What is W Hefter's strike rate?

W Hefter has won 19 of 202 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 9.4% (as at 15 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.

Which course does W Hefter do best at?

Saint-Cloud (FR) by strike rate: 2 wins from 35 runners (5.7%) 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.

What is W Hefter's Fair A/E?

0.98, from 159 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

W Hefter

202 runners in the lifetime window · 53 individual horses

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

Last runner Jun 2015 100% of runners on the flat

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.

19–202

Wins / Runs

9.4%

Strike rate

n=202

46 (23%)

Placed

0.98

Fair A/E

n=159 · 0.99 incl. margin

−39.40

£1 level stake

n=173 at SP · −22.8%

£452k

Prize money (window)

Strike by season

KTB Yard Profile

Sent out around 30 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 9% of them — level with the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.98).

Deterministic profile computed from 202 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 15 Oct 2026

The read

It is weakest at Longchamp (FR) (4.9% over 41 runners) — the largest sample in the record, and the widest gap. In Group and Graded company the record reads poorly at 5.6% (n=36, Fair A/E 1.65). The record read poorly in Class 1 — 5.6% over 36 runners, 3.8pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the yard on Soft going: Fair A/E 0.41 across 51 runners (5.9% strike, −34.00 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperformed what the price implied. 2 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Prix Andre Baboin - Musee Gallo-Romain de Saint-Romain-en-Gal at Lyon Parilly (FR) (Oct 2014, £33,333).

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 9.4% baseline

Fresh · 61+ days off

6.6%−2.8

n=61 · A/E 1.00 · £1 −25.20

New recruits · first run for the yard

0%−9.4

n=4 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −4.00

Debutants · first career start

10.6%+1.2

n=47 · A/E 0.71 · £1 +0.00

First-time headgear · true-first definition

15.8%+6.4

n=19 · A/E 1.18 · £1 +6.60

When favourite

25%

n=8 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −2.00

Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle

10.5%+1.1

n=19 · A/E 1.60 · £1 −5.40

Group / Graded races · pattern & listed

5.6%−3.8

n=36 · A/E 1.65 · £1 −4.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 9.4% 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

