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Trainer profile

Michael Cunningham

291 runners in the lifetime window · 27 individual horses
As at 15 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Mar 2017
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)
No runners in the last 5 seasons — showing the lifetime record, from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it.
14–291
Wins / Runs
4.8%
Strike rate
n=291
69 (24%)
Placed
0.73
Fair A/E
n=291 · 0.54 incl. margin
−163.25
£1 level stake
n=291 at SP · −56.1%
£275k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%
KTB Yard Profile

Sent out around 30 runners a season, winning with 5% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.73).

Deterministic profile computed from 291 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 15 Oct 2026
The read

The record is strongest at Fairyhouse (10.8%, n=37), clear of the yard's 4.8% baseline. It is weakest at Navan (0% over 47 runners) — the largest sample in the record, and the widest gap. Horses returning fresh after 61+ days have been a poor signal at 0% (n=46, Fair A/E 0.00). The market has consistently overbet runners with a claiming rider up: 2.9% strike, Fair A/E 0.53 and −82.50 to a £1 stake over 103 runners — those runners underperformed what the price implied. The record read poorly over 1m5f – 2m — 0% over 57 runners, 4.8pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the yard in Hurdle races: Fair A/E 0.52 across 124 runners (3.2% strike, −82.50 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperformed what the price implied. The stable star of the record was Laureldean (IRE) — 6 wins from 40 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 4.8% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
0%−4.8
n=46 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −46.00
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−4.8
n=5 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −5.00
Debutants · first career start
0%−4.8
n=12 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −12.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−4.8
n=12 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −12.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
0%−4.8
n=28 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −28.00
When favourite
18.8%
n=16 · A/E 0.87 · £1 −3.75
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
2.9%−1.9
n=103 · A/E 0.53 · £1 −82.50
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−4.8
n=15 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −15.00

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
At Fairyhouse 10.8% vs 4.8% · n=37
Over 1m5f – 2m 0% vs 4.8% · n=57
At Navan 0% vs 4.8% · n=47
In Chase races 7.2% vs 4.8% · n=97
With claiming riders up 2.9% vs 4.8% · n=103 · A/E 0.53
In Hurdle races 3.2% vs 4.8% · n=124 · A/E 0.52
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 124 4 3.2% −82.50
Chase 97 7 7.2% −37.50
Flat 57 3 5.3% −30.25
NH Flat 13 0 0% −13.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Soft 107 5 4.7% −71.00
Heavy 95 4 4.2% −69.00
Good 38 2 5.3% −8.00
Good to Soft 19 0 0% −19.00
Standard (AW) 19 2 10.5% +1.75
Good to Firm 12 1 8.3% +3.00
Firm 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Navan 47 0 0% −47.00
Fairyhouse 37 4 10.8% −5.50
Punchestown 24 0 0% −24.00
Gowran Park 19 1 5.3% −10.00
Dundalk (AW) 19 2 10.5% +1.75
Naas 18 0 0% −18.00
Galway 16 0 0% −16.00
Down Royal 14 2 14.3% −2.50
Downpatrick 13 1 7.7% +2.00
Leopardstown 11 0 0% −11.00
Curragh 9 0 0% −9.00
Kilbeggan 9 2 22.2% +21.00
Limerick 9 1 11.1% −5.00
Roscommon 7 0 0% −7.00
Ballinrobe 6 1 16.7% +0.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 16 0 0% −16.00
Class 5 2 0 0% −2.00
Class 2 1 0 0% −1.00
Class 4 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 20 4 20% 0.99 −3.25
2nd–3rd fav 31 3 9.7% 0.77 −10.00
4th–6th fav 79 3 3.8% 0.54 −47.00
7th+ in betting 161 4 2.5% 0.72 −103.00
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
88.2% completed · 221 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 97 80.4% 4 2 12 1 0
Hurdle 124 94.4% 1 2 4 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
Crowded Room (IRE)then R K Watson 30 0 10 20 Apr 16
Tiernan's Terror (GB) 29 3 11 5 May 12
Piano Star (GB)from Paul John Gilligan · then Paul Stafford 25 2 5 29 Jul 11
Sharekan (IRE)from John M Oxx · then G T Lynch 24 3 4 26 Aug 11
All Diamonds (IRE)from A Oliver 19 1 10 7 Nov 09
Martin Cash (IRE)then Paul Henderson 18 0 1 26 Dec 13
Ifyoucouldseemenow (IRE) 18 2 5 7 Apr 10
Rock Diplomat (IRE)then Dr Richard Newland 15 1 6 23 Apr 10
Marise (IRE)from T G McCourt 14 2 4 15 Aug 16
Leading Diamonds (IRE) 13 0 4 4 Apr 10
Rocklet (IRE) 11 0 1 19 May 11
Likeaflamingo (IRE) 10 0 0 15 May 09
All 27 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 27 horses listed, 9 arrived from another yard in our archive; 18 had their first archived run for this yard.

