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Trainer profile

M Pimbonnet

576 runners in the lifetime window · 174 individual horses
As at 7 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner May 2025 93% of runners on the flat
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
62–576
Wins / Runs
10.8%
Strike rate
n=576
153 (27%)
Placed
0.89
Fair A/E
n=495 · 0.83 incl. margin
−104.00
£1 level stake
n=521 at SP · −20.0%
£1.37m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 30 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 11% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.89). Debutants are a strength: 14% on first career starts (127 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 576 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 7 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Mar–Apr Franck Blondel: 11.2% from 179
The read

Debutants strike at 14.2% (n=127, Fair A/E 1.21), but in Group and Graded company the record reads poorly at 3.2% (n=63, Fair A/E 0.32). The market has consistently overbet horses returning fresh after 61+ days: 9.7% strike, Fair A/E 0.67 and −77.60 to a £1 stake over 216 runners — those runners underperform what the price implies. Franck Blondel rides 31% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (11.2%, A/E 0.89). The yard also reads well on Heavy going (17.5%, n=57). The record reads poorly off a 8-14-day break — 2.6% over 39 runners, 8.2pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the yard in Class 1: Fair A/E 0.32 across 63 runners (3.2% strike, −51.50 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperform what the price implies. 2 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Grand Steeple Chase De Lyon at Lyon Parilly (Jun 2010, £24,637). The stable star of the record: Tagar Bere (FR) — 6 wins from 29 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires Mar–Apr.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 10.8% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
9.7%−1.1
n=216 · A/E 0.67 · £1 −77.60
New recruits · first run for the yard
6.5%−4.3
n=46 · A/E 0.82 · £1 −35.20
Debutants · first career start
14.2%+3.4
n=127 · A/E 1.21 · £1 +36.70
First-time headgear · true-first definition
8.3%−2.5
n=60 · A/E 0.51 · £1 −41.20
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
0%−10.8
n=8 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −8.00
When favourite
38.5%
n=26 · A/E 1.10 · £1 +16.40
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
4.3%−6.5
n=69 · A/E 0.52 · £1 +13.70
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
3.2%−7.6
n=63 · A/E 0.32 · £1 −51.50

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 10.8% 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
With C&D winners 1.9% vs 10.8% · n=52
In Class 1 3.2% vs 10.8% · n=63
In Group / Graded races 3.2% vs 10.8% · n=63
Off a 8-14-day break 2.6% vs 10.8% · n=39
With claiming riders up 4.3% vs 10.8% · n=69
On Heavy going 17.5% vs 10.8% · n=57
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 534 59 11% −79.00
Hurdle 35 2 5.7% −20.00
Chase 7 1 14.3% −5.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 181 18 9.9% −28.30
Soft 139 12 8.6% −78.70
Good 106 13 12.3% −30.40
Good to Soft 91 8 8.8% +43.60
Heavy 57 10 17.5% −11.50
Firm 1 0 0% —
Good to Firm 1 1 100% +1.30

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Chantilly (FR) 96 6 6.3% −34.30
Deauville (FR) 86 6 7% −27.10
Saint-Cloud (FR) 79 6 7.6% −58.70
Maisons-Laffitte (FR) 70 8 11.4% −27.00
Longchamp (FR) 60 5 8.3% −8.90
Lyon Parilly 59 9 15.3% +52.30
Cagnes-Sur-Mer 27 6 22.2% +15.50
Marseille Borely 19 5 26.3% +13.10
Vichy 19 3 15.8% −1.00
Auteuil (FR) 13 0 0% −13.00
Enghien (FR) 13 0 0% −13.00
Lyon-La Soie 7 2 28.6% +3.40
Compiegne 7 0 0% −7.00
Aix-Les-Bains 5 1 20% −2.00
Marseille Pont-de-Vivaux 3 1 33.3% −1.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 63 2 3.2% −51.50

