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W A Murphy

61 runners in the lifetime window · 12 individual horses
As at 15 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Aug 2013
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.
2–61
Wins / Runs
3.3%
Strike rate
n=61
5 (8%)
Placed
0.90
Fair A/E
n=61 · 0.70 incl. margin
−14.00
£1 level stake
n=61 at SP · −23.0%
£14,795
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 3.3% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
0%−3.3
n=28 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −28.00
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−3.3
n=6 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −6.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−3.3
n=2 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −2.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
0%−3.3
n=2 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −2.00
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
0%−3.3
n=13 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −13.00
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−3.3
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 3.3% 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.

Record by conditions

same window as header

Race type

TypeRWSR£1
Flat 45 2 4.4% +2.00
Hurdle 14 0 0% −14.00
Chase 2 0 0% −2.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 21 0 0% −21.00
Good to Soft 10 1 10% +16.00
Good 9 0 0% −9.00
Heavy 9 1 11.1% +12.00
Soft 8 0 0% −8.00
Good to Firm 4 0 0% −4.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Wolverhampton (AW) 9 0 0% −9.00
Dundalk (AW) 8 0 0% −8.00
Ayr 7 0 0% −7.00
Bellewstown 7 2 28.6% +40.00
Curragh 5 0 0% −5.00
Worcester 3 0 0% −3.00
Naas 3 0 0% −3.00
Ffos Las 2 0 0% −2.00
Wetherby 2 0 0% −2.00
Southwell (AW) 2 0 0% −2.00
Laytown (AW) 2 0 0% −2.00
Navan 2 0 0% −2.00
Hamilton 2 0 0% −2.00
Redcar 2 0 0% −2.00
Clonmel 1 0 0% −1.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 6 16 0 0% −16.00
Class 5 7 0 0% −7.00
Class 4 5 0 0% −5.00
Class 1 1 0 0% −1.00
Class 7 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
2nd–3rd fav 2 0 0% 0.00 −2.00
4th–6th fav 5 0 0% 0.00 −5.00
7th+ in betting 54 2 3.7% 1.24 −7.00
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
Ros Cuire (IRE) 17 0 1 21 Aug 13
Toberogan (IRE) 14 2 2 21 Aug 13
Im Alone Again (IRE) 6 0 0 1 Oct 09
Sensible Jockser (IRE)from K F O'Brien 6 0 1 30 Sep 08
Beechside (IRE) 4 0 0 8 Oct 08
Musical Express (IRE)from Tracey Collins 3 0 0 29 Jul 13
Tumblecloud (IRE)from Eamon Tyrrell 3 0 0 15 Mar 13
The French Actor (IRE) 3 0 1 12 Oct 08
Stylistic (IRE)from K F O'Brien 2 0 0 11 Sep 08
Drumacole Artist (IRE) 1 0 0 6 Sep 09
Optional Dream (IRE)from Eamon Tyrrell · then Emmanuel Hughes 1 0 0 1 Sep 09
Alocin (IRE)from Mrs A M O'Shea · then Shane Joseph Kelly 1 0 0 26 Nov 08
All 12 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 12 horses listed, 6 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Eamon Tyrrell (2) and K F O'Brien (2); 6 had their first archived run for this yard.

2 have since run for another yard; 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
0·00··0180000
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
RiderRWSR£1
Keagan Latham 8 1 12.5% +13.00
Martin Lane 5 0 0% −5.00
W J Lee 5 1 20% +21.00
G Cotter 4 0 0% −4.00
T G M Ryan 3 0 0% −3.00
Dale Gibson 2 0 0% −2.00
John Fahy 2 0 0% −2.00
Tom Molloy 2 0 0% −2.00
J-P Guillambert 2 0 0% −2.00
Tadhg O'Shea 2 0 0% −2.00
Michael Hussey 2 0 0% −2.00
William Kennedy 2 0 0% −2.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
4
Archived wins
£32,792
Prize money
2009
Best season · 1 win
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.
Toberogan (IRE) — Ulster Bank N.E. Business Centre Handicap (45-60) (Div 2) Bellewstown · Aug 2008
£6,565
Toberogan (IRE) — Macroom Handicap (36-60) Cork · Mar 2005
£5,528
Toberogan (IRE) — James Gogarty Stone Handicap (47-65) Bellewstown · Aug 2009
£5,183
Notable horses
Toberogan (IRE) Beechside (IRE)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Expelled (USA) 0% · 0–17
Progeny have won 4.9% of 142 runs since 2008 (14 horses).
Docksider (USA) 14.3% · 2–14
Progeny have won 7.6% of 569 runs since 2008 (42 horses). Strongest on Good going: 13% from 123.
Toulon (GB) 0% · 0–9
Progeny have won 7.1% of 168 runs since 2008 (17 horses).
Houmayoun (FR) 0% · 0–6
Progeny have won 4.2% of 285 runs since 2008 (40 horses).
Orpen (USA) 0% · 0–4
Progeny have won 9% of 4,037 runs since 2008 (381 horses). Weakest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 4.4% from 113.
Black Minnaloushe (USA) 0% · 0–3
Progeny have won 8.2% of 243 runs since 2008 (13 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 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 131 · newest first

