What is Mick Channon's strike rate?

Mick Channon has won 1,231 of 11,575 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 10.6% (as at 6 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.

Which course does Mick Channon do best at?

Leicester by strike rate: 44 wins from 302 runners (14.6%) 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 Mick Channon?

Sam Hitchcott, with 1,226 runners since 2008 — 11% of the total. That pairing has won 106 (8.6%).

What is Mick Channon's Fair A/E?

0.94, from 11,500 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.

Trainer profile

Mick Channon

11,575 runners in the lifetime window · 1,076 individual horses

As at 6 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily

Last runner Dec 2022 96% of runners on the flat

Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)

from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it

1,231–11,575

Wins / Runs

10.6%

Strike rate

n=11,575

3,526 (31%)

Placed

0.94

Fair A/E

n=11,500 · 0.82 incl. margin

−3,313.86

£1 level stake

n=11,575 at SP · −28.6%

£18.1m

Prize money (window)

Strike by season

10.8%

KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 610 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 11% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.94). New recruits from other yards win at 18% first time out (45 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 11,575 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 6 Nov 2026

KTB at a glance Fires Jan–Mar 32.9% when favourite Sam Hitchcott: 8.6% from 1,226 New recruits: 17.8% Sends off the favourite in 9% of races

The read

It is weakest at Ascot (4.1% over 415 runners) — the widest gap in the record. New recruits from other stables on their first run win at 17.8% (n=45, Fair A/E 1.84), but a horse having headgear put back on after a bare run has been a poor signal at 6.3% (n=96, Fair A/E 0.66). Sam Hitchcott rides 11% of the entries and sits below the yard's average (8.6% vs 10.6%, A/E 0.84). The yard also reads well in NH Flat races (25%, n=60) and on Heavy going (17.2%, n=274). 102 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Etihad Airways Irish 1,000 Guineas at Curragh (May 2012, £174,000). The stable star of the record: Highlife Dancer (GB) — 16 wins from 99 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires Jan–Mar.

Written from the figures on this page — every claim carries its sample. Descriptive, not a tip.

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 10.6% baseline

Fresh · 61+ days off

10.2%−0.4

n=1,092 · A/E 0.98 · £1 −233.42

New recruits · first run for the yard

17.8%+7.2

n=45 · A/E 1.84 · £1 +35.17

Debutants · first career start

7.8%−2.8

n=973 · A/E 0.99 · £1 −404.02

First-time headgear · true-first definition

10.4%−0.2

n=240 · A/E 1.16 · £1 −23.67

Headgear returns · back on after a bare run

6.3%−4.3

n=96 · A/E 0.66 · £1 −21.67

When favourite

32.9%

n=1,031 · A/E 1.03 · £1 −89.26

Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle

10.1%−0.5

n=2,119 · A/E 0.90 · £1 −650.08

Group / Graded races · pattern & listed

6.6%−4.0

n=1,038 · A/E 0.90 · £1 −405.38

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 10.6% 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

In NH Flat races 25% vs 10.6% · n=60

At Ascot 4.1% vs 10.6% · n=415

On Heavy going 17.2% vs 10.6% · n=274

At Newbury 5% vs 10.6% · n=699

With Silvestre De Sousa 15.3% vs 10.6% · n=529

On last-time-out winners 14.6% vs 10.6% · n=1,150

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 11,144 1172 10.5% −3,191.26

