The headline number, though, is 15 Class 1 wins — the very top tier of British racing, the kind of occasions where the best horses in the country turn up and reputations are made or broken. Fahey has won at the sport's most prestigious venues: Newmarket, Ascot, and York. And he has kept that momentum going recently, winning a top-level race at Newbury in September 2024, then following it up with Class 1 victories at Ayr and Ascot in the autumn of 2025, within two days of each other. Pulling off two of the biggest races in the calendar back to back is not luck — it is a yard operating at the very top of its game.
The most reliable tool in his arsenal right now is jockey Oisin Orr. Together they have combined for 32 wins from 280 rides — that is wins in roughly 1 in every 9 races they team up, or an 11% win rate. That sits notably above Fahey's overall seasonal average, which tells you Orr is not just along for the ride. When a trainer keeps putting a particular jockey up, and that jockey keeps delivering at a rate better than the yard's baseline, it is a combination worth paying attention to.
Not every chapter of a training career is a highlight reel, of course. His partnership with Serenity Dream has produced zero wins from ten races together — a reminder that even the sharpest operations have horses that simply do not cooperate. But ten winless runs with one horse barely registers as a footnote against a career that has already reached 429 winners, 15 at the very highest level, all inside four years. Whatever Fahey is doing at his yard, it is working.
| Course | Races | Wins | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newcastle | 135 | 14 | 10.4% |
| York | 83 | 2 | 2.4% |
| Wolverhampton | 81 | 13 | 16.0% |
| Southwell | 79 | 3 | 3.8% |
| Doncaster | 55 | 4 | 7.3% |
| Redcar | 40 | 2 | 5% |
| Hamilton Park | 39 | 6 | 15.4% |
| Beverley | 39 | 5 | 12.8% |
| Haydock Park | 38 | 2 | 5.3% |
| Pontefract | 36 | 2 | 5.6% |
| Thirsk | 34 | 2 | 5.9% |
| Ripon | 33 | 4 | 12.1% |
| Ayr | 32 | 2 | 6.2% |
| Chester | 30 | 1 | 3.3% |
| Carlisle | 29 | 1 | 3.4% |
| Musselburgh | 24 | 3 | 12.5% |
| Catterick Bridge | 21 | 2 | 9.5% |
| chelmsford | 21 | 1 | 4.8% |
| Ascot | 19 | 3 | 15.8% |
| Leicester | 18 | 3 | 16.7% |
| Newmarket | 17 | 0 | 0% |
| Lingfield Park | 15 | 1 | 6.7% |
| Nottingham | 9 | 0 | 0% |
| Kempton Park | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| Wetherby | 6 | 2 | 33.3% |
| Epsom Downs | 6 | 2 | 33.3% |
| Great Yarmouth | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| Newbury | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| Goodwood | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Chepstow | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Salisbury | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Galway | 2 | 1 | 50% |
| Windsor | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Naas | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| The Curragh | 1 | 0 | 0% |