The Trainer Championship table is looking less fluid with every passing week. So we thought we would take this opportunity to check a different range of data.

Which are the trainers who it would have paid to follow from a punting perspective in 2019. For a variety of reasons, including an habitual lack of betting value, none of the familiar names feature on this particular table.

We have restricted the qualification to a minimum of 20 runners throughout the course of the year and it is Hove Jamie Kingsley who leads the pack – by some distance. Had you backed each of his 137 runners to a £1 stake, you would have back 21 winners and be showing a profit of £54.55.

In second place in Nottingham’s Lynn Cook. We reckon that will come as a surprise to many, given the esteem in which she is held at her local track. However, if you are going to produce an open race strike rate of 40% . . . . .

J T Kingsley 21 137 15% £54.55
L Cook 31 78 40% £20.84
S M Buckland 8 48 17% £18.25
J E Meek 7 20 35% £17.00
P Naylor 16 53 30% £16.25
K E Humphreys 11 56 20% £14.35
E G Samuels 9 31 29% £14.05
G A Payne 26 117 22% £13.42
T J Nevin 6 41 15% £12.78
P Kennedy 12 30 40% £11.55
N Savva 9 44 20% £10.75
S Maplesden 18 80 23% £10.18
P Lithgow 4 21 19% £8.00
R B York 39 146 27% £7.82
R P Rees 10 67 15% £7.30
C R Akers 32 126 25% £7.21
J Daly 48 231 21% £7.16
D Puddy 21 98 21% £6.51
G A Griffiths 4 25 16% £6.25
K M Grayson 24 77 31% £5.78