Trainer Tom Dascombe's statistics

This page provides a statistical analysis of our performance and enables its readers to follow our progress through the season and against the targets set for the year. Our statistics and targets follow a calendar year and the page will be updated on a monthly basis.

2012 targets

Our prize money target for the last two seasons was £500,000. We reached £435,646 in 2010 and £585,149 in 2011. In the UK prize money table for 2011 we finished 32nd. Our ambition for 2012 is to break into the top 25 and therefore our prize money target will be set at £650,000. While we have roughly the same number of horses in the yard as last year, albeit of better quality, particularly in the 3yo+ department, we will continue with our target of 60 winners for the year. Our strike rates for 2010 and 2011 were 9.6% and 11.2% and our target for 2012 is a strike rate of 12.5%, which should see us reach our winners target. 2011 was a fantastic season for many reasons and we hope to go onto bigger and better things in 2012. Watch this space!

2012 prize money

2012 winners

2012 strike rate

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22.2%

2011 commentary

In 2011 we set ambitious targets of 60 winners and £500,000 in prize money, but although we did not quite manage to reach our winners target, we still improved our tally by 15 on 2010 and absolutely smashed our prize money target. The season in general exceeded all our expectations with two fantastic winners at Royal Ascot and a 2nd place in the St Leger with Brown Panther. We only had 17 runners in February and March, pre turf season, from which we recorded just one winner and we never really recovered from this in terms of meeting our winners target. Aside from these two months, we averaged 5 winners per month, which was what was required to meet the target of 60 over the whole year.

In Tom's six full seasons as a trainer he has increased his prize money haul each and every year (see below), but none more so than this year, going from £436k in 2010 to £585k in 2011. In turn, we also increased our strike rate from 9.6% in 2010 to 11.2% in 2011. We want to improve in this area and our target for 2012 reflects this. The main contributions to our prize money total in the UK came from Brown Panther (£177,358), Rhythm Of Light (£36,071), Misty Conquest (£20,541), Pyman's Theory (£19,241) and Basantee (£13,982), while Switcher picked up £10,000 for her Racing Post Bonus Scheme win and €12,000 for finishing 3rd in a Group 3 at Deauville. All of these, barring Pyman's Theory and Misty Conquest, who were sold at a significant profit at the Tattersalls horses in training sale, will stay in training next season and hopefully contribute once more to our targets.