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Trainer profile

K. R. Burke

9,758 runners in the lifetime window · 1,272 individual horses
As at 12 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Non-runners: 6.2% of 817 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 For context, a typical day across all racing ends with about 6.5% withdrawn (middle half 5.3–8.1% over 364 racing days).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 12 Nov 2026.
Last runner 2 days ago 99% of runners on the flat
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
1,363–9,758
Wins / Runs
14%
Strike rate
n=9,758
3,346 (34%)
Placed
1.05
n=9,702 · 0.91 incl. margin
−1,250.50
£1 level stake
n=9,758 at SP · −12.8%
£34.3m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
18.2%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 510 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 14% of them — beating the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 1.05). New recruits from other yards win at 19% first time out (155 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 9,758 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 12 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Jan–Feb 38.3% when favourite Clifford Lee: 16% from 2,566 New recruits: 18.7% Sends off the favourite in 12% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Carlisle (20.9%, n=292) and Musselburgh (21.2%, n=226) — all clear of the yard's 14% baseline. New recruits from other stables on their first run win at 18.7% (n=155, Fair A/E 1.45), but a horse in first-time headgear has been a poor signal at 6.8% (n=501, Fair A/E 0.71). Clifford Lee rides 26% of the entries and edges the yard's average (16% vs 14%, A/E 1.06) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. 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 37 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires Jan–Feb.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 14% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
11.8%−2.2
n=1,292 · A/E 1.03 · £1 −325.97
New recruits · first run for the yard
18.7%+4.7
n=155 · A/E 1.45 · £1 +105.32
Debutants · first career start
14.7%+0.7
n=1,065 · A/E 1.02 · £1 −131.21
First-time headgear · true-first definition
6.8%−7.2
n=501 · A/E 0.71 · £1 −229.77
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
9%−5.0
n=155 · A/E 0.96 · £1 −63.89
When favourite
38.3%
n=1,206 · A/E 1.09 · £1 −38.30
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
11.8%−2.2
n=2,068 · A/E 0.98 · £1 −431.13
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
13.8%−0.2
n=1,306 · A/E 1.23 · £1 −153.31

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 14% 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
With Rhona Pindar 2.3% vs 14% · n=86
With first-time headgear 6.8% vs 14% · n=501
With James Doyle 23.8% vs 14% · n=80
At Carlisle 20.9% vs 14% · n=292
At Musselburgh 21.2% vs 14% · n=226
On last-time-out winners 19.1% vs 14% · n=1,292
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 9,687 1357 14% −1,205.57
Hurdle 51 3 5.9% −38.75
NH Flat 15 2 13.3% −9.68
Chase 5 1 20% +3.50

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 2,738 385 14.1% −200.78
Good 2,297 303 13.2% −473.68
Good to Firm 1,899 271 14.3% −171.22
Good to Soft 1,327 187 14.1% −135.48
Soft 1,165 166 14.2% −230.20
Heavy 310 47 15.2% −28.14
Firm 22 4 18.2% −11.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Newcastle (AW) 753 97 12.9% −18.60
Wolverhampton (AW) 680 89 13.1% −94.88
Southwell (AW) 609 119 19.5% +125.00
Haydock 594 76 12.8% −100.34
York 523 52 9.9% −121.52
Doncaster 449 47 10.5% −90.38
Ayr 398 61 15.3% −42.38
Redcar 307 38 12.4% −103.27
Hamilton 306 50 16.3% +0.76
Thirsk 302 39 12.9% −104.89
Carlisle 292 61 20.9% +21.34
Ripon 285 40 14% +71.46
Newmarket 280 28 10% −73.63
Ascot 276 28 10.1% −46.81
Kempton (AW) 276 28 10.1% −94.90

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 5 2,996 465 15.5% −221.11
Class 4 2,123 312 14.7% −218.36
Class 1 1,309 181 13.8% −151.31
Class 2 1,219 145 11.9% −195.14
Class 3 1,015 125 12.3% −272.44
Class 6 993 124 12.5% −162.79
Class 7 6 1 16.7% +5.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 1,389 508 36.6% 1.09 −30.14
2nd–3rd fav 2,735 506 18.5% 1.06 −242.86
4th–6th fav 3,210 265 8.3% 1.01 −407.50
7th+ in betting 2,424 84 3.5% 0.94 −570.00
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) 63 8 30 6 May 26
Yeeoow (IRE)from Mrs K Burke 57 3 15 21 Nov 17
Korker (IRE) 56 6 22 19 Sep 26
Shallow Hal (GB) 56 7 16 22 Sep 23
Tele Red (GB) 54 6 22 4 Nov 26
Georgian Bay (IRE)from Mrs K Burke · then Adrian McGuinness 53 3 12 24 Mar 18
Liamarty Dreams (GB) 47 6 14 9 Oct 25
Exalted Angel (FR) 46 4 19 15 Jun 24
Spycatcher (IRE) 45 9 24 26 Oct 26
Lethal Levi (GB) 42 10 22 7 Sep 25
Lord Of The Lodge (IRE) 42 7 15 31 Jan 24
Intense Tango (GB)from Alan Jarvis 42 5 14 25 Nov 17
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 1,272 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 20 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, 11 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Mrs K Burke (7) and Alan Jarvis (2); 49 had their first archived run for this yard.

