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Trainer profile

M Nigge

1,907 runners in the lifetime window · 244 individual horses
As at 4 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner 4 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
136–1,907
Wins / Runs
7.1%
Strike rate
n=1,907
449 (24%)
Placed
0.95
n=1,844 · 0.82 incl. margin
−474.30
£1 level stake
n=1,863 at SP · −25.5%
£3.61m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
1.6%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 100 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 7% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.95). Horses with headgear back on after a bare run strike at 12% (49 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 1,907 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 4 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Dec–Feb 29.7% when favourite Hugo Journiac: 12.7% from 237 Headgear returns: 12.2% Sends off the favourite in 5% of races
The read

A horse having headgear put back on after a bare run has been a positive signal at 12.2% (n=49, Fair A/E 1.83), but a horse in first-time headgear has been a poor signal at 3.9% (n=103, Fair A/E 0.75). The market has consistently overbet in Group and Graded company the record: 5.5% strike, Fair A/E 0.74 and −34.90 to a £1 stake over 127 runners — those runners underperform what the price implies. Hugo Journiac rides 12% of the entries and beats the yard's average (12.7% vs 7.1%, A/E 1.77) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The yard also reads well at trips under 6f (17.4%, n=46). The record reads poorly over 1m5f – 2m — 2.5% over 81 runners, 4.6pts below the baseline. 7 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Prix Lyphard at Deauville (FR) (Dec 2009, £26,699). The stable star of the record: Tertius (FR) — 6 wins from 28 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires Dec–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 7.1% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
6.3%−0.8
n=395 · A/E 0.93 · £1 −143.20
New recruits · first run for the yard
7%−0.1
n=71 · A/E 1.01 · £1 −29.30
Debutants · first career start
5.2%−1.9
n=173 · A/E 1.17 · £1 −24.30
First-time headgear · true-first definition
3.9%−3.2
n=103 · A/E 0.75 · £1 −35.70
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
12.2%+5.1
n=49 · A/E 1.83 · £1 +9.60
When favourite
29.7%
n=101 · A/E 1.09 · £1 +6.80
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
5.8%−1.3
n=277 · A/E 0.80 · £1 −101.10
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
5.5%−1.6
n=127 · A/E 0.74 · £1 −34.90

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 7.1% 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
At trips under 6f 17.4% vs 7.1% · n=46
With Hugo Journiac 12.7% vs 7.1% · n=237
With Mickael Barzalona 15.4% vs 7.1% · n=39
With Mlle Marie Velon 12% vs 7.1% · n=92
Over 1m5f – 2m 2.5% vs 7.1% · n=81
On last-time-out winners 11.1% vs 7.1% · n=144
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 1,885 135 7.2% −459.40
Hurdle 19 0 0% −18.00
Chase 3 1 33.3% +3.10

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 884 62 7% −197.40
Soft 390 30 7.7% −121.10
Good 261 18 6.9% −21.10
Good to Soft 234 13 5.6% −95.20
Heavy 134 12 9% −39.50
Good to Firm 4 1 25% +0.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Deauville 765 56 7.3% −134.80
Chantilly (FR) 400 27 6.8% −88.10
Saint-Cloud 288 24 8.3% −85.70
Longchamp (FR) 203 9 4.4% −116.90
Maisons-Laffitte (FR) 135 10 7.4% +17.30
Clairefontaine 14 1 7.1% −10.00
Enghien (FR) 11 1 9.1% −4.90
Dieppe 10 0 0% −9.00
Compiegne 9 0 0% −8.00
Fontainebleau 9 4 44.4% +12.40
Auteuil (FR) 8 0 0% −8.00
Cagnes-Sur-Mer (FR) 7 0 0% −5.00
Le Mans 6 0 0% −6.00
Lyon Parilly 5 0 0% −5.00
Craon 4 1 25% −0.40

