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S M O'Donoghue

48 runners in the lifetime window · 12 individual horses
As at 13 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Jul 2024 96% of runners over jumps
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2014→)
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
0–48
Wins / Runs
0%
Strike rate
n=48
6 (13%)
Placed
0.00
Fair A/E
n=48 · 0.00 incl. margin
−48.00
£1 level stake
n=48 at SP · −100.0%
£7,986
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 0% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
0%+0.0
n=17 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −17.00
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%+0.0
n=6 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −6.00
Debutants · first career start
0%+0.0
n=6 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −6.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%+0.0
n=4 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −4.00
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
0%+0.0
n=37 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −37.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 0% baseline — descriptive splits with the sample always shown, for you to weigh. 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. The same beliefs, tested across every yard and every GB and Irish race since 2005: Racing myths.

Record by conditions

same window as header

Race type

TypeRWSR£1
Hurdle 26 0 0% −26.00
Chase 10 0 0% −10.00
NH Flat 10 0 0% −10.00
Flat 2 0 0% −2.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 15 0 0% −15.00
Heavy 14 0 0% −14.00
Soft 14 0 0% −14.00
Good to Soft 5 0 0% −5.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Clonmel 11 0 0% −11.00
Tramore 7 0 0% −7.00
Thurles 5 0 0% −5.00
Cork 4 0 0% −4.00
Limerick 3 0 0% −3.00
Punchestown 3 0 0% −3.00
Kilbeggan 2 0 0% −2.00
Tipperary 2 0 0% −2.00
Sligo 2 0 0% −2.00
Navan 1 0 0% −1.00
Wexford 1 0 0% −1.00
Roscommon 1 0 0% −1.00
Leopardstown 1 0 0% −1.00
Gowran Park 1 0 0% −1.00
Galway 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
2nd–3rd fav 3 0 0% 0.00 −3.00
4th–6th fav 16 0 0% 0.00 −16.00
7th+ in betting 29 0 0% 0.00 −29.00
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
83.3% completed · 36 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 10 60% 0 1 3 0 0
Hurdle 26 92.3% 0 0 2 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
Esthers Present (IRE)then Ronan M P McNally 8 0 0 28 Oct 18
Scamaill Liath (IRE)from John E Kiely 8 0 0 7 Aug 16
Seaforth Mancy (IRE)then Dr Richard Newland 6 0 2 28 Oct 21
Dark Victory (IRE)from John E Kiely 6 0 2 13 Dec 14
Touperia (IRE)from Daniel William O'Sullivan 5 0 0 3 Aug 15
Make Me Merry (IRE) 4 0 1 1 Nov 18
Tulpar (IRE)then Patrick Neville 4 0 1 28 Feb 16
Caracci Queen (IRE) 2 0 0 8 Jul 24
Araglen Star (IRE)from Gary Hanmer 2 0 0 17 Jun 24
Imperial Ode (IRE) 1 0 0 21 Mar 23
Call Me Merry (IRE)from Paul Cashman 1 0 0 6 Jan 22
Golden Ode (IRE)from John J Walsh 1 0 0 29 Jan 21
All 12 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 12 horses listed, 6 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from John E Kiely (2); 6 had their first archived run for this yard.

3 have since run for another yard; 9 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
JFMAMJJASOND
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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
David Splaine 10 0 0% −10.00
Mr D Allen 5 0 0% −5.00
Mr C Motherway 4 0 0% −4.00
Ambrose McCurtin 4 0 0% −4.00
Mr J C Barry 4 0 0% −4.00
A P Heskin 3 0 0% −3.00
Miss S Ahern 3 0 0% −3.00
Phillip Enright 2 0 0% −2.00
Mark Bolger 2 0 0% −2.00
Diarmuid Moloney 1 0 0% −1.00
Miss R Murphy 1 0 0% −1.00
John Shinnick 1 0 0% −1.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Cloudings (IRE) 0% · 0–13
Progeny have won 10.5% of 3,888 runs since 2008 (310 horses). Strongest beyond 3m (all codes): 14.6% from 411. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 7.5% from 816.
Presenting (GB) 0% · 0–12
Progeny have won 11% of 20,053 runs since 2008 (1,686 horses). Strongest on Standard (AW) going: 24.3% from 136.
Mustameet (USA) 0% · 0–6
Progeny have won 8.2% of 1,163 runs since 2013 (103 horses). Strongest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 12.5% from 248. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 5% from 424.
Westerner (GB) 0% · 0–6
Progeny have won 12.1% of 11,873 runs since 2009 (946 horses). Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 8.5% from 188.
Oscar Schindler (IRE) 0% · 0–4
Progeny have won 7.1% of 718 runs since 2008 (82 horses).
Sandmason (GB) 0% · 0–2
Progeny have won 11.4% of 493 runs since 2010 (66 horses). Strongest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 15.3% from 131.
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 13 Nov 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 48 archived runs · newest first

Every one of S M O'Donoghue's 48 archived runners, from 6 January 2014 to 8 July 2024, newest first — no winners among them.