18 have since run for another yard, most often for Adrian McGuinness (2) and Alan Jarvis (2); 42 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 14
Only 14 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
161614141312161613131114
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
26% of all rides
16% SR · A/E 1.06
RiderRWSR£1
Clifford Lee 2,566 410 16% −394.87
Sam James 817 132 16.2% −109.87
Ben Curtis 664 111 16.7% +157.32
Pierre-Louis Jamin 521 91 17.5% +18.50
Joey Haynes 514 72 14% +159.79
Andrew Elliott 356 43 12.1% −58.94
Daniel Tudhope 348 70 20.1% +24.78
Dougie Costello 267 27 10.1% −51.39
P J McDonald 265 30 11.3% −118.92
Harrison Shaw 233 17 7.3% −82.15
Jordan Vaughan 229 26 11.4% −20.24
Shane Gray 158 30 19% −22.25
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
1,571
Archived wins
185
Pattern / graded wins
£36.1m
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
Dandy Man (IRE) 12.6% · 49–389
Progeny have won 9.1% of 14,990 runs since 2013 (930 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 5.3% from 171.
Showcasing (GB) 15.2% · 44–289
Progeny have won 10.2% of 11,664 runs since 2014 (1,000 horses). Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 5.5% from 109.
Dark Angel (IRE) 16.3% · 47–288
Progeny have won 11.3% of 21,957 runs since 2011 (1,596 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 15% from 107.
Mayson (GB) 14.9% · 42–281
Progeny have won 10.7% of 7,395 runs since 2016 (442 horses). Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 13.7% from 1,731. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 2.8% from 106.
Kodiac (GB) 12.7% · 28–220
Progeny have won 10.4% of 23,604 runs since 2010 (1,666 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 14.3% from 147. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 7.1% from 254.
Mehmas (IRE) 15.1% · 29–192
Progeny have won 11.5% of 8,242 runs since 2020 (755 horses).
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 12 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 11,631 · newest first

The latest 50 of 11,631 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 2 January 2005 to 10 November 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
10 Nov 26 Fontainebleau (FR) Urchin (GB)J: Clifford Lee Prix Denisy15f · Very Soft · 13 ran 4th 6/1
30 Oct 26 Newmarket Al Qareem (IRE)J: Clifford Lee St Simon Stakes (Group 3)Class 1 · 12f · Good To Soft · 6 ran 3rd 7/2
26 Oct 26 Chantilly (FR) Nour (IRE)J: Pierre-Louis Jamin Criterium De VitesseClass 1 · 5.5f · Heavy · 13 ran 11th 25/1
26 Oct 26 Chantilly (FR) Love A Giggle (IRE)J: Clifford Lee Criterium De VitesseClass 1 · 5.5f · Heavy · 13 ran 2nd 11/2

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).

KTB’s figures

the forward record · since 5 Oct 2026

KTB’s figures on this yard’s runners since 6 Oct 2026: the KTB Selection in 11 runs (won 3, 1 did not run) · top-rated on KTB Rating in 5 runs (won 1, 1 did not run) · fastest on KTB Speed in 7 runs (won 3) · to 5 Nov 2026.

Each pick was a KTB figure’s choice before the off — the published KTB Selection, the top-rated horse on KTB Rating, the fastest on KTB Speed — settled against the result the next morning and never worked out again; “did not run” is counted apart. GB and Irish races only. A record of weeks so far: read it as a count, not a verdict.

Quick answers

What is K. R. Burke's strike rate?
K. R. Burke has won 1,363 of 9,758 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 14% (as at 12 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does K. R. Burke do best at?
Carlisle by strike rate: 61 wins from 292 runners (20.9%) 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 K. R. Burke?
Clifford Lee, with 2,566 runners since 2008 — 26% of the total. That pairing has won 410 (16%).
Is K. R. Burke in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 14 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is K. R. Burke's Fair A/E?
1.05, from 9,702 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 12 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).