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Trainer profile

Simon & Ed Crisford

2,584 runners in the lifetime window · 435 individual horses
As at 5 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Non-runners: 6.1% of 378 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 For context, a typical day across all racing ends with about 6.5% withdrawn (middle half 5.3–8.1% over 364 racing days).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 5 Nov 2026.
Last runner yesterday 100% of runners on the flat
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
492–2,584
Wins / Runs
19%
Strike rate
n=2,584
1,126 (44%)
Placed
1.06
n=2,572 · 0.91 incl. margin
−459.37
£1 level stake
n=2,584 at SP · −17.8%
£10.7m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
17%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 140 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 19% of them — beating the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 1.06).

Deterministic profile computed from 2,584 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 5 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Jul–Sep 41% when favourite Harry Davies: 16% from 387 Sends off the favourite in 21% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Lingfield (AW) (27.2%, n=158), clear of the yard's 19% baseline. It is weakest at Sandown (6.3% over 63 runners) — the widest gap in the record. A horse in first-time headgear has been a poor signal at 9.3% (n=205, Fair A/E 0.68). Harry Davies rides 15% of the entries and sits below the yard's average (16% vs 19%, A/E 1.02) — the market has that partnership priced right. 53 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Belmont Derby Stakes at Saratoga (USA) (Jul 2026, £305,556). The stable star of the record: Manxman (IRE) — 9 wins from 22 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires Jul–Sep.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 19% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
16.4%−2.6
n=414 · A/E 0.95 · £1 −58.95
New recruits · first run for the yard
12.7%−6.3
n=55 · A/E 1.03 · £1 −8.27
Debutants · first career start
16.8%−2.2
n=380 · A/E 1.10 · £1 −73.08
First-time headgear · true-first definition
9.3%−9.7
n=205 · A/E 0.68 · £1 −130.63
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
26.1%+7.1
n=23 · A/E 1.77 · £1 +3.46
When favourite
41%
n=534 · A/E 1.10 · £1 −36.66
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
17.9%−1.1
n=218 · A/E 1.35 · £1 −13.75
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
16%−3.0
n=332 · A/E 1.07 · £1 −25.27

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 19% 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.

Notable angles

vs their own baseline
At Sandown 6.3% vs 19% · n=63
With Oisin Murphy 32.1% vs 19% · n=53
With first-time headgear 9.3% vs 19% · n=205
At Ascot 8.2% vs 19% · n=98
At Newbury 9.4% vs 19% · n=85
At Lingfield (AW) 27.2% vs 19% · n=158
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 2,583 492 19% −458.37
Hurdle 1 0 0% −1.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 1,089 224 20.6% −185.29
Good 519 92 17.7% −66.39
Good to Firm 495 96 19.4% −111.20
Good to Soft 238 37 15.5% −45.83
Soft 194 34 17.5% −54.29
Heavy 44 8 18.2% +0.33
Firm 5 1 20% +3.30

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Kempton (AW) 268 52 19.4% −66.18
Wolverhampton (AW) 247 50 20.2% −55.80
Lingfield (AW) 158 43 27.2% +7.78
Chelmsford City (AW) 157 27 17.2% −20.36
Southwell (AW) 126 23 18.3% −26.92
Newcastle (AW) 124 26 21% −22.01
Windsor 101 22 21.8% −6.79
Ascot 98 8 8.2% −54.87
Newmarket 97 12 12.4% −31.55
Goodwood 89 15 16.9% −31.32
Yarmouth 86 14 16.3% −28.68
Nottingham 85 13 15.3% −29.70
Newbury 85 8 9.4% −38.13
Haydock 76 12 15.8% −18.86
Newmarket 76 13 17.1% −6.70

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 5 891 189 21.2% −161.04
Class 4 670 130 19.4% −163.54
Class 2 339 54 15.9% −64.06
Class 1 332 53 16% −25.27
Class 3 283 49 17.3% −48.96
Class 6 63 14 22.2% −5.23

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 589 234 39.7% 1.10 −40.98
2nd–3rd fav 949 185 19.5% 1.05 −113.29
4th–6th fav 730 67 9.2% 1.06 −114.10
7th+ in betting 316 6 1.9% 0.51 −191.00
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
Liseo (IRE)then S Cerulis 28 3 10 15 Oct 24
Court Of Session (GB)then Phil McEntee 23 4 10 7 Sep 24
Base Note (GB) 23 5 12 13 Jul 24
Manxman (IRE) 22 9 12 10 Oct 26
Vespasian (IRE) 20 3 11 6 Sep 25
Cavalry Call (IRE)then R Mike Smith 19 2 7 31 May 25
Telemark (IRE) 18 3 4 19 Oct 26
Adrestia (GB)then Simon Crisford 18 3 8 3 Oct 26
Poker Face (IRE) 18 7 9 4 Dec 24
West Wind Blows (IRE) 17 6 12 20 Jun 26
Choisya (GB) 17 5 10 15 Sep 24
Finest Sound (IRE)from Simon Crisford 17 4 11 8 Oct 22
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 435 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 11 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, 5 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Simon Crisford (4); 55 had their first archived run for this yard.

