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Trainer profile

K. R. Burke

3,839 runners in the last 5 seasons · 569 individual horses
As at 20 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Non-runners: 6.2% of 833 declared in the last 365 days, counting all recorded withdrawals, including reserves. For context, a typical day across all racing ends with about 6.5% withdrawn (middle half 5.3–8.1% over 364 racing days). As at 20 Oct 2026.
Last runner yesterday 100% of runners on the flat
from 1 Jan 2022
653–3,839
Wins / Runs
17%
Strike rate
n=3,839
1,457 (38%)
Placed
1.11
n=3,821 · 0.96 incl. margin
−466.72
£1 level stake
n=3,839 at SP · −12.2%
£22.1m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
18.8%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 770 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 17% of them — beating the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 1.11). Debutants are a strength: 22% on first career starts (465 runs). The yard is quiet just now — 6 winners in the last fortnight, below its own baseline.

Deterministic profile computed from 3,839 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 20 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance 40.9% when favourite Clifford Lee: 18.5% from 1,420 New recruits: 21.6% Sends off the favourite in 16% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Musselburgh (28.2%, n=103), clear of the yard's 17% baseline. Debutants strike at 22.2% (n=465, Fair A/E 1.09), but a horse having headgear put back on after a bare run has been a poor signal at 4.3% (n=46, Fair A/E 0.49). The market has consistently overbet a horse in first-time headgear: 6.3% strike, Fair A/E 0.61 and −90.37 to a £1 stake over 176 runners — those runners underperform what the price implies. Right now the yard is in a quiet spell: 6 from 43 runners in the last 14 days (14%, 3pts below the 17% baseline). Clifford Lee rides 37% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (18.5%, A/E 1.10) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The record reads poorly in Class 6 — 9.2% over 196 runners, 7.8pts below the baseline. 185 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Prix de Diane Longines at Chantilly (FR) (Jun 2018, £505,664). The stable star of the record: Al Qareem (IRE) — 13 wins from 36 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 17% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
14.4%−2.6
n=520 · A/E 1.09 · £1 −155.77
New recruits · first run for the yard
21.6%+4.6
n=37 · A/E 1.46 · £1 +9.08
Debutants · first career start
22.2%+5.2
n=465 · A/E 1.09 · £1 −10.17
First-time headgear · true-first definition
6.3%−10.7
n=176 · A/E 0.61 · £1 −90.37
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
4.3%−12.7
n=46 · A/E 0.49 · £1 −22.50
When favourite
40.9%
n=621 · A/E 1.10 · £1 −21.82
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
11.9%−5.1
n=487 · A/E 0.92 · £1 −181.88
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
15.7%−1.3
n=817 · A/E 1.24 · £1 −47.28

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 17% 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 first-time headgear 6.3% vs 17% · n=176
At Musselburgh 28.2% vs 17% · n=103
With headgear back on 4.3% vs 17% · n=46
With Sam Feilden 7.3% vs 17% · n=124
With James Doyle 27.1% vs 17% · n=70
In Class 6 9.2% vs 17% · n=196
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 3,833 653 17% −460.72
NH Flat 6 0 0% −6.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 1,084 171 15.8% −183.07
Standard (AW) 925 148 16% −264.38
Good to Firm 758 128 16.9% +15.11
Good to Soft 505 93 18.4% +9.50
Soft 445 89 20% −47.31
Heavy 121 23 19% +1.93
Firm 1 1 100% +1.50

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Newcastle (AW) 334 47 14.1% −95.24
York 319 35 11% −62.77
Southwell (AW) 234 44 18.8% −65.14
Haydock 220 41 18.6% +17.72
Wolverhampton (AW) 204 30 14.7% −51.73
Doncaster 177 22 12.4% −69.92
Ascot 153 17 11.1% −2.89
Newmarket 144 17 11.8% −28.59
Ayr 132 21 15.9% −11.65
Hamilton 121 25 20.7% +49.25
Thirsk 120 24 20% +9.72
Beverley 116 25 21.6% −20.23
Carlisle 116 28 24.1% +6.18
Pontefract 107 23 21.5% −6.28
Musselburgh 103 29 28.2% +14.07

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 4 885 169 19.1% −59.76
Class 5 869 184 21.2% −3.19
Class 1 817 129 15.8% −42.28
Class 2 618 85 13.8% −121.32
Class 3 443 67 15.1% −131.67
Class 6 196 18 9.2% −99.75

