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Trainer profile

Martin Hill

661 runners in the lifetime window · 101 individual horses
As at 8 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Oct 2018
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
49–661
Wins / Runs
7.4%
Strike rate
n=661
153 (23%)
Placed
1.01
Fair A/E
n=658 · 0.85 incl. margin
−176.27
£1 level stake
n=661 at SP · −26.7%
£380k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
2.3%
KTB Yard Profile

Sent out around 60 runners a season, winning with 7% of them — level with the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 1.01).

Deterministic profile computed from 661 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 8 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance Fired Jul–Aug Hadden Frost: 14.2% from 141 New recruits: 8.1%
The read

Hadden Frost rode 21% of the entries and beats the yard's average (14.2% vs 7.4%, A/E 1.87) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The yard also read well on Good to Firm going (13.7%, n=117) and in Class 3 (14.1%, n=85). The record read poorly on Heavy going — 0% over 30 runners, 7.4pts below the baseline. The stable star of the record was Detroit Red (GB) — 5 wins from 23 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fired 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 7.4% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
5.3%−2.1
n=169 · A/E 0.99 · £1 −20.50
New recruits · first run for the yard
8.1%+0.7
n=62 · A/E 1.61 · £1 +26.00
Debutants · first career start
5.7%−1.7
n=35 · A/E 1.59 · £1 +0.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−7.4
n=18 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −18.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
0%−7.4
n=29 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −29.00
When favourite
26.9%
n=26 · A/E 1.10 · £1 −4.90
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
5.8%−1.6
n=243 · A/E 0.91 · £1 −114.50
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−7.4
n=2 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −2.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 7.4% 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
On last-time-out winners 19.1% vs 7.4% · n=47
With Hadden Frost 14.2% vs 7.4% · n=141
With C&D winners 15% vs 7.4% · n=80
On Good to Firm going 13.7% vs 7.4% · n=117
In Class 3 14.1% vs 7.4% · n=85
On Heavy going 0% vs 7.4% · n=30
This filter uses derived form angles computed for 32.1% of the archive so far (as at 8 Nov 2026); the sample will grow as sequencing completes.
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 358 33 9.2% +13.85
Flat 154 7 4.5% −90.00
Chase 81 7 8.6% −52.12
NH Flat 68 2 2.9% −48.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 211 15 7.1% −13.65
Good to Firm 117 16 13.7% +44.38
Good to Soft 115 10 8.7% −53.25
Standard (AW) 97 5 5.2% −49.00
Soft 89 3 3.4% −72.75
Heavy 30 0 0% −30.00
Firm 2 0 0% −2.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Newton Abbot 201 23 11.4% −0.02
Exeter 61 5 8.2% +5.00
Taunton 55 3 5.5% −12.50
Kempton (AW) 50 3 6% −19.00
Chepstow 49 3 6.1% −28.00
Wincanton 36 4 11.1% −2.00
Wolverhampton (AW) 27 0 0% −27.00
Stratford 27 2 7.4% +16.50
Worcester 20 1 5% −10.00
Newbury 19 0 0% −19.00
Ludlow 13 0 0% −13.00
Lingfield (AW) 12 0 0% −12.00
Bath 12 0 0% −12.00
Southwell (AW) 8 2 25% +9.00
Kempton 8 2 25% +5.75

