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Trainer profile

Tom Clover

1,907 runners in the lifetime window · 275 individual horses
As at 28 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Non-runners: 3.4% of 268 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 For context, a typical day across all racing ends with about 6.5% withdrawn (middle half 5.3–8.1% over 364 racing days).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 28 Oct 2026.
Runners today 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
236–1,907
Wins / Runs
12.4%
Strike rate
n=1,907
669 (35%)
Placed
0.96
n=1,901 · 0.83 incl. margin
−508.40
£1 level stake
n=1,907 at SP · −26.7%
£3.76m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
17.7%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 100 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 12% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.96). The edge shows sharpest with horses returning fresh: 14% off breaks of two months or more (344 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 1,907 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 28 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Jan–Feb Fresh horses: 14% 39.9% when favourite Jack Mitchell: 14.2% from 479 Sends off the favourite in 12% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Doncaster (22.2%, n=54), clear of the yard's 12.4% baseline. It is weakest at Sandown (2.8% over 36 runners) — the widest gap in the record. In Group and Graded company the record reads poorly at 6.4% (n=109, Fair A/E 0.67). A horse in first-time headgear are the standout value angle: 12.7% strikes only just above baseline, but Fair A/E 1.23 and +44.85 to a £1 stake over 126 runners — a record the market has persistently underpriced. Jack Mitchell rides 25% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (14.2%, A/E 0.98) — the market has that partnership priced right. The yard also reads well at trips under 6f (19.1%, n=230). 7 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Weatherbys Lonsdale Cup Stakes at York (Aug 2026, £141,775). The stable star of the record: Jungle Run (IRE) — 7 wins from 34 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires Jan–Feb.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 12.4% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
14%+1.6
n=344 · A/E 1.13 · £1 −61.63
New recruits · first run for the yard
9.8%−2.6
n=51 · A/E 0.88 · £1 −28.75
Debutants · first career start
10.2%−2.2
n=225 · A/E 1.18 · £1 −7.25
First-time headgear · true-first definition
12.7%+0.3
n=126 · A/E 1.23 · £1 +44.85
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
13%+0.6
n=54 · A/E 1.05 · £1 −7.88
When favourite
39.9%
n=228 · A/E 1.19 · £1 +8.42
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
10.7%−1.7
n=243 · A/E 0.89 · £1 −70.16
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
6.4%−6.0
n=109 · A/E 0.67 · £1 −58.37

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 12.4% 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 Daniel Tudhope 28.6% vs 12.4% · n=42
At Doncaster 22.2% vs 12.4% · n=54
At trips under 6f 19.1% vs 12.4% · n=230
At Sandown 2.8% vs 12.4% · n=36
On last-time-out winners 17.9% vs 12.4% · n=212
With David Egan 18.5% vs 12.4% · n=108
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 1,900 236 12.4% −501.40
Chase 6 0 0% −6.00
NH Flat 1 0 0% −1.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 804 86 10.7% −368.49
Good to Firm 451 76 16.9% −25.48
Good 370 43 11.6% −72.19
Good to Soft 142 18 12.7% −62.45
Soft 108 10 9.3% +24.71
Heavy 26 3 11.5% +1.50
Firm 6 0 0% −6.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Kempton (AW) 218 16 7.3% −115.10
Yarmouth 171 23 13.5% −64.26
Chelmsford City (AW) 167 21 12.6% −68.37
Wolverhampton (AW) 163 19 11.7% −79.19
Lingfield (AW) 151 17 11.3% −61.01
Windsor 102 16 15.7% +5.86
Newmarket 92 16 17.4% −2.42
Newmarket 90 10 11.1% −23.38
Southwell (AW) 68 9 13.2% −34.83
Nottingham 60 5 8.3% −25.00
Doncaster 54 12 22.2% +19.70
Newbury 50 9 18% +23.25
Goodwood 48 4 8.3% +14.50
Ascot 42 4 9.5% +5.50
Haydock 37 6 16.2% +45.08

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 5 714 91 12.7% −204.05
Class 4 468 65 13.9% −108.34
Class 6 296 37 12.5% −105.87
Class 3 176 23 13.1% −32.30
Class 2 144 13 9% +0.53
Class 1 109 7 6.4% −58.37

