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Michael McCullagh

25 runners in the last 5 seasons · 6 individual horses
As at 22 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Feb 2024 100% of runners on the flat
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)
from 1 Jan 2022
4–25
Wins / Runs
16%
Strike rate
n=25
6 (24%)
Placed
1.94
Fair A/E
n=25 · 1.53 incl. margin
+14.50
£1 level stake
n=25 at SP · +58.0%
£32,300
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%

Small sample — fewer than 30 runs in this window. Read the Ns before the percentages.

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 16% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
22.2%+6.2
n=9 · A/E 3.10 · £1 +13.00
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−16.0
n=2 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −2.00
Debutants · first career start
0%−16.0
n=4 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −4.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
33.3%+17.3
n=3 · A/E 7.85 · £1 +10.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
0%−16.0
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00
When favourite
25%
n=4 · A/E 1.52 · £1 +0.50
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
26.7%+10.7
n=15 · A/E 2.61 · £1 +24.50
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−16.0
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 16% 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.

Record by conditions

same window as header

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 10 2 20% +16.00
Soft 7 2 28.6% +6.50
Good 4 0 0% −4.00
Heavy 3 0 0% −3.00
Good to Soft 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Dundalk (AW) 10 2 20% +16.00
Naas 4 0 0% −4.00
Leopardstown 3 0 0% −3.00
Cork 2 1 50% +2.50
Listowel 2 1 50% +7.00
Curragh 1 0 0% −1.00
Fairyhouse 1 0 0% −1.00
Killarney 1 0 0% −1.00
Limerick 1 0 0% −1.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 5 1 20% 1.25 −0.50
2nd–3rd fav 3 0 0% 0.00 −3.00
4th–6th fav 9 3 33.3% 4.58 +26.00
7th+ in betting 8 0 0% 0.00 −8.00
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
Run The Jewels (IRE)from J P Cahill · then Daniel McLoughlin 12 3 4 2 Feb 24
Smart Impression (IRE)then Daniel James Murphy 4 0 0 27 Aug 23
Bold Optimist (IRE)then Daniel McLoughlin 3 1 2 1 Dec 23
Lionized (IRE)from Padraig Roche 3 0 0 13 Jan 23
Redshore City (IRE)then John C McConnell 2 0 0 1 Feb 23
The Bould Gerry (IRE) 1 0 0 9 Dec 22
All 6 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 6 horses listed, 2 arrived from another yard in our archive; 4 had their first archived run for this yard.

4 have since run for another yard, most often for Daniel McLoughlin (2); 2 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.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first
RiderRWSR£1
Scott McCullagh 8 2 25% +5.50
N G McCullagh 6 0 0% −6.00
Oisin McSweeney 6 1 16.7% +7.00
Ben Coen 2 0 0% −2.00
Calum Hogan 2 1 50% +11.00
Donagh O'Connor 1 0 0% −1.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
15
Archived wins
£197k
Prize money
2015
Best season · 4 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.
Slyguff Rory (IRE) — T.M.Byrne & Sons Auctioneers Handicap Hurdle (81-123) Gowran Park · Feb 2005
£13,020
Slygufftou (IRE) — Galway Shopping Centre Handicap Hurdle (81-123) Galway · Aug 2015
£12,420
Tagg's Island (IRE) — Coral.ie Hurdle Gowran Park · Jun 2016
£9,533
Notable horses
Slygufftou (IRE) Run The Jewels (IRE) Slyguff Rory (IRE) Tagg's Island (IRE) Milestone Prince (IRE) Candle Island (IRE)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Lawman (FR) 25% · 3–12
Progeny have won 8.9% of 9,419 runs since 2008 (730 horses).
Gutaifan (IRE) 0% · 0–5
Progeny have won 8.9% of 3,753 runs since 2008 (301 horses).
Elzaam (AUS) 0% · 0–4
Progeny have won 9.2% of 4,520 runs since 2008 (373 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 4.6% from 324.
Gleneagles (IRE) 33.3% · 1–3
Progeny have won 11.4% of 4,551 runs since 2008 (444 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 17.2% from 279.
Mehmas (IRE) 0% · 0–1
Progeny have won 11.6% of 8,114 runs since 2008 (747 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 22 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 262 · newest first