At Longchamp (FR) 4.9% vs 9.4% · n=41

On Soft going 5.9% vs 9.4% · n=51

In Class 1 5.6% vs 9.4% · n=36

In Group / Graded races 5.6% vs 9.4% · n=36

At Saint-Cloud (FR) 5.7% vs 9.4% · n=35

On Good going 6.1% vs 9.4% · n=49

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

Going

GoingRWSR£1

Soft 51 3 5.9% −34.00

Good to Soft 50 6 12% −9.90

Good 49 3 6.1% −8.60

Standard (AW) 27 3 11.1% +18.50

Heavy 21 3 14.3% −4.40

Good to Firm 2 1 50% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1

Longchamp (FR) 41 2 4.9% −19.30

Saint-Cloud (FR) 35 2 5.7% −27.40

Chantilly (FR) 27 2 7.4% −3.50

Maisons-Laffitte (FR) 25 1 4% −20.70

Deauville (FR) 21 2 9.5% +7.80

Lyon Parilly 11 3 27.3% +4.00

Strasbourg 9 0 0% −5.00

Vichy 8 1 12.5% +5.00

Vittel 5 3 60% +1.00

Nancy 4 1 25% −2.00

Compiegne 4 0 0% −3.00

Lyon-La Soie 2 1 50% +14.00

Wissembourg 2 0 0% —

Clairefontaine 2 1 50% +12.70

Moulins 1 0 0% —

Class

ClassRWSR£1

Class 1 36 2 5.6% −4.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1

Favourite 8 2 25% 0.00 −2.00

2nd–3rd fav 24 3 12.5% 0.85 +1.90

4th–6th fav 52 8 15.4% 1.86 +34.70

7th+ in betting 89 1 1.1% 0.32 −74.00

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

Dartagnan D'Azur (FR)then Exors of the late W Hefter 19 4 8 15 Mar 15

Mantao (IRE)then J Van Handenhove 18 2 7 14 Nov 14

Ice Cool (FR)then M Boutin 15 4 6 19 Sep 13

Salvaro (FR) 12 1 2 16 Oct 13

Mariele (IRE)then U Schwinn 10 1 2 6 May 15

Tingly (FR) 9 0 1 8 Jun 13

Indian Cat (IRE) 9 1 2 6 Jul 12

Lapao (GER) 9 1 1 24 Oct 10

Mayflair (GER)then J-P Gallorini 7 1 2 23 Sep 11

Best Joking (GER) 7 0 1 25 Jun 10

Winning Impact (IRE)from J G Coogan 6 0 1 18 Dec 14

Glad Sky (GB)from J-L Pelletan 5 0 1 17 Apr 15

All 53 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 53 horses listed, 4 arrived from another yard in our archive; 49 had their first archived run for this yard.

19 have since run for another yard, most often for Mlle N Pfohl (2) and Mlle Y Vollmer (2); 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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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

Dominique Boeuf 26 2 7.7% +4.80

Mickael Barzalona 17 2 11.8% +3.00

Maxime Guyon 16 1 6.3% −4.30

Johan Victoire 16 0 0% −11.00

Gerald Mosse 11 0 0% −10.00

Ioritz Mendizabal 9 1 11.1% −4.70

Theo Bachelot 9 0 0% −9.00

Umberto Rispoli 8 0 0% −8.00

Alexis Badel 7 1 14.3% +6.70

Marc Lerner 6 1 16.7% +2.00

Martin Seidl 5 1 20% +8.50

Jean-Michel Breux 4 2 50% −1.00

Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→

Archived wins

Pattern / graded wins

£477k

Prize money

2014

Best season · 5 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.

Dartagnan D'Azur (FR) — Prix Andre Baboin - Musee Gallo-Romain de Saint-Romain-en-Gal (3yo+) (Turf) Lyon Parilly (FR) · Oct 2014 · Group 3

£33,333

Dartagnan D'Azur (FR) — Prix de Boulogne () (4yo+) (Turf) Longchamp (FR) · Sep 2014 · Listed

£21,667

Ice Cool (FR) — Prix de Saint Nicolas d'Acy (Conditions) (3yo) (Turf) Chantilly (FR) · Oct 2012

£14,167

Notable horses

Dartagnan D'Azur (FR) Ice Cool (FR) Mantao (IRE) Salvaro (FR) Mariele (IRE) Indian Cat (IRE)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip

Slickly (FR) 19% · 4–21

Progeny have won 8% of 3,070 runs since 2008 (318 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 11% from 310. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 4.9% from 243.

King's Best (USA) 11.1% · 2–18

Progeny have won 9.9% of 7,763 runs since 2008 (574 horses). Weakest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 6.8% from 249.

Lateral (GB) 26.7% · 4–15

Progeny have won 8.7% of 115 runs since 2008 (10 horses).

Doyen (IRE) 7.7% · 1–13

Progeny have won 11.6% of 7,339 runs since 2008 (605 horses).

Big Shuffle (USA) 0% · 0–12

Progeny have won 9.1% of 1,088 runs since 2008 (134 horses).

Shirocco (GER) 10% · 1–10

Progeny have won 11.2% of 9,154 runs since 2008 (920 horses). Weakest over 6f – 7f (all codes): 7.4% from 203.

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 218 · newest first

The latest 50 of 218 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 16 June 2005 to 8 June 2015.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP

08 Jun 15 Longchamp (FR) Peewave (FR)J: Mickael Berto Prix du Trocadero (Claimer) (3yo) (Turf)10f · Good · 8 ran 5th 93/10

18 May 15 Saint-Cloud (FR) Peewave (FR)J: Mickael Barzalona Prix Youth (Conditions) (3yo Colts & Geldings) (Turf)10f · Good · 5 ran 5th 239/10

06 May 15 Longchamp (FR) Mariele (IRE)J: Mickael Berto Prix des Fortifications (Claimer) (4yo+) (Turf)9f · Very Soft · 16 ran 12th 22/1

23 Apr 15 Lyon Parilly (FR) Margie's Rock (IRE)J: Antoine Coutier Prix Munet (Maiden) (3yo Colts & Geldings) (Turf)11f · Good · 12 ran 3rd 46/1