11 have since run for another yard, most often for R K Watson (2) and T G McCourt (2); 16 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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613030101050548
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
RiderRWSR£1
Mark Bolger 28 2 7.1% −14.50
Robbie Power 26 2 7.7% −14.00
Sean Flanagan 19 3 15.8% +17.00
Roger Loughran 18 0 0% −18.00
Andrew Leigh 15 0 0% −15.00
Seamie Heffernan 13 1 7.7% −7.00
Davy Condon 10 2 20% +9.50
D G Hogan 9 1 11.1% −2.00
Keith Donoghue 9 0 0% −9.00
Lenny Flynn 9 0 0% −9.00
W J Lee 8 0 0% −8.00
Mark Flanagan 7 0 0% −7.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
39
Archived wins
£699k
Prize money
2006
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.
Piano Star (GB) — Ladbrokes Midlands National Handicap Chase Kilbeggan · Jul 2008
£32,550
Piano Star (GB) — Gigginstown House Midlands National Handicap Chase Kilbeggan · Jul 2009
£32,550
Supreme Being (IRE) — McGarrell Reilly Homes Handicap Hurdle Fairyhouse · Apr 2007
£22,134
Notable horses
Laureldean (IRE) Patsy Hall (IRE) Sharekan (IRE) Tiernan's Terror (GB) Raven's Run (IRE) All Diamonds (IRE)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Oscar (IRE) 1.5% · 1–65
Progeny have won 10.9% of 16,542 runs since 2008 (1,456 horses). Strongest on Standard (AW) going: 18.1% from 105.
Sinndar (IRE) 9.1% · 3–33
Progeny have won 11.3% of 3,407 runs since 2008 (394 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 15.2% from 256. Weakest over 6f – 7f (all codes): 5.3% from 132.
Overbury (IRE) 10.3% · 3–29
Progeny have won 10.7% of 4,657 runs since 2008 (423 horses).
Darshaan (GB) 8% · 2–25
Progeny have won 8.9% of 280 runs since 2008 (28 horses).
Priolo (USA) 5.3% · 1–19
Progeny have won 9.8% of 439 runs since 2008 (62 horses).
Saddlers' Hall (IRE) 11.1% · 2–18
Progeny have won 7.7% of 4,861 runs since 2008 (460 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 15 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 736 · newest first

The latest 50 of 736 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 6 January 2005 to 17 March 2017.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
17 Mar 17 Down Royal Come Dance With Me (IRE)J: Cathal Landers Martinstown Opportunity Handicap Hurdle (80-95)19.5f · Yielding To Soft · 18 ran 11th 12/1
13 Nov 16 Navan Come Dance With Me (IRE)J: Mark Flanagan Meath Farm Machinery Handicap Hurdle (80-116)23f · Yielding To Soft · 16 ran UR 9/1
24 Sep 16 Navan Come Dance With Me (IRE)J: Mark Flanagan Racing Again Wednesday 5th October Handicap Hurdle (80-116)16f · Yielding To Soft · 18 ran 2nd 40/1
29 Aug 16 Roscommon Come Dance With Me (IRE)J: Mark Bolger Tote Handicap Hurdle (80-102)20f · Good · 18 ran 17th 40/1
15 Aug 16 Roscommon Marise (IRE)J: Colin Keane Pyramid Bookmakers Handicap10.5f · Good · 10 ran 9th 10/1
27 Jul 16 Galway Marise (IRE)J: Colin Keane Thetote.com Handicap (50-70)8.5f · Soft · 17 ran 11th 33/1
14 Jul 16 Leopardstown (IRE) Marise (IRE)J: Wayne Lordan Racecourse Of The Year Handicap10f · Good To Firm · 12 ran 9th 10/1
20 Apr 16 Fairyhouse Crowded Room (IRE)J: Mark Flanagan Next Racing At Fairyhouse June 2nd Handicap Hurdle23f · Yielding · 11 ran 5th 10/1
28 Mar 16 Fairyhouse Crowded Room (IRE)J: L P Dempsey Fred Kenny Lifetime Service To Racing Novice Handicap Chase22.5f · Yielding To Soft · 10 ran 7th 7/1
18 Mar 16 Dundalk (AW) Marise (IRE)J: Wayne Lordan Titanbet.co.uk Rated Race10.5f · Standard · 5 ran 5th 9/2
28 Feb 16 Leopardstown Crowded Room (IRE)J: L P Dempsey Martinstown Opportunity Handicap Chase (0-116)21.5f · Soft · 15 ran 2nd 9/1
20 Feb 16 Fairyhouse Crowded Room (IRE)J: L P Dempsey At The Races E.B.F. Beginners Chase21.5f · Heavy · 6 ran 3rd 11/1
05 Feb 16 Dundalk (AW) Marise (IRE)J: Wayne Lordan Crowne Plaza Race & Stay Handicap10.5f · Standard · 6 ran 1st 11/4F
30 Jan 16 Fairyhouse Crowded Room (IRE)J: L P Dempsey Boylesports Irish Grand National March 28th Handicap Chase (0-109)21.5f · Heavy · 12 ran 2nd 10/1
15 Jan 16 Dundalk (AW) Marise (IRE)J: Ronan Whelan www.dundalkstadium.com Handicap8f · Standard · 8 ran 2nd 11/4F
08 Jan 16 Dundalk (AW) Marise (IRE)J: Seamie Heffernan Irishinjuredjockeys.com Rated Race7f · Standard · 10 ran 2nd 5/2F
01 Jan 16 Fairyhouse Crowded Room (IRE)J: Mark Bolger Boylesports Irish Grand National March 28th Handicap Chase25f · Heavy · 12 ran 6th 16/1
01 Jan 16 Fairyhouse Come Dance With Me (IRE)J: Sean Flanagan Promote Your Business At Fairyhouse In 2016 Mares Maiden Hurdle16f · Heavy · 12 ran 9th 50/1
14 Dec 15 Navan Crowded Room (IRE)J: Donagh Meyler Yellow Furze Handicap Hurdle (80-109)22f · Heavy · 15 ran 7th 9/2
13 Dec 15 Navan Come Dance With Me (IRE)J: Sean Flanagan Irish Stallion Owners E.B.F. Maiden Hurdle16f · Heavy · 28 ran 19th 100/1

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 Michael Cunningham's strike rate?
Michael Cunningham has won 14 of 291 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 4.8% (as at 15 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Michael Cunningham do best at?
Fairyhouse by strike rate: 4 wins from 37 runners (10.8%) 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.
What is Michael Cunningham's Fair A/E?
0.73, from 291 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 15 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).