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R W Varnham

17 runners in the last 5 seasons · 6 individual horses
As at 20 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner 172 days ago 100% of runners over jumps
from 1 Jan 2022
1–17
Wins / Runs
5.9%
Strike rate
n=17
4 (24%)
Placed
0.57
n=17 · 0.52 incl. margin
−14.00
£1 level stake
n=17 at SP · −82.4%
£17,578
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%

Small sample — fewer than 30 runs in this window. Read the Ns before the percentages.

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 5.9% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
9.1%+3.2
n=11 · A/E 1.20 · £1 −8.00
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−5.9
n=5 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −5.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
0%−5.9
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
6.3%+0.4
n=16 · A/E 0.65 · £1 −13.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 5.9% 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

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 12 1 8.3% −9.00
Good to Soft 3 0 0% −3.00
Soft 2 0 0% −2.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Stratford 6 0 0% −6.00
Cheltenham 4 0 0% −4.00
Newbury 3 0 0% −3.00
Warwick 2 0 0% −2.00
Fontwell 1 1 100% +2.00
Kempton 1 0 0% −1.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 5 8 0 0% −8.00
Class 4 5 1 20% −2.00
Class 3 2 0 0% −2.00
Class 2 1 0 0% −1.00
Class 6 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
2nd–3rd fav 6 1 16.7% 0.84 −3.00
4th–6th fav 7 0 0% 0.00 −7.00
7th+ in betting 4 0 0% 0.00 −4.00
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
88.2% completed · 17 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 17 88.2% 1 0 1 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
Empire De Maulde (FR)from James Ewart 5 0 2 1 May 26
Imperial Esprit (IRE)from Harry Fry 5 0 1 1 May 26
Trappist Monk (IRE)from Noel Meade 3 1 1 5 May 23
Count Simon (IRE)from Gordon Elliott 2 0 0 5 May 23
Ripper Roo (FR)from Olly Murphy 1 0 0 3 May 24
Tangoed (IRE)from Harry Whittington 1 0 0 14 Mar 22
All 6 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 6 horses listed, 6 arrived from another yard in our archive.

None of them has a 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.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first
RiderRWSR£1
Mr Daniel Kyne 8 1 12.5% −5.00
Mr Darren Andrews 2 0 0% −2.00
Mr Sean O'Connor 2 0 0% −2.00
Miss Immy Robinson 1 0 0% −1.00
Mr Martin McIntyre 1 0 0% −1.00
Mr Joshua Newman 1 0 0% −1.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2018→
1
Archived wins
£19,190
Prize money
2023
Best season · 1 win
Trappist Monk (IRE) — Betgoodwin Our Best Odds Guaranteed Open Hunters' Chase Fontwell · Feb 2023 · Class 4
£3,593
Notable horses

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Scorpion (IRE) 0% · 0–5
Progeny have won 9.2% of 6,313 runs since 2008 (609 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 14.2% from 141.
Spanish Moon (USA) 0% · 0–5
Progeny have won 12.3% of 1,664 runs since 2008 (218 horses). Strongest on Good going: 16.6% from 392. Weakest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 7.9% from 277.
Beneficial (GB) 33.3% · 1–3
Progeny have won 10.5% of 17,043 runs since 2008 (1,155 horses).
Rip Van Winkle (IRE) 0% · 0–2
Progeny have won 10.1% of 3,947 runs since 2008 (324 horses).
Papal Bull (GB) 0% · 0–1
Progeny have won 7.4% of 1,584 runs since 2008 (131 horses). Weakest on Good to Soft going: 3.5% from 172. Weakest over 6f – 7f (all codes): 3.3% from 122.
Smadoun (FR) 0% · 0–1
Progeny have won 12.2% of 1,394 runs since 2008 (154 horses). Weakest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 8% from 187.
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

all 25 archived runs · newest first

Every one of R W Varnham's 25 archived runners, from 16 February 2018 to 1 May 2026, newest first — one winner among them.

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 R W Varnham's strike rate?
R W Varnham has won 1 of 17 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 5.9% (as at 20 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive. A small sample — fewer than 30 runners, so read the count before the percentage.
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).