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Trainer profile

William Harvey

117 runners in the lifetime window · 22 individual horses
As at 5 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner 6 days ago
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2024→)
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
8–117
Wins / Runs
6.8%
Strike rate
n=117
25 (21%)
Placed
1.19
Fair A/E
n=117 · 0.95 incl. margin
−3.25
£1 level stake
n=117 at SP · −2.8%
£93,260
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
6.8%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 10 runners a season, across both codes, winning with 7% of them — beating the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 1.19).

Deterministic profile computed from 117 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 5 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance Ben Harvey: 9.6% from 52
The read

Runners with a claiming rider up have been a poor signal at 3% (n=33, Fair A/E 0.74). Ben Harvey rides 44% of the entries and edges the yard's average (9.6% vs 6.8%, A/E 1.37) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The yard also reads well over 2m5f – 3m (13.3%, n=30) and in Hurdle races (10.4%, n=48). The record reads poorly off a 15-30-day break — 2.6% over 39 runners, 4.2pts below the baseline.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 6.8% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
0%−6.8
n=21 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −21.00
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%−6.8
n=12 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −12.00
Debutants · first career start
10%+3.2
n=10 · A/E 1.33 · £1 −6.75
First-time headgear · true-first definition
0%−6.8
n=3 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −3.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
0%−6.8
n=7 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −7.00
When favourite
0%
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
3%−3.8
n=33 · A/E 0.74 · £1 −26.50
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−6.8
n=3 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −3.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 6.8% 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
Over 2m5f – 3m 13.3% vs 6.8% · n=30
Off a 15-30-day break 2.6% vs 6.8% · n=39
In Hurdle races 10.4% vs 6.8% · n=48
With claiming riders up 3% vs 6.8% · n=33
Over 2m1f – 2m4f 3.1% vs 6.8% · n=32
With Ben Harvey 9.6% vs 6.8% · n=52
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 48 5 10.4% −15.75
Flat 34 2 5.9% −19.50
Chase 22 1 4.5% +45.00
NH Flat 13 0 0% −13.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 46 2 4.3% −31.50
Soft 38 2 5.3% −28.25
Good to Soft 18 3 16.7% +65.00
Heavy 7 1 14.3% −0.50
Standard (AW) 7 0 0% −7.00
Good to Firm 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Down Royal 11 0 0% −11.00
Wexford 9 0 0% −9.00
Galway 9 0 0% −9.00
Dundalk (AW) 7 0 0% −7.00
Gowran Park 7 1 14.3% −3.75
Leopardstown 7 2 28.6% +8.00
Navan 7 0 0% −7.00
Curragh 6 0 0% −6.00
Downpatrick 6 0 0% −6.00
Fairyhouse 6 0 0% −6.00
Kilbeggan 5 2 40% +67.00
Naas 5 0 0% −5.00
Punchestown 5 1 20% +6.00
Limerick 4 0 0% −4.00
Thurles 4 1 25% +2.50

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 3 0 0% −3.00
Class 3 2 0 0% −2.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 1 0 0% 0.00 −1.00
2nd–3rd fav 19 4 21.1% 1.59 +1.75
4th–6th fav 35 4 11.4% 1.81 +58.00
7th+ in betting 62 0 0% 0.00 −62.00
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
91.4% completed · 70 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 22 86.4% 2 0 1 0 0
Hurdle 48 93.8% 0 0 3 0 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
Midnight Moonshine (IRE)from D Deacon · then R Mike Smith 16 1 5 4 Aug 26
Matter Of Opinion (IRE)from J P Dempsey 15 0 2 28 Aug 26
Ballerina Boxer (IRE)from D Harvey · then Nikki Evans 12 1 2 18 Oct 25
Blues Emperor (IRE)from J P Murtagh 10 0 2 21 Sep 26
Harbanaker (IRE)from John C McConnell 10 1 1 27 Mar 26
Daydream Nation (IRE) 9 2 5 30 Oct 26
Campbell Black (IRE) 6 1 3 17 Mar 26
Let Her Cook (IRE) 5 1 1 9 May 25
Ballydangan (IRE)from D Harvey · then Dan Skelton 5 0 1 30 Aug 24
Louve D'arc (FR) 4 0 0 4 Aug 26
Cupola (GB)from Clive Cox 4 0 0 14 Oct 25
Codice (IRE)from Mark Fahey 3 0 0 11 Jun 26
All 22 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 22 horses listed, 12 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from D Harvey (3) and John C McConnell (2); 10 had their first archived run for this yard.

