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Trainer profile

Michael Herrington

1,288 runners in the last 5 seasons · 67 individual horses
As at 25 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Non-runners: 2.9% of 350 declared in the last 365 days, counting all recorded withdrawals, including reserves. For context, a typical day across all racing ends with about 6.5% withdrawn (middle half 5.3–8.1% over 364 racing days). As at 25 Oct 2026.
In form — 6 winners last 14 days Won yesterday Last runner yesterday 100% of runners on the flat
from 1 Jan 2022
157–1,288
Wins / Runs
12.2%
Strike rate
n=1,288
440 (34%)
Placed
1.18
n=1,286 · 0.99 incl. margin
−103.42
£1 level stake
n=1,288 at SP · −8.0%
£1.65m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
17.9%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 260 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 12% of them — beating the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 1.18). The yard is in form now — 6 winners in the last fortnight, above its own baseline.

Deterministic profile computed from 1,288 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 25 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fires May–Aug 35.7% when favourite Tom Eaves: 7.7% from 337 Sends off the favourite in 9% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Leicester (21.6%, n=37), clear of the yard's 12.2% baseline. It is weakest at Newcastle (AW) (6.9% over 174 runners) — the widest gap in the record. New recruits from other stables on their first run struggle at 6.7% (n=45, Fair A/E 0.94). Runners with a claiming rider up are the standout value angle: 11.7% strikes only just below baseline, but Fair A/E 1.21 and +4.50 to a £1 stake over 188 runners — a record the market has persistently underpriced. Right now the yard is firing: 6 winners from 17 runners in the last 14 days (35.3%, 23.1pts above the 12.2% baseline). Tom Eaves rides 26% of the entries and sits below the yard's average (7.7% vs 12.2%, A/E 0.92). The yard also reads well on Good to Soft going (19.1%, n=68). The record reads poorly in Class 2 — 1.7% over 60 runners, 10.5pts below the baseline. The stable star of the record: Good Earth (IRE) — 13 wins from 78 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires May–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 12.2% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
9.3%−2.9
n=107 · A/E 1.30 · £1 −33.96
New recruits · first run for the yard
6.7%−5.5
n=45 · A/E 0.94 · £1 −25.62
Debutants · first career start
0%−12.2
n=5 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −5.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−12.2
n=7 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −7.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
10%−2.2
n=60 · A/E 1.23 · £1 −20.75
When favourite
35.7%
n=115 · A/E 1.32 · £1 +11.65
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
11.7%−0.5
n=188 · A/E 1.21 · £1 +4.50
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−12.2
n=4 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −4.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 12.2% 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 David Probert 23.7% vs 12.2% · n=59
In Class 2 1.7% vs 12.2% · n=60
On last-time-out winners 19.7% vs 12.2% · n=157
At Leicester 21.6% vs 12.2% · n=37
On Good to Soft going 19.1% vs 12.2% · n=68
At Newcastle (AW) 6.9% vs 12.2% · n=174
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 1,285 157 12.2% −100.42
NH Flat 3 0 0% −3.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 840 98 11.7% −139.71
Good to Firm 169 27 16% +7.13
Good 138 10 7.2% −59.00
Good to Soft 68 13 19.1% +103.33
Soft 58 7 12.1% −9.42
Heavy 15 2 13.3% −5.75

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Southwell (AW) 350 55 15.7% +31.55
Wolverhampton (AW) 213 20 9.4% −75.38
Newcastle (AW) 174 12 6.9% −62.04
Doncaster 63 8 12.7% −12.50
Chelmsford City (AW) 56 7 12.5% −18.17
Yarmouth 44 5 11.4% +34.50
Redcar 41 3 7.3% −9.30
Beverley 40 5 12.5% −4.30
Leicester 37 8 21.6% +13.80
York 36 3 8.3% −3.50
Kempton (AW) 35 3 8.6% −20.67
Pontefract 20 3 15% −3.62
Newmarket 16 5 31.3% +6.21
Carlisle 14 2 14.3% +6.00
Nottingham 14 5 35.7% +27.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 6 602 71 11.8% −62.18
Class 5 321 43 13.4% −13.57
Class 4 203 31 15.3% +60.83
Class 3 98 11 11.2% −28.00
Class 2 60 1 1.7% −56.50
Class 1 4 0 0% −4.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 135 44 32.6% 1.26 +3.77
2nd–3rd fav 279 51 18.3% 1.13 −20.19
4th–6th fav 415 44 10.6% 1.22 +8.00
7th+ in betting 459 18 3.9% 1.05 −95.00
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.

