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Trainer profile

Ross O'Sullivan

2,734 runners in the lifetime window · 335 individual horses
As at 27 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Non-runners: 10.9% of 497 declared in the last 365 days, counting all recorded withdrawals, including reserves. For context, a typical day across all racing ends with about 6.5% withdrawn (middle half 5.3–8.1% over 364 racing days). As at 27 Oct 2026.
Last runner yesterday
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2011→)
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
211–2,734
Wins / Runs
7.7%
Strike rate
n=2,734
740 (27%)
Placed
0.94
Fair A/E
n=2,733 · 0.75 incl. margin
−821.61
£1 level stake
n=2,734 at SP · −30.1%
£3.98m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
8.9%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 140 runners a season, across both codes, winning with 8% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.94). The yard is quiet just now — 1 winner in the last fortnight, below its own baseline.

Deterministic profile computed from 2,734 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 27 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Jun–Jul 27% when favourite Tom Harney: 9.6% from 187 Claiming riders: 7.8% Sends off the favourite in 7% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Killarney (13.3%, n=75), clear of the yard's 7.7% baseline. Debutants struggle at 1.6% (n=188, Fair A/E 0.51). The market has consistently overbet horses returning fresh after 61+ days: 4.9% strike, Fair A/E 0.68 and −165.52 to a £1 stake over 526 runners — those runners underperform what the price implies. Right now the yard is in a quiet spell: 1 from 24 runners in the last 14 days (4.2%, 3.5pts below the 7.7% baseline). Tom Harney rides 7% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (9.6%, A/E 1.12) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. 8 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Friends Of The Curragh Irish Cesarewitch at Curragh (IRE) (Sep 2026, £275,000). The stable star of the record: Samrogue (IRE) — 7 wins from 40 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires Jun–Jul.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 7.7% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
4.9%−2.8
n=526 · A/E 0.68 · £1 −165.52
New recruits · first run for the yard
5.4%−2.3
n=148 · A/E 0.83 · £1 +72.00
Debutants · first career start
1.6%−6.1
n=188 · A/E 0.51 · £1 −172.12
First-time headgear · true-first definition
7.1%−0.6
n=112 · A/E 1.11 · £1 −59.12
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
5%−2.7
n=80 · A/E 0.66 · £1 −61.92
When favourite
27%
n=204 · A/E 1.03 · £1 −33.33
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
7.8%+0.1
n=1,010 · A/E 0.95 · £1 −440.38
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
7%−0.7
n=115 · A/E 0.94 · £1 +104.38

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 7.7% 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 Keith Donoghue 18.3% vs 7.7% · n=60
With W J Lee 17.1% vs 7.7% · n=41
With debutants 1.6% vs 7.7% · n=188
On last-time-out winners 13.6% vs 7.7% · n=206
With Leigh Roche 1.5% vs 7.7% · n=65
At Killarney 13.3% vs 7.7% · n=75
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
Flat 1,282 93 7.3% −132.31
Hurdle 916 74 8.1% −455.57
Chase 443 38 8.6% −168.03
NH Flat 93 6 6.5% −65.70

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Soft 841 55 6.5% −233.71
Good 823 78 9.5% −57.35
Heavy 382 29 7.6% −190.22
Good to Soft 329 23 7% −198.66
Standard (AW) 275 23 8.4% −93.17
Good to Firm 84 3 3.6% −48.50

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Dundalk 261 22 8.4% −83.17
Naas 227 10 4.4% −163.32
Punchestown 205 17 8.3% −90.57
Curragh 170 13 7.6% −49.29
Fairyhouse 170 9 5.3% −86.67
Navan 164 12 7.3% −44.50
Limerick 114 7 6.1% −91.94
Leopardstown 112 6 5.4% −48.67
Cork 109 12 11% −7.29
Galway 97 10 10.3% −29.12
Gowran Park 96 4 4.2% +17.25
Roscommon 96 5 5.2% +64.38
Down Royal 85 5 5.9% −44.09
Sligo 85 11 12.9% +70.45
Killarney 75 10 13.3% −12.37

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 120 8 6.7% +99.38
Class 2 14 0 0% −14.00
Class 4 10 2 20% −2.00
Class 3 9 0 0% −9.00
Class 5 5 0 0% −5.00
Class 6 2 0 0% −2.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 248 63 25.4% 1.04 −35.67
2nd–3rd fav 515 74 14.4% 0.99 −103.44
4th–6th fav 736 45 6.1% 0.82 −287.50
7th+ in betting 1,235 29 2.3% 0.84 −395.00
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.