6 have since run for another yard; 16 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 2
Only 2 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
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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 riderBen Harvey
44% of all rides
9.6% SR · A/E 1.37
RiderRWSR£1
Ben Harvey 52 5 9.6% +40.75
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2024→
8
Archived wins
£93,260
Prize money
2025
Best season · 5 wins
Daydream Nation (IRE) — QuinnBet Handicap Hurdle Leopardstown · Mar 2026
£8,835
Begger (IRE) — Clarke's Electrical Contractors, Castletown Geoghegan Beginners Steeplechase Kilbeggan (IRE) · Sep 2026
£7,800
Daydream Nation (IRE) — Joe Bollard Memorial Maiden Hurdle Gowran Park · Oct 2025
£7,080
Notable horses
Daydream Nation (IRE) Midnight Moonshine (IRE) Ballerina Boxer (IRE) Harbanaker (IRE) Campbell Black (IRE) Let Her Cook (IRE)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Soldier of Fortune (IRE) 6.3% · 1–16
Progeny have won 11.3% of 5,877 runs since 2013 (684 horses). Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 6.5% from 336. Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 3.2% from 249.
Milan (GB) 0% · 0–15
Progeny have won 11.3% of 16,871 runs since 2008 (1,463 horses).
Shirocco (GER) 8.3% · 1–12
Progeny have won 11.2% of 9,183 runs since 2010 (921 horses). Weakest over 6f – 7f (all codes): 7.4% from 203.
Camacho (GB) 10% · 1–10
Progeny have won 8.1% of 9,325 runs since 2009 (596 horses).
Gleneagles (IRE) 0% · 0–10
Progeny have won 11.4% of 4,571 runs since 2019 (447 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 17.3% from 283.
Doyen (IRE) 22.2% · 2–9
Progeny have won 11.5% of 7,376 runs since 2009 (605 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 5 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 117 · newest first

The latest 50 of 117 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 2 June 2024 to 30 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
30 Oct 26 Down Royal (IRE) Daydream Nation (IRE)J: Ben Harvey BetVictor Beginners Steeplechase20f · Good · 7 ran 5th 10/1
30 Oct 26 Down Royal (IRE) Master Locksley (IRE)J: Ben Harvey Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden Hurdle22.5f · Yielding · 9 ran 3rd 13/2
03 Oct 26 Gowran Park (IRE) Daydream Nation (IRE)J: Ben Harvey SIS Supporting Irish Racing Beginners Steeplechase20f · Good To Yielding · 8 ran 3rd 9/1
02 Oct 26 Gowran Park (IRE) Master Locksley (IRE)J: Ben Harvey 1xBet.ie Supports Safer Gambling Maiden Hurdle20f · Good · 17 ran 4th 25/1
21 Sep 26 Fairyhouse (IRE) Blues Emperor (IRE)J: Nathan Crosse La Bucca Restaurant Handicap7f · Good · 18 ran 7th 10/1
09 Sep 26 Cork (IRE) Blues Emperor (IRE)J: Nathan Crosse Racing Again September 29th Handicap8f · Good · 18 ran 3rd 20/1
07 Sep 26 Galway (IRE) Daydream Nation (IRE)J: Ben Harvey Watch Every Irish Race Live On Racing TV Beginners Steeplechase18f · Soft · 6 ran 5th 17/2
04 Sep 26 Kilbeggan (IRE) Begger (IRE)J: Ben Harvey Clarke's Electrical Contractors, Castletown Geoghegan Beginners Steeplechase24f · Good To Yielding · 4 ran 1st 66/1
28 Aug 26 Down Royal (IRE) Matter Of Opinion (IRE)J: Ms L A Byrne Tayto Group Limited Handicap Hurdle24f · Good · 15 ran 11th 8/1
07 Aug 26 Wexford (IRE) Matter Of Opinion (IRE)J: Ms L A Byrne SIS Handicap Hurdle24f · Good · 13 ran 5th 15/2
04 Aug 26 Roscommon (IRE) Midnight Moonshine (IRE)J: Ben Harvey Campbell's Bar Ballinlough Handicap Steeplechase25f · Soft · 16 ran 6th 12/1
04 Aug 26 Roscommon (IRE) Louve D'arc (FR)J: Ben Harvey Curragh To Curragh Charity Cycle on Saturday, August 29th Maiden Hurdle20f · Yielding To Soft · 16 ran 5th 40/1
28 Jul 26 Galway (IRE) Begger (IRE)J: Ben Harvey Latin Quarter Beginners Steeplechase18f · Good · 10 ran 10th 200/1
23 Jul 26 Wexford (IRE) Matter Of Opinion (IRE)J: Ms L A Byrne Wexford Racecourse Ladies Handicap Hurdle20f · Good · 14 ran 7th 12/1
22 Jul 26 Naas (IRE) Blues Emperor (IRE)J: Nathan Crosse NFP Handicap7f · Good · 8 ran 7th 16/1
22 Jul 26 Wexford (IRE) Midnight Moonshine (IRE)J: Ben Harvey Racing Again Tomorrow 23rd July Family Day Handicap Steeplechase24.5f · Good · 15 ran 5th 16/1
14 Jul 26 Downpatrick (IRE) Soulful Strut (IRE)J: Alex Harvey Plus 2 Print Remembering Tony Oakes MBE Maiden Hurdle22f · Good · 12 ran 10th 40/1
04 Jul 26 Bellewstown Midnight Moonshine (IRE)J: Ben Harvey QuinnBet Bellewstown Handicap Hurdle24.5f · Good · 15 ran 11th 22/1
26 Jun 26 Curragh Blues Emperor (IRE)J: Nathan Crosse Silken Thomas And Lock 13 Handicap8f · Good · 20 ran 12th 22/1
19 Jun 26 Down Royal Blues Emperor (IRE)J: Scott McCullagh Proparamedics And Medicall Handicap7f · Soft · 9 ran 6th 9/2

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 William Harvey's strike rate?
William Harvey has won 8 of 117 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 6.8% (as at 5 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Who rides most for William Harvey?
Ben Harvey, with 52 runners since 2008 — 44% of the total. That pairing has won 5 (9.6%).
Is William Harvey in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 2 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is William Harvey's Fair A/E?
1.19, from 117 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 5 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).