Horses trained

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Good Earth (IRE)from Jamie Osborne 75 12 30 12 Oct 26
Kodebreaker (IRE)from Kevin Ryan 68 4 25 13 Jan 26
Powdering (IRE)from Kevin Ryan 49 8 19 19 Oct 26
Araifjan (GB)from Robert Cowell 47 2 15 16 Sep 25
Yoshimi (IRE)from Richard Fahey 42 7 13 3 Jan 26
Anif (IRE)from David Evans 42 4 12 10 Apr 25
Badri (GB)from Julie Camacho 41 6 16 2 Oct 26
Feel The Need (GB)from David O'Meara 37 4 12 24 Oct 26
Papa Cocktail (IRE)from Stella Barclay 37 4 16 22 Oct 26
Catch Cunningham (IRE)from Kevin Ryan 37 3 13 6 Feb 26
Bay Of Naples (IRE)from Mark Johnston 36 1 13 20 Apr 25
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 67 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 4 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, 53 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Alice Haynes (6) and Kevin Ryan (6); 7 had their first archived run for this yard.

1 has since run for another yard; 59 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

In form
6 from 17 35.3% · +23.1pts vs baseline
Last 14 days35.3%
5-season base12.2%
Shown only when the 14-day window is large enough to mean anything (n≥15). A cold run renders the same card with a quiet badge — never hidden.

When the yard fires

strike by month, 5 seasons
JFMAMJJASOND
161015715141415111377
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 riderTom Eaves
26% of all rides
7.7% SR · A/E 0.92
RiderRWSR£1
Tom Eaves 337 26 7.7% −120.60
Dylan Hogan 121 17 14% +31.37
Jason Hart 99 17 17.2% +14.46
David Probert 59 14 23.7% +29.96
Connor Planas 59 7 11.9% +15.50
Andrea Pinna 40 4 10% −9.00
Jack Mitchell 34 5 14.7% −0.75
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2009→
258
Archived wins
£2.30m
Prize money
2026
Best season · 52 wins
Good Earth (IRE) — Sky Bet Sunday Series Sprint Handicap Sandown · Aug 2023 · Class 3
£20,616
Down To The Kid (IRE) — SBK: No Casino Just Sports Handicap Southwell (AW) · Feb 2026 · Class 4
£18,319
Good Earth (IRE) — cavani.co.uk The Sartorial Sprint Handicap Newmarket · Jul 2023 · Class 3
£16,200

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Ribchester (IRE) 14% · 12–86
Progeny have won 9% of 2,754 runs since 2008 (261 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 15.4% from 117. Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 14.1% from 213.
Acclamation (GB) 16% · 12–75
Progeny have won 10% of 19,693 runs since 2008 (1,327 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 15.2% from 151. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 6.7% from 194.
Kodi Bear (IRE) 5.9% · 4–68
Progeny have won 10.3% of 3,947 runs since 2008 (387 horses).
Charm Spirit (IRE) 12.5% · 7–56
Progeny have won 9.4% of 3,815 runs since 2008 (339 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 15% from 448. Weakest on Heavy going: 3.7% from 134. Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 13% from 445.
Siyouni (FR) 13.2% · 7–53
Progeny have won 13% of 8,328 runs since 2008 (976 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 9.2% from 455.
Lawman (FR) 16% · 8–50
Progeny have won 8.9% of 9,420 runs since 2008 (730 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 25 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 2,471 · newest first

The latest 50 of 2,471 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 27 November 2009 to 24 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
13 Oct 26 Leicester Raging Raj (IRE)J: David Probert Happy 80th Reg Ling Handicap StakesClass 3 · 7f · Good To Soft · 17 ran 16th 15/2
13 Oct 26 Leicester Irish Nectar (GB)J: Dylan Hogan Join Racing TV Now Handicap StakesClass 5 · 6f · Good To Soft · 18 ran 1st 9/2J
12 Oct 26 Yarmouth Good Earth (IRE)J: Charlie Tucker First Furnishings Handicap StakesClass 5 · 6f · Good To Soft · 13 ran 5th 22/1
10 Oct 26 York Optician (GB)J: Jack Nicholls Sky Bet Price Boosts Handicap Stakes (gbbplus Race)Class 4 · 10.5f · Good To Soft · 19 ran 15th 20/1

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 Herrington's strike rate?
Michael Herrington has won 157 of 1,288 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 12.2% (as at 25 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Michael Herrington do best at?
Leicester by strike rate: 8 wins from 37 runners (21.6%) 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 Michael Herrington?
Tom Eaves, with 337 runners since 2022 — 26% of the total. That pairing has won 26 (7.7%).
Is Michael Herrington in form?
In the last 14 days: 17 runners, 6 winners, a strike rate of 35.3%. That is above the baseline of 12.2% since 2022.
What is Michael Herrington's Fair A/E?
1.18, from 1,286 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 25 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).