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Trainer profile

Steve Woodman

351 runners in the lifetime window · 16 individual horses
As at 12 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Sep 2023
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
16–351
Wins / Runs
4.6%
Strike rate
n=351
68 (19%)
Placed
0.73
Fair A/E
n=346 · 0.61 incl. margin
−165.50
£1 level stake
n=351 at SP · −47.2%
£101k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 20 runners a season, winning with 5% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.73).

Deterministic profile computed from 351 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 12 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance Claiming riders: 4.7%
The read

The record is strongest at Kempton (AW) (10.1%, n=69), clear of the yard's 4.6% baseline. The market has consistently overbet runners with a claiming rider up: 4.7% strike, Fair A/E 0.68 and −68.00 to a £1 stake over 106 runners — those runners underperform what the price implies. The record reads poorly on Good going — 1.6% over 61 runners, 3pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the yard on Good to Firm going: Fair A/E 0.35 across 84 runners (2.4% strike, −66.50 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperform what the price implies. The stable star of the record: Ivory Lace (GB) — 8 wins from 105 runs for the yard.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 4.6% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
1.9%−2.7
n=54 · A/E 0.48 · £1 −48.00
New recruits · first run for the yard
11.1%+6.5
n=9 · A/E 1.39 · £1 −5.50
Debutants · first career start
0%−4.6
n=7 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −7.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−4.6
n=7 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −7.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
0%−4.6
n=17 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −17.00
When favourite
0%
n=3 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −3.00
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
4.7%+0.1
n=106 · A/E 0.68 · £1 −68.00
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−4.6
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 4.6% 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 Kempton (AW) 10.1% vs 4.6% · n=69
With C&D winners 8.5% vs 4.6% · n=106
On Good going 1.6% vs 4.6% · n=61
On Good to Firm going 2.4% vs 4.6% · n=84
Off a 61-180-day break 2.4% vs 4.6% · n=42
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 313 16 5.1% −127.50
Hurdle 20 0 0% −20.00
Chase 9 0 0% −9.00
NH Flat 9 0 0% −9.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 172 11 6.4% −26.00
Good to Firm 84 2 2.4% −66.50
Good 61 1 1.6% −50.00
Good to Soft 16 1 6.3% −11.00
Soft 11 0 0% −11.00
Firm 5 1 20% +1.00
Heavy 2 0 0% −2.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Lingfield (AW) 102 4 3.9% −48.50
Kempton (AW) 69 7 10.1% +23.50
Brighton 67 4 6% −38.50
Goodwood 29 1 3.4% −18.00
Fontwell 18 0 0% −18.00
Plumpton 15 0 0% −15.00
Lingfield 13 0 0% −13.00
Windsor 10 0 0% −10.00
Sandown 7 0 0% −7.00
Salisbury 5 0 0% −5.00
Newbury 3 0 0% −3.00
Ascot 3 0 0% −3.00
Worcester 2 0 0% −2.00
Epsom 2 0 0% −2.00
Folkestone 2 0 0% −2.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 6 155 8 5.2% −65.50
Class 5 138 6 4.3% −62.50
Class 4 38 1 2.6% −34.50
Class 7 10 1 10% +7.00
Class 3 7 0 0% −7.00
Class 2 2 0 0% −2.00
Class 1 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 6 0 0% 0.00 −6.00
2nd–3rd fav 38 6 15.8% 1.09 −5.00
4th–6th fav 121 6 5% 0.67 −61.50
7th+ in betting 186 4 2.2% 0.63 −93.00
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
Solveig's Song (GB) 72 6 15 15 Jul 20
Chevise (IRE)from George Baker 64 5 21 30 Jan 16
Ivory Lace (GB) 55 1 12 16 Aug 11
Highly Likely (IRE)from John Dunlop · then Rebecca Woodman 26 1 6 10 Jun 15
Lord Aldervale (IRE)from Richard Rowe 24 0 4 9 Jul 18
My Bonnie Lassie (GB)from K R Burke · then Jim & Suzi Best 20 0 3 4 Jul 23
Crowning Star (IRE)from Gay Kelleway 18 1 3 26 Apr 16
Giulietta Da Vinci (GB)from Stuart Williams · then Philip Sharp 18 0 1 12 Jul 11
Black Lace (GB) 17 0 0 1 Sep 21
Al Khimiya (IRE)from Simon Callaghan 11 2 2 16 Aug 10
Don't Fight It (IRE)from Keith Dalgleish · then Jim & Suzi Best 6 0 0 18 Sep 23
Tilly's Bridge (GB) 6 0 0 10 Jul 17
All 16 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 16 horses listed, 8 arrived from another yard in our archive; 8 had their first archived run for this yard.

6 have since run for another yard, most often for Rebecca Woodman (3) and Jim & Suzi Best (2); 10 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
JFMAMJJASOND
5013727034584
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 riderJim Crowley
11% of all rides
5.1% SR · A/E 0.74
RiderRWSR£1
Jim Crowley 39 2 5.1% −21.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
23
Archived wins
£147k
Prize money
2016
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.
Ivory Lace (GB) — Peters Opal Handicap Goodwood · Jun 2007 · Class 4
£7,125
Ivory Lace (GB) — totesport 0800 221 221 Brighton Dash Handicap Brighton · Aug 2006 · Class 4
£6,477
Ivory Lace (GB) — GPT Halverton Handicap Newmarket · Aug 2007 · Class 4
£5,182
Notable horses
Ivory Lace (GB) Solveig's Song (GB) Chevise (IRE) Al Khimiya (IRE) Highly Likely (IRE) Crowning Star (IRE)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Norse Dancer (IRE) 8.3% · 6–72
Progeny have won 9.4% of 1,801 runs since 2010 (157 horses). Strongest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 14.7% from 278. Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 6.3% from 207.
Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) 7.8% · 5–64
Progeny have won 10.3% of 11,888 runs since 2010 (949 horses). Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 5.9% from 305.
Atraf (GB) 1.8% · 1–55
Progeny have won 6.9% of 1,220 runs since 2008 (86 horses). Strongest on Standard (AW) going: 11% from 317. Weakest on Good to Firm going: 3.9% from 204. Strongest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 10.4% from 135. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 3.1% from 293.
Elnadim (USA) 3.8% · 1–26
Progeny have won 9.8% of 3,353 runs since 2008 (216 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 6.5% from 108. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 3.3% from 152.
Alderbrook (GB) 0% · 0–24
Progeny have won 9.7% of 3,293 runs since 2008 (299 horses).
Highland Reel (IRE) 0% · 0–20
Progeny have won 7.2% of 1,523 runs since 2021 (162 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 10.4% from 144.
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 12 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 446 · newest first

