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Jockey profile

Ben Coen

2,892 rides in the last 5 seasons · 1,200 individual horses
As at 31 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
In form — 4 winners last 14 days Last ride 5 days ago 100% of rides on the flat
from 1 Jan 2022
293–2,892
Wins / Runs
10.1%
Strike rate
n=2,892
825 (29%)
Placed
1.01
n=2,888 · 0.83 incl. margin
−966.94
£1 level stake
n=2,892 at SP · −33.4%
£6.94m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
10.6%
KTB Rider Profile

Rides around 580 times a season, almost all on the flat, winning on 10% of them — level with the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 1.01). Riding last-time-out winners the record reads 14% (257 rides). Rides mostly for J P Murtagh — 47% of rides in the window. The rider is in form now — 4 winners in the last fortnight, above their own baseline.

Deterministic profile computed from 2,892 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 31 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance 33% when favourite J P Murtagh: 13.3% from 1,369 LTO winners: 14% Rides the favourite in 10% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Tipperary (21.1%, n=71), Fairyhouse (19.8%, n=86) and Gowran Park (15.2%, n=244) — all clear of the rider's 10.1% baseline. It is weakest at Killarney (2.9% over 70 rides) — the widest gap in the record. Rides on last-time-out winners have been a positive signal at 14% (n=257, Fair A/E 1.04), but first rides on a horse have been a poor signal at 7% (n=1,128, Fair A/E 0.98). Right now the rider is firing: 4 winners from 26 rides in the last 14 days (15.4%, 5.3pts above the 10.1% baseline). J P Murtagh supplies 47% of the rides and edges the rider's average (13.3% vs 10.1%, A/E 1.02) — the market has that partnership priced right. 38 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the rider has landed: the Sky Bet Ebor Handicap at York (Aug 2021, £300,000).

Written from the figures on this page — every claim carries its sample. Descriptive, not a tip.

Riding patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 10.1% baseline
First ride on the horse · first captured pairing
7%−3.1
n=1,128 · A/E 0.98 · £1 −477.33
Last-time-out winners · previous run was a win
14%+3.9
n=257 · A/E 1.04 · £1 −53.68
Fresh horses · 61+ days off
7.9%−2.2
n=507 · A/E 0.92 · £1 −228.32
When favourite
33%
n=282 · A/E 1.13 · £1 −15.73
Big fields · 14+ runners
8.1%−2.0
n=1,206 · A/E 1.05 · £1 −555.66
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
7.7%−2.4
n=349 · A/E 0.91 · £1 −91.13

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 10.1% baseline — descriptive splits with the sample always shown, not tips. 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 baseline
At Tipperary 21.1% vs 10.1% · n=71
At Fairyhouse 19.8% vs 10.1% · n=86
With Richard John O'Brien 0% vs 10.1% · n=34
At Killarney 2.9% vs 10.1% · n=70
With debutants 5.1% vs 10.1% · n=293
At Gowran Park 15.2% vs 10.1% · n=244
Descriptive splits ranked by divergence × sample — insight, not instruction. Every angle carries its N; nothing under 30 runs qualifies. Rows within 2pts of the baseline appear only when the market-relative read (Fair A/E) diverges, and show it.

Record by conditions

same window as header

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good 1,080 104 9.6% −407.77
Soft 807 91 11.3% −166.84
Standard (AW) 383 44 11.5% −70.86
Heavy 293 19 6.5% −187.69
Good to Soft 241 26 10.8% −92.86
Good to Firm 88 9 10.2% −40.92

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Curragh 507 35 6.9% −275.80
Dundalk (AW) 371 42 11.3% −64.52
Leopardstown 290 24 8.3% −117.68
Naas 244 23 9.4% −41.12
Gowran Park 244 37 15.2% −12.93
Navan 188 21 11.2% −64.29
Cork 173 11 6.4% −115.34
Galway 106 6 5.7% −58.37
Roscommon 100 16 16% −3.58
Fairyhouse 86 17 19.8% +1.54
Bellewstown 75 9 12% −30.00
Tipperary 71 15 21.1% +9.52
Down Royal 71 6 8.5% −45.00
Killarney 70 2 2.9% −64.40
Limerick 51 8 15.7% −7.13

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 349 27 7.7% −91.13
Class 2 14 1 7.1% −6.00
Class 4 10 0 0% −10.00
Class 6 5 3 60% +3.66
Class 3 3 0 0% −3.00
Class 5 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 338 105 31.1% 1.13 −19.36
2nd–3rd fav 630 103 16.3% 1.04 −68.58
4th–6th fav 859 67 7.8% 1.02 −223.00
7th+ in betting 1,065 18 1.7% 0.55 −656.00
Fair A/E per band is the tell: near 1.00 the market had it priced right; well above, the wins came where the market didn't expect them.

