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Trainer profile

W J Lanigan

420 runners in the lifetime window · 56 individual horses
As at 10 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner 19 days ago 95% of runners over jumps
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
19–420
Wins / Runs
4.5%
Strike rate
n=420
61 (15%)
Placed
0.92
Fair A/E
n=419 · 0.72 incl. margin
−151.75
£1 level stake
n=420 at SP · −36.1%
£215k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
10.3%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 20 runners a season, almost all over hurdles and fences, winning with 5% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.92).

Deterministic profile computed from 420 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 10 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance Danny Mullins: 11.7% from 128
The read

Debutants struggle at 0% (n=36, Fair A/E 0.00). The market has consistently overbet runners with a claiming rider up: 0.7% strike, Fair A/E 0.14 and −147.50 to a £1 stake over 153 runners — those runners underperform what the price implies. Danny Mullins rides 30% of the entries and beats the yard's average (11.7% vs 4.5%, A/E 1.77) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The yard also reads well off a 31-60-day break (8.9%, n=90) and over 2m5f – 3m (8%, n=100).

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 4.5% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
2.8%−1.7
n=107 · A/E 0.81 · £1 −29.50
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−4.5
n=17 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −17.00
Debutants · first career start
0%−4.5
n=36 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −36.00
First-time headgear · true-first definition
5%+0.5
n=20 · A/E 2.54 · £1 +31.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
9.1%+4.6
n=11 · A/E 2.52 · £1 +4.00
When favourite
13.3%
n=15 · A/E 0.59 · £1 −8.25
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
0.7%−3.8
n=153 · A/E 0.14 · £1 −147.50
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−4.5
n=3 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −3.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 4.5% 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
With Danny Mullins 11.7% vs 4.5% · n=128
Off a 31-60-day break 8.9% vs 4.5% · n=90
With claiming riders up 0.7% vs 4.5% · n=153
With debutants 0% vs 4.5% · n=36
Over 2m5f – 3m 8% vs 4.5% · n=100
With a new jockey booking 1.5% vs 4.5% · n=198
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
Hurdle 251 13 5.2% −37.25
Chase 102 4 3.9% −62.00
NH Flat 44 1 2.3% −35.00
Flat 23 1 4.3% −17.50

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Soft 149 6 4% −60.25
Good 106 8 7.5% +28.50
Heavy 102 4 3.9% −61.50
Good to Soft 55 1 1.8% −50.50
Good to Firm 4 0 0% −4.00
Standard (AW) 3 0 0% −3.00
Firm 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Clonmel 48 3 6.3% −32.25
Limerick 43 3 7% +26.50
Tramore 37 3 8.1% −14.50
Punchestown 34 1 2.9% −19.00
Kilbeggan 24 0 0% −24.00
Gowran Park 21 0 0% −21.00
Downpatrick 21 2 9.5% +0.00
Tipperary 20 0 0% −20.00
Thurles 20 0 0% −20.00
Fairyhouse 19 1 5.3% +2.00
Naas 18 0 0% −18.00
Galway 15 1 6.7% −8.00
Wexford 13 0 0% −13.00
Navan 13 0 0% −13.00
Killarney 11 2 18.2% +3.50

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 3 0 0% −3.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 16 2 12.5% 0.57 −9.25
2nd–3rd fav 46 9 19.6% 1.54 +10.50
4th–6th fav 72 2 2.8% 0.44 −42.00
7th+ in betting 286 6 2.1% 0.90 −111.00
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.

Jumping record

completion over obstacles · same window as header
75.9% completed · 353 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 102 67.6% 8 2 22 1 0
Hurdle 251 79.3% 8 2 41 1 0
Chases and hurdles only — bumpers have no obstacles, so completion is not a question there. F fell · UR unseated rider · PU pulled up · BD brought down · Oth covers refusals, slip-ups, run-outs and the rare disqualification. Non-runners are excluded throughout. Rows under n=30 are shown faded. A descriptive record, not a tip.

Horses trained

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Shantou Sisu (IRE) 50 4 16 6 Oct 23
Big Island (IRE)from John James Feane 33 1 8 24 Jul 26
Stucker Hill (IRE) 30 2 4 3 Aug 21
West Is Best (IRE)then Adrian Sexton 26 2 3 3 Mar 22
Accordion Twilight (IRE) 22 1 6 10 Dec 19
Danesfort Mayfly (IRE) 21 1 2 12 Jul 26
Flying Windsor (IRE) 13 1 1 20 Dec 15
Minella Diamond (IRE) 12 3 6 1 Aug 26
Pivotal Flame (IRE)from Pat Phelan 11 1 4 16 Aug 20
Aonvarr (IRE)then Stephen Ryan 11 1 4 8 Dec 13
Not So Serious (IRE)from Andrew Slattery 10 1 1 11 Sep 26
Share The Joy (IRE) 10 0 0 26 Aug 23
All 56 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 56 horses listed, 17 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from Andrew Slattery (2) and Denis W Cullen (2); 39 had their first archived run for this yard.

