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Trainer profile

Liam P Cusack

353 runners in the last 5 seasons · 45 individual horses
As at 20 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner 16 days ago 92% of runners over jumps
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)
from 1 Jan 2022
20–353
Wins / Runs
5.7%
Strike rate
n=353
75 (21%)
Placed
0.99
Fair A/E
n=353 · 0.78 incl. margin
−103.67
£1 level stake
n=353 at SP · −29.4%
£293k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
3.7%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 70 runners a season, almost all over hurdles and fences, winning with 6% of them — level with the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 0.99). The edge shows sharpest with horses returning fresh: 8% off breaks of two months or more (73 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 353 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 20 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fresh horses: 8.2% Richard Deegan: 4.1% from 97
The read

It is weakest at Limerick (0% over 31 runners) — the widest gap in the record. The market has consistently overbet runners with a claiming rider up: 4.2% strike, Fair A/E 0.78 and −84.50 to a £1 stake over 143 runners — those runners underperform what the price implies. Richard Deegan rides 27% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (4.1%, A/E 0.74). The yard also reads well off a 8-14-day break (11.4%, n=35) and off a 61-180-day break (9.1%, n=44). The record reads poorly over 1m5f – 2m — 1.4% over 74 runners, 4.3pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the yard off a 15-30-day break: Fair A/E 0.57 across 122 runners (3.3% strike, −69.00 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperform what the price implies. One Group or Graded win sits in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Pigsback.com Handicap Chase at Punchestown (May 2019, £38,350). The stable star of the record: Bog War (IRE) — 7 wins from 52 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 5.7% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
8.2%+2.5
n=73 · A/E 1.65 · £1 +71.75
New recruits · first run for the yard
20%+14.3
n=5 · A/E 7.99 · £1 +96.00
Debutants · first career start
0%−5.7
n=29 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −29.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−5.7
n=18 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −18.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
0%−5.7
n=7 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −7.00
When favourite
31.3%
n=16 · A/E 1.36 · £1 +0.33
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
4.2%−1.5
n=143 · A/E 0.78 · £1 −84.50
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−5.7
n=10 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −10.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 5.7% 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 Brian Hayes 11.5% vs 5.7% · n=52
Off a 8-14-day break 11.4% vs 5.7% · n=35
At Limerick 0% vs 5.7% · n=31
Over 1m5f – 2m 1.4% vs 5.7% · n=74
Off a 61-180-day break 9.1% vs 5.7% · n=44
Off a 15-30-day break 3.3% vs 5.7% · n=122
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 244 15 6.1% −115.92
Chase 77 4 5.2% −56.75
Flat 28 1 3.6% +73.00
NH Flat 4 0 0% −4.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Soft 128 6 4.7% −81.92
Good 104 8 7.7% +67.00
Good to Soft 70 3 4.3% −45.50
Heavy 50 3 6% −42.25
Good to Firm 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Punchestown 33 1 3% −25.00
Limerick 31 0 0% −31.00
Thurles 29 2 6.9% −20.50
Sligo 28 6 21.4% +17.83
Fairyhouse 25 1 4% −6.00
Clonmel 23 1 4.3% −21.00
Ballinrobe 21 1 4.8% −8.00
Cork 19 2 10.5% −0.25
Roscommon 18 0 0% −18.00
Kilbeggan 17 2 11.8% +2.00
Wexford 15 1 6.7% −10.00
Navan 13 1 7.7% −10.25
Tramore 13 0 0% −13.00
Gowran Park 11 0 0% −11.00
Naas 11 0 0% −11.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 10 0 0% −10.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 23 8 34.8% 1.64 +6.83
2nd–3rd fav 29 4 13.8% 1.01 −4.50
4th–6th fav 79 3 3.8% 0.47 −47.00
7th+ in betting 222 5 2.3% 0.98 −59.00
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
84.4% completed · 321 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 77 72.7% 4 3 13 1 0
Hurdle 244 88.1% 2 2 24 1 0
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
The Dabbler (IRE)from M Phelan 30 1 9 9 Jun 26
Ballyglass Beauty (IRE)from K A Heffernan · then Cian Collins 30 3 13 1 Jan 26
Arrycan (IRE)then Nick Scholfield 23 2 11 11 Oct 25
Will It Be You (IRE) 20 1 3 21 Jul 26
Pearlofflorida (IRE) 19 1 4 6 Oct 24
The Striker Dylan (IRE) 16 1 7 28 May 26
John Storey (IRE)then Ian Patrick Donoghue 16 1 1 11 Dec 25
Getabelle (IRE) 16 2 3 21 Dec 24
Lariat (GB)from John C McConnell 13 0 2 19 Sep 26
Highland Earl (IRE) 12 1 1 3 Aug 26
Bidentime (IRE)then Noel G Hynds 11 0 1 24 Jan 23
Brown Boots (IRE) 10 2 4 26 Mar 26
All 45 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 45 horses listed, 10 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Michael J Bowe (3); 35 had their first archived run for this yard.

