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Trainer profile

Robert Alan Hennessy

659 runners in the lifetime window · 51 individual horses
As at 22 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Jul 2019
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.
49–659
Wins / Runs
7.4%
Strike rate
n=659
161 (24%)
Placed
0.90
n=659 · 0.72 incl. margin
−333.30
£1 level stake
n=659 at SP · −50.6%
£921k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
33.3%
KTB Yard Profile

Sent out around 50 runners a season, winning with 7% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.90).

Deterministic profile computed from 659 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 22 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fired Jan–Feb 37.1% when favourite A E Lynch: 7.7% from 247 Sent off the favourite in 5% of races
The read

It is weakest at Clonmel (0% over 36 runners) — the widest gap in the record. New recruits from other stables on their first run struggle at 0% (n=42, Fair A/E 0.00). The market has consistently overbet runners with a claiming rider up: 1.7% strike, Fair A/E 0.27 and −92.00 to a £1 stake over 121 runners — those runners underperformed what the price implied. A E Lynch rode 37% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (7.7%, A/E 0.83). The yard also read well in Class 4 (26.7%, n=30) and in Chase races (12%, n=150). The record read poorly off a break of 180+ days — 1.7% over 59 runners, 5.7pts below the baseline. 4 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the December Festival Hurdle at Leopardstown (Dec 2008, £65,100). The stable star of the record was Magnetic Force (IRE) — 9 wins from 83 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fired Jan–Feb.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 7.4% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
4.5%−2.9
n=132 · A/E 0.69 · £1 −86.42
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−7.4
n=42 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −42.00
Debutants · first career start
0%−7.4
n=10 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −10.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
4.3%−3.1
n=23 · A/E 0.84 · £1 −16.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
2.4%−5.0
n=41 · A/E 0.41 · £1 −38.50
When favourite
37.1%
n=35 · A/E 1.32 · £1 +6.29
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
1.7%−5.7
n=121 · A/E 0.27 · £1 −92.00
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
8.5%+1.1
n=47 · A/E 0.70 · £1 −30.10

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 7.4% 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

vs their own baseline
In Class 4 26.7% vs 7.4% · n=30
With new recruits 0% vs 7.4% · n=42
With claiming riders up 1.7% vs 7.4% · n=121
At Clonmel 0% vs 7.4% · n=36
Off a break of 180+ days 1.7% vs 7.4% · n=59
In Chase races 12% vs 7.4% · n=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
Hurdle 405 26 6.4% −238.57
Chase 150 18 12% −51.23
Flat 86 5 5.8% −25.50
NH Flat 18 0 0% −18.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 216 19 8.8% −59.67
Soft 186 16 8.6% −98.42
Heavy 111 7 6.3% −79.88
Good to Firm 85 5 5.9% −63.33
Good to Soft 40 2 5% −11.00
Standard (AW) 18 0 0% −18.00
Firm 3 0 0% −3.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Fairyhouse 68 3 4.4% −35.50
Downpatrick 61 5 8.2% −26.67
Gowran Park 52 4 7.7% −25.85
Punchestown 50 2 4% −43.00
Clonmel 36 0 0% −36.00
Down Royal 36 2 5.6% −8.00
Navan 33 1 3% −30.50
Tramore 31 2 6.5% −14.00
Leopardstown 28 1 3.6% −24.00
Perth 26 7 26.9% +4.75
Bellewstown 23 2 8.7% −10.50
Limerick 22 2 9.1% −11.50
Galway 19 0 0% −19.00
Wexford 17 3 17.6% +12.00
Kilbeggan 17 0 0% −17.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 52 4 7.7% −35.10
Class 4 30 8 26.7% +2.75
Class 3 14 2 14.3% +0.00
Class 5 4 0 0% −4.00
Class 2 3 1 33.3% +5.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 42 15 35.7% 1.36 +7.29
2nd–3rd fav 123 19 15.4% 1.02 −24.09
4th–6th fav 176 9 5.1% 0.69 −90.50
7th+ in betting 318 6 1.9% 0.52 −226.00
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
90.6% completed · 555 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 150 88% 3 4 9 1 1
Hurdle 405 91.6% 6 3 22 2 1
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
Mister First (FR) 76 5 22 14 Feb 18
Rubi Light (FR)from F-M Cottin 39 8 17 5 Mar 16
Space Ship (GB)from John Gosden 29 3 7 5 Jul 19
Ultra Light (FR) 29 3 9 23 Oct 14
Gold Class (GB)from Ed McMahon · then Olly Murphy 25 0 5 8 Oct 16
Maddoxtown (IRE)from Anthony Mullins · then Richenda Ford 25 0 3 9 Sep 14
Time Machine (UAE)from John Gosden 23 1 9 19 Jun 11
Dylrow (IRE)then D M Christie 21 3 10 6 May 19
Pershing (GB)from Marco Botti · then Olly Murphy 21 0 4 6 Oct 16
Reportage (USA)from John Gosden 20 1 3 13 Oct 12
All 51 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 51 horses listed, 41 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from John G Carr (4) and John Gosden (3); 10 had their first archived run for this yard.

17 have since run for another yard, most often for David Peter Dunne (2) and Dermot A McLoughlin (2); 34 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
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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
Go-to riderA E Lynch
37% of all rides
7.7% SR · A/E 0.83
RiderRWSR£1
A E Lynch 247 19 7.7% −128.92
B M Cash 35 1 2.9% −26.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2008→
49
Archived wins
4
Pattern / graded wins
£921k
Prize money
2015
Best season · 9 wins
Sublimity (FR) — December Festival Hurdle (grade 1) Leopardstown · Dec 2008 · Grade 1
£65,100
Rubi Light (FR) — John Durkan Memorial Punchestown Chase (grade 1) Punchestown · Dec 2011 · Grade 1
£52,000
Rubi Light (FR) — Red Mills Chase (grade 2) Gowran Park · Feb 2012 · Grade 2
£26,000

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Verglas (IRE) 10.8% · 9–83
Progeny have won 10.2% of 6,977 runs since 2008 (499 horses).
Trempolino (USA) 6.6% · 5–76
Progeny have won 9.8% of 2,003 runs since 2008 (173 horses). Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 2.5% from 199. Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 5% from 119.
Network (GER) 20.5% · 8–39
Progeny have won 14.1% of 3,767 runs since 2008 (380 horses). Weakest beyond 3m (all codes): 10.2% from 274.
Brier Creek (USA) 10.3% · 3–29
Progeny have won 14.1% of 553 runs since 2008 (38 horses).
Galileo (IRE) 10.3% · 3–29
Progeny have won 14.5% of 18,192 runs since 2008 (1,776 horses). Strongest over 6f – 7f (all codes): 18.2% from 1,383. Weakest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 9.3% from 889.
Firebreak (GB) 0% · 0–25
Progeny have won 8.4% of 2,474 runs since 2008 (150 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 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 659 · newest first

The latest 50 of 659 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 6 December 2008 to 5 July 2019.

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 Robert Alan Hennessy's strike rate?
Robert Alan Hennessy has won 49 of 659 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 7.4% (as at 22 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Robert Alan Hennessy do best at?
Downpatrick by strike rate: 5 wins from 61 runners (8.2%) 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 Robert Alan Hennessy?
A E Lynch, with 247 runners since 2008 — 37% of the total. That pairing has won 19 (7.7%).
What is Robert Alan Hennessy's Fair A/E?
0.90, from 659 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).