8 have since run for another yard; 48 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 jumps yard: the season runs Oct–Apr. Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first
Go-to riderDanny Mullins
30% of all rides
11.7% SR · A/E 1.77
RiderRWSR£1
Danny Mullins 128 15 11.7% +53.75
Roger Loughran 53 2 3.8% +19.00
Richard Condon 30 0 0% −30.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
21
Archived wins
£228k
Prize money
2026
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.
Pivotal Flame (IRE) — P&D Lydon Irish EBF Mares Handicap Hurdle Ballinrobe · Sep 2019
£12,980
West Is Best (IRE) — Follow Limerick Racecourse On Twitter Handicap Hurdle (80-109) Limerick · Mar 2019
£7,392
Stucker Hill (IRE) — New Year's Day Hospitality Packages In The Graun Hill Suite Mares Handicap Hurdle (80-109) Tramore · Dec 2018
£7,392
Notable horses
Shantou Sisu (IRE) Minella Diamond (IRE) Stucker Hill (IRE) West Is Best (IRE) Big Island (IRE) Accordion Twilight (IRE)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Shantou (USA) 8% · 4–50
Progeny have won 13.6% of 7,843 runs since 2008 (539 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 20.3% from 158.
Milan (GB) 5.6% · 2–36
Progeny have won 11.3% of 16,885 runs since 2008 (1,464 horses).
Accordion (IRE) 2.9% · 1–34
Progeny have won 10.8% of 3,309 runs since 2008 (327 horses).
Canford Cliffs (IRE) 3% · 1–33
Progeny have won 9.8% of 5,091 runs since 2015 (314 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 6.8% from 263.
Westerner (GB) 7.7% · 2–26
Progeny have won 12.2% of 11,867 runs since 2009 (945 horses). Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 8.5% from 188.
Yeats (IRE) 4.8% · 1–21
Progeny have won 11.9% of 9,853 runs since 2013 (708 horses). Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 6.9% from 204. Strongest beyond 3m (all codes): 15.2% from 820.
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 10 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 464 · newest first

The latest 50 of 464 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 13 January 2005 to 22 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
22 Oct 26 Clonmel (IRE) Ripsnorter (FR)J: Danny Mullins Mahon Falls Novice Handicap Hurdle20f · Good To Yielding · 13 ran PU 20/1
13 Oct 26 Punchestown (IRE) Kingston Silver (IRE)J: Philip Donovan William Hill Challenge Series Handicap Hurdle16f · Good · 11 ran 9th 125/1
08 Oct 26 Tramore (IRE) Installment (IRE)J: Philip Donovan Waterford Greenway Beginners Steeplechase20.5f · Yielding · 12 ran PU 150/1
02 Oct 26 Gowran Park (IRE) Ripsnorter (FR)J: Danny Mullins Paddy Monaghan 90th Birthday Handicap Hurdle20f · Good · 14 ran 14th 15/2
23 Sep 26 Listowel (IRE) Installment (IRE)J: Philip Donovan Brandon Hotel Handicap Hurdle18f · Good · 18 ran PU 125/1
23 Sep 26 Listowel (IRE) Kingston Silver (IRE)J: Danny Mullins McSweeney Brothers Maiden Hurdle16f · Good · 16 ran 11th 300/1
11 Sep 26 Ballinrobe (IRE) Not So Serious (IRE)J: P J O'Hanlon Lodge At Ashford Castle Handicap Steeplechase23f · Yielding · 16 ran 12th 22/1
03 Sep 26 Kilbeggan (IRE) Kingston Silver (IRE)J: Richard Deegan SIS Supporting Irish Racing Maiden Hurdle19f · Good To Yielding · 11 ran 9th 150/1
31 Aug 26 Downpatrick (IRE) Not So Serious (IRE)J: J J Slevin Tote Guarantee, Never Beaten By SP Handicap Steeplechase19.5f · Good · 15 ran 9th 25/1
31 Aug 26 Downpatrick (IRE) Ripsnorter (FR)J: Danny Mullins WillWeGo.com Handicap Hurdle18f · Good · 11 ran 1st 14/1
19 Aug 26 Sligo (IRE) Wings Of Africa (IRE)J: Ben Kennedy Aidan Moffitt Memorial Handicap Hurdle17.5f · Good · 13 ran PU 40/1
14 Aug 26 Tramore (IRE) Not So Serious (IRE)J: J J Slevin I.P.R.S. Handicap Steeplechase22f · Good · 13 ran UR 20/1
10 Aug 26 Ballinrobe (IRE) Ripsnorter (FR)J: Danny Mullins Cummins Homevalue Hardware Handicap Hurdle16.5f · Good · 14 ran 8th 14/1
07 Aug 26 Wexford (IRE) Wings Of Africa (IRE)J: P J O'Hanlon Treo Eile Mares Handicap Hurdle17f · Good · 14 ran PU 25/1
07 Aug 26 Wexford (IRE) Kingston Silver (IRE)J: Danny Mullins Think Print & Design Maiden Hurdle17f · Good · 14 ran 12th 66/1
04 Aug 26 Roscommon (IRE) Installment (IRE)J: Danny Mullins Curragh To Curragh Charity Cycle on Saturday, August 29th Maiden Hurdle20f · Yielding To Soft · 16 ran 13th 33/1
01 Aug 26 Galway (IRE) Minella Diamond (IRE)J: Phillip Enright BOYLE Sports Handicap Hurdle (Listed)Class 1 · 22.5f · Good To Yielding · 20 ran 11th 16/1
24 Jul 26 Kilbeggan (IRE) Big Island (IRE)J: Danny Mullins Racing Again On 8th August Handicap Steeplechase20.5f · Good · 14 ran PU 8/1
24 Jul 26 Kilbeggan (IRE) Installment (IRE)J: Danny Mullins Hurley Family Maiden Hurdle24.5f · Good · 9 ran PU 18/1
21 Jul 26 Ballinrobe (IRE) Not So Serious (IRE)J: Danny Mullins Sweeney Oil Handicap Hurdle (Div I)22f · Good · 15 ran 1st 50/1

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 J Lanigan's strike rate?
W J Lanigan has won 19 of 420 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 4.5% (as at 10 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does W J Lanigan do best at?
Tramore by strike rate: 3 wins from 37 runners (8.1%) 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.
Who rides most for W J Lanigan?
Danny Mullins, with 128 runners since 2008 — 30% of the total. That pairing has won 15 (11.7%).
What is W J Lanigan's Fair A/E?
0.92, from 419 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 10 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).