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Trainer profile

Michael Wigham

541 runners in the last 5 seasons · 61 individual horses
As at 20 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner yesterday 94% of runners on the flat
from 1 Jan 2022
61–541
Wins / Runs
11.3%
Strike rate
n=541
158 (29%)
Placed
1.09
n=538 · 0.92 incl. margin
−4.40
£1 level stake
n=541 at SP · −0.8%
£599k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
16.7%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 110 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 11% of them — beating the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 1.09). New recruits from other yards win at 15% first time out (40 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 541 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 20 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Apr–Aug 31.4% when favourite Darragh Keenan: 18.5% from 92 New recruits: 15% Sends off the favourite in 9% of races
The read

It is weakest at Chelmsford City (AW) (5.3% over 57 runners) — the largest sample in the record, and the widest gap. New recruits from other stables on their first run win at 15% (n=40, Fair A/E 1.99). Darragh Keenan rides 17% of the entries and beats the yard's average (18.5% vs 11.3%, A/E 1.60) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The yard also reads well off a 0-7-day break (22.9%, n=48) and at trips under 6f (21.3%, n=47). The market has also underrated the yard over 1m2f – 1m4f: Fair A/E 1.83 across 67 runners (17.9% strike, +69.53 to a £1 stake). One Group or Graded win sits in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the totesport.com Cambridgeshire at Newmarket (Oct 2010, £99,696). The stable star of the record: Foxy Forever (IRE) — 10 wins from 69 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires Apr–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 11.3% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
9.6%−1.7
n=73 · A/E 1.51 · £1 +37.50
New recruits · first run for the yard
15%+3.7
n=40 · A/E 1.99 · £1 +55.50
Debutants · first career start
0%−11.3
n=13 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −13.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
6.7%−4.6
n=15 · A/E 0.94 · £1 −12.12
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
4%−7.3
n=25 · A/E 0.56 · £1 −14.00
When favourite
31.4%
n=51 · A/E 1.09 · £1 −6.86
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
8.4%−2.9
n=83 · A/E 1.04 · £1 +21.33

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 11.3% 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
Off a 0-7-day break 22.9% vs 11.3% · n=48
At trips under 6f 21.3% vs 11.3% · n=47
With Darragh Keenan 18.5% vs 11.3% · n=92
Over 1m2f – 1m4f 17.9% vs 11.3% · n=67
On Good to Firm going 17.1% vs 11.3% · n=82
At Chelmsford City (AW) 5.3% vs 11.3% · n=57
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 506 60 11.9% +13.60
Hurdle 28 1 3.6% −11.00
Chase 7 0 0% −7.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 284 22 7.7% −90.68
Good 93 15 16.1% +57.08
Good to Firm 82 14 17.1% −4.58
Good to Soft 36 4 11.1% +35.50
Soft 33 5 15.2% +8.03
Heavy 13 1 7.7% −9.75

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Chelmsford City (AW) 57 3 5.3% +8.00
Southwell (AW) 56 6 10.7% −0.75
Wolverhampton (AW) 55 4 7.3% −36.38
Newcastle (AW) 46 3 6.5% −35.76
Yarmouth 43 7 16.3% +33.33
Kempton (AW) 37 4 10.8% +0.00
Lingfield (AW) 33 2 6.1% −25.79
Brighton 29 7 24.1% +0.71
Newmarket 18 3 16.7% +3.88
Nottingham 14 2 14.3% +1.38
Fakenham 12 0 0% −12.00
Doncaster 10 0 0% −10.00
Leicester 10 4 40% +17.00
Chepstow 8 1 12.5% −5.75
Newbury 8 0 0% −8.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 6 225 32 14.2% +28.73
Class 5 174 17 9.8% −40.46
Class 4 86 7 8.1% +14.33
Class 2 28 3 10.7% −1.00
Class 3 28 2 7.1% −6.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 60 17 28.3% 1.02 −13.86
2nd–3rd fav 126 17 13.5% 0.81 −48.04
4th–6th fav 156 16 10.3% 1.28 +20.50
7th+ in betting 199 11 5.5% 1.77 +37.00
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
Dion Baker (IRE)from Kevin Ryan 70 9 26 28 Sep 26
King Of War (GB)from Alexandra Dunn 30 3 9 15 Oct 26
Roach Power (IRE)from Tim Easterby 28 5 10 28 Sep 26
Instant Bond (GB) 24 3 11 9 Jul 26
Coase (GB)from David O'Meara · then Mlle Gaelle Gernay 23 4 11 14 Oct 22
Deputise (GB)from William Haggas 22 1 5 10 Apr 24
September Power (IRE)from Roger Varian 22 4 7 19 Dec 23
Miss Billie (GB) 18 0 2 4 Apr 25
Adelabella (IRE) 17 2 6 4 Dec 24
Premiership (GB)from Tracy Waggott 15 1 4 18 Sep 24
Aim For The Moon (USA)from John Butler 14 2 5 27 Jun 25
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 61 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 1 time. 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, 46 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Alexandra Dunn (7) and Richard Fahey (3); 14 had their first archived run for this yard.

