Nigel Tinkler
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%".
Sends out around 400 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 8% of them — level with the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 0.97). Horses with headgear back on after a bare run strike at 14% (44 runs).
It is weakest at Haydock (2.4% over 42 runners) — the widest gap in the record. A horse having headgear put back on after a bare run has been a positive signal at 13.6% (n=44, Fair A/E 1.58), but debutants struggle at 0.8% (n=118, Fair A/E 0.36). Runners with a claiming rider up are the standout value angle: 10% strikes only just above baseline, but Fair A/E 1.15 and +157.86 to a £1 stake over 732 runners — a record the market has persistently underpriced. The market has consistently overbet horses returning fresh after 61+ days: 4.7% strike, Fair A/E 0.74 and −82.00 to a £1 stake over 214 runners — those runners underperform what the price implies. Faye McManoman rides 34% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (8%, A/E 1.00) — the market has that partnership priced right. The yard also reads well off a 0-7-day break (12.8%, n=78). The record reads poorly on Soft going — 3.8% over 130 runners, 4.6pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the yard in Class 2: Fair A/E 0.64 across 100 runners (4% strike, −77.50 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperform what the price implies. 3 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Bombardier Flying Childers Stakes at Doncaster (Sep 2020, £34,026). The stable star of the record: Athollblair Boy (IRE) — 15 wins from 135 runs for the yard.
Yard patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 8.4% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 8.4% 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
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Rows below n=30 are shown faded — a small sample is a fact, not a trend. Every figure carries its N.
Horses trained
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progeny record · win % by ground and tripThe record
latest 50 of 6,119 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 6,119 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 3 January 2005 to 17 October 2026.
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 Nigel Tinkler's strike rate?
- Nigel Tinkler has won 169 of 2,019 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 8.4% (as at 20 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does Nigel Tinkler do best at?
- Nottingham by strike rate: 8 wins from 64 runners (12.5%) 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 Nigel Tinkler?
- Faye McManoman, with 678 runners since 2022 — 34% of the total. That pairing has won 54 (8%).
- Is Nigel Tinkler in form?
- Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 9 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
- What is Nigel Tinkler's Fair A/E?
- 0.97, from 2,004 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.