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R A Cotter

59 runners in the lifetime window · 4 individual horses
As at 22 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Mar 2021 98% of runners over jumps
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)
No runners in the last 5 seasons — showing the lifetime record, from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it.
8–59
Wins / Runs
13.6%
Strike rate
n=59
16 (27%)
Placed
1.97
Fair A/E
n=59 · 1.54 incl. margin
+23.00
£1 level stake
n=59 at SP · +39.0%
£88,902
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%
KTB at a glance Claiming riders: 14.7%

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 13.6% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
12.5%−1.1
n=16 · A/E 2.36 · £1 +6.00
Debutants · first career start
0%−13.6
n=3 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −3.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−13.6
n=2 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −2.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
0%−13.6
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00
When favourite
0%
n=2 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −2.00
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
14.7%+1.1
n=34 · A/E 1.96 · £1 +20.50
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−13.6
n=6 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −6.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 13.6% 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

Race type

TypeRWSR£1
Hurdle 34 5 14.7% +18.00
Chase 22 3 13.6% +8.00
NH Flat 2 0 0% −2.00
Flat 1 0 0% −1.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Soft 26 3 11.5% +8.50
Good 13 2 15.4% +15.00
Heavy 10 0 0% −10.00
Good to Soft 5 2 40% +5.50
Good to Firm 4 1 25% +5.00
Firm 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Cork 8 0 0% −8.00
Galway 6 1 16.7% +0.50
Thurles 5 0 0% −5.00
Punchestown 5 0 0% −5.00
Limerick 5 2 40% +21.00
Clonmel 4 0 0% −4.00
Listowel 4 0 0% −4.00
Wexford 3 1 33.3% +10.00
Tramore 3 1 33.3% +1.50
Killarney 2 0 0% −2.00
Gowran Park 2 1 50% +15.00
Roscommon 2 0 0% −2.00
Ballinrobe 2 1 50% +9.00
Wexford 2 0 0% −2.00
Kilbeggan 2 1 50% +2.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 6 0 0% −6.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 3 0 0% 0.00 −3.00
2nd–3rd fav 10 2 20% 1.43 −1.50
4th–6th fav 18 4 22.2% 3.14 +21.50
7th+ in betting 28 2 7.1% 2.20 +6.00
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
87.5% completed · 56 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 22 81.8% 4 0 0 0 0
Hurdle 34 91.2% 0 0 3 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
Ronava (IRE)then Dr Richard Newland 29 4 6 9 Oct 18
Cruising Katie (IRE) 25 4 10 5 May 11
Ronnoco Katie (IRE)then W J Burke 4 0 0 20 Mar 21
Present Rock (IRE)then Sean Aherne 1 0 0 17 Mar 20
All 4 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 4 horses listed, none arrived from another yard in our archive — all 4 had their first archived run here.

3 have since run for another yard; 1 has 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
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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
Lenny Flynn 8 1 12.5% −3.50
Patrick Mangan 6 1 16.7% +3.00
Jonathan Burke 5 2 40% +12.00
Rachael Blackmore 5 1 20% +6.00
Davy Russell 2 0 0% −2.00
Donal McInerney 2 0 0% −2.00
A P Heskin 2 1 50% +4.50
Andrew P Thornton 2 1 50% +15.00
A E Lynch 2 0 0% −2.00
Shane Butler 2 0 0% −2.00
Andrew Ring 1 0 0% −1.00
Sean O'Keeffe 1 0 0% −1.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
8
Archived wins
£93,949
Prize money
2014
Best season · 2 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.
Cruising Katie (IRE) — Greenmount Annual Members Novice Chase Limerick · Jul 2010
£12,420
Cruising Katie (IRE) — Irish Stallion Farms E.B.F. Mares Beginners Chase Limerick · May 2010
£11,730
Ronava (IRE) — Killeen Sports Grounds Handicap Hurdle (80-109) Ballinrobe · May 2017
£7,700
Notable horses
Ronava (IRE) Cruising Katie (IRE)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Blueprint (IRE) 13.8% · 4–29
Progeny have won 9.9% of 1,670 runs since 2008 (137 horses).
Beneficial (GB) 16% · 4–25
Progeny have won 10.5% of 17,043 runs since 2008 (1,155 horses).
Shirocco (GER) 0% · 0–5
Progeny have won 11.2% of 9,163 runs since 2008 (920 horses). Weakest over 6f – 7f (all codes): 7.4% from 203.
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 72 · newest first

