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Trainer profile

Sam England

1,430 runners in the last 5 seasons · 128 individual horses
As at 27 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Non-runners: 5.5% of 415 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 For context, a typical day across all racing ends with about 6.5% withdrawn (middle half 5.3–8.1% over 364 racing days).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
from 1 Jan 2022
187–1,430
Wins / Runs
13.1%
Strike rate
n=1,430
482 (34%)
Placed
1.02
n=1,426 · 0.88 incl. margin
−374.52
£1 level stake
n=1,430 at SP · −26.2%
£1.93m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
14%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 290 runners a season, across both codes, winning with 13% of them — level with the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 1.02).

Deterministic profile computed from 1,430 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 27 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fires May–Jun 29.1% when favourite Jonathan England: 14.7% from 695 Sends off the favourite in 16% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Southwell (22.4%, n=67) and Hexham (21.1%, n=90) — all clear of the yard's 13.1% baseline. A horse having headgear put back on after a bare run has been a poor signal at 5.4% (n=37, Fair A/E 0.51). The market has consistently overbet runners with a claiming rider up: 10.4% strike, Fair A/E 0.85 and −78.64 to a £1 stake over 230 runners — those runners underperform what the price implies. Jonathan England rides 49% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (14.7%, A/E 1.01) — the market has that partnership priced right. The yard also reads well beyond 3m (21.8%, n=110) and in Chase races (19.3%, n=388). The stable star of the record: Jez Bomb (GB) — 10 wins from 47 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires May–Jun.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 13.1% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
9.6%−3.5
n=198 · A/E 1.06 · £1 −93.09
New recruits · first run for the yard
6%−7.1
n=84 · A/E 0.74 · £1 −60.75
Debutants · first career start
4%−9.1
n=25 · A/E 1.07 · £1 −14.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
7.3%−5.8
n=41 · A/E 0.85 · £1 −27.67
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
5.4%−7.7
n=37 · A/E 0.51 · £1 −26.00
When favourite
29.1%
n=230 · A/E 0.93 · £1 −39.05
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
10.4%−2.7
n=230 · A/E 0.85 · £1 −78.64
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−13.1
n=4 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −4.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 13.1% 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
On last-time-out winners 23.1% vs 13.1% · n=186
Beyond 3m 21.8% vs 13.1% · n=110
With Shane Gray 23.1% vs 13.1% · n=52
At Southwell 22.4% vs 13.1% · n=67
In Chase races 19.3% vs 13.1% · n=388
At Hexham 21.1% vs 13.1% · n=90
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 576 57 9.9% −227.03
Hurdle 457 54 11.8% −140.00
Chase 388 75 19.3% −9.49
NH Flat 9 1 11.1% +2.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 560 91 16.3% −49.72
Standard (AW) 246 21 8.5% −102.26
Good to Soft 244 26 10.7% −112.83
Soft 239 34 14.2% −56.66
Good to Firm 91 9 9.9% −37.67
Heavy 50 6 12% −15.38

