What is Steve Gollings's strike rate?

Steve Gollings has won 150 of 1,217 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 12.3% (as at 15 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.

Which course does Steve Gollings do best at?

Southwell by strike rate: 9 wins from 38 runners (23.7%) 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 Steve Gollings?

Keith Mercer, with 91 runners since 2008 — 7% of the total. That pairing has won 10 (11%).

What is Steve Gollings's Fair A/E?

1.05, from 1,216 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.

Trainer profile

Steve Gollings

1,217 runners in the lifetime window · 110 individual horses

As at 15 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily

Last runner Nov 2020

Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)

No runners in the last 5 seasons — showing the lifetime record, from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it.

150–1,217

Wins / Runs

12.3%

Strike rate

n=1,217

397 (33%)

Placed

1.05

Fair A/E

n=1,216 · 0.91 incl. margin

−179.13

£1 level stake

n=1,217 at SP · −14.7%

£1.12m

Prize money (window)

Strike by season

8.8%

KTB Yard Profile

Sent out around 90 runners a season, across both codes, winning with 12% of them — beating the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 1.05). In Group and Graded company the record reads 21% (33 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 1,217 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 15 Oct 2026

KTB at a glance Fired Nov–Dec 34.6% when favourite Keith Mercer: 11% from 91 Group/Graded: 21.2% Sent off the favourite in 11% of races

The read

The record is strongest at Southwell (23.7%, n=38) and Wetherby (21.9%, n=32) — all clear of the yard's 12.3% baseline. In Group and Graded company the record reads well at 21.2% (n=33, Fair A/E 2.85), but a horse in first-time headgear has been a poor signal at 7.9% (n=38, Fair A/E 0.95). Horses returning fresh after 61+ days are the standout value angle: 12.3% strikes only just above baseline, but Fair A/E 1.43 and +43.50 to a £1 stake over 260 runners — a record the market has persistently underpriced. Keith Mercer rode 7% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (11%, A/E 1.01) — the market has that partnership priced right. The record read poorly over 6f – 7f — 4.9% over 81 runners, 7.4pts below the baseline. 8 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Betfred Monet's Garden Old Roan Chase at Aintree (Oct 2013, £42,203). The stable star of the record was Three Boars (GB) — 8 wins from 50 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fired Nov–Dec.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 12.3% baseline

Fresh · 61+ days off

12.3%+0.0

n=260 · A/E 1.43 · £1 +43.50

New recruits · first run for the yard

9.3%−3.0

n=54 · A/E 0.98 · £1 −20.25

Debutants · first career start

13.9%+1.6

n=36 · A/E 0.97 · £1 −19.13

First-time headgear · true-first definition

7.9%−4.4

n=38 · A/E 0.95 · £1 −3.50

Headgear returns · back on after a bare run

9.4%−2.9

n=32 · A/E 0.90 · £1 −13.75

When favourite

34.6%

n=130 · A/E 1.14 · £1 −4.51

Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle

10.1%−2.2

n=306 · A/E 0.87 · £1 −91.25

Group / Graded races · pattern & listed

21.2%+8.9

n=33 · A/E 2.85 · £1 +6.38

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 12.3% 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 A P McCoy 29.7% vs 12.3% · n=37