Hurdle 209 21 10% −99.64

Chase 162 23 14.2% −44.46

NH Flat 60 15 25% +21.50

Going

GoingRWSR£1

Good to Firm 3,228 336 10.4% −1,094.51

Good 2,874 267 9.3% −955.07

Standard (AW) 2,070 228 11% −539.36

Good to Soft 1,582 163 10.3% −387.16

Soft 1,249 152 12.2% −236.66

Firm 298 38 12.8% −114.04

Heavy 274 47 17.2% +12.94

Courses

CourseRWSR£1

Newbury 699 35 5% −412.75

Goodwood 675 49 7.3% −234.54

Kempton (AW) 666 51 7.7% −320.30

Wolverhampton (AW) 588 80 13.6% −85.36

Lingfield (AW) 571 67 11.7% −136.93

Bath 542 75 13.8% −169.17

Windsor 486 42 8.6% −192.47

Ascot 415 17 4.1% −274.26

Salisbury 415 37 8.9% −143.98

Brighton 394 46 11.7% −103.69

Newmarket 332 29 8.7% −45.67

Newmarket 324 33 10.2% −15.29

Nottingham 308 37 12% −30.92

Leicester 302 44 14.6% −52.11

Haydock 300 33 11% −55.61

Class

ClassRWSR£1

Class 5 3,764 437 11.6% −1,104.52

Class 4 2,489 264 10.6% −701.82

Class 6 2,149 268 12.5% −586.73

Class 2 1,111 86 7.7% −257.92

Class 1 1,052 69 6.6% −413.88

Class 3 986 104 10.5% −242.29

Class 7 10 1 10% −2.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1

Favourite 1,268 392 30.9% 1.03 −115.77

2nd–3rd fav 2,902 438 15.1% 0.91 −628.19

4th–6th fav 3,948 306 7.8% 0.95 −908.20

7th+ in betting 3,457 95 2.7% 0.77 −1,661.70

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.

Distance

DistanceRWSR£1

6f – 7f 4,886 534 10.9% −1,202.08

1m – 1m1f 2,175 198 9.1% −631.35

Under 6f 1,751 209 11.9% −589.99

1m2f – 1m4f 1,709 156 9.1% −704.19

1m5f – 2m 752 100 13.3% −61.23

2m1f – 2m4f 189 19 10.1% −75.58

2m5f – 3m 82 13 15.9% −31.94

Over 3m 31 2 6.5% −17.50

By season

By seasonRWSR£1

2008 1,013 97 9.6% −291.26

2009 1,127 108 9.6% −435.19

2010 993 101 10.2% −297.74

2011 816 92 11.3% −167.37

2012 1,016 123 12.1% −243.47

2013 944 89 9.4% −379.23

2014 770 88 11.4% −135.17

2015 723 80 11.1% −207.75

2016 667 76 11.4% −136.54

2017 622 62 10% −142.58

2018 755 106 14% −118.08

2019 674 71 10.5% −269.80

2020 449 45 10% −122.04

2021 572 46 8% −280.39

2022 434 47 10.8% −87.25

Handicaps

HandicapsRWSR£1

Handicaps 6,413 642 10% −1,496.02

Field size

Field sizeRWSR£1

8-10 runners 4,006 451 11.3% −952.55

11-13 runners 2,938 263 9% −872.88

5-7 runners 2,574 377 14.6% −590.00

14-16 runners 1,224 59 4.8% −634.40

17+ runners 548 19 3.5% −207.75

2-4 runners 285 62 21.8% −56.28

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

Highlife Dancer (GB) 99 16 32 26 Oct 16

Bateleur (GB) 79 5 24 3 Aug 12

Fitzwilly (GB) 76 9 30 9 Aug 19

Koeman (GB) 63 9 20 2 Nov 22

Waseem Faris (IRE)then Ken Cunningham-Brown 58 3 14 1 Oct 14

Arnold Lane (IRE) 54 6 18 2 Sep 16

Summer Icon (GB) 49 3 18 21 Nov 18

Lincoln (IRE)then Denis Gerard Hogan 49 5 20 7 Oct 17

Osgood (GB)then Gary Moore 47 4 12 12 Sep 12

Chilworth Icon (GB) 46 4 12 22 Aug 15

Imperial Skylight (GB) 45 1 10 5 Apr 10

Pattie (GB) 42 5 16 21 Sep 19

Showing the 60 most-raced of the 1,076 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 28 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, 1 arrived from another yard in our archive; 59 had their first archived run for this yard.

