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Trainer profile

John Ryan

636 runners in the last 5 seasons · 60 individual horses
As at 23 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner 2 days ago 97% of runners on the flat
from 1 Jan 2022
56–636
Wins / Runs
8.8%
Strike rate
n=636
153 (24%)
Placed
1.01
n=635 · 0.86 incl. margin
−161.19
£1 level stake
n=636 at SP · −25.3%
£845k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
5.6%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 130 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 9% of them — level with the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 1.01). Horses with headgear back on after a bare run strike at 16% (32 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 636 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 23 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Dec–Jan 37.5% when favourite Darragh Keenan: 5.6% from 143 Headgear returns: 15.6% Group/Graded: 12.9% Sends off the favourite in 6% of races
The read

A horse having headgear put back on after a bare run has been a positive signal at 15.6% (n=32, Fair A/E 2.00), but horses returning fresh after 61+ days have been a poor signal at 4.7% (n=64, Fair A/E 0.72). Darragh Keenan rides 22% of the entries and sits below the yard's average (5.6% vs 8.8%, A/E 0.75). The yard also reads well off a 0-7-day break (19%, n=79) and on Soft going (20%, n=40). The market has also underrated the yard at trips under 6f: Fair A/E 1.32 across 74 runners (14.9% strike, +11.87 to a £1 stake). 14 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the William Hill Lincoln at Doncaster (Mar 2014, £62,250). The stable star of the record: Thecornishcowboy (GB) — 14 wins from 95 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires Dec–Jan.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 8.8% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
4.7%−4.1
n=64 · A/E 0.72 · £1 −29.00
New recruits · first run for the yard
4.2%−4.6
n=24 · A/E 0.45 · £1 −17.00
Debutants · first career start
0%−8.8
n=23 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −23.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
8.7%−0.1
n=23 · A/E 1.08 · £1 −7.50
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
15.6%+6.8
n=32 · A/E 2.00 · £1 +23.33
When favourite
37.5%
n=40 · A/E 1.26 · £1 +3.15
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
8%−0.8
n=150 · A/E 0.91 · £1 −63.71
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
12.9%+4.1
n=31 · A/E 1.83 · £1 −13.88

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 8.8% 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
Off a 0-7-day break 19% vs 8.8% · n=79
On Soft going 20% vs 8.8% · n=40
On last-time-out winners 17.9% vs 8.8% · n=56
At trips under 6f 14.9% vs 8.8% · n=74
With headgear back on 15.6% vs 8.8% · n=32
On Good to Soft going 14.5% vs 8.8% · n=55
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 614 53 8.6% −172.69
Hurdle 20 3 15% +13.50
NH Flat 2 0 0% −2.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 298 22 7.4% −116.01
Good 117 11 9.4% −35.55
Good to Firm 115 5 4.3% −71.00
Good to Soft 55 8 14.5% −12.75
Soft 40 8 20% +74.62
Heavy 10 2 20% +0.50
Firm 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Lingfield (AW) 107 6 5.6% −61.21
Yarmouth 91 10 11% +17.50
Southwell (AW) 52 7 13.5% −2.55
Kempton (AW) 47 3 6.4% +3.25
Newmarket 43 2 4.7% −30.50
Chelmsford City (AW) 43 4 9.3% −12.00
Newmarket 30 1 3.3% −25.67
Wolverhampton (AW) 29 0 0% −29.00
Brighton 26 4 15.4% +4.12
Newcastle (AW) 19 1 5.3% −15.50
Ascot 15 2 13.3% −5.50
Lingfield 15 2 13.3% +3.50
Windsor 11 2 18.2% +0.00
Newbury 10 0 0% −10.00
Nottingham 9 2 22.2% +1.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 6 237 22 9.3% −46.17
Class 5 151 17 11.3% +44.58
Class 4 124 7 5.6% −86.55
Class 2 53 3 5.7% −36.00
Class 3 40 3 7.5% −23.17
Class 1 31 4 12.9% −13.88

