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Trainer profile

Tom Dascombe

755 runners in the last 5 seasons · 112 individual horses
As at 20 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner 3 days ago 95% of runners on the flat
from 1 Jan 2022
69–755
Wins / Runs
9.1%
Strike rate
n=755
204 (27%)
Placed
0.93
n=750 · 0.82 incl. margin
−286.92
£1 level stake
n=755 at SP · −38.0%
£1.34m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
7.6%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 150 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 9% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 0.93). The edge shows sharpest with horses returning fresh: 13% off breaks of two months or more (87 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 755 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 20 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fresh horses: 12.6% 37.7% when favourite Pierre-Louis Jamin: 11% from 319 Sends off the favourite in 7% of races
The read

Horses returning fresh after 61+ days have been a positive signal at 12.6% (n=87, Fair A/E 1.43), but in Group and Graded company the record reads poorly at 0% (n=34, Fair A/E 0.00). Pierre-Louis Jamin rides 42% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (11%, A/E 1.10) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The yard also reads well in Hurdle races (17.1%, n=35) and over 1m5f – 2m (15.4%, n=52). The record reads poorly in Class 1 — 0% over 38 runners, 9.1pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the yard over 1m2f – 1m4f: Fair A/E 0.39 across 96 runners (3.1% strike, −65.50 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperform what the price implies. 43 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Palmerstown House Estate Irish St. Leger at Curragh (Sep 2014, £174,000). The stable star of the record: Chosen Character (IRE) — 10 wins from 80 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 9.1% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
12.6%+3.5
n=87 · A/E 1.43 · £1 −7.27
New recruits · first run for the yard
7.7%−1.4
n=13 · A/E 1.16 · £1 −3.50
Debutants · first career start
5.3%−3.8
n=94 · A/E 0.80 · £1 −49.13
First-time headgear · true-first definition
6.6%−2.5
n=61 · A/E 0.94 · £1 −27.05
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
7.1%−2.0
n=14 · A/E 0.83 · £1 −11.38
When favourite
37.7%
n=53 · A/E 1.15 · £1 −1.11
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
8.2%−0.9
n=85 · A/E 0.73 · £1 −59.40
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−9.1
n=34 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −34.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 9.1% 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
In Class 1 0% vs 9.1% · n=38
In Group / Graded races 0% vs 9.1% · n=34
In Hurdle races 17.1% vs 9.1% · n=35
Over 1m2f – 1m4f 3.1% vs 9.1% · n=96
Over 1m5f – 2m 15.4% vs 9.1% · n=52
With C&D winners 3.2% vs 9.1% · n=31
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 720 63 8.8% −279.36
Hurdle 35 6 17.1% −7.56

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 208 12 5.8% −151.39
Standard (AW) 207 20 9.7% −81.66
Good to Firm 172 18 10.5% +19.35
Good to Soft 73 8 11% −34.88
Soft 73 10 13.7% −17.96
Heavy 14 1 7.1% −12.38
Firm 8 0 0% −8.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Wolverhampton (AW) 67 3 4.5% −54.17
Newbury 58 4 6.9% +9.00
Haydock 51 4 7.8% −32.13
Kempton (AW) 49 4 8.2% −8.50
Chester 45 3 6.7% −25.00
Southwell (AW) 40 5 12.5% −10.07
Windsor 34 5 14.7% +18.50
Bath 32 2 6.3% −18.00
Lingfield (AW) 27 5 18.5% −5.42
Doncaster 23 4 17.4% −9.25
Leicester 21 2 9.5% +22.00
Nottingham 21 0 0% −21.00
York 20 0 0% −20.00
Sandown 19 1 5.3% −17.56
Salisbury 18 2 11.1% −11.57

