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Trainer profile

Simon Whitaker

469 runners in the last 5 seasons · 31 individual horses
As at 21 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner 4 days ago 98% of runners on the flat
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2021→)
from 1 Jan 2022
24–469
Wins / Runs
5.1%
Strike rate
n=469
102 (22%)
Placed
0.73
Fair A/E
n=467 · 0.61 incl. margin
−150.09
£1 level stake
n=469 at SP · −32.0%
£246k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
4.7%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 90 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 5% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 0.73).

Deterministic profile computed from 469 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 21 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Jul–Aug Phil Dennis: 5.5% from 109
The read

The record is strongest at Catterick (13.4%, n=67) and Ripon (8.5%, n=47) — all clear of the yard's 5.1% baseline. It is weakest at Southwell (AW) (0% over 33 runners) — the widest gap in the record. The market has consistently overbet runners with a claiming rider up: 4.6% strike, Fair A/E 0.67 and −81.34 to a £1 stake over 109 runners — those runners underperform what the price implies. Phil Dennis rides 23% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (5.5%, A/E 0.69). The record reads poorly in Class 4 — 0% over 30 runners, 5.1pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the yard on Standard (AW) going: Fair A/E 0.36 across 127 runners (2.4% strike, −27.00 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperform what the price implies. The stable star of the record: Billy Roberts (IRE) — 5 wins from 33 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires Jul–Aug.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 5.1% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
4.3%−0.8
n=70 · A/E 0.81 · £1 −35.50
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−5.1
n=7 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −7.00
Debutants · first career start
0%−5.1
n=13 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −13.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
7.1%+2.0
n=14 · A/E 1.51 · £1 −3.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
7.7%+2.6
n=26 · A/E 1.13 · £1 +10.00
When favourite
11.5%
n=26 · A/E 0.52 · £1 −14.75
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
4.6%−0.5
n=109 · A/E 0.67 · £1 −81.34

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 5.1% 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
At Catterick 13.4% vs 5.1% · n=67
With Lewis Edmunds 11.8% vs 5.1% · n=34
At Southwell (AW) 0% vs 5.1% · n=33
In Class 4 0% vs 5.1% · n=30
At Ripon 8.5% vs 5.1% · n=47
On Standard (AW) going 2.4% vs 5.1% · n=127
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 461 24 5.2% −142.09
Hurdle 4 0 0% −4.00
NH Flat 4 0 0% −4.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 142 10 7% +5.00
Standard (AW) 127 3 2.4% −27.00
Good to Firm 95 6 6.3% −63.92
Good to Soft 52 3 5.8% −29.17
Soft 51 2 3.9% −33.00
Heavy 2 0 0% −2.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Newcastle (AW) 69 2 2.9% −50.00
Catterick 67 9 13.4% −2.42
Pontefract 53 1 1.9% −45.50
Ripon 47 4 8.5% +11.50
Redcar 46 2 4.3% +7.00
Beverley 38 2 5.3% −24.50
Southwell (AW) 33 0 0% −33.00
Wolverhampton (AW) 25 1 4% +56.00
Doncaster 25 0 0% −25.00
Thirsk 22 0 0% −22.00
Wetherby 14 0 0% −14.00
Haydock 10 2 20% +0.83
Carlisle 7 0 0% −7.00
Nottingham 4 1 25% +7.00
Chester 3 0 0% −3.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 6 310 20 6.5% −24.42
Class 5 122 4 3.3% −88.67
Class 4 30 0 0% −30.00
Class 3 6 0 0% −6.00
Class 2 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 27 3 11.1% 0.50 −15.75
2nd–3rd fav 70 8 11.4% 0.77 −17.34
4th–6th fav 137 8 5.8% 0.77 −61.00
7th+ in betting 235 5 2.1% 0.80 −56.00
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
Tiberio Force (GB) 49 3 11 16 Oct 26
Variety Island (GB) 40 1 12 29 May 25
Mr Heinz (GB) 36 2 13 14 Aug 25
Penny Ghent (GB) 33 2 6 16 Oct 26
Miss Willows (GB) 31 3 5 16 Oct 26
Ziva's Star (GB)from Philip Kirby 25 0 6 12 Oct 26
Liberty Breeze (GB)from Richard Whitaker 25 3 10 5 Jul 24
Round The Island (GB)from Richard Whitaker 24 2 7 4 Dec 23
Billy Roberts (IRE)from Richard Whitaker 22 2 9 21 Dec 23
Stoney Lane (GB)from Richard Whitaker 21 2 9 7 Dec 23
Mythical (FR)from Joseph Patrick O'Brien · then Samantha & Jacqueline Coward 19 0 0 28 May 25
Brazen Rascal (GB) 17 0 0 6 Oct 25
All 31 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 31 horses listed, 14 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Richard Whitaker (6) and Roger Varian (2); 17 had their first archived run for this yard.