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 270 97 35.9% 1.14 −7.58
2nd–3rd fav 535 82 15.3% 0.91 −124.82
4th–6th fav 646 44 6.8% 0.84 −194.00
7th+ in betting 456 13 2.9% 0.73 −182.00
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
Balgair (GB)from Jonathan Portman 38 5 15 17 Jul 23
Jungle Run (IRE) 34 7 12 13 Oct 25
Daring Guest (IRE)from George Margarson 32 2 18 2 Feb 24
Hunni (GB) 32 3 9 8 Jul 21
Celsius (IRE) 30 7 11 5 Jun 24
Crimewave (IRE)from Peter Chapple-Hyam 29 3 13 1 Nov 21
Jumbeau (GB) 27 3 14 18 Oct 25
Al Barez (GB) 26 5 11 11 Jun 26
Rocking Ends (GB)from Brett Johnson 25 6 10 26 Sep 26
Rajman (GB) 23 3 8 10 Oct 20
Rogue Lightning (IRE) 19 4 8 30 May 26
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 275 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, 8 arrived from another yard in our archive; 52 had their first archived run for this yard.

20 have since run for another yard; 40 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 9
Only 9 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
191411131013151511998
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 riderJack Mitchell
25% of all rides
14.2% SR · A/E 0.98
RiderRWSR£1
Jack Mitchell 479 68 14.2% −87.93
Luke Morris 169 15 8.9% −82.89
David Egan 108 20 18.5% +3.13
Neil Callan 99 14 14.1% −23.50
Laura Pearson 74 7 9.5% −41.88
Connor Planas 64 8 12.5% −32.05
Pat Cosgrave 54 4 7.4% −39.00
Robert Havlin 46 3 6.5% −28.50
Hayley Turner 43 4 9.3% −29.25
Daniel Tudhope 42 12 28.6% +26.01
Rossa Ryan 36 3 8.3% −16.88
Andrea Atzeni 34 6 17.6% −7.42
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2016→
236
Archived wins
7
Pattern / graded wins
£3.76m
Prize money
2026
Best season · 42 wins
Al Nayyir (GB) — Weatherbys Lonsdale Cup Stakes (Group 2) York · Aug 2026 · Group 2
£141,775
Rogue Millennium (IRE) — Duke Of Cambridge Stakes (Fillies' & Mares' Group 2) (Str) Ascot · Jun 2023 · Group 2
£133,765
Tabletalk (IRE) — Sky Bet Melrose Handicap (Heritage Handicap) York · Aug 2024 · Class 2
£87,618

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Dark Angel (IRE) 14.7% · 11–75
Progeny have won 11.3% of 21,905 runs since 2008 (1,595 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 15% from 107.
Foxwedge (AUS) 10.3% · 6–58
Progeny have won 10.1% of 2,349 runs since 2008 (131 horses).
Brazen Beau (AUS) 5.9% · 3–51
Progeny have won 10.2% of 2,474 runs since 2008 (186 horses). Weakest on Good to Soft going: 3.7% from 162. Strongest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 15.8% from 158.
Dragon Pulse (IRE) 16.3% · 7–43
Progeny have won 8.9% of 4,264 runs since 2008 (320 horses). Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 13.3% from 570. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 5% from 363.
Fast Company (IRE) 4.9% · 2–41
Progeny have won 9.4% of 7,595 runs since 2008 (492 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 12.7% from 558. Strongest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 12.8% from 109.
Iffraaj (GB) 12.8% · 5–39
Progeny have won 10.5% of 13,971 runs since 2008 (1,091 horses).
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 28 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 1,907 · newest first

The latest 50 of 1,907 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 18 December 2016 to 28 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
13 Oct 26 Leicester God Of War (GB)J: David Egan Happy 80th Reg Ling Handicap StakesClass 3 · 7f · Good To Soft · 17 ran 3rd 11/2
12 Oct 26 Yarmouth Pure Moon (GB)J: Neil Callan Aks Skip Hire Services Handicap StakesClass 5 · 11.5f · Good To Soft · 12 ran 4th 20/1

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 Tom Clover's strike rate?
Tom Clover has won 236 of 1,907 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 12.4% (as at 28 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Tom Clover do best at?
Doncaster by strike rate: 12 wins from 54 runners (22.2%) 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 Tom Clover?
Jack Mitchell, with 479 runners since 2008 — 25% of the total. That pairing has won 68 (14.2%).
Is Tom Clover in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 9 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is Tom Clover's Fair A/E?
0.96, from 1,901 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 28 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).