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 4 274 23 8.4% −42.52
Class 5 174 8 4.6% −107.50
Class 6 94 3 3.2% −65.00
Class 3 85 12 14.1% +57.75
Class 2 24 3 12.5% −9.00
Class 7 5 0 0% −5.00
Class 1 4 0 0% −4.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 33 8 24.2% 1.06 −6.90
2nd–3rd fav 100 14 14% 0.93 +6.13
4th–6th fav 225 20 8.9% 1.24 −30.50
7th+ in betting 303 7 2.3% 0.72 −145.00
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
81.3% completed · 439 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 81 75.3% 2 5 13 0 0
Hurdle 358 82.7% 8 3 50 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
Easily Pleased (IRE)from M F Morris 29 3 13 30 Aug 16
Cleni Wells (FR)from H De Lageneste 24 2 7 21 Sep 18
Detroit Red (GB) 23 5 9 20 Jul 14
Ryedale Ovation (IRE)from Tim Easterby · then Gary Moore 20 3 6 1 Apr 09
Treasure The Ridge (IRE)from Andrew Reid 19 1 4 1 Oct 18
Secret Queen (GB)from Brian Meehan 18 0 2 7 Sep 12
Badilou (FR)from A Chaille-Chaille 17 0 2 16 May 18
Tzora (GB)from Emma McWilliam 17 5 8 20 Aug 16
Rydon Pynes (GB) 17 2 10 26 Nov 15
Beat The System (GB) 16 1 4 13 Jan 12
Bally Conn (IRE)from Henrietta C Knight 15 4 7 3 Mar 11
Absolutlyfantastic (GB)from Henry De Bromhead 14 1 1 16 Sep 16
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 101 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, 42 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from A Pennock (3) and David Simcock (2); 18 had their first archived run for this yard.

12 have since run for another yard, most often for Jimmy Frost (2) and Rod Millman (2); 48 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 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 riderHadden Frost
21% of all rides
14.2% SR · A/E 1.87
RiderRWSR£1
Hadden Frost 141 20 14.2% +59.63
Jeremiah McGrath 91 4 4.4% −77.65
Bernie Wharfe 55 4 7.3% −1.75
Liam Heard 30 2 6.7% +4.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
54
Archived wins
£405k
Prize money
2013
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.
Cleni Wells (FR) — Totequadpot Insure Your Placepot Last Four Handicap Hurdle Newton Abbot · Jun 2017 · Class 2
£12,686
Sheriff Hutton (IRE) — More Football Than Ever At Totepool.com Handicap Hurdle Newton Abbot · Aug 2013 · Class 3
£12,512
Rydon Pynes (GB) — Dunraven Windows Handicap Hurdle Chepstow · Apr 2014 · Class 2
£12,021
Notable horses
Detroit Red (GB) Tzora (GB) Ryedale Ovation (IRE) Apex (GB) Bally Conn (IRE) Easily Pleased (IRE)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Beneficial (GB) 13.2% · 5–38
Progeny have won 10.4% of 17,046 runs since 2008 (1,155 horses).
Beat All (USA) 8.1% · 3–37
Progeny have won 7% of 2,513 runs since 2008 (254 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 11.6% from 320. Weakest on Heavy going: 3.6% from 192. Strongest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 12.5% from 120.
Poliglote (GB) 8.3% · 2–24
Progeny have won 15.6% of 4,224 runs since 2008 (417 horses). Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 6.8% from 234. Strongest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 19% from 691. Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 6.1% from 196.
Hamairi (IRE) 21.7% · 5–23
Progeny have won 9.3% of 140 runs since 2009 (11 horses).
Galileo (IRE) 4.5% · 1–22
Progeny have won 14.5% of 18,201 runs since 2008 (1,776 horses). Strongest over 6f – 7f (all codes): 18.2% from 1,383. Weakest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 9.4% from 890.
Royal Applause (GB) 15% · 3–20
Progeny have won 8.6% of 12,434 runs since 2008 (774 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 3.4% from 323.
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 8 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 710 · newest first

