Eddie & Patrick Harty

The improvement has been sharp. Twelve months ago, the yard was winning roughly 1 in every 17 races. This season, they've nearly doubled that, winning 17 races from 141 runners — about 1 in every 8. That kind of jump in a single year isn't luck; it usually means a trainer has figured something out, whether that's sourcing better horses, finding the right races for the ones they have, or simply getting the day-to-day preparation dialled in. Whatever the reason, 12% is a serious number for a yard still in its early years.

One thing that does stand out is how the team performs on wet ground. On soft or muddy tracks, they win 3 races from every 16 — a rate of 19%, or roughly 1 in 5. That's meaningfully better than their overall average, and it suggests they either have horses that genuinely thrive when the ground gets testing, or they're particularly good at targeting the right races when conditions suit. Either way, if you see a Harty runner and it's been raining, that's worth knowing.

Their most regular jockey is Chris Hayes, who has ridden 39 times for the yard and won on 4 of those — about 1 in every 10 rides. That's a steady, working partnership rather than a barnstorming one, but in racing, consistency matters. The most notable individual horse they've partnered with is Wellwhatshappenin, who has won 1 of 4 races together — a modest record on paper, but enough to mark it out as one of the yard's more significant horses to watch.

Forty-five winners in four years won't make headlines on its own. But a win rate that has doubled in twelve months, a clear edge in certain conditions, and a stable that is still very much growing — that's the profile of a yard on the rise. The Hartys look like they're just getting started.