Bastien Benard
Fair A/E compares wins with a margin-stripped market expectation. Favourite-heavy samples — top yards, leading riders — naturally read a few points warm, so 1.05 means "beat the margin-free market read", not "the market underrates this by 5%".
Rode around 20 times a season, almost all over hurdles and fences, winning on 14% of them — beating the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 1.22). Rode mostly for J-P Gallorini — 41% of rides in the window.
It is weakest at Enghien (FR) (10% over 30 rides) — the widest gap in the record. Horses returning fresh after 61+ days have been a poor signal at 6.4% (n=47, Fair A/E 0.86). J-P Gallorini supplied 41% of the rides and edges the rider's average (18.2% vs 13.5%, A/E 1.22) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The market has also underrated the rider in Hurdle races: Fair A/E 1.64 across 99 rides (15.2% strike, +94.40 to a £1 stake). The record read poorly in Chase races — 9.4% over 32 rides, 4.1pts below the baseline. 10 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the rider has landed: the Gras Savoye Hipcover Prix La Barka at Auteuil (FR) (May 2011, £67,888).
Riding patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 13.5% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 13.5% baseline — descriptive splits with the sample always shown, for you to weigh. Tiles under 30 runs render muted. First rides are the first captured pairing of horse and rider; last-time-out winners are horses whose previous captured run was a win; claiming rides are runs where the rider carried a weight claim. Group / Graded covers pattern and listed races.
Notable angles
vs their own baselineRecord by conditions
same window as headerRace type
Going
Courses
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By season
Handicaps
Field size
Rows below n=30 are shown faded — a small sample is a fact, not a trend. Every figure carries its N.
Jumping record
completion over obstacles · same window as headerHorses ridden
same window as header · most-raced firstBy month
strike by month, lifetimeRiding for
same window · biggest samples firstCareer highlights
lifetime archive, 2005→Sires of the horses ridden
progeny record · win % by ground and tripThe record
latest 50 of 195 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 195 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 27 March 2005 to 22 October 2015.
Drawn from the whole archive (2005 onwards), so it can include runs outside the window the header statistics cover. Non-runners are not listed. A finish shown in letters is a non-completion (F fell · UR unseated · PU pulled up · BD brought down).
Quick answers
- What is Bastien Benard's strike rate?
- Bastien Benard has won 18 of 133 rides since 2008, a strike rate of 13.5% (as at 6 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does Bastien Benard do best at?
- Auteuil (FR) by strike rate: 14 wins from 100 rides (14%) since 2008. Read from the 15 courses with the most rides on the same basis, and only those with at least 30 — a small sample cannot top the list, and a rarely-visited course is not in the comparison.
- Which yard does Bastien Benard ride most for?
- J-P Gallorini, with 55 rides since 2008 — 41% of the total. That pairing has won 10 (18.2%).
- What is Bastien Benard's Fair A/E?
- 1.22, from 107 rides with a computed fair probability since 2008. Fair A/E compares actual wins with a margin-stripped market expectation, so 1.00 is par: above it the wins came at bigger prices than the margin-free market implied, below it they did not.