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Trainer profile

L J Archdeacon

325 runners in the lifetime window · 63 individual horses
As at 8 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner 7 days ago 96% of runners over jumps
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
9–325
Wins / Runs
2.8%
Strike rate
n=325
44 (14%)
Placed
0.64
Fair A/E
n=324 · 0.49 incl. margin
−243.50
£1 level stake
n=325 at SP · −74.9%
£114k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 20 runners a season, almost all over hurdles and fences, winning with 3% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.64).

Deterministic profile computed from 325 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 8 Nov 2026
The read

The market has consistently overbet runners with a claiming rider up: 1.5% strike, Fair A/E 0.38 and −174.00 to a £1 stake over 206 runners — those runners underperform what the price implies. The yard also reads well off a 31-60-day break (6%, n=50).

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 2.8% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
1.7%−1.1
n=58 · A/E 0.44 · £1 −41.00
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−2.8
n=7 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −7.00
Debutants · first career start
0%−2.8
n=56 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −56.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−2.8
n=16 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −16.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
0%−2.8
n=5 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −5.00
When favourite
0%
n=4 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −4.00
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
1.5%−1.3
n=206 · A/E 0.38 · £1 −174.00
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−2.8
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 2.8% 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
Off a 31-60-day break 6% vs 2.8% · n=50
With debutants 0% vs 2.8% · n=56
On Heavy going 5.3% vs 2.8% · n=76
Over 2m1f – 2m4f 4.9% vs 2.8% · n=144
With E Walsh 5.6% vs 2.8% · n=36
In NH Flat races 0% vs 2.8% · n=30
This filter uses derived form angles computed for 15.3% of the archive so far (as at 8 Nov 2026); the sample will grow as sequencing completes.
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
Hurdle 202 6 3% −152.00
Chase 81 3 3.7% −49.50
NH Flat 30 0 0% −30.00
Flat 12 0 0% −12.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Soft 117 1 0.9% −113.00
Good 92 1 1.1% −86.00
Heavy 76 4 5.3% −46.50
Good to Soft 31 1 3.2% −14.00
Good to Firm 8 2 25% +17.00
Firm 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Cork 59 2 3.4% −38.00
Limerick 49 2 4.1% −32.50
Clonmel 44 1 2.3% −38.50
Killarney 29 1 3.4% −23.00
Listowel 23 0 0% −23.00
Tipperary 17 0 0% −17.00
Tramore 16 0 0% −16.00
Thurles 14 0 0% −14.00
Ballinrobe 11 0 0% −11.00
Punchestown 10 0 0% −10.00
Wexford 10 0 0% −10.00
Fairyhouse 9 0 0% −9.00
Galway 8 0 0% −8.00
Wexford 8 2 25% +17.00
Gowran Park 7 1 14.3% +0.50

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 1 0 0% −1.00
Class 6 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 6 1 16.7% 1.32 +0.00
2nd–3rd fav 30 4 13.3% 1.06 −7.00
4th–6th fav 75 2 2.7% 0.40 −58.50
7th+ in betting 214 2 0.9% 0.44 −178.00
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.

Jumping record

completion over obstacles · same window as header
84.8% completed · 283 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 81 80.2% 5 1 9 0 1
Hurdle 202 86.6% 5 3 18 0 1
Chases and hurdles only — bumpers have no obstacles, so completion is not a question there. F fell · UR unseated rider · PU pulled up · BD brought down · Oth covers refusals, slip-ups, run-outs and the rare disqualification. Non-runners are excluded throughout. Rows under n=30 are shown faded. A descriptive record, not a tip.

Horses trained

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Carlas Big Jim (IRE) 40 2 7 21 May 26
Another Ocana (IRE) 35 2 8 1 Nov 26
Top Question (IRE) 26 0 3 10 Jun 22
Captain Ocana (IRE)then Paul Henderson 21 1 5 21 Sep 13
Time To Bite (IRE)then Chris Honour 18 0 0 17 Jul 22
Mountain Lough (IRE)from C Byrnes 17 3 7 6 Jun 16
Red Night Sky (IRE) 11 0 0 12 Oct 25
Unwanted Gift (IRE)then Rachel Hobbs 11 0 2 21 Aug 11
D'nailor (IRE)then Jennie Candlish 9 0 2 11 Jul 16
Connor Of Mali (IRE) 6 0 0 20 Sep 26
All The Way West (IRE) 6 1 1 12 Jul 19
Inchidaly Breeze (IRE) 6 0 0 7 May 19
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 63 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 1 time. 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, 7 arrived from another yard in our archive; 53 had their first archived run for this yard.

21 have since run for another yard, most often for Alexandra Dunn (2); 39 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 1
Only 1 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
053247050005
A jumps yard: the season runs Oct–Apr. Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first
Go-to riderMr C J Shine
14% of all rides
4.5% SR · A/E 1.28
RiderRWSR£1
Mr C J Shine 44 2 4.5% −31.00
E Walsh 36 2 5.6% −19.50
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
12
Archived wins
£187k
Prize money
2024
Best season · 3 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.
Look Between Us (IRE) — Dawn Milk Handicap Chase Listowel (IRE) · Sep 2005
£24,413
Look Between Us (IRE) — Carbon Group Handicap Chase Cork · May 2005
£18,554
Look Between Us (IRE) — Kanturk Handicap Chase Cork · Jun 2005
£17,903
Notable horses
Mountain Lough (IRE) Look Between Us (IRE) Carlas Big Jim (IRE) Another Ocana (IRE) Captain Ocana (IRE) All The Way West (IRE)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Moohaajim (IRE) 5% · 2–40
Progeny have won 9.5% of 304 runs since 2018 (34 horses).
Court Cave (IRE) 5.7% · 2–35
Progeny have won 10.1% of 7,961 runs since 2008 (553 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 6.8% from 937.
Ask (GB) 0% · 0–26
Progeny have won 10.6% of 3,219 runs since 2014 (283 horses).
Anshan (GB) 12% · 3–25
Progeny have won 9.6% of 4,216 runs since 2008 (387 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 14.2% from 520.
Karinga Bay (GB) 4.8% · 1–21
Progeny have won 10.1% of 3,407 runs since 2008 (315 horses).
Scorpion (IRE) 0% · 0–20
Progeny have won 9.2% of 6,324 runs since 2011 (609 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 14.1% from 142.
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 8 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 373 · newest first

