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Trainer profile

Mark Michael McNiff

579 runners in the last 5 seasons · 69 individual horses
As at 20 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner 7 days ago
from 1 Jan 2022
28–579
Wins / Runs
4.8%
Strike rate
n=579
117 (20%)
Placed
0.73
n=578 · 0.59 incl. margin
−300.46
£1 level stake
n=579 at SP · −51.9%
£360k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
5.5%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 120 runners a season, winning with 5% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 0.73).

Deterministic profile computed from 579 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 20 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Jul–Aug 10% when favourite Phillip Enright: 5.3% from 187 Claiming riders: 5% Sends off the favourite in 5% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Kilbeggan (10.3%, n=39), clear of the yard's 4.8% baseline. Debutants struggle at 0% (n=33, Fair A/E 0.00). The market has consistently overbet horses returning fresh after 61+ days: 1.4% strike, Fair A/E 0.31 and −95.00 to a £1 stake over 143 runners — those runners underperform what the price implies. Phillip Enright rides 32% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (5.3%, A/E 0.73). The yard also reads well in Chase races (8.7%, n=92). The record reads poorly over 1m2f – 1m4f — 0% over 41 runners, 4.8pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the yard off a 61-180-day break: Fair A/E 0.27 across 80 runners (1.3% strike, −39.00 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperform what the price implies. The stable star of the record: Presenting Lad (IRE) — 6 wins from 44 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires Jul–Aug.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 4.8% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
1.4%−3.4
n=143 · A/E 0.31 · £1 −95.00
New recruits · first run for the yard
5.3%+0.5
n=19 · A/E 1.07 · £1 −14.67
Debutants · first career start
0%−4.8
n=33 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −33.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−4.8
n=25 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −25.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
22.2%+17.4
n=18 · A/E 3.18 · £1 +39.21
When favourite
10%
n=30 · A/E 0.43 · £1 −18.29
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
5%+0.2
n=220 · A/E 0.71 · £1 −137.17

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 4.8% 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 C&D winners 10.2% vs 4.8% · n=59
At Kilbeggan 10.3% vs 4.8% · n=39
Over 1m2f – 1m4f 0% vs 4.8% · n=41
In Chase races 8.7% vs 4.8% · n=92
With debutants 0% vs 4.8% · n=33
Off a 61-180-day break 1.3% vs 4.8% · n=80
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 360 16 4.4% −177.62
Flat 111 4 3.6% −76.50
Chase 92 8 8.7% −30.34
NH Flat 16 0 0% −16.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 221 11 5% −147.29
Soft 182 7 3.8% −88.00
Good to Soft 132 9 6.8% −33.17
Heavy 35 1 2.9% −23.00
Standard (AW) 6 0 0% −6.00
Good to Firm 3 0 0% −3.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Sligo 141 9 6.4% −69.12
Downpatrick 66 4 6.1% −31.17
Kilbeggan 39 4 10.3% −12.17
Ballinrobe 38 2 5.3% −29.50
Roscommon 29 3 10.3% −11.50
Galway 27 0 0% −27.00
Punchestown 26 0 0% −26.00
Cork 22 2 9.1% +60.00
Down Royal 19 0 0% −19.00
Tipperary 19 1 5.3% −10.50
Thurles 17 0 0% −17.00
Wexford 15 0 0% −15.00
Listowel 13 0 0% −13.00
Navan 12 0 0% −12.00
Gowran Park 12 0 0% −12.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 34 3 8.8% 0.39 −22.29
2nd–3rd fav 79 11 13.9% 0.97 −19.67
4th–6th fav 143 8 5.6% 0.72 −66.50
7th+ in betting 323 6 1.9% 0.72 −192.00
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
87.4% completed · 452 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 92 73.9% 5 4 14 1 0
Hurdle 360 90.8% 6 6 21 0 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
Presenting Lad (IRE)from Eoin Doyle 44 6 21 4 Oct 26
Red Ball Of Fire (IRE)from Edward Lynam 25 1 7 30 Jul 25
Fassbender (IRE)from R P McNamara 24 1 6 10 Apr 25
Evans Secret (GB) 21 1 6 12 Jul 26
Ilbdare (IRE) 19 2 7 28 Sep 26
Aliunde (IRE)from Gerard Quirk 19 1 3 1 Oct 25
Wild Mandate (IRE) 18 1 6 18 Sep 26
Nuttorridge (IRE)from Kieran Purcell 16 1 4 15 Jun 24
Annalough (IRE) 15 0 0 12 May 26
Sneddy Eddie (IRE)then Noel C Kelly 15 2 3 2 Oct 24
Kami (IRE) 14 1 1 14 Oct 24
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 69 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 2 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, 30 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Kieran Purcell (3) and R P McNamara (2); 30 had their first archived run for this yard.

4 have since run for another yard; 56 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 5
Only 5 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
0007541173200
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 riderPhillip Enright
32% of all rides
5.3% SR · A/E 0.73
RiderRWSR£1
Phillip Enright 187 10 5.3% −85.79
Alan King 44 1 2.3% −35.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2007→
113
Archived wins
£1.18m
Prize money
2021
Best season · 11 wins
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.
Adimelo (FR) — Francie 'Banger' Burns Memorial Handicap Hurdle Sligo · Aug 2019
£11,820
For Everyone (IRE) — Kerry Group 3-Y-O Hurdle Listowel · Sep 2019
£11,820
Red Ball Of Fire (IRE) — Kilcawley Construction Irish EBF Mares Handicap Hurdle Sligo · Jul 2023
£10,325

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Califet (FR) 13.6% · 6–44
Progeny have won 11.8% of 3,787 runs since 2008 (399 horses).
Churchill (IRE) 10.5% · 4–38
Progeny have won 11% of 4,781 runs since 2008 (458 horses).
Jet Away (GB) 11.8% · 4–34
Progeny have won 11.2% of 2,496 runs since 2008 (267 horses).
Canford Cliffs (IRE) 4% · 1–25
Progeny have won 9.8% of 5,091 runs since 2008 (314 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 6.8% from 263.
Famous Name (GB) 4.2% · 1–24
Progeny have won 9.1% of 1,510 runs since 2008 (102 horses).
Mastercraftsman (IRE) 0% · 0–23
Progeny have won 10.6% of 11,628 runs since 2008 (842 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 1,721 · newest first

The latest 50 of 1,721 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 3 October 2007 to 13 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
28 Sep 26 Roscommon (IRE) Emmamia (IRE)J: Phillip Enright Athleague Maiden Hurdle15.5f · Good To Yielding · 13 ran 11th 200/1

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 Mark Michael McNiff's strike rate?
Mark Michael McNiff has won 28 of 579 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 4.8% (as at 20 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Mark Michael McNiff do best at?
Kilbeggan by strike rate: 4 wins from 39 runners (10.3%) 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 Mark Michael McNiff?
Phillip Enright, with 187 runners since 2022 — 32% of the total. That pairing has won 10 (5.3%).
Is Mark Michael McNiff in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 5 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is Mark Michael McNiff's Fair A/E?
0.73, from 578 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).