The latest 50 of 710 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 6 August 2005 to 1 October 2018.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
01 Oct 18 Newton Abbot Scorpion Star (IRE)J: Alexander Thorne Sky Sports Racing Launching In 2019 Conditional Jockeys' Selling Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 18.5f · Good · 16 ran 1st 7/1
01 Oct 18 Newton Abbot Treasure The Ridge (IRE)J: Charlie Hammond Steve Evans Memorial Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 21.5f · Good · 14 ran 5th 20/1
21 Sep 18 Newton Abbot Cleni Wells (FR)J: Lorcan Williams Sky Sports Racing Launching In 2019 Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 26.5f · Good To Soft · 9 ran 5th 7/1
21 Sep 18 Newton Abbot Scorpion Star (IRE)J: Alexander Thorne Peter Edwards 80th Birthday Party Conditional Jockeys' Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 18.5f · Good To Soft · 14 ran 4th 8/1
21 Sep 18 Newton Abbot Slaying The Dragon (IRE)J: Charlie Hammond Peter Edwards 80th Birthday Party Conditional Jockeys' Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 18.5f · Good To Soft · 14 ran 2nd 10/1
01 Sep 18 Newton Abbot Scorpion Star (IRE)J: James Best Racing Partnership Trp Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 21.5f · Good · 11 ran PU 9/1
01 Sep 18 Newton Abbot Treasure The Ridge (IRE)J: Jeremiah McGrath Thomas Dalton 65th Birthday Celebrations Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 17f · Good · 9 ran 8th 9/1
28 Aug 18 Stratford Cleni Wells (FR)J: Richard Johnson Racegoers Club 50th Anniversary Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 18.5f · Good To Soft · 9 ran 6th 11/2
21 Aug 18 Newton Abbot Cleni Wells (FR)J: Richard Johnson Newtonabbotracing.com Handicap HurdleClass 3 · 17f · Good · 7 ran 5th 13/2
15 Aug 18 Newton Abbot Fs Lola (GB)J: Sean Houlihan Actuate Marketing Mares' Intermediate Open NH Flat RaceClass 5 · 17f · Good · 12 ran 4th 50/1
15 Aug 18 Newton Abbot Scorpion Star (IRE)J: James Best Racing Partnership Trp Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 17f · Good · 14 ran 3rd 9/1
06 Aug 18 Newton Abbot Slaying The Dragon (IRE)J: Brendan Powell Actuate Marketing Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 21.5f · Good · 13 ran 6th 25/1
02 Aug 18 Stratford Scorpion Star (IRE)J: Jeremiah McGrath All New Racinguk.com Novices' Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 22f · Good · 13 ran 6th 20/1
30 Jul 18 Newton Abbot Fs Lola (GB)J: Jeremiah McGrath Follow At The Races On Instagram Maiden Open NH Flat RaceClass 5 · 17f · Good To Soft · 8 ran UR 16/1
30 Jul 18 Newton Abbot Treasure The Ridge (IRE)J: Jeremiah McGrath Jon Hearne Memorial Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 17f · Good To Soft · 11 ran 3rd 6/1
30 Jul 18 Newton Abbot Cleni Wells (FR)J: Jeremiah McGrath At The Races Sky 415 Novices' Handicap ChaseClass 4 · 16.5f · Good To Soft · 5 ran 4th 11/4
14 Jul 18 Newton Abbot Slaying The Dragon (IRE)J: Jeremiah McGrath Download The Free At The Races App Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 21.5f · Good · 17 ran PU 14/1
14 Jul 18 Newton Abbot Treasure The Ridge (IRE)J: Jeremiah McGrath Tamar Telecommunications Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 18.5f · Good · 12 ran 5th 16/1
06 Jul 18 Newton Abbot Treasure The Ridge (IRE)J: Kieron Edgar Betfairracingstaffweek at racingwelfare Conditional Jockeys' Handicap HurdleClass 4 · 18.5f · Good · 8 ran 6th 8/1
06 Jul 18 Newton Abbot Scorpion Star (IRE)J: Jeremiah McGrath Betfair Thank You Racing Staff Selling Handicap HurdleClass 5 · 21.5f · Good · 16 ran 5th 9/1

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 Martin Hill's strike rate?
Martin Hill has won 49 of 661 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 7.4% (as at 8 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Martin Hill do best at?
Newton Abbot by strike rate: 23 wins from 201 runners (11.4%) 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 Martin Hill?
Hadden Frost, with 141 runners since 2008 — 21% of the total. That pairing has won 20 (14.2%).
What is Martin Hill's Fair A/E?
1.01, from 658 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 8 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).