The latest 50 of 373 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 23 January 2005 to 1 November 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
01 Nov 26 Cork (IRE) Another Ocana (IRE)J: Alan O'Sullivan Ballymaloe Foods Handicap Hurdle16f · Good To Yielding · 21 ran 8th 28/1
25 Oct 26 Wexford (IRE) One For Christy (IRE)J: Phillip Enright Irish Stallion Farms EBF Academy Hurdle18f · Soft · 8 ran PU 66/1
17 Oct 26 Limerick (IRE) Another Ocana (IRE)J: Phillip Enright Greenpark Limerick Handicap Hurdle (Div I)21.5f · Good To Yielding · 16 ran 7th 14/1
20 Sep 26 Listowel (IRE) Connor Of Mali (IRE)J: Phillip Enright Kinisla Charleville Cheese 3-Y-O Hurdle16f · Good · 11 ran 8th 33/1
22 Aug 26 Killarney (IRE) Lincoln Mill (IRE)J: John Shinnick ML Lynch Civil Engineering Ltd. Maiden Hurdle (Div II)16.5f · Good · 16 ran 8th 200/1
20 Aug 26 Killarney (IRE) Connor Of Mali (IRE)J: Phillip Enright Sheahan's Pharmacy 3-Y-O Maiden Hurdle17f · Good · 11 ran 4th 300/1
10 Aug 26 Ballinrobe (IRE) Connor Of Mali (IRE)J: Alan O'Sullivan C.J. Sheeran Ltd 3-Y-O Maiden Hurdle16.5f · Good · 13 ran UR 300/1
01 Aug 26 Galway (IRE) Lincoln Mill (IRE)J: Luke Burke Ott BOYLE Sports Best Odds Guaranteed Maiden Hurdle17f · Good To Yielding · 19 ran 16th 200/1
17 Jul 26 Killarney (IRE) Connor Of Mali (IRE)J: Alan O'Sullivan Killarney Park 3-Y-O Maiden Hurdle17f · Good · 12 ran 9th 300/1
10 Jul 26 Cork The West A Yeats (IRE)J: Mr E P O'Brien Racing Again July 24th Fillies Flat Race17f · Good · 16 ran 15th 33/1
02 Jul 26 Limerick Connor Of Mali (IRE)J: Luke Burke Ott Cappawhite Civil Engineering 3-Y-O Maiden Hurdle16.5f · Good · 9 ran PU 100/1
05 Jun 26 Clonmel Care To Differ (IRE)J: Luke Burke Ott Talbot Hotel Clonmel (C & G) Maiden Hurdle16.5f · Good · 15 ran 9th 150/1
05 Jun 26 Clonmel The West A Yeats (IRE)J: Dylan Whelan Bulmers Original Maiden Hurdle16.5f · Good · 17 ran 3rd 100/1
29 May 26 Tramore Lincoln Mill (IRE)J: Ms E C Costello August Festival Early Bird Tickets At tramoreraces.ie (Ladies Pro/Am) Flat Race16f · Good · 11 ran 8th 14/1
21 May 26 Limerick Another Ocana (IRE)J: Luke Burke Ott Tote Guarantee, Never Beaten By SP Handicap Chase (0-100) (Div 1)22.5f · Good · 11 ran 3rd 15/2
21 May 26 Limerick Carlas Big Jim (IRE)J: G B Noonan Maloney's Bus Hire & Martin's Coaches Handicap Chase20f · Good To Yielding · 11 ran 3rd 17/2
20 Apr 26 Tramore Another Ocana (IRE)J: Jack Kennedy O'Driscolls Irish Whiskey Handicap Chase (0-100)21.5f · Good To Yielding · 12 ran 3rd 14/1
16 Apr 26 Limerick Carlas Big Jim (IRE)J: Jack Kennedy Professor Maria Hinfelaar Handicap Hurdle (0-100) (Div 1)19.5f · Soft To Heavy · 13 ran F 8/1
02 Apr 26 Clonmel Carlas Big Jim (IRE)J: Daniel King KEP Italia Handicap Chase23f · Soft · 14 ran 9th 12/1
31 Mar 26 Limerick Another Ocana (IRE)J: John Shinnick Vision Contracting Handicap Chase19.5f · Soft · 11 ran 5th 9/1

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 L J Archdeacon's strike rate?
L J Archdeacon has won 9 of 325 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 2.8% (as at 8 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does L J Archdeacon do best at?
Limerick by strike rate: 2 wins from 49 runners (4.1%) 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.
Is L J Archdeacon in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 1 runner, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is L J Archdeacon's Fair A/E?
0.64, from 324 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 8 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).