 12.2% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
10.6%−1.6
n=943 · A/E 1.00 · £1 −212.47
New recruits · first run for the yard
12.8%+0.6
n=148 · A/E 1.03 · £1 −25.44
Debutants · first career start
7.8%−4.4
n=436 · A/E 0.87 · £1 −137.98
First-time headgear · true-first definition
8.6%−3.6
n=233 · A/E 0.80 · £1 −87.05
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
10.8%−1.4
n=176 · A/E 0.89 · £1 −24.38
When favourite
30.6%
n=842 · A/E 1.01 · £1 −95.48
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
13.1%+0.9
n=1,216 · A/E 1.04 · £1 −70.98
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
15.1%+2.9
n=238 · A/E 1.26 · £1 −21.72

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 12.2% 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
With Dean Pratt 25.4% vs 12.2% · n=71
On last-time-out winners 18.4% vs 12.2% · n=779
At Chelmsford (AW) 20.5% vs 12.2% · n=122
With Oisin Murphy 23.5% vs 12.2% · n=34
In Hurdle races 18.2% vs 12.2% · n=753
With Paul Mulrennan 2.2% vs 12.2% · n=45
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 5,656 640 11.3% −1,146.95
Hurdle 753 137 18.2% −87.67
Chase 138 19 13.8% +36.75
NH Flat 75 11 14.7% −35.45

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 1,884 236 12.5% −232.08
Good to Firm 1,465 158 10.8% −398.06
Standard (AW) 1,124 124 11% −323.64
Good to Soft 1,053 137 13% −100.69
Soft 879 122 13.9% −124.76
Heavy 184 28 15.2% −31.92
Firm 33 2 6.1% −22.17

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Catterick 524 68 13% −135.86
Beverley 379 35 9.2% −118.78
Doncaster 372 37 9.9% −52.92
Redcar 355 37 10.4% −150.54
Newcastle (AW) 348 35 10.1% −86.16
Wolverhampton (AW) 340 32 9.4% −126.47
York 315 25 7.9% −102.46
Pontefract 306 34 11.1% −2.06
Thirsk 298 29 9.7% −35.89
Musselburgh 277 40 14.4% −67.36
Ayr 274 48 17.5% +51.90
Ripon 229 22 9.6% −67.40
Haydock 195 25 12.8% −45.63
Newcastle 187 24 12.8% +11.62
Hamilton 185 25 13.5% −60.06

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 5 2,210 239 10.8% −576.60
Class 4 1,487 222 14.9% −234.23
Class 6 1,299 169 13% −188.11
Class 3 713 88 12.3% −94.42
Class 2 613 44 7.2% −166.99
Class 1 281 42 14.9% +24.03
Class 7 5 0 0% −5.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 1,025 292 28.5% 1.00 −128.39
2nd–3rd fav 1,710 266 15.6% 0.95 −312.33
4th–6th fav 2,115 190 9% 1.06 −213.50
7th+ in betting 1,772 59 3.3% 0.86 −579.10
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
Mr Wagyu (IRE)then John & Sean Quinn 83 15 35 14 Oct 23
Violent Velocity (IRE) 83 9 33 22 Sep 14
Indian Pursuit (IRE) 80 10 27 21 Jul 21
Select Committee (GB) 71 7 28 15 Oct 12
Lord Riddiford (IRE)then John & Sean Quinn 63 12 22 20 Jan 24
Veiled Applause (GB)from Ralph Beckett 63 6 23 9 Sep 12
El Astronaute (IRE) 62 14 29 23 Oct 21
Spirit of Zebedee (IRE) 61 9 28 25 Sep 19
Zaplamation (IRE)from D W Barker 54 8 28 8 Jun 15
Safe Voyage (IRE) 51 14 22 27 Oct 23
Fantasy Fighter (IRE)then John E Long 47 6 18 20 Jul 11
Chebsey Beau (GB) 46 8 18 10 Sep 19
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 628 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 25 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, 12 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from D W Barker (2); 48 had their first archived run for this yard.

19 have since run for another yard, most often for John & Sean Quinn (8); 41 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 riderJason Hart
26% of all rides
12.9% SR · A/E 1.08
RiderRWSR£1
Jason Hart 1,719 221 12.9% −207.52
Dougie Costello 548 86 15.7% −22.17
Ian Brennan 399 44 11% −60.15
Graham Gibbons 359 26 7.2% −164.04
Phillip Makin 275 33 12% −102.28
Michael O'Connell 274 37 13.5% −16.67
Tom Eaves 140 13 9.3% −58.21
Joe Doyle 122 18 14.8% +37.95
Jamie Kyne 119 15 12.6% −11.83
Brian Hughes 83 17 20.5% −23.65
Cam Hardie 83 4 4.8% −54.62
James Sullivan 74 8 10.8% −17.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
956
Archived wins
43
Pattern / graded wins
£12.7m
Prize money
2006
Best season · 66 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.
Highfield Princess (FR) — Coolmore Wootton Bassett Nunthorpe Stakes (Group 1) (British Champions Series) York · Aug 2022 · Group 1
£302,690
Highfield Princess (FR) — Al Basti Equiworld, Dubai Flying Five Stakes (Group 1) Curragh · Sep 2022 · Group 1
£236,000
Highfield Princess (FR) — Arc Prix Maurice de Gheest (3yo+) (Straight Course) (Turf) Deauville (FR) · Aug 2022 · Group 1
£182,464

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Kodiac (GB) 11.6% · 25–215
Progeny have won 10.4% of 23,580 runs since 2008 (1,665 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 14.3% from 147. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 7.1% from 254.
Fast Company (IRE) 16.7% · 30–180
Progeny have won 9.4% of 7,597 runs since 2008 (492 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 12.7% from 558. Strongest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 12.8% from 109.
Compton Place (GB) 10.6% · 17–161
Progeny have won 8.5% of 8,347 runs since 2008 (515 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 11.5% from 165.
Camacho (GB) 12.8% · 19–149
Progeny have won 8.1% of 9,322 runs since 2008 (596 horses).
Zebedee (GB) 16.3% · 24–147
Progeny have won 9% of 7,139 runs since 2008 (435 horses).
Acclamation (GB) 9.8% · 11–112
Progeny have won 10% of 19,700 runs since 2008 (1,327 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 15.2% from 151. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 6.7% from 194.
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 31 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 7,910 · newest first

The latest 50 of 7,910 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 3 January 2005 to 25 January 2024.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
16 Dec 23 Doncaster First Impression (IRE)J: Craig Nichol bet365 Handicap Hurdle (GBB Race)Class 2 · 16.5f · Good To Soft · 11 ran 2nd 33/1

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 John Quinn's strike rate?
John Quinn has won 807 of 6,622 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 12.2% (as at 31 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does John Quinn do best at?
Ayr by strike rate: 48 wins from 274 runners (17.5%) 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 John Quinn?
Jason Hart, with 1,719 runners since 2008 — 26% of the total. That pairing has won 221 (12.9%).
What is John Quinn's Fair A/E?
0.99, from 6,585 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 31 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).