Major Yorkshire Racing Results

A Few Notes
Since the start of the 1993 (Turf) season I have been following all the runners on the flat for a number of Yorkshire trainers. These have been entered into an MS Access database which is now over 5mb in size and growing daily. I have only started to follow some trainers in recent years and I do not follow every trainer as this would be far too time consuming. These results only cover flat races, both Turf and All Weather.

In addition I have tried to enter all 'major' (see my definition below) results for ALL Yorkshire trainers - not just those I follow in detail. Obviously however there are a lot of holes in my data, if you can provide any additions or corrections please email me.

Where there is an obvious continutation in a stable (Peter Easterby to Tim Easterby, Maurice Camacho to Julie Camacho etc.) the results are given under the name of the current license holder.

Trainer	Followed Since	Notes
David Barron	25/03/93
James Bethell	11/09/93	Results prior to moving to Middleham not counted
Julie Camacho	01/01/98	Results prior to 01/01/98 are for Maurice Camacho
David Chapman	25/03/93
MickEasterby	25/03/93
Tim Easterby	25/03/93	Results prior to 18/3/96 are for Peter (MH) Easterby
Tim Etherington	01/01/97	Results prior to 01/11/94 are for James Etherington
Chris Fairhurst	01/01/99
Richard Fahey	20/03/97
Sally Hall	25/03/93
Patrick Haslam	25/03/93	Results prior to moving to Middleham not counted
Mark Johnston	25/03/93
David Nicholls	21/03/96
Lynda Ramsden	25/03/93	Retired end of 1998 season, started again 2001
Kevin Ryan	01/01/00
Chris Thornton	25/03/93
Nigel Tinkler	01/01/98
Bill Watts	25/03/93	Retired end of 1997 season
Richard Whitaker	25/03/93

As I didn't originally intend the database for 'publication' the main index is on horse name. When a horse has moved between two different Yorkshire trainers I have therefore given it a 'new' name, incorporating the second (or third or fourth...!) trainers name, eg.BRANSTON BERRY (EYRE). For some races, especially those prior to the time I started tracking a particular trainer in depth, some of the details are a bit sketchy. In these cases I have made an educated guess as to dates, values etc. Sometimes I have included sponsors names in race titles, sometimes not.

'Major' Results
Everyone will have different ideas on this. Anyway my definition is either a) a first, second or third in a black type race (aka a black-type performer) or b) a result (win or place) in any type of race that results in at least the following prize money, which increases slightly over the years;

However due to the incredible success of Messrs Johnston, Easterby (Tim) and Nicholls I have treated them as 'special' cases, so for those trainers the criteria is any race where the prize money earned was more than £20,000 (regardless of the year or type of race). I'd like to make the criteria a bit more complicated than that (including Group placings for these trainers for example) - but unfortunately MS Access isn't upto the job.

How It's Done
I've produced a report in MS Access which exports the relevant 'major' results into HTML. It wasn't quite as easy as it sounds however and I've had to make compromises such as missing off jockeys claim, distance, course etc. I then redo this export and FTP it upto the site on a reasonably regular basis. Hopefully the layout of the report will improve over time. If you feel the data could be better presented - eg.by year by trainer instead of just by trainer and then sorted in date order please let me know.

Some Statistics
I've done some queries in the database for the 2006 flat season (all weather and turf), for the trainers I followed in depth that season. Obviously I can't guarantee that these statistics are 100% accurate, it's always possible I've missed the odd winner or runner. The first shows winners (not numer of wins) per individual runner (not runs) In other words: "what is the percentage likelihood that a horse with this trainer will win a race?", and on this criteria the top ten trainers are as follows;

Trainer	Winners	Runners	Percentage
Mark Johnston	111	224	49.5
David Barron	43	90	47.7
Kevin Ryan	69	149	46.3
Richard Fahey	56	128	43.8
David Nicholls	42	101	41.6
Chris Fairhurst	6	16	37.5
Richard Whitaker	12	34	35.3
Nigel Tinkler	14	40	35.0
David Chapman	9	28	32.1
Mick Easterby	24	77	31.2

The second table shows the number of individual black-type performers (not performances) per individual runner, and on this criteria the top five are thus;

As it's a bit hit and miss, especially for the smaller stables, as to whether you have a horse good enough to perform in black type events, the following table shows the five years statistics (2002 - 2006 inc) on this criteria (only trainers still active at the end of 2006 were ranked). In this five year period the top six were as follows;

Trainer	Black Type Performers	Runners	Percentage
Mark Johnston	79	641	12.3
Kevin Ryan	18	309	5.8
David Nicholls	14	272	5.1
Tim Easterby	15	398	3.8
Richard Fahey	9	281	3.2
Richard Whitaker	2	62	3.2

All information provided on this site is given on a 'best endeavours' basis. No guarantee as to the accuracy of the data is implied nor should it be assumed. For clarification please contact the relevant parties.
If you have any comments, corrections, suggestions, pictures or (most importantly) information please email me.

1980-1984 inc.	£7,000
1985-1989 inc.	£8,000
1990-1994 inc.	£9,000
1995 -2000 inc	£10,000
2001 -2003 inc.	£12,000
2004 onwards	£14,000