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Trainer profile

Lydia Richards

216 runners in the last 5 seasons · 19 individual horses
As at 21 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner 9 days ago
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)
from 1 Jan 2022
34–216
Wins / Runs
15.7%
Strike rate
n=216
58 (27%)
Placed
1.89
Fair A/E
n=214 · 1.63 incl. margin
+22.21
£1 level stake
n=216 at SP · +10.3%
£276k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
18.2%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 40 runners a season, across both codes, winning with 16% of them — beating the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 1.89).

Deterministic profile computed from 216 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 21 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Marc Goldstein: 15.9% from 63
The read

Horses returning fresh after 61+ days have been a poor signal at 4.2% (n=48, Fair A/E 0.73). Marc Goldstein rides 29% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (15.9%, A/E 1.65) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The yard also reads well in Class 5 (25.8%, n=66) and on Good going (20.4%, n=54). The record reads poorly off a 61-180-day break — 6.7% over 30 runners, 9pts below the baseline. The stable star of the record: Venetian Lad (GB) — 9 wins from 64 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 15.7% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
4.2%−11.5
n=48 · A/E 0.73 · £1 −31.50
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−15.7
n=8 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −8.00
Debutants · first career start
50%+34.3
n=4 · A/E 2.18 · £1 +15.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−15.7
n=8 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −8.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
37.5%+21.8
n=8 · A/E 3.14 · £1 +16.88
When favourite
75%
n=12 · A/E 2.31 · £1 +13.88
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
5.6%−10.1
n=18 · A/E 0.81 · £1 −9.50
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−15.7
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 15.7% 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
On last-time-out winners 30.3% vs 15.7% · n=33
In Class 5 25.8% vs 15.7% · n=66
Off a 61-180-day break 6.7% vs 15.7% · n=30
In Class 6 9.4% vs 15.7% · n=85
With C&D winners 21.4% vs 15.7% · n=56
On Good going 20.4% vs 15.7% · n=54
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 130 16 12.3% −15.42
Hurdle 54 10 18.5% +15.00
Chase 23 5 21.7% +1.63
NH Flat 9 3 33.3% +21.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 93 12 12.9% −24.75
Good 54 11 20.4% +18.88
Soft 25 2 8% −6.50
Good to Soft 24 7 29.2% +35.58
Good to Firm 16 2 12.5% +3.00
Heavy 3 0 0% −3.00
Firm 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Lingfield (AW) 62 11 17.7% +3.75
Kempton (AW) 25 1 4% −22.50
Plumpton 21 4 19% +14.50
Fontwell 15 5 33.3% +18.00
Wincanton 10 3 30% +1.25
Lingfield 9 0 0% −9.00
Sandown 9 2 22.2% +3.88
Brighton 8 4 50% +26.33
Windsor 7 0 0% −7.00
Kempton 7 2 28.6% +4.50
Goodwood 7 1 14.3% +16.00
Chelmsford City (AW) 6 0 0% −6.00
Salisbury 6 0 0% −6.00
Ascot 5 0 0% −5.00
Warwick 4 1 25% +4.50

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 6 85 8 9.4% −43.67
Class 5 66 17 25.8% +63.75
Class 4 42 6 14.3% +8.50
Class 3 10 2 20% +3.75
Class 2 9 1 11.1% −6.12
Class 1 4 0 0% −4.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 13 9 69.2% 2.22 +12.88
2nd–3rd fav 28 10 35.7% 2.19 +21.83
4th–6th fav 90 13 14.4% 1.91 +30.50
7th+ in betting 85 2 2.4% 0.78 −43.00
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
Smith (IRE)from Eve Johnson Houghton 42 5 8 8 Oct 26
Shalfa (IRE)from Marco Botti 28 6 12 24 May 26
Certainly Red (GB) 20 5 10 7 Mar 26
Birthday Angel (IRE)from Archie Watson 19 4 6 3 Oct 26
Capstan (GB)from Sir Michael Stoute 18 3 3 12 Feb 25
Florence Street (GB)from Andrew Balding 16 1 2 13 Dec 23
Good News (GB) 15 5 7 12 Feb 24
My Louise (GB) 11 2 3 24 Mar 26
Tara (GB) 10 0 2 3 May 23
Murhib (IRE) 8 1 1 2 Jul 24
Miss Ireland (IRE) 6 1 2 15 May 25
Brazen Insanity (GB)from Simon Hodgson 5 0 0 1 Nov 23
All 19 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 19 horses listed, 11 arrived from another yard in our archive; 8 had their first archived run for this yard.

None of them has a 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
1 from 3
Only 3 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
2719121416250018132218
Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first
Go-to riderMarc Goldstein
29% of all rides
15.9% SR · A/E 1.65
RiderRWSR£1
Marc Goldstein 63 10 15.9% +8.13
Robert Havlin 30 5 16.7% −1.50
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
85
Archived wins
£546k
Prize money
2022
Best season · 11 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.
Certainly Red (GB) — Sandown Park Veterans' Handicap Chase Sandown · Nov 2024 · Class 2
£15,609
Certainly Red (GB) — Dick Hunt 'Wigmore' Handicap Chase Wincanton · Feb 2023 · Class 3
£10,562
Division Day (GB) — Alderbrook Handicap Stakes (For Professional Jump Jockeys) (GBBPlus Race) Goodwood · Oct 2026 · Class 4
£9,160
Notable horses
Venetian Lad (GB) Good News (GB) Smith (IRE) Murhib (IRE) Certainly Red (GB) Kappelhoff (IRE)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Dawn Approach (IRE) 11.9% · 5–42
Progeny have won 8% of 3,569 runs since 2008 (358 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 12.6% from 333. Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 12% from 125. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 5% from 179.
Midnight Legend (GB) 28.6% · 10–35
Progeny have won 14.2% of 8,309 runs since 2008 (494 horses).
Ribchester (IRE) 21.4% · 6–28
Progeny have won 9.1% of 2,744 runs since 2008 (261 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 15.5% from 116. Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 14.1% from 213.
Dark Angel (IRE) 21.1% · 4–19
Progeny have won 11.3% of 21,878 runs since 2008 (1,594 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 15% from 107.
Kingman (GB) 16.7% · 3–18
Progeny have won 14.6% of 7,471 runs since 2008 (775 horses). Weakest on Soft going: 11.1% from 959. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 9.1% from 121.
Iffraaj (GB) 6.3% · 1–16
Progeny have won 10.6% of 13,951 runs since 2008 (1,089 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 7.6% from 489.
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 21 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 865 · newest first