28 have since run for another yard, most often for Jack Channon (3); 32 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

JFMAMJJASOND

1313141110119129111410

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 riderSam Hitchcott

11% of all rides
8.6% SR · A/E 0.84

RiderRWSR£1

Sam Hitchcott 1,226 106 8.6% −462.97

Charles Bishop 1,188 160 13.5% −168.92

Martin Harley 857 97 11.3% −213.28

Silvestre De Sousa 529 81 15.3% −57.47

Chris Catlin 481 42 8.7% −189.86

Tony Culhane 478 44 9.2% −155.65

Eddie Creighton 327 34 10.4% −96.52

George Bass 317 26 8.2% −139.76

Matthew Davies 283 25 8.8% −99.59

J F Egan 263 27 10.3% −12.87

Darryll Holland 231 30 13% −66.56

William Twiston-Davies 228 22 9.6% −64.77

Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→

1,575

Archived wins

102

Pattern / graded wins

£23.8m

Prize money

2006

Best season · 128 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.

Samitar (GB) — Etihad Airways Irish 1,000 Guineas (Fillies' Group 1) Curragh · May 2012 · Group 1

£174,000

Youmzain (IRE) — Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud - 10 Ans de la LNR Saint-Cloud (FR) · Jun 2008 · Group 1

£168,059

Samitar (GB) — 300,000 Tattersalls Millions 2yo Fillies' Trophy Newmarket · Oct 2011 · Class 2

£162,330

Notable horses

Highlife Dancer (GB) Linda Green (GB) Fitzwilly (GB) Koeman (GB) Bateleur (GB) Foster's Road (GB)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip

Sixties Icon (GB) 11.2% · 144–1,286

Progeny have won 9.9% of 5,682 runs since 2012 (338 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 13.3% from 264. Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 6.4% from 1,337.

Imperial Dancer (GB) 10.6% · 54–510

Progeny have won 9.3% of 940 runs since 2008 (61 horses). Strongest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 12.7% from 142.

Castle Of Angels (IRE) 13.4% · 59–440

Progeny have won 9.7% of 6,513 runs since 2008 (415 horses). Strongest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 13.5% from 155.

Footstepsinthesand (GB) 11.7% · 28–239

Progeny have won 10.2% of 12,810 runs since 2009 (938 horses). Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 6.9% from 320.

Cape Cross (IRE) 6.6% · 14–213

Progeny have won 13.3% of 12,754 runs since 2008 (988 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 8.4% from 477. Weakest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 7.8% from 230.

Compton Place (GB) 4.8% · 8–168

Progeny have won 8.5% of 8,347 runs since 2008 (515 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 11.5% from 165.

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 6 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 14,815 · newest first

The latest 50 of 14,815 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 2 January 2005 to 31 December 2022.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP

31 Dec 22 Lingfield (AW) Johnjay (GB)J: Charles Bishop talkSPORT Powered By Fans EBF Restricted Novice Stakes (GBB Race)Class 5 · 7f · Standard · 14 ran 8th 9/1

09 Dec 22 Wolverhampton (AW) Kanawha (GB)J: George Bass It's Time To Turn To talkSPORT NurseryClass 6 · 5f · Standard · 9 ran 4th 14/1

07 Dec 22 Kempton (AW) Obama Army (GB)J: George Bass Try Our New Price Boosts At Unibet EBF Restricted Novice Stakes (GBB Race) (Div 2)Class 5 · 8f · Standard To Slow · 11 ran 10th 80/1

07 Dec 22 Kempton (AW) Johnjay (GB)J: Charles Bishop Try Our New Price Boosts At Unibet EBF Restricted Novice Stakes (GBB Race) (Div 1)Class 5 · 8f · Standard To Slow · 9 ran 6th 200/1