The latest 50 of 131 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 28 March 2005 to 21 August 2013.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
21 Aug 13 Bellewstown Toberogan (IRE)J: Tadhg O'Shea Play The Tote Jackpot Handicap (47-65) (Div 2)8f · Good · 12 ran 12th 25/1
21 Aug 13 Bellewstown Ros Cuire (IRE)J: Tadhg O'Shea Play The Tote Jackpot Handicap (47-65) (Div 1)8f · Good · 12 ran 11th 33/1
29 Jul 13 Ayr Ros Cuire (IRE)J: Jordan Hibberd Racing Replay, All Today's Racing Sky 432 Apprentice HandicapClass 6 · 8f · Soft · 9 ran 9th 66/1
29 Jul 13 Ayr Musical Express (IRE)J: Kieren Fallon Read Hayley Turner Every Friday racinguk.com HandicapClass 6 · 9f · Soft · 9 ran 9th 28/1
07 Apr 13 Curragh Musical Express (IRE)J: Ian Brennan equisoftlive.com Handicap (50-80)8f · Good To Yielding · 13 ran 13th 25/1
15 Mar 13 Wolverhampton (AW) Toberogan (IRE)J: Martin Lane Bookmakers On Your Mobile With bookmakers.co.uk HandicapClass 7 · 12f · Standard · 11 ran 11th 14/1
15 Mar 13 Wolverhampton (AW) Tumblecloud (IRE)J: Martin Lane Football Betting With bookmakers.co.uk Handicap (Div 2)Class 6 · 7f · Standard · 9 ran 9th 14/1
15 Mar 13 Wolverhampton (AW) Ros Cuire (IRE)J: Martin Lane Football Betting With bookmakers.co.uk Handicap (Div 1)Class 6 · 7f · Standard · 9 ran 9th 5/1
15 Mar 13 Wolverhampton (AW) Musical Express (IRE)J: Martin Lane Get Best Odds With bookmakers.co.uk HandicapClass 6 · 8.5f · Standard · 11 ran 11th 2/1
04 Dec 10 Dundalk (AW) Ros Cuire (IRE)J: Keagan Latham Crowne Plaza Leading Jockey & Trainer Championship Handicap (47-65) (Div 1)7f · Standard · 10 ran 8th 20/1
26 Nov 10 Dundalk (AW) Ros Cuire (IRE)J: Keagan Latham www.dundalkstadium.com Handicap (47-65) (Div 1)8f · Standard · 14 ran 13th 20/1
29 Oct 10 Dundalk (AW) Ros Cuire (IRE)J: Seamie Heffernan Group Bookings At Dundalk Handicap (47-65)8f · Standard · 13 ran 10th 9/1
13 Nov 09 Dundalk (AW) Tumblecloud (IRE)J: Keagan Latham Crowne Plaza Leading Jockey & Trainer Championship Handicap (47-65)7f · Standard · 14 ran 14th 33/1
23 Oct 09 Ayr Ros Cuire (IRE)J: Billy Cray Victorchandler.com Handicap (Div 1)Class 5 · 7f · Good · 13 ran 7th 66/1
16 Oct 09 Wolverhampton (AW) Tumblecloud (IRE)J: Tom Eaves Betxtra Win Only At Totesport.com Classified StakesClass 6 · 9.5f · Standard To Fast · 12 ran 10th 20/1
16 Oct 09 Wolverhampton (AW) Ros Cuire (IRE)J: Paul Hanagan Hotel & Conferencing At Wolverhampton HandicapClass 6 · 7f · Standard To Fast · 11 ran 8th 20/1
01 Oct 09 Ayr Ros Cuire (IRE)J: David Allan Best Odds Guaranteed Victor Chandler Handicap (Div 1)Class 6 · 7f · Good To Firm · 12 ran 3rd 25/1
01 Oct 09 Sligo Im Alone Again (IRE)J: G Cotter Londis Supermarkets Beginners Chase17f · Yielding · 15 ran PU 25/1
01 Oct 09 Ayr Toberogan (IRE)J: Royston Ffrench New Website At Victorchandler.com HandicapClass 6 · 8f · Good To Firm · 13 ran 13th 66/1
12 Sep 09 Ffos Las Toberogan (IRE)J: Pat Dobbs Bet With Totesport At Ffos Las Handicap (Div 1)Class 6 · 10f · Good · 11 ran 9th 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 W A Murphy's strike rate?
W A Murphy has won 2 of 61 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 3.3% (as at 15 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
What is W A Murphy's Fair A/E?
0.90, from 61 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 15 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).