On last-time-out winners 21.6% vs 12.3% · n=153

At Southwell 23.7% vs 12.3% · n=38

At Wetherby 21.9% vs 12.3% · n=32

Over 6f – 7f 4.9% vs 12.3% · n=81

In Group / Graded races 21.2% vs 12.3% · n=33

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 597 66 11.1% −40.54

Hurdle 371 50 13.5% −74.21

Chase 154 19 12.3% −47.25

NH Flat 95 15 15.8% −17.13

Going

GoingRWSR£1

Standard (AW) 321 41 12.8% −4.37

Good 320 36 11.3% −91.84

Soft 213 35 16.4% −25.01

Good to Soft 211 19 9% −82.79

Good to Firm 109 11 10.1% +26.88

Heavy 42 8 19% −1.00

Firm 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1

Market Rasen 176 25 14.2% −45.49

Wolverhampton (AW) 82 10 12.2% −1.75

Southwell (AW) 81 9 11.1% −20.37

Kempton (AW) 79 12 15.2% +32.50

Doncaster 75 9 12% −7.00

Haydock 39 3 7.7% −21.87

Catterick 38 7 18.4% +18.25

Southwell 38 9 23.7% +45.00

Chelmsford (AW) 36 6 16.7% −8.75

Nottingham 35 4 11.4% −12.38

Lingfield (AW) 33 3 9.1% −2.50

Wetherby 32 7 21.9% +4.17

Beverley 31 2 6.5% −17.50

Uttoxeter 30 5 16.7% −10.88

Fakenham 29 5 17.2% −12.56

Class

ClassRWSR£1

Class 4 392 53 13.5% −38.39

Class 5 265 33 12.5% −27.20

Class 6 257 34 13.2% −25.80

Class 3 161 17 10.6% −53.50

Class 2 76 5 6.6% −13.62

Class 1 55 7 12.7% −15.62

Class 7 11 1 9.1% −5.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1

Favourite 155 56 36.1% 1.25 +11.62

2nd–3rd fav 323 44 13.6% 0.84 −88.25

4th–6th fav 403 35 8.7% 1.06 −55.00

7th+ in betting 336 15 4.5% 1.17 −47.50

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

Kylladdie (GB)from Tom Tate 41 6 13 16 May 14

Make Me A Fortune (IRE) 34 4 11 23 May 18

Local Hero (GER)from Tom Tate 34 7 14 21 Jan 15

Handiwork (GB)from Michael Bell 33 6 14 30 Oct 19

Conquisto (GB)from Clive Cox · then Brian Ellison 33 8 14 11 Nov 14

Zamoyski (GB)from Jeremy Noseda 30 4 7 1 Jul 20

Russian George (IRE)from Tom Tate · then Alan Berry 30 4 10 31 May 15

Springfield Raki (GB) 28 4 11 20 May 12

Molten Lava (IRE)from Philip Kirby 27 2 11 8 Feb 20

With Hindsight (IRE)from John Spearing 26 4 12 27 Dec 18

Jamarjo (IRE) 26 5 11 27 Aug 12

Caged Lightning (IRE)from Ronald O'Leary 25 3 7 18 Feb 20

The 60 most-raced of 110 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 60 horses listed, 38 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Tom Tate (8) and Clive Cox (3); 22 had their first archived run for this yard.

26 have since run for another yard, most often for Brian Ellison (5) and John Mackie (3); 34 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

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Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first

Go-to riderKeith Mercer

7% of all rides
11% SR · A/E 1.01

RiderRWSR£1

Keith Mercer 91 10 11% −20.38

Paul Bohan 62 9 14.5% −22.50

Brian Hughes 47 7 14.9% −8.59

Tom Scudamore 46 5 10.9% −26.75

Rhys Flint 46 9 19.6% +2.03

A P McCoy 37 11 29.7% +4.78

Richard Johnson 34 5 14.7% −9.50

Chris Catlin 31 3 9.7% +1.00

Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→

196

Archived wins

Pattern / graded wins

£1.71m

Prize money

2011

Best season · 22 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.

Conquisto (GB) — Betfred Monet's Garden Old Roan Chase (Grade 2 Limited Handicap) Aintree · Oct 2013 · Grade 2

£42,203

Royal Shakespeare (FR) — Elite Limited Handicap Hurdle (Grd2) Wincanton · Nov 2005 · Class 1

£28,510

Conquisto (GB) — Scotty Brand Handicap Chase (Listed) Ayr · Apr 2013 · Listed

£17,832

Notable horses

Three Boars (GB) Conquisto (GB) Local Hero (GER) Will He Wish (GB) Kylladdie (GB) Handiwork (GB)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip

Kyllachy (GB) 12.7% · 7–55

Progeny have won 9.9% of 13,847 runs since 2008 (800 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 5.8% from 468.

Rock Of Gibraltar (IRE) 7.7% · 4–52

Progeny have won 9.8% of 11,562 runs since 2008 (871 horses).

Lomitas (GB) 18.2% · 8–44

Progeny have won 10.7% of 1,870 runs since 2008 (163 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 15.6% from 122. Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 7.2% from 319. Weakest over 6f – 7f (all codes): 6.7% from 120.

Heron Island (IRE) 11.8% · 4–34

Progeny have won 11.2% of 2,819 runs since 2008 (317 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 14.2% from 162.

Hernando (FR) 24.2% · 8–33

Progeny have won 12.1% of 3,531 runs since 2008 (273 horses). Weakest over 6f – 7f (all codes): 7.5% from 120.

Motivator (GB) 18.2% · 6–33

Progeny have won 12.1% of 5,572 runs since 2008 (510 horses). Strongest on Soft going: 15.9% from 1,079. Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 7.8% from 1,277. Strongest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 15.1% from 589. Weakest over 6f – 7f (all codes): 8.7% from 572.