3 have since run for another yard; 28 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
1 from 8
Only 8 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
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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 riderPhil Dennis
23% of all rides
5.5% SR · A/E 0.69
RiderRWSR£1
Phil Dennis 109 6 5.5% −57.75
Ben Sanderson 38 2 5.3% −21.00
Cam Hardie 37 1 2.7% −25.00
Lewis Edmunds 34 4 11.8% +91.50
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2021→
31
Archived wins
£299k
Prize money
2022
Best season · 11 wins
Stoney Lane (GB) — Martin Perrins Memorial Handicap Wolverhampton (AW) · Aug 2023 · Class 6
£5,234
Jill Rose (GB) — Betfred 'Passionate About Sport' Fillies' Handicap Haydock · Aug 2022 · Class 5
£4,266
Liberty Breeze (GB) — Maurice Fixter 80th Birthday Handicap Catterick · Jun 2023 · Class 6
£4,187
Notable horses
Billy Roberts (IRE) Tiberio Force (GB) Miss Willows (GB) Liberty Breeze (GB) Jill Rose (GB) Variety Island (GB)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Spill The Beans (AUS) 3.2% · 3–95
Progeny have won 5.7% of 141 runs since 2008 (8 horses).
Lethal Force (IRE) 6.1% · 3–49
Progeny have won 10.7% of 4,264 runs since 2008 (268 horses). Weakest on Soft going: 6.2% from 357.
Outstrip (GB) 7.5% · 3–40
Progeny have won 8.8% of 3,274 runs since 2008 (239 horses). Strongest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 12.8% from 631. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 5.7% from 263.
Pastoral Pursuits (GB) 6.1% · 2–33
Progeny have won 9.5% of 7,217 runs since 2008 (437 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 17.4% from 109. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 1.5% from 133.
Equiano (FR) 12% · 3–25
Progeny have won 9.1% of 7,538 runs since 2008 (549 horses).
Territories (IRE) 0% · 0–25
Progeny have won 10.2% of 3,603 runs since 2008 (348 horses). Strongest on Soft going: 13.3% from 535.
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 571 · newest first