The latest 50 of 865 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 3 January 2005 to 12 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
12 Oct 26 Kempton (AW) Girls Night Out (GB)J: Charles Bishop Try Unibet's New Improved Acca Boosts Handicap Stakes (London Stayers' Series Qualifier)Class 6 · 16f · Standard / Slow · 9 ran 7th 50/1
11 Oct 26 Goodwood Division Day (GB)J: Charlie Deutsch Alderbrook Handicap Stakes (For Professional Jump Jockeys) (GBBPlus Race)Class 4 · 16f · Good To Soft · 12 ran 1st 22/1
08 Oct 26 Bath Smith (IRE)J: Robert Havlin Your Elite Club Handicap StakesClass 6 · 17f · Good · 12 ran 6th 33/1
03 Oct 26 Fontwell Birthday Angel (IRE)J: Rex Dingle Sky Sports Racing Sky 415 Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 17.5f · Good · 8 ran 1st 3/1F
09 Sep 26 Kempton (AW) Birthday Angel (IRE)J: Jack Dace Bet £20 Get £20 With Unibet Handicap StakesClass 6 · 11f · Standard / Slow · 12 ran 4th 9/2
06 Sep 26 Fontwell UptoyourselvesJ: Marc Goldstein Free Race Replays On Attheraces.com Mares' Open National Hunt Flat RaceClass 5 · 17.5f · Good · 5 ran 3rd 1/2F
04 Sep 26 Kempton (AW) Division Day (GB)J: Robert Havlin Industry Leading In-play Markets At Unibet Handicap Stakes (London Stayers' Qualifier)Class 5 · 16f · Standard / Slow · 8 ran 3rd 10/1
06 Jul 26 Lingfield (AW) Smith (IRE)J: Robert Havlin Syd Renwick 90th Birthday HandicapClass 6 · 16f · Standard · 9 ran 7th 33/1
06 Jun 26 Lingfield Birthday Angel (IRE)J: Tyler Heard attheraces.com/marketmovers HandicapClass 5 · 10f · Soft · 6 ran 2nd 14/1
24 May 26 Fontwell Shalfa (IRE)J: Marc Goldstein V2 Radio Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 17.5f · Good · 7 ran 1st 13/2
18 May 26 Lingfield Smith (IRE)J: Jack Dace Visit Sri Lanka HandicapClass 6 · 16.5f · Good · 10 ran 9th 33/1
19 Apr 26 Plumpton Shalfa (IRE)J: Marc Goldstein Diane And Harry's Plumpton Annual Box Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 16f · Good · 10 ran 4th 16/5
05 Apr 26 Plumpton Smith (IRE)J: Marc Goldstein BetGoodwin Master Trainer Chris Gordon Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 20.5f · Good · 8 ran PU 28/1
05 Apr 26 Plumpton Shalfa (IRE)J: Marc Goldstein Charlotte Savill Memorial Novices' Limited Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 18f · Good · 9 ran 1st 11/2
24 Mar 26 Taunton My Louise (GB)J: Marc Goldstein Experience The Thrill With HotToTrot Racing Mares' Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 24f · Good · 10 ran PU 17/2
07 Mar 26 Sandown Certainly Red (GB)J: Marc Goldstein Best Odds On The Betfair Exchange Handicap Chase (GBB Race)Class 3 · 24f · Soft · 8 ran 3rd 50/1
25 Feb 26 Wincanton Shalfa (IRE)J: Rex Dingle WinOlympics Family Day On Sale Now Mares' Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 15f · Good To Soft · 7 ran 5th 11/2
23 Feb 26 Plumpton My Louise (GB)J: Rex Dingle oldgoldracing.com Supports Jamie's Farm Mares' Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 20.5f · Soft · 7 ran PU 11/2
23 Feb 26 Plumpton Smith (IRE)J: Marc Goldstein Jolly Sportsman Supports Jamie's Farm Novices' Limited Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 25f · Soft · 9 ran PU 66/1
09 Feb 26 Plumpton Shalfa (IRE)J: Rex Dingle Buy Answer That Shares At oldgoldracing.com Maiden Hurdle (GBB Race)Class 4 · 16f · Soft · 7 ran 2nd 33/1

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 Lydia Richards's strike rate?
Lydia Richards has won 34 of 216 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 15.7% (as at 21 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Lydia Richards do best at?
Lingfield (AW) by strike rate: 11 wins from 62 runners (17.7%) 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 Lydia Richards?
Marc Goldstein, with 63 runners since 2022 — 29% of the total. That pairing has won 10 (15.9%).
Is Lydia Richards in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 3 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is Lydia Richards's Fair A/E?
1.89, from 214 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 21 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).