The latest 50 of 262 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 6 January 2005 to 2 February 2024.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
02 Feb 24 Dundalk (AW) Run The Jewels (IRE)J: Calum Hogan Irishinjuredjockeys.com Handicap (47-75)8f · Standard · 14 ran 10th 22/1
19 Jan 24 Dundalk (AW) Run The Jewels (IRE)J: Oisin McSweeney Gateway Hotel Dundalk Race & Stay Handicap8f · Standard · 12 ran 8th 6/1
15 Dec 23 Dundalk (AW) Run The Jewels (IRE)J: Calum Hogan Christmas Party Nights At Dundalk Stadium Apprentice Handicap (47-65) (Div 1)8f · Standard · 14 ran 1st 12/1
01 Dec 23 Dundalk (AW) Bold Optimist (IRE)J: Oisin McSweeney Now Racing Every Wednesday At Dundalk Handicap (47-75)6f · Standard · 11 ran 3rd 7/2F
03 Nov 23 Dundalk (AW) Run The Jewels (IRE)J: N G McCullagh Irishinjuredjockeys.com Handicap (47-65) (Div 2)8f · Standard · 14 ran 12th 4/1F
20 Oct 23 Dundalk (AW) Bold Optimist (IRE)J: Oisin McSweeney Book Online At DundalkStadium.com Maiden6f · Standard · 12 ran 1st 12/1
21 Sep 23 Listowel Run The Jewels (IRE)J: Scott McCullagh Thorn Plant Hire Handicap (47-70)8f · Soft To Heavy · 15 ran 9th 6/1
27 Aug 23 Naas Smart Impression (IRE)J: N G McCullagh Irish EBF Auction Series Maiden6f · Good · 11 ran 8th 16/5
24 Aug 23 Killarney Run The Jewels (IRE)J: Scott McCullagh GAIN The Advantage Series Handicap (47-70) (Div 2)8f · Yielding · 15 ran 5th 10/1
15 Aug 23 Dundalk (AW) Smart Impression (IRE)J: N G McCullagh Irish EBF Auction Series Fillies Maiden6f · Standard · 12 ran 4th 12/1
12 Jul 23 Fairyhouse Bold Optimist (IRE)J: Oisin McSweeney Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden7f · Good · 14 ran 5th 28/1
24 Jun 23 Limerick Run The Jewels (IRE)J: Scott McCullagh Ryans Cleaning Event Specialists Handicap (50-80)7f · Yielding · 9 ran 7th 11/2
21 May 23 Naas Smart Impression (IRE)J: Ben Coen Coolmore Stud Irish EBF Fillies Sprint Stakes (Group 3)6f · Good · 13 ran 7th 150/1
06 May 23 Naas Smart Impression (IRE)J: Ben Coen Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden5f · Good To Yielding · 9 ran 5th 22/1
01 Feb 23 Dundalk (AW) Redshore City (IRE)J: Oisin McSweeney View Restaurant At Dundalk Stadium Maiden5f · Standard · 11 ran 4th 16/1
13 Jan 23 Dundalk (AW) Lionized (IRE)J: Oisin McSweeney View Restaurant At Dundalk Stadium Apprentice Handicap7f · Standard · 13 ran 11th 28/1
09 Dec 22 Dundalk (AW) The Bould Gerry (IRE)J: N G McCullagh Irish Stallion Farms EBF Race5f · Standard · 8 ran 7th 50/1
06 Nov 22 Naas Lionized (IRE)J: N G McCullagh Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden8f · Heavy · 20 ran 16th 125/1
23 Oct 22 Curragh Lionized (IRE)J: N G McCullagh Tote Guarantee On All Irish And UK Races Irish European Breeders Fund Maiden6f · Heavy · 15 ran 5th 66/1
22 Oct 22 Leopardstown Redshore City (IRE)J: Donagh O'Connor Irish Stallion Farms Ebf (c & G) Maiden7f · Soft · 18 ran 12th 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 McCullagh's strike rate?
Michael McCullagh has won 4 of 25 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 16% (as at 22 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive. A small sample — fewer than 30 runners, so read the count before the percentage.
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 22 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).