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 707 273 38.6% 1.09 −37.11
2nd–3rd fav 1,166 257 22% 1.22 +67.89
4th–6th fav 1,197 104 8.7% 1.05 −117.50
7th+ in betting 769 19 2.5% 0.69 −380.00
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
Silky Wilkie (IRE) 57 7 25 6 May 26
Korker (IRE) 48 3 17 19 Sep 26
Tele Red (GB) 44 6 19 10 Oct 26
Liamarty Dreams (GB) 41 5 10 9 Oct 25
Lethal Levi (GB) 34 8 16 7 Sep 25
Al Qareem (IRE) 33 12 21 13 Jun 26
Looking For Lynda (IRE)then Craig Lidster 33 3 12 9 Apr 25
Spycatcher (IRE) 32 7 16 19 Sep 26
Liberty Lane (IRE) 27 6 9 28 Jul 26
Shallow Hal (GB) 25 2 7 22 Sep 23
Flight Plan (GB) 24 3 5 2 May 26
Marshman (GB) 24 5 12 25 Apr 26
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 569 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 12 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, 3 arrived from another yard in our archive; 57 had their first archived run for this yard.

8 have since run for another yard; 52 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

Quiet spell
6 from 43 14% · −3.0pts vs baseline
Last 14 days14%
5-season base17%
Shown only when the 14-day window is large enough to mean anything (n≥15). A cold run renders the same card with a quiet badge — never hidden.

When the yard fires

strike by month, 5 seasons
JFMAMJJASOND
191515181614211717171717
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 riderClifford Lee
37% of all rides
18.5% SR · A/E 1.10
RiderRWSR£1
Clifford Lee 1,420 262 18.5% −219.87
Sam James 724 122 16.9% −75.02
Pierre-Louis Jamin 402 74 18.4% +35.96
Daniel Tudhope 156 33 21.2% +7.16
Shane Gray 152 29 19.1% −21.25
Jack Nicholls 142 18 12.7% −54.16
Sam Feilden 124 9 7.3% −66.55
James Doyle 70 19 27.1% +26.46
Brandon Wilkie 51 9 17.6% +6.01
Andrew Elliott 32 4 12.5% +48.88
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
1,570
Archived wins
185
Pattern / graded wins
£36.0m
Prize money
2025
Best season · 144 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.
Laurens (FR) — Prix de Diane Longines (3yo Fillies) (Turf) Chantilly (FR) · Jun 2018 · Group 1
£505,664
Venetian Sun (IRE) — Commonwealth Cup (Group 1) Ascot · Jun 2026 · Group 1
£396,970
Laurens (FR) — bet365 Fillies' Mile (Group 1) Newmarket · Oct 2017 · Group 1
£321,829

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Dark Angel (IRE) 16.9% · 36–213
Progeny have won 11.3% of 21,876 runs since 2008 (1,594 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 15% from 107.
Dandy Man (IRE) 10.7% · 22–205
Progeny have won 9.1% of 14,917 runs since 2008 (930 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 5.3% from 170.
Havana Grey (GB) 19.4% · 32–165
Progeny have won 13.3% of 4,533 runs since 2008 (415 horses). Strongest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 16.3% from 104. Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 10.3% from 408.
Mehmas (IRE) 14.3% · 23–161
Progeny have won 11.6% of 8,107 runs since 2008 (747 horses).
Showcasing (GB) 13.8% · 20–145
Progeny have won 10.1% of 11,577 runs since 2008 (996 horses). Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 5.6% from 108.
Night Of Thunder (IRE) 22.8% · 28–123
Progeny have won 16.3% of 5,064 runs since 2008 (561 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 7% from 157.
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 20 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 11,603 · newest first

The latest 50 of 11,603 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 2 January 2005 to 19 October 2026.

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 K. R. Burke's strike rate?
K. R. Burke has won 653 of 3,839 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 17% (as at 20 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does K. R. Burke do best at?
Musselburgh by strike rate: 29 wins from 103 runners (28.2%) 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 K. R. Burke?
Clifford Lee, with 1,420 runners since 2022 — 37% of the total. That pairing has won 262 (18.5%).
Is K. R. Burke in form?
In the last 14 days: 43 runners, 6 winners, a strike rate of 14%. That is below the baseline of 17% since 2022.
What is K. R. Burke's Fair A/E?
1.11, from 3,821 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 20 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).