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 4 231 22 9.5% −125.82
Class 5 229 20 8.7% −70.07
Class 6 114 10 8.8% −37.80
Class 2 90 10 11.1% +4.94
Class 3 48 6 12.5% −19.67
Class 1 38 0 0% −38.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 58 22 37.9% 1.19 +3.39
2nd–3rd fav 161 27 16.8% 0.98 −40.81
4th–6th fav 264 13 4.9% 0.66 −135.50
7th+ in betting 272 7 2.6% 0.88 −114.00
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
Hot Fuss (IRE) 28 5 12 2 Oct 26
Gifted Angel (IRE)then Jack Jones 27 3 11 6 Sep 24
Misty Grey (IRE)from Mark Johnston · then David O'Meara 20 1 6 9 Jan 24
Barenboim (GB)from Jamie Snowden 17 1 4 5 Sep 26
Old Chums (IRE) 16 3 8 23 Oct 24
Chale Chalo (IRE) 14 2 3 14 Oct 26
Risk (IRE) 14 0 2 14 Oct 25
Unleash Hell (IRE) 14 0 3 9 Sep 24
Auld Toon Loon (IRE)from Lucinda Russell 13 2 4 24 Sep 26
Pappa Louis (GB) 13 1 6 5 Sep 25
Kolkata Knight (IRE) 12 2 4 26 Aug 26
Seraphim Angel (GB)then Ollie Sangster 12 3 3 14 Jul 25
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 112 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 6 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, 3 arrived from another yard in our archive; 57 had their first archived run for this yard.

15 have since run for another yard, most often for David O'Meara (2) and Harriet Bethell (2); 45 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 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, 5 seasons
JFMAMJJASOND
14210698713882011
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
42% of all rides
11% SR · A/E 1.10
RiderRWSR£1
Pierre-Louis Jamin 319 35 11% −116.58
William Cox 76 4 5.3% +3.25
Richard Kingscote 69 8 11.6% −15.72
Alistair Rawlinson 56 3 5.4% −20.27
Liam Keniry 42 2 4.8% −35.40
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
926
Archived wins
43
Pattern / graded wins
£11.2m
Prize money
2012
Best season · 79 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.
Brown Panther (GB) — Palmerstown House Estate Irish St. Leger (Group 1) Curragh · Sep 2014 · Group 1
£174,000
Angel Alexander (IRE) — William Hill Ayr Gold Cup (heritage Handicap) Ayr · Sep 2019 · Class 2
£124,500
Ever Given (IRE) — Goffs UK Premier Yearling Stakes (GBB Race) York · Aug 2021 · Class 2
£98,360

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Dark Angel (IRE) 7.8% · 5–64
Progeny have won 11.3% of 21,876 runs since 2008 (1,594 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 15% from 107.
Calyx (GB) 22% · 11–50
Progeny have won 13.4% of 1,485 runs since 2008 (172 horses). Weakest on Good to Soft going: 8.9% from 168. Weakest at trips under 6f (all codes): 9.9% from 111.
Dandy Man (IRE) 2.5% · 1–40
Progeny have won 9.1% of 14,917 runs since 2008 (930 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 5.3% from 170.
Showcasing (GB) 16.7% · 6–36
Progeny have won 10.1% of 11,577 runs since 2008 (996 horses). Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 5.6% from 108.
Sergei Prokofiev (CAN) 14.3% · 5–35
Progeny have won 10.6% of 1,337 runs since 2008 (201 horses).
Harry Angel (IRE) 16.1% · 5–31
Progeny have won 12.7% of 2,747 runs since 2008 (261 horses). Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 8.5% from 331.
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 20 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 7,202 · newest first

The latest 50 of 7,202 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 28 November 2005 to 17 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
29 Sep 26 Bath Polly The Sniper (GB)J: William Cox Power Logistics Nursery Handicap StakesClass 6 · 5.5f · Good To Firm · 11 ran 2nd 9/1
19 Sep 26 Newbury Marcellinus (GB)J: Donagh Murphy Conundrum Consulting Handicap StakesClass 3 · 7f · Good To Firm · 16 ran 5th 16/1

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 Dascombe's strike rate?
Tom Dascombe has won 69 of 755 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 9.1% (as at 20 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Tom Dascombe do best at?
Windsor by strike rate: 5 wins from 34 runners (14.7%) 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 Tom Dascombe?
Pierre-Louis Jamin, with 319 runners since 2022 — 42% of the total. That pairing has won 35 (11%).
Is Tom Dascombe 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 Dascombe's Fair A/E?
0.93, from 750 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 20 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).