The latest 50 of 72 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 3 January 2005 to 20 March 2021.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
20 Mar 21 Thurles Ronnoco Katie (IRE)J: Richard Condon Adare Manor Opportunity Maiden Hurdle16.5f · Yielding · 16 ran PU 250/1
06 Dec 20 Cork Ronnoco Katie (IRE)J: Kevin Sexton Charleville Cheese Maiden Hurdle (Div 2)16f · Soft To Heavy · 20 ran 19th 250/1
24 Nov 20 Punchestown Ronnoco Katie (IRE)J: Darragh O'Keeffe Hub At Ballymore Maiden Hurdle16.5f · Soft · 18 ran 17th 200/1
17 Mar 20 Wexford Present Rock (IRE)J: Gavin Brouder Wexford Mares Maiden Hurdle16f · Heavy · 14 ran 6th 100/1
07 Oct 19 Tipperary Ronnoco Katie (IRE)J: Donal McInerney Follow Tipperary Races On Facebook Mares Maiden Hurdle20f · Yielding · 17 ran PU 66/1
09 Oct 18 Galway Ronava (IRE)J: Sean O'Keeffe Guinness Handicap Chase18f · Yielding · 17 ran 9th 14/1
11 Sep 18 Listowel Ronava (IRE)J: A E Lynch Irish Stallion Farms EBF Handicap Hurdle (80-116)20f · Yielding To Soft · 12 ran 7th 33/1
28 Aug 18 Ballinrobe Ronava (IRE)J: Mark Enright Eamon Sheridan Groundworks Handicap Hurdle (81-123)16f · Good To Yielding · 14 ran 10th 33/1
23 May 18 Wexford Ronava (IRE)J: Donal McInerney Slaney Handicap Hurdle16f · Good · 13 ran 7th 33/1
19 Nov 17 Cork Ronava (IRE)J: J J Slevin corkracecourse.ie Handicap Chase16.5f · Soft To Heavy · 11 ran 8th 10/1
09 Nov 17 Thurles Ronava (IRE)J: Davy Russell Littleton Handicap Chase18f · Yielding · 10 ran F 7/1
19 Oct 17 Punchestown Ronava (IRE)J: Barry Browne Go Racing In Kildare Handicap Hurdle (80-116)16f · Yielding To Soft · 20 ran 11th 16/1
10 Oct 17 Galway Ronava (IRE)J: Rachael Blackmore Galway City & Salthill Publicans Charity Handicap Hurdle16.5f · Soft · 11 ran 4th 14/1
06 Aug 17 Galway Ronava (IRE)J: Danny Mullins Lord Hemphill Memorial Handicap Chase18f · Soft · 10 ran 7th 12/1
21 Jul 17 Kilbeggan Ronava (IRE)J: A E Lynch Midlands National Handicap Chase25f · Good · 13 ran 8th 20/1
05 Jun 17 Listowel Ronava (IRE)J: Rachael Blackmore John J. Galvin Handicap Chase19f · Yielding · 14 ran 5th 5/1
29 May 17 Ballinrobe Ronava (IRE)J: Rachael Blackmore Killeen Sports Grounds Handicap Hurdle (80-109)20f · Good · 16 ran 1st 10/1
17 May 17 Punchestown Ronava (IRE)J: Rachael Blackmore Panoramic Restaurant Handicap Chase16f · Good · 9 ran 5th 13/2
29 Jan 17 Leopardstown Ronava (IRE)J: Rachael Blackmore Sandyford Handicap Chase17f · Good · 11 ran 4th 16/1
11 Dec 16 Cork Ronava (IRE)J: Andrew Ring Low Low Handicap Hurdle16f · Soft To Heavy · 12 ran 7th 12/1

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 R A Cotter's strike rate?
R A Cotter has won 8 of 59 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 13.6% (as at 22 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
What is R A Cotter's Fair A/E?
1.97, from 59 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.
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).