17 Apr 15 Maisons-Laffitte (FR) Glad Sky (GB)J: Umberto Rispoli Prix Lavandin (Conditions) (4yo+) (Straight) (Turf)8f · Good · 11 ran 8th 237/10

15 Mar 15 Saint-Cloud (FR) Dartagnan D'Azur (FR)J: Mickael Barzalona Prix Exbury (4yo+) (Turf)10f · Very Soft · 12 ran 9th 16/1

18 Dec 14 Deauville (FR) Winning Impact (IRE)J: Mickael Berto Prix de Magouet (Claimer) (4yo+) (Polytrack)7.5f · Standard · 16 ran 6th 29/1

17 Dec 14 Deauville (FR) Mariele (IRE)J: Freddy Di Fede Prix de Brehal (Claimer) (3yo) (Polytrack)9.5f · Standard · 14 ran 8th 23/10F

14 Nov 14 Chantilly (FR) Mantao (IRE)J: Miss Silke Bruggemann Prix de l'Allee Sans-Soucis (Claimer) (4yo+) (Lady Amateur Riders) (Polytrack)8f · Standard · 15 ran 3rd 175/10

04 Nov 14 Maisons-Laffitte (FR) Big Henry (FR)J: Tony Piccone Prix de Freneuse (Claimer) (3yo) (Straight) (Turf)8f · Very Soft · 11 ran 8th 25/1

04 Nov 14 Maisons-Laffitte (FR) Mariele (IRE)J: Maxime Guyon Prix de Freneuse (Claimer) (3yo) (Straight) (Turf)8f · Very Soft · 11 ran 4th 84/10

04 Nov 14 Maisons-Laffitte (FR) Mantao (IRE)J: Frau Berit Weber Prix des Naiades (Claimer) (4yo+) (Amateur Lady Riders) (Straight) (Turf)10f · Very Soft · 9 ran 3rd 101/10

26 Oct 14 Longchamp (FR) Glad Sky (GB)J: Tony Piccone Prix de l'Orangerie (Handicap) (4yo+) (Turf)8f · Very Soft · 16 ran 4th 174/10

15 Oct 14 Saint-Cloud (FR) Big Henry (FR)J: Maxime Guyon Prix Polytain (Claimer) (3yo Colts & Geldings) (Turf)10.5f · Soft · 8 ran 6th 51/10

14 Oct 14 Lyon Parilly (FR) Dartagnan D'Azur (FR)J: Mickael Barzalona Prix Andre Baboin - Musee Gallo-Romain de Saint-Romain-en-Gal (3yo+) (Turf)10f · Heavy · 6 ran 1st 8/1

06 Oct 14 Chantilly (FR) Ange D'Azur (FR)J: Maxime Guyon Prix de la Chaussee du Roi (Handicap) (5yo+) (Turf)10f · Good To Soft · 16 ran 7th 106/10

01 Oct 14 Chantilly (FR) Mantao (IRE)J: Andreas Helfenbein Prix du Ponceau (Handicap) (4yo+) (Polytrack)9.5f · Standard · 15 ran 11th 159/10

01 Oct 14 Lyon Parilly Mariele (IRE)J: Tony Piccone Prix de Sainte-Blandine (Handicap)8f · Good To Soft · 3 ran 1st 3/1F

28 Sep 14 Strasbourg (FR) Dartagnan D'Azur (FR)J: Eugen Frank Grand Prix De La Region Alsace () (Turf)10.5f · Soft · 9 ran 3rd 11/1

22 Sep 14 Chantilly (FR) Big Henry (FR)J: Gerald Mosse Prix de l'Oak Tree (Conditions) (3yo) (Polytrack)9.5f · Standard · 11 ran 11th 27/1

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 Hefter's strike rate?: W Hefter has won 19 of 202 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 9.4% (as at 15 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does W Hefter do best at?: Saint-Cloud (FR) by strike rate: 2 wins from 35 runners (5.7%) 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.
What is W Hefter's Fair A/E?: 0.98, from 159 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.