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 50 18 36% 1.28 +7.65
2nd–3rd fav 113 19 16.8% 1.01 −4.34
4th–6th fav 200 11 5.5% 0.75 −75.50
7th+ in betting 273 8 2.9% 0.96 −89.00
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
World Of Darcy (IRE)from K R Burke 38 4 5 20 Apr 26
Roman Emperor (GB) 37 2 9 28 Feb 26
Moreginplease (GB) 34 1 9 5 Apr 25
Pistoletto (USA)from A P O'Brien 30 2 3 11 Dec 23
Catch My Breath (GB) 29 1 5 13 May 23
Jack Ryan (IRE) 27 2 10 1 Aug 23
Chloe's Courage (GB)from Iain Jardine 22 1 9 13 Oct 26
Ecclefechan (GB) 21 2 3 20 Oct 26
Harry With Style (GB) 21 2 5 20 Apr 24
Naina (GB) 20 5 9 20 Nov 25
The X O (IRE)then Robert Cowell 19 2 8 25 Oct 24
All 60 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, 28 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from John Butler (5) and A P O'Brien (2); 32 had their first archived run for this yard.

12 have since run for another yard, most often for Gihan Arnolda (2) and Robert Cowell (2); 48 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 8
Only 8 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, 5 seasons
JFMAMJJASOND
1542972878191016
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 riderDarragh Keenan
22% of all rides
5.6% SR · A/E 0.75
RiderRWSR£1
Darragh Keenan 143 8 5.6% −73.42
Laura Pearson 40 3 7.5% +0.62
Luke Morris 33 3 9.1% +8.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
321
Archived wins
14
Pattern / graded wins
£3.20m
Prize money
2018
Best season · 33 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.
Ocean Tempest (GB) — William Hill Lincoln (Heritage Handicap) (Str) Doncaster · Mar 2014 · Class 2
£62,250
Silver Grecian (GB) — Meydan Superlative Stakes (Group 2) Newmarket · Jul 2009 · Group 2
£45,416
Manaccan (GB) — Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Dash (Handicap) Ascot · Aug 2022 · Class 2
£36,885

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Bated Breath (GB) 6% · 3–50
Progeny have won 10.8% of 8,136 runs since 2008 (670 horses). Weakest on Soft going: 7.7% from 847.
Soldier's Call (GB) 11.6% · 5–43
Progeny have won 9.1% of 2,105 runs since 2008 (216 horses). Strongest on Good to Soft going: 13.1% from 198. Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 4.1% from 244.
Magna Grecia (IRE) 5.4% · 2–37
Progeny have won 7.7% of 1,474 runs since 2008 (170 horses). Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 12.4% from 169.
Time Test (GB) 2.9% · 1–34
Progeny have won 10.9% of 3,113 runs since 2008 (337 horses). Weakest on Soft going: 6.4% from 328. Strongest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 14.6% from 314.
War Front (USA) 6.3% · 2–32
Progeny have won 15.7% of 2,496 runs since 2008 (297 horses). Strongest on Standard (AW) going: 18.9% from 923. Weakest on Good going: 10.9% from 533. Strongest over 6f – 7f (all codes): 19.3% from 1,009.
Expert Eye (GB) 16.7% · 5–30
Progeny have won 10.1% of 2,192 runs since 2008 (196 horses). Strongest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 13.2% from 403.
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 23 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 3,696 · newest first

The latest 50 of 3,696 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 1 October 2005 to 21 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
08 Oct 26 Ayr Emery Down (GB)J: Oisin Orr San Miguel Handicap StakesClass 5 · 7f · Heavy · 10 ran 5th 11/1
05 Oct 26 Yarmouth Ecclefechan (GB)J: Donagh Murphy Moulton Racing Club Handicap StakesClass 4 · 8f · Good To Firm · 11 ran 10th 28/1
29 Sep 26 Bath Foxsbrush (GB)J: Alice Bond Power Logistics Nursery Handicap StakesClass 6 · 5.5f · Good To Firm · 11 ran 10th 80/1

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 Ryan's strike rate?
John Ryan has won 56 of 636 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 8.8% (as at 23 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does John Ryan do best at?
Southwell (AW) by strike rate: 7 wins from 52 runners (13.5%) since 2022. 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 Ryan?
Darragh Keenan, with 143 runners since 2022 — 22% of the total. That pairing has won 8 (5.6%).
Is John Ryan in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 8 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is John Ryan's Fair A/E?
1.01, from 635 runners with a computed fair probability since 2022. 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 23 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).