8 have since run for another yard, most often for Michael J Bowe (2); 37 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, 5 seasons
JFMAMJJASOND
613007153391030
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 riderRichard Deegan
27% of all rides
4.1% SR · A/E 0.74
RiderRWSR£1
Richard Deegan 97 4 4.1% −68.50
Brian Hayes 52 6 11.5% −30.67
Adam Ellis 30 1 3.3% −17.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
73
Archived wins
1
Pattern / graded wins
£1.08m
Prize money
2015
Best season · 8 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.
Snugsborough Hall (IRE) — Pigsback.com Handicap Chase (grade B) Punchestown · May 2019 · Grade B
£38,350
Red Letter Bray (IRE) — Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund Habitat Handicap (Premier Handicap) Curragh · May 2024
£29,500
Snugsborough Benny (IRE) — Guinness Galway Blazers Handicap Chase Galway · Aug 2018
£18,450
Notable horses
Bog War (IRE) Snugsborough Benny (IRE) Snugsborough Hall (IRE) Arrycan (IRE) Chief Of Panama (IRE) Last Time D'albain (FR)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Westerner (GB) 9.4% · 3–32
Progeny have won 12.1% of 11,823 runs since 2008 (941 horses). Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 8.5% from 188.
Presenting (GB) 3.2% · 1–31
Progeny have won 11% of 20,049 runs since 2008 (1,686 horses). Strongest on Standard (AW) going: 24.3% from 136.
Court Cave (IRE) 6.9% · 2–29
Progeny have won 10.1% of 7,928 runs since 2008 (551 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 6.9% from 934.
Affinisea (IRE) 11.5% · 3–26
Progeny have won 12.9% of 1,250 runs since 2008 (197 horses).
Arakan (USA) 8.7% · 2–23
Progeny have won 9.2% of 3,467 runs since 2008 (266 horses). Weakest at trips under 6f (all codes): 4.5% from 134.
Altruistic (IRE) 4.8% · 1–21
Progeny have won 5.7% of 122 runs since 2008 (14 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 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 1,054 · newest first

The latest 50 of 1,054 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 15 January 2005 to 4 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
04 Oct 26 Curragh (IRE) Prophet's Path (GB)J: Ms S Joubert Holden Plant Rentals Lady Riders Classic (Q.R.) Handicap12f · Yielding · 12 ran 11th 40/1
02 Oct 26 Gowran Park (IRE) Online Order (IRE)J: Daniel King Racing TV Handicap Hurdle (Div I)20f · Good · 20 ran 10th 50/1
02 Oct 26 Gowran Park (IRE) Gerrymadiddler (IRE)J: Brian Hayes Cantor Fitzgerald Ireland Maiden Hurdle16.5f · Good To Yielding · 20 ran F 80/1
27 Sep 26 Curragh (IRE) If Not For Grace (IRE)J: Ms S Joubert Kwiff Supercharged Betting (Q.R.) Handicap10f · Heavy · 18 ran 5th 50/1
19 Sep 26 Navan (IRE) Lariat (GB)J: Brian Hayes Millbrook Food Group 100 Years Celebration Handicap Hurdle (Div II)19f · Good · 16 ran 12th 22/1
05 Sep 26 Navan (IRE) If Not For Grace (IRE)J: James Ryan Lynn Lodge Stud Maiden10f · Good · 21 ran 8th 300/1
03 Sep 26 Kilbeggan (IRE) Online Order (IRE)J: Daniel King SIS Supporting Irish Racing Maiden Hurdle19f · Good To Yielding · 11 ran 6th 100/1
02 Sep 26 Navan (IRE) Winston's Promise (IRE)J: Luke McAteer Navan Handicap (Div II)8f · Good · 16 ran 16th 28/1
02 Sep 26 Navan (IRE) Time Whisperer (IRE)J: Luke McAteer Book Your Hospitality Now For Navan Racing Festival Maiden8f · Good · 13 ran 11th 150/1
20 Aug 26 Leopardstown (IRE) Time Whisperer (IRE)J: Seamie Heffernan Leopardstown Golf, Padel & Range Maiden8f · Good To Yielding · 13 ran 8th 33/1
15 Aug 26 Tramore (IRE) Lariat (GB)J: Robbie Colgan Dan Cowman Memorial Handicap16f · Good To Yielding · 12 ran 8th 20/1
14 Aug 26 Cork (IRE) Winston's Promise (IRE)J: Luke McAteer Fitzgerald Construction Building 'A' Rated Homes Handicap8f · Good · 17 ran 13th 66/1
12 Aug 26 Gowran Park (IRE) If Not For Grace (IRE)J: Leigh Roche Gowran Park Golf Optional Claiming Race8f · Good · 15 ran 13th 150/1
03 Aug 26 Cork (IRE) Highland Earl (IRE)J: Brian Hayes Follow Us On Instagram Handicap Hurdle (Div I)17f · Good · 16 ran 8th 17/2
28 Jul 26 Galway (IRE) Winston's Promise (IRE)J: J M Sheridan Caulfield Industrial Irish EBF Maiden7f · Yielding · 14 ran 8th 300/1
24 Jul 26 Kilbeggan (IRE) Lariat (GB)J: Brian Hayes Massey Ferguson Johnston Farm Equipment Longford Handicap Hurdle (Div II)19f · Good · 16 ran PU 10/1
21 Jul 26 Ballinrobe (IRE) Will It Be You (IRE)J: Brian Hayes Sweeney Oil Handicap Hurdle (Div I)22f · Good · 15 ran 13th 18/1
21 Jul 26 Ballinrobe (IRE) Online Order (IRE)J: Daniel King O'Hare's Bar Maiden Hurdle17.5f · Good · 15 ran 8th 100/1
15 Jul 26 Killarney (IRE) Winston's Promise (IRE)J: Luke McAteer Irish Stallion Farms EBF (C & G) Maiden8f · Good · 9 ran 8th 150/1
07 Jul 26 Tramore Lariat (GB)J: Luke McAteer August Festival August 13th - 16th Handicap (0-60)16f · Good · 12 ran 2nd 22/1

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 Liam P Cusack's strike rate?
Liam P Cusack has won 20 of 353 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 5.7% (as at 20 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Liam P Cusack do best at?
Punchestown by strike rate: 1 wins from 33 runners (3%) 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 Liam P Cusack?
Richard Deegan, with 97 runners since 2022 — 27% of the total. That pairing has won 4 (4.1%).
What is Liam P Cusack's Fair A/E?
0.99, from 353 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).