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Chelsea Banham

Four years into her training career, Chelsea Banham has quietly built a record of 50 winners since taking out her licence in 2021 — a solid foundation for someone still relatively early in the job. This season, though, has been a tougher ride than last. Her win rate has dropped from 15% to just 6%, meaning she's winning roughly 1 in every 16 races with her runners at the moment, compared to closer to 1 in 7 this time last year. That kind of dip is worth watching — it can reflect a temporary spell of bad luck, a shift in the quality of horses coming through the yard, or simply the natural ebb and flow of a small operation finding its feet.Based on TrackLab's AI analysis
Quick Facts
Role
Trainer
Based
Cowlinge, Suffolk
Record
6 wins from 93 races
Win rate
6.5%
Top jockey
Best course
Lingfield Park (19.0% from 21 races)
Best going
Standard (all-weather)

📊 Key Numbers

A snapshot of this trainer's performance over the last 12 months
93
Races
6
Wins
6.5%
Win rate
avg ~10%
21.5%
Place rate (top 3)
avg ~30%

🔍 Full Analysis

TrackLab's AI-generated assessment based on career data and recent form
TrackLab's Trainer Breakdown
Auto-Generated

Where Banham does show a clear edge is at Lingfield Park, where she's sent out 4 winners from 21 runners. That's a win rate of around 19%, or nearly 1 in 5 — significantly better than her overall numbers and the kind of figure that tells you she understands that track. Whether it's her choice of races, the horses she targets there, or simply a yard that suits a certain type of ground, trainers who consistently outperform at specific venues are always worth paying attention to when they turn up there.

Ground conditions matter too. On normal ground, Banham wins at 10% — 6 from 61 races — which accounts for virtually all of her success this season. That suggests her horses are built for standard conditions rather than extremes, and it's a useful pointer for anyone following her runners.

Her most consistent working relationship is with jockey Joey Haynes, who has partnered her horses to 6 wins from 92 rides together. That's 7%, or roughly 1 in every 15, which mirrors her overall numbers closely — a sign of a genuine, established partnership rather than a flashy one-off connection. The pair clearly know how to work together, even if the headline results haven't dazzled this season. As for Walking On Clouds, the two have crossed paths four times without a win to show for it — a partnership that hasn't clicked yet, whatever the promise might be on paper.

Fifty winners in four years is a respectable career so far. The current season has been quieter, but Banham has shown enough — particularly at Lingfield — to suggest the tools are there when everything lines up.

📈 Form Trend

How this trainer's win rate has changed month by month
Monthly win rate
2025–2026
0%
Apr
0%
May
0%
Jun
0%
Jul
0%
Aug
0%
Sep
8.3%
Oct
0%
Nov
8.3%
Dec
11.1%
Jan
30%
Feb
0%
Mar

🎯 Where This Trainer Thrives

Performance broken down by ground, class, and track type
🌧 Ground Conditions
Standard (all-weather)
Loves
Good to soft
Soft (muddy)
Standard to slow
Avoids
Good (firm-ish)
Avoids
Good to firm
Avoids
🏅 Competition Level
Class 1
Class 2
Class 3
Avoids
Class 4
Class 5
Ok
Class 6
🏟 Track Shape
Left-handed, tight turning
Loves
Left-handed, wide and galloping
Ok
Right-handed, undulating
Left-handed, tight
Right-handed, wide and galloping
Avoids
Wide and galloping
Avoids
Right-handed, tight turning
Avoids
Left-handed, undulating
Avoids

🏇 Jockey Partnerships

The riders they work with most, sorted by rides together
Joey Haynes First Choice
6.5%
Win rate
6/92
Won / Rode
0%
Win rate
0/1
Won / Rode

Top Horses

The strongest horses currently associated with this trainer
Form: 80-779
Form: 0774-3
Form: 7-7213
Form: 54-213
Form: 00-
Form: 0610-6
Form: 158035
Form: 5787-4
Form: 0051-2
Form: 822130

🏟 Course Record

Win rate at each course, sorted by number of races
CourseRacesWinsWin rate
Wolverhampton 28 1 3.6%
Lingfield Park 21 4 19.0%
Kempton Park 12 0 0%
chelmsford 9 0 0%
Southwell 7 0 0%
Great Yarmouth 4 0 0%
Leicester 3 0 0%
Brighton 2 0 0%
Newcastle 1 1 100%
Haydock Park 1 0 0%
Goodwood 1 0 0%
Windsor 1 0 0%
Beverley 1 0 0%
Epsom Downs 1 0 0%
Chester 1 0 0%

📅 Recent Results

The last 20 results, most recent first
17 Mar
Wolverhampton · 5f – 6½f · Standard
9th
12 Mar
chelmsford · 7f – 1m · Standard
3rd
12 Mar
chelmsford · 7f – 1m · Standard
10th
3 Mar
Wolverhampton · 5f – 6½f · Standard
5th
25 Feb
Kempton Park · 5f – 6½f · Standard_To_Slow
25 Feb
Kempton Park · 7f – 1m · Standard_To_Slow
25 Feb
Lingfield Park · 5f – 6½f · Standard
24 Feb
Southwell · 5f – 6½f · Standard
9th
24 Feb
Southwell · 1m1f – 1m2f · Standard
9th
21 Feb
chelmsford · 5f – 6½f · Standard
3rd
14 Feb
Lingfield Park · 5f – 6½f · Standard
Won
11 Feb
Kempton Park · 7f – 1m · Standard_To_Slow
7th
6 Feb
Newcastle · 5f – 6½f · Standard
Won
2 Feb
Wolverhampton · 7f – 1m · Standard
Won
29 Jan
chelmsford · 5f – 6½f · Standard
2nd
24 Jan
Lingfield Park · 5f – 6½f · Standard
2nd
19 Jan
Wolverhampton · 7f – 1m · Standard
2nd
19 Jan
Wolverhampton · 5f – 6½f · Standard
6th
16 Jan
Wolverhampton · 1m1f – 1m2f · Standard
6th
14 Jan
Lingfield Park · 5f – 6½f · Standard
3rd