The latest 50 of 571 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 15 April 2021 to 17 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
17 Oct 26 Southwell (AW) The New Bay Pearl (GB)J: Cam Hardie Book The Bistro In Seasons Restaurant Handicap StakesClass 6 · 8f · Standard · 11 ran 5th 22/1
16 Oct 26 Redcar Tiberio Force (GB)J: Miss Sienna Punter Watch Racing Replays At racingtv.com Amateur Jockeys' Handicap StakesClass 6 · 10f · Good · 14 ran 10th 50/1
16 Oct 26 Redcar Penny Ghent (GB)J: George Wood racingtv.com Handicap StakesClass 6 · 7f · Good · 18 ran 18th 50/1
16 Oct 26 Redcar Miss Willows (GB)J: Cieren Fallon racingtv.com Handicap StakesClass 6 · 7f · Good · 18 ran 10th 28/1
16 Oct 26 Redcar Uncertainty (IRE)J: Barry McHugh racingtv.com Handicap StakesClass 6 · 7f · Good · 18 ran 1st 40/1
16 Oct 26 Redcar Moira Express (IRE)J: Alistair Rawlinson Sam Hall Memorial Handicap StakesClass 5 · 5f · Good · 10 ran 10th 125/1
12 Oct 26 Newcastle (AW) Spear Fir (GB)J: Cam Hardie Free Digital Racecard At raceday-ready.com Handicap StakesClass 6 · 6f · Standard · 12 ran 10th 66/1
12 Oct 26 Newcastle (AW) Ziva's Star (GB)J: Tom Eaves Free Digital Racecard At raceday-ready.com Handicap StakesClass 6 · 6f · Standard · 12 ran 4th 40/1
06 Oct 26 Southwell (AW) Moira Express (IRE)J: Paul Mulrennan bettingsites.co.uk Bet Smarter Fillies' Handicap StakesClass 5 · 6f · Standard · 10 ran 10th 200/1
03 Oct 26 Redcar Kartini (IRE)J: Paul Mulrennan Prohibition Bar Handicap Stakes (Div II)Class 5 · 10f · Good · 9 ran 7th 8/1
02 Oct 26 Newcastle (AW) Tiberio Force (GB)J: Mark Winn Henry Malone 1926 Handicap Stakes (Div II)Class 6 · 10f · Standard · 9 ran 7th 18/1
02 Oct 26 Newcastle (AW) Jetpack Jimmy (GB)J: Andrew Elliott Henry Malone 1926 Handicap Stakes (Div I)Class 6 · 10f · Standard · 10 ran 8th 33/1
30 Sep 26 Catterick Miss Willows (GB)J: Tom Eaves Racingtv.com Handicap StakesClass 6 · 6f · Good · 10 ran 7th 33/1
26 Sep 26 Ripon Uncertainty (IRE)J: David Nolan Michael Raby Memorial Handicap Stakes (Div II)Class 6 · 6f · Good · 10 ran 7th 20/1
24 Sep 26 Pontefract Ziva's Star (GB)J: Rhys Elliott ROA Shared Ownership Day Apprentice Handicap StakesClass 6 · 5f · Good · 8 ran 3rd 9/1
22 Sep 26 Beverley Tiberio Force (GB)J: Jack Nicholls Churchill Tyres Apprentice Handicap StakesClass 6 · 10f · Good · 12 ran 3rd 15/2
17 Sep 26 Pontefract Kartini (IRE)J: Cieren Fallon Pontefract Racecourse Racing Together Combatting Loneliness Handicap StakesClass 6 · 10f · Good · 11 ran 4th 12/1
17 Sep 26 Pontefract Jetpack Jimmy (GB)J: Andrew Elliott Nadeen Dawson Memorial Maiden Stakes (GBB Race)Class 4 · 8f · Good · 6 ran 3rd 200/1
17 Sep 26 Pontefract Uncertainty (IRE)J: Olivia Haines Go Racing In Yorkshire Future Stars Apprentice Handicap StakesClass 5 · 6f · Good · 12 ran 5th 40/1
09 Sep 26 Redcar The New Bay Pearl (GB)J: Mark Winn Watch Race Replays On Racing Tv Handicap StakesClass 6 · 8f · Good · 19 ran 5th 4/1F

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 Simon Whitaker's strike rate?
Simon Whitaker has won 24 of 469 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 5.1% (as at 21 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Simon Whitaker do best at?
Catterick by strike rate: 9 wins from 67 runners (13.4%) 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 Simon Whitaker?
Phil Dennis, with 109 runners since 2022 — 23% of the total. That pairing has won 6 (5.5%).
Is Simon Whitaker in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 8 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is Simon Whitaker's Fair A/E?
0.73, from 467 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).