14 have since run for another yard, most often for Simon Crisford (2); 46 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 2
Only 2 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, lifetime
JFMAMJJASOND
251014151513242122172425
A flat yard: the season runs Mar–Oct. Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first
Go-to riderHarry Davies
15% of all rides
16% SR · A/E 1.02
RiderRWSR£1
Harry Davies 387 62 16% −57.32
Jack Mitchell 337 77 22.8% −46.02
James Doyle 298 63 21.1% −57.11
Ross Coakley 168 27 16.1% −35.63
William Buick 158 27 17.1% −67.51
Harry Burns 144 28 19.4% +7.77
Silvestre De Sousa 103 15 14.6% −30.84
Andrea Atzeni 99 23 23.2% −12.92
Robert Havlin 63 12 19% −22.31
Callum Shepherd 57 10 17.5% −16.21
Oisin Murphy 53 17 32.1% +11.05
P J McDonald 44 13 29.5% −6.76
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2020→
492
Archived wins
53
Pattern / graded wins
£10.7m
Prize money
2022
Best season · 85 wins
Title Role (GB) — Belmont Derby Stakes (Turf) Saratoga (USA) · Jul 2026 · Grade 1
£305,556
Senorita Bonita (IRE) — Sumbe Prix Morny (group 1) Deauville (FR) · Aug 2026 · Group 1
£199,990
Vandeek (GB) — Sumbe Prix Morny (2yo No Geldings) (Straight Course) (Turf) Deauville (FR) · Aug 2023 · Group 1
£176,982

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Night Of Thunder (IRE) 20.8% · 36–173
Progeny have won 16.3% of 5,107 runs since 2019 (563 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 6.9% from 160.
Lope De Vega (IRE) 16.9% · 22–130
Progeny have won 13.8% of 12,214 runs since 2014 (1,108 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 9.4% from 960.
Shamardal (USA) 17.6% · 18–102
Progeny have won 14.8% of 10,413 runs since 2009 (1,008 horses). Weakest on Soft going: 11.7% from 1,288. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 9.3% from 475.
Invincible Spirit (IRE) 22.9% · 22–96
Progeny have won 11.9% of 20,862 runs since 2008 (1,574 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 16.1% from 161. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 7.8% from 844.
Dubawi (IRE) 20.9% · 19–91
Progeny have won 18.4% of 12,980 runs since 2009 (1,530 horses). Weakest at trips under 6f (all codes): 9.8% from 429.
Blue Point (IRE) 18.7% · 14–75
Progeny have won 13.9% of 3,442 runs since 2023 (418 horses). Weakest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 10.4% from 212.
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 5 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

latest 50 of 2,584 · newest first

The latest 50 of 2,584 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 1 June 2020 to 4 November 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
14 Oct 26 Nottingham Medaali (IRE)J: Oisin Murphy EBF Maiden Stakes (GBB Race)Class 4 · 8.5f · Good To Soft · 14 ran 5th 9/2

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).

KTB’s figures

the forward record · since 5 Oct 2026

KTB’s figures on this yard’s runners since 17 Oct 2026: the KTB Selection in 2 runs (won 1) · top-rated on KTB Rating in 1 run (won 1) · fastest on KTB Speed in 1 run (won 0) · to 19 Oct 2026.

Each pick was a KTB figure’s choice before the off — the published KTB Selection, the top-rated horse on KTB Rating, the fastest on KTB Speed — settled against the result the next morning and never worked out again; “did not run” is counted apart. GB and Irish races only. A record of weeks so far: read it as a count, not a verdict.

Quick answers

What is Simon & Ed Crisford's strike rate?
Simon & Ed Crisford has won 492 of 2,584 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 19% (as at 5 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Simon & Ed Crisford do best at?
Lingfield (AW) by strike rate: 43 wins from 158 runners (27.2%) 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 Simon & Ed Crisford?
Harry Davies, with 387 runners since 2008 — 15% of the total. That pairing has won 62 (16%).
Is Simon & Ed Crisford in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 2 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is Simon & Ed Crisford's Fair A/E?
1.06, from 2,572 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 5 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).