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Trainer profile

Padraig Butler

108 runners in the last 5 seasons · 14 individual horses
As at 28 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner 3 days ago 99% of runners over jumps
from 1 Jan 2022
11–108
Wins / Runs
10.2%
Strike rate
n=108
28 (26%)
Placed
1.29
n=108 · 1.04 incl. margin
−46.37
£1 level stake
n=108 at SP · −42.9%
£132k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
14.3%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 20 runners a season, almost all over hurdles and fences, winning with 10% of them — beating the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 1.29). With a claiming rider up the record reads 17% (60 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 108 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 28 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Claiming riders: 16.7%
The read

Runners with a claiming rider up have been a positive signal at 16.7% (n=60, Fair A/E 1.64). The yard also reads well over 2m1f – 2m4f (13.9%, n=36) and off a 15-30-day break (13.9%, n=36). The record reads poorly on Soft going — 6.7% over 45 runners, 3.5pts below the baseline.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 10.2% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
18.8%+8.6
n=16 · A/E 2.68 · £1 +3.50
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−10.2
n=4 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −4.00
Debutants · first career start
0%−10.2
n=7 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −7.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−10.2
n=5 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −5.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
0%−10.2
n=4 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −4.00
When favourite
55.6%
n=9 · A/E 2.00 · £1 +5.13
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
16.7%+6.5
n=60 · A/E 1.64 · £1 −2.87
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−10.2
n=9 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −9.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 10.2% 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 claiming riders up 16.7% vs 10.2% · n=60
On Soft going 6.7% vs 10.2% · n=45
Over 2m1f – 2m4f 13.9% vs 10.2% · n=36
Off a 15-30-day break 13.9% vs 10.2% · n=36
Over 2m5f – 3m 7.1% vs 10.2% · n=42
With a new jockey booking 7.3% vs 10.2% · n=41
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
Hurdle 62 6 9.7% −41.12
Chase 33 3 9.1% −14.25
NH Flat 12 2 16.7% +10.00
Flat 1 0 0% −1.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Soft 45 3 6.7% −27.75
Heavy 29 5 17.2% −2.62
Good to Soft 17 2 11.8% −11.00
Good 17 1 5.9% −5.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Punchestown 14 2 14.3% −9.50
Cork 13 2 15.4% +2.50
Limerick 13 2 15.4% −2.50
Tramore 13 0 0% −13.00
Galway 10 0 0% −10.00
Killarney 9 2 22.2% +4.50
Wexford 6 1 16.7% −2.75
Listowel 5 0 0% −5.00
Gowran Park 4 1 25% −1.62
Tipperary 3 0 0% −3.00
Fairyhouse 3 1 33.3% +9.00
Naas 3 0 0% −3.00
Thurles 3 0 0% −3.00
Cheltenham 2 0 0% −2.00
Sligo 2 0 0% −2.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 10 0 0% −10.00
Class 2 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 10 5 50% 1.86 +4.13
2nd–3rd fav 19 3 15.8% 1.10 −3.00
4th–6th fav 27 3 11.1% 1.57 +4.50
7th+ in betting 52 0 0% 0.00 −52.00
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.

Jumping record

completion over obstacles · same window as header
76.8% completed · 95 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 33 75.8% 1 0 7 0 0
Hurdle 62 77.4% 1 1 12 0 0
Chases and hurdles only — bumpers have no obstacles, so completion is not a question there. F fell · UR unseated rider · PU pulled up · BD brought down · Oth covers refusals, slip-ups, run-outs and the rare disqualification. Non-runners are excluded throughout. Rows under n=30 are shown faded. A descriptive record, not a tip.

Horses trained

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Da Capo Glory (IRE) 24 3 10 25 Oct 26
James The Brave (IRE) 16 4 7 4 Oct 26
Nolans Rocco (IRE) 12 1 2 4 Oct 26
Amburana (IRE) 11 0 1 14 Aug 26
Fons Vivus (IRE) 11 1 2 31 Mar 23
Imperial Fox (IRE) 8 0 0 12 May 24
Hard Rain (IRE)from James Daniel Dullea · then Archie Watson 7 1 4 23 Nov 23
Streamhill (IRE)from Terence O'Brien 5 1 1 10 Oct 26
Pinkarizon (IRE)from Warren Greatrex 5 0 1 13 Aug 26
Black Fern (IRE) 3 0 0 1 Jan 25
Metersandmasks (IRE)from C Byrnes 3 0 0 10 Nov 24
Nolans Fair Day (IRE) 1 0 0 25 Oct 26
All 14 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 14 horses listed, 5 arrived from another yard in our archive; 9 had their first archived run for this yard.

1 has since run for another yard; 13 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 2
Only 2 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
221020903314001900
A jumps yard: the season runs Oct–Apr. Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first
RiderRWSR£1
Michael Kenneally 18 5 27.8% +7.25
Mr D Allen 16 3 18.8% +1.88
Brian Hayes 15 0 0% −15.00
Phillip Enright 13 0 0% −13.00
J J Slevin 9 1 11.1% −4.50
Alan O'Sullivan 6 0 0% −6.00
Ms G M Dorgan 5 1 20% +7.00
Mike O'Connor 5 1 20% −3.00
John Shinnick 4 0 0% −4.00
Danny Mullins 3 0 0% −3.00
Tiernan Power Roche 2 0 0% −2.00
Liam McKenna 2 0 0% −2.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2021→
12
Archived wins
£141k
Prize money
2026
Best season · 5 wins
Da Capo Glory (IRE) — EASYFIX Handicap Hurdle Cork · Jan 2024
£12,980
James The Brave (IRE) — Tomcoole Farm Novice Handicap Chase Wexford · Apr 2026
£11,780
Da Capo Glory (IRE) — Oak Lodge Landscapes At Punchestown Hurdle Punchestown · Jun 2023
£10,325

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Fame And Glory (GB) 11.4% · 4–35
Progeny have won 12.5% of 6,208 runs since 2008 (504 horses).
Shirocco (GER) 3.8% · 1–26
Progeny have won 11.2% of 9,174 runs since 2008 (921 horses). Weakest over 6f – 7f (all codes): 7.4% from 203.
Dansant (GB) 25% · 4–16
Progeny have won 7.9% of 542 runs since 2008 (64 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 11.8% from 110.
Arcadio (GER) 12.5% · 1–8
Progeny have won 9.2% of 3,977 runs since 2008 (375 horses).
Progeny have won 8.3% of 1,585 runs since 2008 (172 horses).
Arizona (IRE) 0% · 0–5
Progeny have won 6.4% of 485 runs since 2008 (73 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 28 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 114 · newest first

The latest 50 of 114 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 20 March 2021 to 25 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP

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 Padraig Butler's strike rate?
Padraig Butler has won 11 of 108 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 10.2% (as at 28 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Is Padraig Butler in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 2 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is Padraig Butler's Fair A/E?
1.29, from 108 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 28 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).