The latest 50 of 446 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 26 February 2005 to 18 September 2023.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
18 Sep 23 Brighton Don't Fight It (IRE)J: William Carson At The Races App Expert Tips HandicapClass 6 · 7f · Soft · 7 ran 6th 50/1
06 Sep 23 Lingfield (AW) Don't Fight It (IRE)J: Owen Lewis Racing League On Sky Sports Racing Apprentice HandicapClass 6 · 7f · Standard · 13 ran 10th 50/1
26 Jul 23 Lingfield Don't Fight It (IRE)J: Kieran O'Neill Sky Sports Racing Sky 415 Fillies' HandicapClass 5 · 6f · Good To Firm · 8 ran 6th 80/1
06 Jul 23 Newbury Don't Fight It (IRE)J: Taylor Fisher BetVictor Apprentice HandicapClass 5 · 5f · Good · 10 ran 9th 40/1
04 Jul 23 Brighton My Bonnie Lassie (GB)J: Billy Loughnane Follow AtTheRaces On Twitter Classified StakesClass 6 · 6f · Good To Firm · 10 ran 9th 8/1
27 Jun 23 Brighton My Bonnie Lassie (GB)J: Harry Davies At The Races App Expert Tips HandicapClass 6 · 7f · Good To Firm · 9 ran 5th 20/1
20 Jun 23 Brighton My Bonnie Lassie (GB)J: Connor Planas Download Fitzdares For Free Race Streaming HandicapClass 6 · 6f · Soft · 5 ran 3rd 25/1
03 May 23 Brighton Don't Fight It (IRE)J: Nicola Currie Download The Vickers.Bet App HandicapClass 6 · 5.5f · Good To Firm · 8 ran 6th 80/1
24 Feb 23 Lingfield (AW) My Bonnie Lassie (GB)J: Aidan Keeley Spreadex Sports Get 40 In Bonuses Classified StakesClass 6 · 7f · Standard · 14 ran 14th 125/1
11 Feb 23 Lingfield (AW) My Bonnie Lassie (GB)J: William Carson Spreadex Sports Best Premier League Odds Classified StakesClass 6 · 8f · Standard · 12 ran 12th 50/1
14 Jan 23 Lingfield (AW) My Bonnie Lassie (GB)J: Aidan Keeley Spreadex Sports Best Premier League Odds HandicapClass 6 · 7f · Standard · 13 ran 5th 50/1
07 Dec 22 Lingfield (AW) Don't Fight It (IRE)J: William Carson talkSPORT Powered By Fans Nursery (Div 1)Class 6 · 6f · Standard · 7 ran 7th 66/1
12 Nov 22 Lingfield (AW) My Bonnie Lassie (GB)J: Aidan Keeley Spreadex Sports Bet 10 Get 100 Handicap (Div 1)Class 6 · 8f · Standard · 9 ran 9th 18/1
27 Oct 22 Lingfield (AW) My Bonnie Lassie (GB)J: Rose Dawes Spreadex Sports 300 Pounds Spread Betting Cashback Apprentice HandicapClass 6 · 7f · Standard · 8 ran 4th 18/1
13 Oct 22 Chelmsford City (AW) My Bonnie Lassie (GB)J: Christian Howarth Illuminate Christmas Ball Apprentice HandicapClass 6 · 8f · Standard · 14 ran 6th 33/1
29 Sep 22 Lingfield (AW) My Bonnie Lassie (GB)J: Aidan Keeley Sky Sports Racing HD Virgin 535 Handicap (Div 1)Class 6 · 8f · Standard · 11 ran 3rd 25/1
03 Sep 22 Kempton (AW) My Bonnie Lassie (GB)J: Tyler Heard Daily Price Boosts At Unibet Handicap (Div 2)Class 6 · 8f · Standard To Slow · 14 ran 12th 22/1
24 Aug 22 Lingfield (AW) My Bonnie Lassie (GB)J: Aidan Keeley Sky Sports Racing Sky 415 HandicapClass 6 · 8f · Standard · 11 ran 2nd 100/1
04 Aug 22 Brighton My Bonnie Lassie (GB)J: Benoit De La Sayette John Hartwell And Dennis Gray Memorial Classified StakesClass 6 · 7f · Good To Firm · 9 ran 7th 14/1
23 Jul 22 Lingfield (AW) My Bonnie Lassie (GB)J: Josephine Gordon Target Lifts Fillies' HandicapClass 5 · 7f · Standard · 8 ran 7th 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 Woodman's strike rate?
Steve Woodman has won 16 of 351 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 4.6% (as at 12 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Steve Woodman do best at?
Kempton (AW) by strike rate: 7 wins from 69 runners (10.1%) 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.
What is Steve Woodman's Fair A/E?
0.73, from 346 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 12 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).