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Sean McParlan

81 runners in the last 5 seasons · 24 individual horses
As at 21 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner 8 days ago 95% of runners over jumps
from 1 Jan 2022
7–81
Wins / Runs
8.6%
Strike rate
n=81
18 (22%)
Placed
1.44
n=81 · 1.21 incl. margin
−23.00
£1 level stake
n=81 at SP · −28.4%
£52,987
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
11.8%
KTB at a glance Mr N McParlan: 10.5% from 57 Claiming riders: 20%

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 8.6% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
2.8%−5.8
n=36 · A/E 0.50 · £1 −21.00
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−8.6
n=7 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −7.00
Debutants · first career start
16.7%+8.1
n=12 · A/E 2.56 · £1 +1.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
50%+41.4
n=2 · A/E 10.70 · £1 +9.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
0%−8.6
n=2 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −2.00
When favourite
0%
n=3 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −3.00
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
20%+11.4
n=30 · A/E 1.97 · £1 +18.50

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 8.6% 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.

Notable angles

vs their own baseline
With claiming riders up 20% vs 8.6% · n=30
On Good going 16.1% vs 8.6% · n=31
Over 2m1f – 2m4f 5.7% vs 8.6% · n=35
With a new jockey booking 6.1% vs 8.6% · n=33
With Mr N McParlan 10.5% vs 8.6% · n=57 · A/E 1.64
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 40 3 7.5% −15.50
Chase 26 2 7.7% −9.00
NH Flat 11 2 18.2% +5.50
Flat 4 0 0% −4.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 31 5 16.1% +10.00
Soft 26 1 3.8% −18.50
Good to Soft 18 1 5.6% −8.50
Heavy 3 0 0% −3.00
Standard (AW) 3 0 0% −3.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Downpatrick 16 1 6.3% −8.50
Perth 10 2 20% +1.50
Punchestown 9 0 0% −9.00
Wexford 6 0 0% −6.00
Down Royal 5 1 20% +4.50
Cartmel 4 1 25% +11.00
Hexham 4 1 25% −0.50
Galway 4 0 0% −4.00
Kilbeggan 4 0 0% −4.00
Ayr 3 0 0% −3.00
Dundalk (AW) 3 0 0% −3.00
Fairyhouse 3 0 0% −3.00
Navan 3 0 0% −3.00
Sligo 2 0 0% −2.00
Listowel 1 0 0% −1.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 4 13 3 23.1% +9.50
Class 5 9 2 22.2% +9.50
Class 2 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 3 0 0% 0.00 −3.00
2nd–3rd fav 11 3 27.3% 1.92 +4.00
4th–6th fav 19 4 21.1% 3.06 +24.00
7th+ in betting 48 0 0% 0.00 −48.00
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
89.4% completed · 66 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 26 88.5% 0 0 3 0 0
Hurdle 40 90% 1 1 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
Drumlee Myth (IRE) 11 2 5 2 Oct 26
Le Malin (FR)from Francois Nicolle 11 1 3 15 Aug 26
Scary Askari (GB)then Noel C. Kelly 7 0 2 22 May 26
Hello Yes (IRE) 5 0 0 31 Dec 25
Cabra Lady (IRE) 4 2 4 26 Sep 24
Anns Getaway (IRE) 3 0 0 21 Aug 26
Leitzel (GB)from Andrew McNamara 3 0 0 9 Aug 26
Drumlee Lake (IRE)then R J Tumilty 3 0 0 7 Dec 24
Super Sling (GB)from Thomas Gibney 2 0 0 7 Aug 22
All 24 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 24 horses listed, 11 arrived from another yard in our archive; 13 had their first archived run for this yard.

6 have since run for another yard, most often for Noel C. Kelly (2); 18 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

Small sample
0 from 1
Only 1 runners in the last 14 days — too few to read against the baseline (gate: n≥15). The card states the sample and stays neutral.

When the yard fires

strike by month, 5 seasons
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
Go-to riderMr N McParlan
70% of all rides
10.5% SR · A/E 1.64
RiderRWSR£1
Mr N McParlan 57 6 10.5% −6.50
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
22
Archived wins
£189k
Prize money
2020
Best season · 4 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.
Pink Suitcase (IRE) — INH Stallion Owners EBF Maiden Hurdle Naas · Mar 2008
£11,056
Drummullagh Rocky (IRE) — Remembering The McDowell Family's 'Caughoo' Ulster & Aintree Grand National Winner Handicap Chase Downpatrick · Aug 2021
£8,850
Deadheat (FR) — Ladbrokes Get Your Daily Odds Boost Handicap Chase Punchestown · Oct 2020
£8,555

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Buck's Boum (FR) 0% · 0–20
Progeny have won 11.1% of 1,361 runs since 2008 (175 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 8% from 263.
Watar (IRE) 14.3% · 2–14
Progeny have won 7.9% of 556 runs since 2008 (59 horses). Strongest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 11.2% from 179. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 4.8% from 167.
Martaline (GB) 9.1% · 1–11
Progeny have won 14.2% of 7,340 runs since 2008 (723 horses). Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 9.4% from 128. Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 10% from 120.
Getaway (GER) 25% · 2–8
Progeny have won 11.3% of 10,914 runs since 2008 (1,026 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 23.7% from 131.
Lucky Speed (IRE) 0% · 0–5
Progeny have won 6.4% of 425 runs since 2008 (61 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 3.3% from 151.
Vadamos (FR) 0% · 0–5
Progeny have won 9.7% of 2,082 runs since 2008 (217 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 5.2% from 155.
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 21 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 337 · newest first

The latest 50 of 337 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 27 February 2005 to 13 October 2026.

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 Sean McParlan's strike rate?
Sean McParlan has won 7 of 81 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 8.6% (as at 21 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Who rides most for Sean McParlan?
Mr N McParlan, with 57 runners since 2022 — 70% of the total. That pairing has won 6 (10.5%).
Is Sean McParlan in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 1 runner, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is Sean McParlan's Fair A/E?
1.44, from 81 runners with a computed fair probability since 2022. 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 21 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).