Horses trained

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Doonard Prince (IRE)from Liz Doyle 83 6 23 1 Dec 21
Universal Focus (GER)then Adrian Nicholls 69 6 21 2 Nov 22
Bythesametoken (IRE)from Peter Fahey 53 6 24 4 Oct 26
Gracesolution (IRE) 42 3 15 16 Jan 26
Western Sea (IRE)from John J Walsh 41 4 10 25 May 23
Samrogue (IRE) 40 7 15 6 Dec 24
Monzoon (GB)then Noel C Kelly 39 4 12 15 Nov 23
Favori Logique (FR) 36 4 16 16 May 26
Beautiful Chaos (IRE) 36 1 10 20 Jan 26
Benefit Run (IRE)from Peter Fahey 36 3 13 15 Sep 23
He's Our Man (IRE)from Patrick O Brady · then G A Kingston 36 5 16 4 May 15
Longbourn (IRE)from Edward P Harty 35 4 15 14 Nov 25
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 335 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 12 times. Horses with fewer runs aren't listed; search finds any horse since 2005. 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 60 horses listed, 25 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Peter Fahey (3) and Henry De Bromhead (2); 35 had their first archived run for this yard.

11 have since run for another yard; 49 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

Quiet spell
1 from 24 4.2% · −3.5pts vs baseline
Last 14 days4.2%
Lifetime base7.7%
Shown only when the 14-day window is large enough to mean anything (n≥15). A cold run renders the same card with a quiet badge — never hidden.

When the yard fires

strike by month, lifetime
JFMAMJJASOND
757889979866
Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first
Go-to riderTom Harney
7% of all rides
9.6% SR · A/E 1.12
RiderRWSR£1
Tom Harney 187 18 9.6% −65.63
Shane Foley 123 13 10.6% −37.30
Donagh O'Connor 108 12 11.1% +101.04
Danny Gilligan 96 12 12.5% −30.24
Shane O'Callaghan 89 6 6.7% −62.12
Shane Markey 83 4 4.8% −60.84
Mark Gallagher 83 4 4.8% +24.50
Donagh Meyler 76 5 6.6% −45.50
Mr L P Shanahan 73 5 6.8% −42.25
L P Dempsey 70 5 7.1% −20.00
Leigh Roche 65 1 1.5% −36.00
Keith Donoghue 60 11 18.3% +1.33
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2011→
211
Archived wins
8
Pattern / graded wins
£3.98m
Prize money
2025
Best season · 35 wins
Chally Chute (IRE) — Friends Of The Curragh Irish Cesarewitch Curragh (IRE) · Sep 2026
£275,000
Dance Night Andday (IRE) — Irish Stallion Farms EBF Sovereign Path Handicap (Premier Handicap) Leopardstown · Sep 2024
£88,500
Baie Des Iles (FR) — Prix des Drags (Chase) (5yo+) (Turf) Auteuil (FR) · Jun 2018 · Grade 2
£87,611
Notable horses
Samrogue (IRE) Doonard Prince (IRE) Universal Focus (GER) Bythesametoken (IRE) He's Our Man (IRE) Call It Magic (IRE)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Footstepsinthesand (GB) 7.5% · 7–93
Progeny have won 10.2% of 12,794 runs since 2008 (937 horses). Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 6.9% from 320.
Fame And Glory (GB) 9% · 8–89
Progeny have won 12.5% of 6,208 runs since 2008 (504 horses).
Gleneagles (IRE) 5.5% · 4–73
Progeny have won 11.4% of 4,560 runs since 2008 (445 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 17% from 282.
Intense Focus (USA) 8.7% · 6–69
Progeny have won 8.3% of 3,630 runs since 2008 (218 horses). Strongest on Good to Soft going: 11.5% from 349. Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 11.5% from 384.
Walk In The Park (IRE) 6% · 3–50
Progeny have won 13.3% of 6,972 runs since 2008 (695 horses).
Westerner (GB) 10.2% · 5–49
Progeny have won 12.1% of 11,835 runs since 2008 (941 horses). Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 8.5% from 188.
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 27 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 2,734 · newest first