21 have since run for another yard, most often for Denis Quinn (4) and George Baker (2); 39 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 4
Only 4 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
6128171516191681033
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 riderDarragh Keenan
17% of all rides
18.5% SR · A/E 1.60
RiderRWSR£1
Darragh Keenan 92 17 18.5% +23.17
Adam Farragher 49 4 8.2% +11.00
J F Egan 43 6 14% +11.50
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
314
Archived wins
1
Pattern / graded wins
£2.27m
Prize money
2008
Best season · 30 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.
Credit Swap (GB) — totesport.com Cambridgeshire (Heritage Handicap) Newmarket · Oct 2010 · Class 2
£99,696
Foxy Forever (IRE) — Tote Rockingham Handicap (Premier Handicap) Curragh (IRE) · Jun 2015
£60,000
Fanunalter (GB) — Transformers & Rectifiers Summer Mile Stakes (Group 2) (Rnd) Ascot · Jul 2012 · Group 2
£56,710

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Ribchester (IRE) 14.3% · 14–98
Progeny have won 9% of 2,742 runs since 2008 (261 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 15.5% from 116. Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 13.7% from 212.
Churchill (IRE) 10.4% · 5–48
Progeny have won 11% of 4,781 runs since 2008 (458 horses).
Intrinsic (GB) 11.4% · 4–35
Progeny have won 10.2% of 433 runs since 2008 (39 horses).
Mastercraftsman (IRE) 12.1% · 4–33
Progeny have won 10.6% of 11,628 runs since 2008 (842 horses).
Kodiac (GB) 3.7% · 1–27
Progeny have won 10.4% of 23,534 runs since 2008 (1,665 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 14.3% from 147. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 7.1% from 252.
Massaat (IRE) 13% · 3–23
Progeny have won 7.8% of 1,200 runs since 2008 (124 horses). Weakest on Good to Soft going: 4.5% from 112. Weakest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 3.8% from 131.
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 2,637 · newest first

The latest 50 of 2,637 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 2 January 2005 to 19 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
15 Oct 26 Brighton King Of War (GB)J: John Egan bet365 Handicap StakesClass 5 · 8f · Good · 14 ran 12th 12/1
06 Sep 26 York Roach Power (IRE)J: J F Egan Fine Details Car Valeting Sprint Handicap StakesClass 4 · 5.5f · Good To Soft · 21 ran 19th 80/1
23 Aug 26 Brighton King Of War (GB)J: J F Egan Blackmore Design & Build Handicap StakesClass 4 · 7f · Good To Firm · 7 ran 4th 14/1
14 Aug 26 Epsom King Of War (GB)J: J F Egan Betfred 'Follow Us On X' Handicap StakesClass 5 · 7f · Good To Firm · 9 ran 8th 17/2

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 Wigham's strike rate?
Michael Wigham has won 61 of 541 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 11.3% (as at 20 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Michael Wigham do best at?
Yarmouth by strike rate: 7 wins from 43 runners (16.3%) 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 Michael Wigham?
Darragh Keenan, with 92 runners since 2022 — 17% of the total. That pairing has won 17 (18.5%).
Is Michael Wigham in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 4 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is Michael Wigham's Fair A/E?
1.09, from 538 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).