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David O'Meara

Four years into his training career, David O'Meara has already done what takes many trainers a lifetime to achieve — 484 winners and 10 races at the top level of the sport. That is not the record of someone finding their feet. That is someone who arrived knowing exactly what they were doing.Based on TrackLab's AI analysis
Quick Facts
Role
Trainer
Based
Upper Helmsley, N Yorks
Record
102 wins from 902 races
Win rate
11.3%
Top jockey
Best course
Leicester (33.3% from 15 races)
Best going
Good to firm

📊 Key Numbers

A snapshot of this trainer's performance over the last 12 months
902
Races
102
Wins
11.3%
Win rate
avg ~10%
37.9%
Place rate (top 3)
avg ~30%

🔍 Full Analysis

TrackLab's AI-generated assessment based on career data and recent form
TrackLab's Trainer Breakdown
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The last 12 months tell the same story. O'Meara has sent out 102 winners from 902 runners, winning roughly 1 in every 9 races — a steady, professional operation running at full tilt. Two of those wins came at Haydock Park, in May and July of 2025, and his 10 Class 1 victories — the biggest races in Britain — have come at a spread of venues including Haydock, Ayr, and Pontefract, with the most recent arriving at Doncaster in November 2024. Winning at that level once is an achievement. Doing it 10 times in four years suggests a trainer who knows how to prepare a horse for a big occasion and get the best out of it on the day.

The partnership with jockey Daniel Tudhope is the engine room of the yard. Across 261 rides together they have produced 38 winners — that is 15 wins in every 100 rides, or roughly 3 in every 20. In a sport where trainer-jockey combinations can take years to build that kind of fluency, the fact that O'Meara and Tudhope have found it so quickly says a lot about how the team operates. When you see Tudhope in O'Meara silks, you pay attention.

Leicester is worth a mention too. Five winners from just 15 runners is a remarkable return — winning 1 in every 3 races at a track. Whether it is something about the course setup or simply that O'Meara picks his spots well there, that kind of precision is hard to fake. And then there is Flowstate, the horse O'Meara has partnered with for 29 races and won 6 of them — a horse that clearly brings out something consistent from the yard, and one that has become a reliable thread running through an already impressive career.

Four years in, 484 winners deep, and still accelerating. O'Meara is building something serious.

📈 Form Trend

How this trainer's win rate has changed month by month
Monthly win rate
2025–2026
14.2%
May
8.2%
Jun
13.6%
Jul
18.2%
Aug
6.7%
Sep
7.6%
Oct
4.9%
Nov
23.7%
Dec
2.7%
Jan
14.8%
Feb
16.1%
Mar
0%
Apr

🎯 Where This Trainer Thrives

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

🏇 Jockey Partnerships

The riders they work with most, sorted by rides together
Daniel Tudhope First Choice
14.6%
Win rate
38/261
Won / Rode
12.6%
Win rate
18/143
Won / Rode
10.1%
Win rate
14/138
Won / Rode
3.7%
Win rate
2/54
Won / Rode
4.3%
Win rate
2/46
Won / Rode
14.3%
Win rate
5/35
Won / Rode
21.1%
Win rate
4/19
Won / Rode
18.8%
Win rate
3/16
Won / Rode
23.1%
Win rate
3/13
Won / Rode
15.4%
Win rate
2/13
Won / Rode
0%
Win rate
0/12
Won / Rode
Conor Whiteley
9.1%
Win rate
1/11
Won / Rode
12.5%
Win rate
1/8
Won / Rode
12.5%
Win rate
1/8
Won / Rode
12.5%
Win rate
1/8
Won / Rode
0%
Win rate
0/8
Won / Rode
28.6%
Win rate
2/7
Won / Rode
0%
Win rate
0/6
Won / Rode
0%
Win rate
0/6
Won / Rode
0%
Win rate
0/5
Won / Rode

Top Horses

The strongest horses currently associated with this trainer
Form: 551141
Form: 262-44
Form: 834711
Form: 3
Form: 65073-
Form: 79860-
Form: 1-2643
Form: 2413-8
Form: 2-4626
Form: 4302-8

🏟 Course Record

Win rate at each course, sorted by number of races
CourseRacesWinsWin rate
Newcastle 103 11 10.7%
Doncaster 68 6 8.8%
York 62 1 1.6%
Wolverhampton 58 7 12.1%
Southwell 50 5 10%
Ayr 48 6 12.5%
Ascot 44 1 2.3%
Haydock Park 42 4 9.5%
Ripon 39 11 28.2%
Hamilton Park 39 7 17.9%
Redcar 37 5 13.5%
Thirsk 33 6 18.2%
Newmarket 33 4 12.1%
Beverley 26 2 7.7%
Goodwood 24 4 16.7%
Pontefract 20 5 25%
Musselburgh 18 2 11.1%
Catterick Bridge 17 2 11.8%
Leicester 15 5 33.3%
Lingfield Park 15 2 13.3%
chelmsford 15 1 6.7%
Nottingham 13 1 7.7%
Epsom Downs 13 1 7.7%
Chester 12 1 8.3%
Carlisle 9 0 0%
Wetherby 7 1 14.3%
Sandown Park 7 0 0%
Newbury 6 0 0%
meydan 6 0 0%
Chepstow 5 0 0%
Kempton Park 4 0 0%
Great Yarmouth 3 0 0%
The Curragh 2 0 0%
Uttoxeter 2 0 0%
Kelso 1 1 100%
Aintree 1 0 0%
Stratford-on-Avon 1 0 0%
Naas 1 0 0%
Salisbury 1 0 0%
Dundalk 1 0 0%
Bath 1 0 0%

📅 Recent Results

The last 20 results, most recent first
4 Apr
Musselburgh · 5f – 6½f · Soft
5th
3 Apr
Lingfield Park · 1m6f – 2m · Standard
12th
2 Apr
Southwell · Sprint (< 5f) · Standard
7th
31 Mar
Wolverhampton · 7f – 1m · Standard
6th
29 Mar
Doncaster · 5f – 6½f · Good_To_Soft
14th
29 Mar
Doncaster · 5f – 6½f · Good_To_Soft
8th
29 Mar
Doncaster · 5f – 6½f · Good_To_Soft
6th
29 Mar
Doncaster · 5f – 6½f · Good_To_Soft
2nd
29 Mar
Doncaster · 1m3f – 1m4f · Good_To_Soft
8th
29 Mar
Doncaster · 1m3f – 1m4f · Good_To_Soft
4th
29 Mar
Doncaster · 7f – 1m · Good_To_Soft
14th
28 Mar
Doncaster · 1m3f – 1m4f · Good_To_Soft
Won
28 Mar
Doncaster · 1m1f – 1m2f · Good_To_Soft
11th
28 Mar
Doncaster · 5f – 6½f · Good_To_Soft
8th
27 Mar
Wetherby · Long Distance (2m+) · Good
3rd
26 Mar
Southwell · 7f – 1m · Standard
Won
26 Mar
Southwell · 1m1f – 1m2f · Standard
8th
21 Mar
Newcastle · 1m1f – 1m2f · Standard
4th
21 Mar
Southwell · 7f – 1m · Standard
10th
21 Mar
Newcastle · 1m6f – 2m · Standard
6th