The latest 50 of 2,734 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 6 May 2011 to 26 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
26 Oct 26 Galway (IRE) Touch The Clouds (IRE)J: Daniel King Corrib Oil Maiden Hurdle16.5f · Soft To Heavy · 20 ran 2nd 5/1
26 Oct 26 Galway (IRE) Coolishael (IRE)J: Daniel King Connolly's RED MILLS Irish EBF Auction & Median Maiden Hurdle16.5f · Soft To Heavy · 10 ran 2nd 2/1F
26 Oct 26 Galway (IRE) Coral River (IRE)J: Donagh Meyler SANSERV Rated Novice Chase18f · Heavy · 7 ran 4th 13/2
25 Oct 26 Wexford (IRE) Parisian Dream (IRE)J: Shane Markey Bet With Tote On Racing & Sports Maiden Hurdle20.5f · Soft · 11 ran 5th 150/1
25 Oct 26 Wexford (IRE) Club Manager (GB)J: Shane O'Callaghan Download The Tote App Handicap Hurdle17f · Soft · 13 ran 6th 4/1F
25 Oct 26 Saint-Cloud (FR) Chally Chute (IRE)J: Donagh O'Connor Prix Royal-oak (group 1)Class 1 · 15.5f · Soft · 8 ran 6th 6/1
25 Oct 26 Wexford (IRE) Katoomba (IRE)J: Jordan Gainford William Hill Challenge Series Maiden Hurdle17f · Soft · 13 ran 6th 100/1
25 Oct 26 Galway (IRE) Talk In The Park (IRE)J: Danny Gilligan COLM QUINN BMW Handicap Steeplechase22.5f · Soft To Heavy · 9 ran 2nd 6/1
23 Oct 26 Cheltenham Ceanndana (IRE)J: Mr L P Shanahan Chapel Down Amateur Jockeys' Handicap Steeple Chase (gbb Race)Class 3 · 25f · Good To Soft · 11 ran UR 12/1
21 Oct 26 Navan (IRE) Bad Boy Rizz (IRE)J: Shane Foley Final Fence Marquee Hospitality Package 14th & 15th November On Sale Now Handicap5f · Yielding · 8 ran 5th 5/1
21 Oct 26 Navan (IRE) Always Changing (IRE)J: G. F. Carroll Irish Stallion Farms EBF Median Auction Maiden6f · Yielding · 14 ran 10th 50/1
20 Oct 26 Curragh (IRE) Cracking Cloud (GB)J: Shane Foley 1xBet.ie Supports The Curragh Handicap10f · Yielding · 24 ran 13th 22/1
18 Oct 26 Leopardstown (IRE) Altimara (IRE)J: Donagh O'Connor Watch Every Irish Race Live On Racing TV Handicap7f · Good · 14 ran 13th 13/2
17 Oct 26 Leopardstown (IRE) Nouveau Grey (FR)J: Donagh O'Connor Mongey Communications Killavullan Stakes (Group 3)Class 1 · 7f · Good · 6 ran 5th 17/2
16 Oct 26 Dundalk (AW) (IRE) Eastern Peace (IRE)J: Reese Holohan View Restaurant At Dundalk Stadium Handicap10.5f · Standard · 14 ran 4th 4/1
16 Oct 26 Dundalk (AW) (IRE) Four Blondes (IRE)J: Sam Coen Celebrate Your Special Occasion At Dundalk Stadium Handicap (Div II)7f · Standard · 14 ran 3rd 6/1
15 Oct 26 Curragh (IRE) Dolly Hello (IRE)J: W. J. Lee Feel The Rush With 1xBet.ie Handicap7f · Soft · 20 ran 3rd 14/1
15 Oct 26 Curragh (IRE) Harry's Legacy (GB)J: Donagh O'Connor Isuzu Ireland Handicap14f · Yielding To Soft · 21 ran 20th 80/1
15 Oct 26 Curragh (IRE) Tero D'rosa (IRE)J: Shane Markey DNG Excellence Handicap9f · Yielding To Soft · 19 ran 16th 8/1
15 Oct 26 Curragh (IRE) Tavernise (IRE)J: Siobhan Rutledge Irish EBF Median Sires Series Maiden6f · Soft · 12 ran 4th 16/1

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 Ross O'Sullivan's strike rate?
Ross O'Sullivan has won 211 of 2,734 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 7.7% (as at 27 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Ross O'Sullivan do best at?
Killarney by strike rate: 10 wins from 75 runners (13.3%) 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 Ross O'Sullivan?
Tom Harney, with 187 runners since 2008 — 7% of the total. That pairing has won 18 (9.6%).
Is Ross O'Sullivan in form?
In the last 14 days: 24 runners, 1 winner, a strike rate of 4.2%. That is below the baseline of 7.7% since 2008.
What is Ross O'Sullivan's Fair A/E?
0.94, from 2,733 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 27 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).