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 15 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 1,805 · newest first

The latest 50 of 1,805 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 3 January 2005 to 10 November 2020.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP

10 Nov 20 Newcastle (AW) Dr Rio (FR)J: Tony Hamilton Heed Your Hunch At Betway Handicap (Div 1)Class 5 · 10f · Standard · 13 ran 2nd 5/1

29 Oct 20 Chelmsford City (AW) Dr Rio (FR)J: Tony Hamilton chelmsfordcityracecourse.com HandicapClass 4 · 10f · Standard · 11 ran 7th 40/1

26 Oct 20 Newcastle (AW) Nat Love (IRE)J: P J McDonald Bombardier HandicapClass 5 · 8f · Standard To Slow · 14 ran 8th 15/2

23 Oct 20 Newbury Colony Queen (GB)J: Jim Crowley Academy Insurance Fillies' HandicapClass 4 · 10f · Heavy · 11 ran 5th 11/2

09 Oct 20 Kempton (AW) Colony Queen (GB)J: Luke Morris Unibet/EBF Stallions Breeding Fillies' HandicapClass 4 · 12f · Standard To Slow · 12 ran 4th 22/1

06 Oct 20 Lingfield (AW) Nat Love (IRE)J: P J McDonald Read Andrew Balding On Betway Insider HandicapClass 6 · 8f · Standard · 11 ran 2nd 5/1

15 Sep 20 Yarmouth Colony Queen (GB)J: Robert Havlin British EBF Premier Fillies' HandicapClass 4 · 11.5f · Good To Firm · 11 ran 1st 40/1

13 Sep 20 Chelmsford City (AW) Nat Love (IRE)J: Robert Havlin tote.co.uk Now Never Beaten By SP HandicapClass 5 · 7f · Standard · 11 ran 5th 9/2

02 Sep 20 Bath Colony Queen (GB)J: Adam Kirby Final Furlong Podcast EBF Fillies' HandicapClass 4 · 11.5f · Good To Soft · 8 ran 6th 8/1

25 Aug 20 Catterick Dr Rio (FR)J: Tony Hamilton Whitwell HandicapClass 4 · 12f · Heavy · 11 ran 7th 11/1

18 Aug 20 Beverley Ventura Gold (IRE)J: P J McDonald Churchill Tyres A Great British Brand HandicapClass 5 · 8.5f · Good · 14 ran 7th 20/1

11 Aug 20 Lingfield (AW) Nat Love (IRE)J: P J McDonald Read Andrew Balding On Betway Insider HandicapClass 5 · 7f · Standard To Slow · 12 ran 4th 7/1

29 Jul 20 Thirsk Nat Love (IRE)J: P J McDonald New Sporting Life App HandicapClass 6 · 8f · Good · 13 ran 2nd 5/2F

28 Jul 20 Yarmouth Ventura Gold (IRE)J: Robert Havlin Visit attheraces.com HandicapClass 6 · 8f · Good To Firm · 6 ran 4th 4/1

25 Jul 20 Doncaster Colony Queen (GB)J: Kevin Stott Sky Sports Racing HD Virgin 535 Fillies' HandicapClass 4 · 12f · Good To Firm · 5 ran 3rd 9/2

23 Jul 20 Pontefract Dr Rio (FR)J: Tony Hamilton Constant Security Services HandicapClass 4 · 12f · Good To Firm · 8 ran 5th 40/1

17 Jul 20 Beverley Ventura Gold (IRE)J: Paul Mulrennan Welcome Back To Racehorse Owners HandicapClass 5 · 10f · Good To Firm · 15 ran 9th 14/1

08 Jul 20 Ripon Nat Love (IRE)J: Paul Mulrennan Download The At The Races App HandicapClass 5 · 8f · Good · 15 ran 3rd 6/1

06 Jul 20 Ayr Colony Queen (GB)J: Robert Havlin CPMS HandicapClass 4 · 10f · Soft · 9 ran 4th 3/1F

05 Jul 20 Doncaster Dr Rio (FR)J: Tony Hamilton Download The At The Races App HandicapClass 4 · 12f · Good · 17 ran 13th 100/1

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 Steve Gollings's strike rate?: Steve Gollings has won 150 of 1,217 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 12.3% (as at 15 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Steve Gollings do best at?: Southwell by strike rate: 9 wins from 38 runners (23.7%) 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 Steve Gollings?: Keith Mercer, with 91 runners since 2008 — 7% of the total. That pairing has won 10 (11%).
What is Steve Gollings's Fair A/E?: 1.05, from 1,216 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.