07 Dec 22 Lingfield (AW) Kitbag (GB)J: Nicola Currie talkSPORT Powered By Fans Nursery (Div 2)Class 6 · 6f · Standard · 10 ran 9th 11/1

29 Nov 22 Lingfield (AW) Kanawha (GB)J: Rose Dawes It's Time To Turn To talkSPORT NurseryClass 6 · 5f · Standard · 10 ran 9th 13/2

09 Nov 22 Kempton (AW) Kitbag (GB)J: Franny Norton Unibet 3 Uniboosts A Day NurseryClass 4 · 6f · Standard To Slow · 10 ran 9th 22/1

09 Nov 22 Kempton (AW) Johnjay (GB)J: Charles Bishop Unibet Horserace Betting Operator Of The Year Restricted Novice StakesClass 6 · 8f · Standard To Slow · 13 ran 11th 33/1

08 Nov 22 Chelmsford City (AW) Sera Dawn (GB)J: Franny Norton EBF Fillies' Novice Stakes (GBB Race)Class 5 · 6f · Standard · 9 ran 9th 10/1

05 Nov 22 Chelmsford City (AW) Chourmo (GB)J: Charlie Bennett Firework Spectacular Here Tomorrow NurseryClass 6 · 8f · Standard · 10 ran 7th 14/1

05 Nov 22 Doncaster Tiriac (GB)J: Connor Beasley Betonline At BetGoodwin Cock O'The North EBF Maiden Stakes (GBB Race) (Div 2)Class 4 · 6f · Heavy · 9 ran 1st 5/1

05 Nov 22 Doncaster Ferrous (IRE)J: Connor Beasley Betonline At BetGoodwin Cock O'The North EBF Maiden Stakes (GBB Race) (Div 1)Class 4 · 6f · Heavy · 10 ran 1st 13/8F

02 Nov 22 Kempton (AW) Koeman (GB)J: J F Egan Unibet Extra Place Offers Every Day HandicapClass 4 · 12f · Standard To Slow · 10 ran 3rd 20/1

02 Nov 22 Kempton (AW) Moush (GB)J: George Bass Unibet/British Stallion Studs EBF Restricted Novice Stakes (GBB Race)Class 5 · 8f · Standard To Slow · 11 ran 7th 7/1

02 Nov 22 Kempton (AW) Phoenix Glow (IRE)J: Charles Bishop Unibet Horserace Betting Operator Of The Year NurseryClass 6 · 7f · Standard To Slow · 10 ran 5th 5/2F

29 Oct 22 Newmarket Caernarfon (GB)J: Connor Beasley British Stallion Studs EBF Montrose Fillies' Stakes (Listed)Class 1 · 8f · Soft · 10 ran 1st 11/1

28 Oct 22 Newmarket Urban Violet (GB)J: Charles Bishop Watch Racing TV Free For 31 Days HandicapClass 5 · 8f · Good To Soft · 16 ran 10th 14/1

28 Oct 22 Newmarket Milteye (GB)J: Charles Bishop British Stallion Studs EBF Novice Stakes (Div 2)Class 4 · 7f · Good To Soft · 13 ran 2nd 22/1

28 Oct 22 Newmarket Tiriac (GB)J: David Egan British Stallion Studs EBF Conditions StakesClass 3 · 6f · Good To Soft · 3 ran 2nd 20/1

25 Oct 22 Catterick Sera Dawn (GB)J: Franny Norton British Stallion Studs EBF Novice Stakes (GBB Race)Class 5 · 5f · Soft · 7 ran 3rd 5/1

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 Mick Channon's strike rate?: Mick Channon has won 1,231 of 11,575 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 10.6% (as at 6 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Mick Channon do best at?: Leicester by strike rate: 44 wins from 302 runners (14.6%) 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 Mick Channon?: Sam Hitchcott, with 1,226 runners since 2008 — 11% of the total. That pairing has won 106 (8.6%).
What is Mick Channon's Fair A/E?: 0.94, from 11,500 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.