Best finish: 3rd of 16 — Dark Victory (IRE), Thurles, 6 Jan 2014.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
08 Jul 24 Roscommon Caracci Queen (IRE)J: Miss T Quail Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares (Ladies Pro/Am) Flat Race16f · Good · 14 ran 12th 150/1
17 Jun 24 Kilbeggan Araglen Star (IRE)J: Diarmuid Moloney Belvedere House & Gardens Opportunity Handicap Hurdle (80-95) (Div 2)24.5f · Good To Yielding · 16 ran 9th 50/1
11 May 24 Cork Araglen Star (IRE)J: John Shinnick Fraser Rutherford Handicap Hurdle (80-95)24.5f · Good · 18 ran 12th 40/1
28 Nov 23 Tramore Caracci Queen (IRE)J: Miss J Walton Garrarus Beach (ladies Pro/am) Flat Race16f · Soft · 8 ran 8th 28/1
21 Mar 23 Clonmel Imperial Ode (IRE)J: Mr D Allen Russellstown Flat Race18.5f · Heavy · 8 ran PU 25/1
06 Jan 22 Clonmel Call Me Merry (IRE)J: Mr D Allen Rathronan Maiden Hunters Chase20f · Heavy · 11 ran PU 16/1
28 Oct 21 Clonmel Seaforth Mancy (IRE)J: Ambrose McCurtin Cashel Maiden Hurdle16.5f · Heavy · 8 ran 3rd 4/1
22 Oct 21 Sligo Seaforth Mancy (IRE)J: Mr D Allen John Thomas McNamara Series (Q.R.) Maiden Hurdle20f · Yielding · 9 ran 4th 3/1
30 Sep 21 Clonmel Seaforth Mancy (IRE)J: Sean O'Keeffe Kilmore Maiden Hurdle16.5f · Good To Yielding · 18 ran 4th 25/1
04 Jun 21 Tramore Seaforth Mancy (IRE)J: Miss R Murphy Kilbarry (Ladies Pro/Am) Flat Race16.5f · Good To Yielding · 14 ran 3rd 17/2
27 May 21 Limerick Seaforth Mancy (IRE)J: Mr D Allen Athea Flat Race16f · Yielding To Soft · 18 ran 7th 12/1
04 Apr 21 Cork Seaforth Mancy (IRE)J: Mr D Allen Jim Ryan Racecourse Services (Pro/Am) Flat Race19f · Good · 17 ran 8th 40/1
29 Jan 21 Navan Golden Ode (IRE)J: Phillip Enright Graigs Lane Maiden Hurdle (Div 2)20f · Heavy · 20 ran 18th 250/1
01 Nov 18 Clonmel Make Me Merry (IRE)J: Mark Bolger Kilsheelan Maiden Hurdle20f · Good · 5 ran 3rd 25/1
28 Oct 18 Galway Esthers Present (IRE)J: Sean Flanagan Ballymore Handicap Chase (0-102)22.5f · Soft · 15 ran PU 20/1
18 Oct 18 Tramore Make Me Merry (IRE)J: Miss S Ahern Waterford & Tramore Racecourse (Ladies Pro/Am) Flat Race16f · Good · 8 ran 3rd 25/1
17 Oct 18 Punchestown Esthers Present (IRE)J: Miss S Ahern Ingoldsby (Q.R.) Handicap Chase25f · Good · 11 ran 8th 25/1
24 Aug 18 Kilbeggan Make Me Merry (IRE)J: Mark Bolger Summer Party Pack Discount Group Booking Maiden Hurdle18f · Good · 9 ran 5th 50/1
19 Aug 18 Tramore Make Me Merry (IRE)J: Phillip Enright Comeragh Veterinary Maiden Hurdle21f · Good · 13 ran 9th 66/1
19 Oct 17 Punchestown Esthers Present (IRE)J: Miss S Ahern Ingoldsby (Q.R.) Handicap Chase25f · Soft · 14 ran 6th 25/1

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 S M O'Donoghue's strike rate?
S M O'Donoghue has won 0 of 48 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 0% (as at 13 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
What is S M O'Donoghue's Fair A/E?
0.00, from 48 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 13 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).