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 27 11 40.7% 1.25 +18.60
2nd–3rd fav 104 18 17.3% 1.32 +0.30
4th–6th fav 181 7 3.9% 0.43 −90.00
7th+ in betting 209 6 2.9% 0.77 −32.90
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
Tagar Bere (FR)then Joel Phelippon 29 6 13 16 Apr 14
Pump Pump Boy (FR)then J-P Gauvin 27 4 7 9 Feb 14
Heaven King (FR)then C Boutin 24 3 8 30 Sep 13
Poet's Black (FR)then Antoine Sanglard 18 1 3 7 May 23
Cleod'Or (FR)then Antoine Sanglard 17 2 6 18 Jun 23
La Fibre (FR)then C Martinon 15 2 5 2 Aug 20
Botanique (FR) 12 1 4 26 Apr 14
Rockawango (FR)then Y-M Porzier 12 6 6 16 Jul 12
Fashionspan (FR) 11 0 3 23 Jan 25
Chasselay (FR)then Joel Phelippon 10 0 3 16 May 19
Millenium Park (FR)then S Culin 10 0 3 16 May 18
Bat Aloufat (FR)from J-P Gauvin · then C Martinon 9 0 2 31 Jul 18
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 174 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 3 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, 16 arrived from another yard in our archive; 44 had their first archived run for this yard.

37 have since run for another yard, most often for Antoine Sanglard (4) and C Martinon (4); 23 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, lifetime
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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 riderFranck Blondel
31% of all rides
11.2% SR · A/E 0.89
RiderRWSR£1
Franck Blondel 179 20 11.2% −57.90
Guillaume Mandel 32 3 9.4% −0.90
Anthony Teissieux 31 3 9.7% −20.90
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
67
Archived wins
2
Pattern / graded wins
£1.44m
Prize money
2010
Best season · 12 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.
Bollywood (FR) — Grand Steeple Chase De Lyon Lyon Parilly · Jun 2010 · Listed
£24,637
Pump Pump Boy (FR) — Coupe Des Trois Ans () Lyon Parilly (FR) · May 2011 · Listed
£23,707
La Fibre (FR) — Prix Otto (Handicap) (4yo) (Polytrack) Chantilly (FR) · Mar 2018
£23,009
Notable horses
Tagar Bere (FR) Rockawango (FR) Pump Pump Boy (FR) Heaven King (FR) Quick Bere (FR) Cleod'Or (FR)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Kingsalsa (USA) 10% · 7–70
Progeny have won 9.3% of 2,991 runs since 2008 (284 horses). Strongest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 12.7% from 110.
High Yield (USA) 21.9% · 7–32
Progeny have won 9.5% of 744 runs since 2008 (80 horses). Weakest at trips under 6f (all codes): 6.5% from 107.
Anodin (IRE) 12.5% · 3–24
Progeny have won 8.8% of 2,444 runs since 2018 (275 horses). Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 3.4% from 116.
Poet's Voice (GB) 8.7% · 2–23
Progeny have won 10% of 6,046 runs since 2015 (384 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 13.3% from 264. Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 13% from 494. Weakest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 6.3% from 142.
Okawango (USA) 35.3% · 6–17
Progeny have won 9.4% of 936 runs since 2008 (80 horses). Strongest on Good to Soft going: 13.4% from 134.
Whipper (USA) 11.8% · 2–17
Progeny have won 9.8% of 4,603 runs since 2009 (397 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 13.6% from 516. Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 6.7% from 1,129.
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 7 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 602 · newest first