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 129 7 5.4% −36.90
Class 2 3 0 0% −3.00
Class 3 3 0 0% −3.00
Class 4 3 0 0% −3.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 106 31 29.2% 1.10 +7.80
2nd–3rd fav 283 35 12.4% 0.92 −72.80
4th–6th fav 481 34 7.1% 0.91 −167.20
7th+ in betting 993 32 3.2% 0.95 −242.10
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
Speedy Crown (FR)then M Seror 42 3 14 11 Mar 14
Come Say Hi (FR)from A Schutz · then D Windrif 40 5 15 20 Jan 23
Happy Hunter (FR) 37 0 3 5 Sep 26
Hollyhock (FR)then Sofie Lanslots 36 2 10 19 Dec 25
Gag (FR) 36 5 15 9 May 16
Vicosoprano (IRE)then F Pedrono 35 3 8 16 Jan 17
Imperial Beauty (FR) 34 3 4 3 Feb 24
Goalfire (FR)from S Smrczek · then Pierrick Le Geay 32 1 7 30 Jun 14
Quirinus (GB)then J-P Gauvin 29 3 8 13 Oct 12
Tertius (FR) 28 6 14 20 Sep 25
Tour (GB)then Mme Stephanie Nigge 27 2 11 30 Jan 20
Irska (FR) 26 3 8 16 Dec 22
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 244 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 11 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, 15 arrived from another yard in our archive; 45 had their first archived run for this yard.

23 have since run for another yard; 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.

Current form

significance-gated

Last 14 days

Small sample
0 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, lifetime
JFMAMJJASOND
101067108573569
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 riderHugo Journiac
12% of all rides
12.7% SR · A/E 1.77
RiderRWSR£1
Hugo Journiac 237 30 12.7% +120.00
Aurelien Lemaitre 182 10 5.5% −103.70
Theo Bachelot 132 14 10.6% +53.20
Mlle Marie Velon 92 11 12% +7.20
Flavien Prat 79 6 7.6% −10.00
Jerome Cabre 74 7 9.5% +38.20
Antoine Hamelin 71 8 11.3% +6.70
Olivier Peslier 60 7 11.7% +7.50
Thierry Jarnet 57 4 7% −29.30
Laurent Huart 53 2 3.8% −26.80
Stephane Pasquier 41 1 2.4% −34.80
Mickael Barzalona 39 6 15.4% −8.30
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
139
Archived wins
7
Pattern / graded wins
£3.70m
Prize money
2016
Best season · 14 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.
Sky Crusader (GB) — Prix Lyphard () (All-Weather) Deauville (FR) · Dec 2009 · Listed
£26,699
Irska (FR) — Prix de Lieurey (3yo Fillies) (Round Course) (Turf) Deauville (FR) · Aug 2020 · Group 3
£26,695
Tertius (FR) — Prix Ronde de Nuit () (3yo) (Turf) Chantilly (FR) · Mar 2019 · Listed
£24,775

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Siyouni (FR) 12.5% · 12–96
Progeny have won 13% of 8,351 runs since 2014 (978 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 9.2% from 457.
Hunter's Light (IRE) 6.5% · 6–93
Progeny have won 11.1% of 1,342 runs since 2019 (153 horses). Strongest on Good to Soft going: 14.3% from 168. Weakest on Heavy going: 6.7% from 165. Strongest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 14.2% from 211. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 7.5% from 133.
Le Havre (IRE) 11.5% · 9–78
Progeny have won 12.5% of 5,876 runs since 2013 (750 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 15.5% from 296. Weakest on Heavy going: 9.5% from 525.
Layman (USA) 11.7% · 7–60
Progeny have won 9.3% of 1,327 runs since 2010 (122 horses). Strongest on Soft going: 13.3% from 279. Strongest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 14.9% from 161.
Panis (USA) 10% · 6–60
Progeny have won 8.4% of 1,980 runs since 2008 (211 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 12.2% from 147. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 4.3% from 116.
Kendargent (FR) 4.7% · 2–43
Progeny have won 9.6% of 5,240 runs since 2011 (580 horses). Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 5.9% from 256.
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 4 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 1,935 · newest first

The latest 50 of 1,935 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 3 April 2005 to 31 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
21 Oct 26 Deauville (FR) Codrea (IRE)J: Alexis Pouchin Prix De Caen7.5f · Standard · 6 ran 5th 14/1
05 Oct 26 Le Mans (FR) Persian Heroe (FR)J: Axel Baron Prix De Champagne8f · Good To Soft · 15 ran 12th 33/1
04 Sep 26 Chantilly (FR) Poschiavo (FR)J: Pierre-Charles Boudot Prix Du Bois FrancClass 3 · 8.5f · Standard · 13 ran 3rd 13/2

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).

Quick answers

What is M Nigge's strike rate?
M Nigge has won 136 of 1,907 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 7.1% (as at 4 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does M Nigge do best at?
Saint-Cloud by strike rate: 24 wins from 288 runners (8.3%) 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 M Nigge?
Hugo Journiac, with 237 runners since 2008 — 12% of the total. That pairing has won 30 (12.7%).
Is M Nigge 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 M Nigge's Fair A/E?
0.95, from 1,844 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 4 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).