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Newcastle (AW) 133 8 6% −95.87
Sedgefield 128 23 18% −11.12
Catterick 92 13 14.1% −25.93
Hexham 90 19 21.1% +10.86
Cartmel 82 15 18.3% −18.80
Carlisle 73 14 19.2% +10.75
Southwell 67 15 22.4% +12.63
Market Rasen 64 8 12.5% −3.25
Southwell (AW) 58 3 5.2% −42.12
Doncaster 54 4 7.4% −28.38
Wetherby 54 6 11.1% −8.17
Newcastle 52 5 9.6% −34.05
Wolverhampton (AW) 47 6 12.8% +23.50
Haydock 44 9 20.5% +1.00
Uttoxeter 42 5 11.9% −16.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 5 539 83 15.4% −49.70
Class 4 467 49 10.5% −192.80
Class 6 216 25 11.6% −83.31
Class 3 125 21 16.8% −21.71
Class 2 72 9 12.5% −16.00
Class 1 10 0 0% −10.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 260 75 28.8% 0.96 −39.54
2nd–3rd fav 349 69 19.8% 1.17 +18.02
4th–6th fav 434 37 8.5% 1.07 −84.00
7th+ in betting 387 6 1.6% 0.51 −269.00
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
Jez Bomb (GB) 47 10 24 26 Oct 26
Trilby (GB)from George Boughey 47 8 20 10 Oct 26
Glory And Honour (IRE)from David O'Meara 40 6 15 22 Oct 26
It's A Love Thing (GB)from John Butler 38 5 14 23 Oct 26
Spot On Soph (IRE) 37 6 16 8 Oct 26
Sir Maxi (GB)from Richard Fahey 36 2 11 26 Mar 26
Croagh Patrick (IRE)from S Donohoe · then Gillian Boanas 34 3 14 13 Mar 25
Hot Scoop (GB)from Jamie Osborne 32 2 10 17 Oct 23
Made All (GB)from Antony Brittain 29 5 12 17 Oct 26
Saligo Bay (IRE)from Gary & Josh Moore 28 8 13 18 Oct 26
Tom Creen (IRE)from L J Morgan 28 5 15 14 Sep 26
Haarar (GB)from Michael Bell 25 6 13 21 Jun 26
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 128 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 9 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, 48 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Archie Watson (3) and Michael Bell (3); 12 had their first archived run for this yard.

7 have since run for another yard; 53 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

Steady
3 from 21 14.3% · +1.2pts vs baseline
Last 14 days14.3%
5-season base13.1%
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, 5 seasons
JFMAMJJASOND
1091381718121413171411
Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first
Go-to riderJonathan England
49% of all rides
14.7% SR · A/E 1.01
RiderRWSR£1
Jonathan England 695 102 14.7% −182.85
Tom Midgley 82 12 14.6% +1.08
Oisin Orr 58 8 13.8% −9.25
Shane Gray 52 12 23.1% +21.95
Tom Eaves 49 4 8.2% −17.00
Cam Hardie 33 2 6.1% +11.25
P J McDonald 31 5 16.1% −11.75
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2016→
280
Archived wins
£2.65m
Prize money
2025
Best season · 50 wins
Saligo Bay (IRE) — Docks Beers Lincoln Handicap Hurdle (GBB Race) Market Rasen · Sep 2025 · Class 2
£21,124
Glory And Honour (IRE) — bet365 Novices' Limited Handicap Chase (GBB Race) Doncaster · Dec 2023 · Class 3
£18,211
No Cruise Yet (GB) — Go North Red Rum Series Final Handicap Chase (GBB Race) Carlisle · Mar 2022 · Class 2
£18,023

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Twilight Son (GB) 15.9% · 10–63
Progeny have won 9.6% of 3,650 runs since 2008 (283 horses).
Walk In The Park (IRE) 15.7% · 8–51
Progeny have won 13.3% of 6,972 runs since 2008 (695 horses).
Lope De Vega (IRE) 18% · 9–50
Progeny have won 13.8% of 12,175 runs since 2008 (1,103 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 9.3% from 957.
Elusive Pimpernel (USA) 12.5% · 6–48
Progeny have won 7.7% of 3,136 runs since 2008 (317 horses).
Hunter's Light (IRE) 21.3% · 10–47
Progeny have won 11.2% of 1,330 runs since 2008 (153 horses). Strongest on Good to Soft going: 14.3% from 168. Weakest on Heavy going: 6.8% from 161. Strongest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 14.5% from 207. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 7.6% from 132.
Westerner (GB) 14.6% · 6–41
Progeny have won 12.1% of 11,831 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 2,279 · newest first

The latest 50 of 2,279 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 27 January 2016 to 26 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 Sam England's strike rate?
Sam England has won 187 of 1,430 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 13.1% (as at 27 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Sam England do best at?
Southwell by strike rate: 15 wins from 67 runners (22.4%) since 2022. 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 Sam England?
Jonathan England, with 695 runners since 2022 — 49% of the total. That pairing has won 102 (14.7%).
Is Sam England in form?
In the last 14 days: 21 runners, 3 winners, a strike rate of 14.3%. That is in line with the baseline of 13.1% since 2022.
What is Sam England's Fair A/E?
1.02, from 1,426 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 27 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).