The latest 50 of 602 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 7 April 2005 to 7 May 2025.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
07 May 25 Longchamp (FR) Exhit (FR)J: Mme Mickaelle Michel Prix du Jardin des Tuileries (Handicap) (4yo+) (Grande Course) (Turf)12f · Good To Soft · 16 ran 16th 25/1
01 Feb 25 Deauville (FR) Skadoosh (FR)J: Rudy Pimbonnet Prix du Fort de Tourneville (Conditions) (4yo) (All-Weather Track) (Polytrack)9.5f · Standard · 8 ran 8th 13/1
27 Jan 25 Cagnes-Sur-Mer (FR) Lighted Glory (FR)J: Antonio Orani Prix du Sud (Handicap) (4yo+) (Turf)11f · Heavy · 13 ran 10th 13/1
23 Jan 25 Deauville (FR) Fashionspan (FR)J: Delphine Santiago Prix de l'Aure (Handicap) (5yo+) (All-Weather Track) (Polytrack)12.5f · Standard · 15 ran 4th 12/1
04 Jan 25 Deauville (FR) Bellaelo (IRE)J: Delphine Santiago Prix du Phare (Claimer) (4yo+) (All-Weather Track) (Polytrack)6.5f · Standard · 12 ran 10th 36/1
04 Jan 25 Deauville (FR) Fashionspan (FR)J: Delphine Santiago Prix du Home (Conditions) (5yo+) (All-Weather Track) (Polytrack)12.5f · Standard · 12 ran 9th 43/5
18 Dec 24 Deauville (FR) Skadoosh (FR)J: Clement Lecoeuvre Prix d'Occagnes (Handicap) (3yo) (All-Weather Track) (Polytrack)9.5f · Standard · 16 ran 3rd 16/1
27 Nov 24 Deauville (FR) Allabara (IRE)J: Delphine Santiago Prix d'Orrouy (Handicap) (2yo) (All-Weather Track) (Polytrack)7.5f · Standard · 10 ran 10th 16/1
27 Nov 24 Deauville (FR) Fuji Hana (FR)J: Mme Marie Velon Prix d'Orrouy (Handicap) (2yo) (All-Weather Track) (Polytrack)7.5f · Standard · 10 ran 5th 10/1
26 Nov 24 Deauville (FR) Fashionspan (FR)J: Delphine Santiago Prix du Conservatoire de la Dentelle (Handicap) (3yo+) (All-Weather Track) (Polytrack)12.5f · Standard · 16 ran 2nd 29/1
26 Nov 24 Deauville (FR) Exhit (FR)J: Stephane Pasquier Prix de l'Hotel du Croissant (Handicap) (3yo+) (All-Weather Track) (Polytrack)12.5f · Standard · 16 ran 6th 13/1
15 Oct 24 Chantilly (FR) Miss Sissi (FR)J: Benjamin Marie Prix du Chene Sylvie (Handicap) (3yo) (All-Weather Track) (Polytrack)9.5f · Standard · 15 ran 12th 42/1
09 Sep 24 Saint-Cloud (FR) Fashionspan (FR)J: Delphine Santiago Prix de Montigny (Handicap) (4yo+) (Turf)15.5f · Very Soft · 9 ran 8th 16/1
08 Sep 24 Longchamp (FR) Secret Feeling (FR)J: Christophe Soumillon Prix de Bolivar (Handicap) (4yo+) (Moyenne Course) (Turf)8f · Very Soft · 18 ran 17th 20/1
05 Sep 24 Longchamp (FR) Exhit (FR)J: Benjamin Marie Prix de la Rue des Saules (Handicap) (4yo+) (Inner Course: 2nd Post) (Turf)12.5f · Very Soft · 14 ran 5th 59/10
03 Sep 24 Chantilly (FR) Skadoosh (FR)J: Rudy Pimbonnet Prix de la Cathedrale de Beauvais (Handicap) (3yo) (All-Weather Track) (Polytrack)9.5f · Standard · 14 ran 9th 18/1
03 Sep 24 Chantilly (FR) Fuji Hana (FR)J: Delphine Santiago Prix de Cauffry (Claimer) (2yo) (All-Weather Track) (Polytrack)6.5f · Standard · 11 ran 4th 23/1
16 May 24 Longchamp (FR) Fashionspan (FR)J: Benjamin Marie Prix du Palais Bourbon (Handicap) (4yo+ Fillies & Mares) (Grande Course) (Turf)12f · Soft · 13 ran 8th 43/1
04 Apr 24 Chantilly (FR) John Style (FR)J: Mickael Forest Prix de la Maison des Officiers (Handicap) (4yo+) (Turf)8f · Heavy · 14 ran 11th 54/1
29 Feb 24 Chantilly (FR) Vizindi (FR)J: Rudy Pimbonnet Prix de la Route des Moines (Claimer) (4yo+) (All-Weather Track) (Polytrack)10.5f · Standard · 11 ran 5th 13/1

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 M Pimbonnet's strike rate?
M Pimbonnet has won 62 of 576 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 10.8% (as at 7 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does M Pimbonnet do best at?
Lyon Parilly by strike rate: 9 wins from 59 runners (15.3%) 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 Pimbonnet?
Franck Blondel, with 179 runners since 2008 — 31% of the total. That pairing has won 20 (11.2%).
What is M Pimbonnet's Fair A/E?
0.89, from 495 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 7 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).