Rows below n=30 are shown faded — a small sample is a fact, not a trend. Every figure carries its N.

Horses ridden

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Ob La Di (IRE) 16 2 4 23 Aug 26
Daamberdiplomat (IRE) 16 4 4 17 Oct 25
Velvet Skies (IRE) 15 1 5 30 Jan 26
Safecracker (GB) 15 2 9 8 Aug 24
Jon Riggens (IRE) 14 3 5 9 Sep 26
Chicago Fireball (IRE) 14 2 5 11 Oct 25
Chicago Critic (GB) 13 3 5 6 Aug 26
Punk Poet (IRE) 13 2 4 20 Mar 26
Cheeky Wink (IRE) 13 2 6 12 Oct 25
Blues Emperor (IRE) 13 3 5 30 Sep 25
Mashhoor (GB) 13 3 3 29 Jun 25
Shaool (IRE) 12 2 6 11 Oct 26
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 1,200 horses ridden in this window — each ran at least 8 times. Horses with fewer runs aren't listed; search finds any horse since 2005. Runs, wins and places only: a strike rate or a return on a handful of runs is noise, so none is quoted per horse — each horse's full record is on its own page.

Current form

significance-gated

Last 14 days

In form
4 from 26 15.4% · +5.3pts vs baseline
Last 14 days15.4%
5-season base10.1%
Shown only when the 14-day window is large enough to mean anything (n≥15). A cold run renders the same card with a quiet badge — never hidden.

By month

strike by month, 5 seasons
JFMAMJJASOND
01661111101010121077
A flat rider: the season runs Mar–Oct. Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Riding for

same window · biggest samples first
Main yardJ P Murtagh
47% of all rides
13.3% SR · A/E 1.02
TrainerRWSR£1
J P Murtagh 1,369 182 13.3% −343.79
A Oliver 109 7 6.4% −66.50
Edward Lynam 108 10 9.3% −54.00
D Mcloughlin 102 13 12.7% −8.54
Ciaran Murphy 82 7 8.5% −20.00
A J Martin 80 11 13.8% −8.40
A. Slattery 67 6 9% +20.10
Peter Fahey 59 3 5.1% −37.12
Noel Meade 43 2 4.7% −9.00
Thomas Mullins 36 3 8.3% −7.00
Richard John O'Brien 34 0 0% −34.00
Michael Mulvany 33 2 6.1% −24.17
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2017→
426
Archived wins
38
Pattern / graded wins
£10.1m
Prize money
2025
Best season · 72 wins
Sonnyboyliston (IRE) — Sky Bet Ebor Handicap (Heritage Handicap) York · Aug 2021 · Class 2
£300,000
Sonnyboyliston (IRE) — Comer Group International Irish St. Leger (Group 1) Curragh · Sep 2021 · Group 1
£285,000
Golden Trick (IRE) — Irish EBF Ballyhane Stakes (Median Auction Race) Naas · Aug 2023
£148,500

Sires of the horses ridden

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Night Of Thunder (IRE) 19.5% · 16–82
Progeny have won 16.3% of 5,092 runs since 2008 (563 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 7% from 158.
Dark Angel (IRE) 13.4% · 9–67
Progeny have won 11.3% of 21,913 runs since 2008 (1,595 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 15% from 107.
Starspangledbanner (AUS) 14.5% · 9–62
Progeny have won 11.1% of 7,190 runs since 2008 (662 horses). Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 14.6% from 1,195.
Acclamation (GB) 5% · 3–60
Progeny have won 10% of 19,699 runs since 2008 (1,327 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 15.2% from 151. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 6.7% from 194.
Siyouni (FR) 14.3% · 8–56
Progeny have won 13% of 8,343 runs since 2008 (978 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 9.2% from 457.
Kodi Bear (IRE) 11.1% · 6–54
Progeny have won 10.3% of 3,968 runs since 2008 (388 horses). Weakest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 7.3% from 259.
Top line: the rider's own record with each sire's runners (win %, wins–runs), same window as the header; faded under 30 runs. Beneath it: every run by that sire's progeny in our archive since 2008, as at 31 Oct 2026 — what they have done, not a forecast. A going or a distance is named only where at least 100 progeny runs sit 3 or more points from the sire's own win rate. Distance bands cover Flat and jumps together.

The record

latest 50 of 4,541 · newest first

The latest 50 of 4,541 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 7 October 2017 to 26 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP

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).

KTB’s figures

the forward record · since 5 Oct 2026

KTB’s figures on this rider’s mounts since 7 Oct 2026: the KTB Selection in 3 runs (won 1) · top-rated on KTB Rating in 5 runs (won 2) · fastest on KTB Speed in 3 runs (won 1) · to 19 Oct 2026.

Each pick was a KTB figure’s choice before the off — the published KTB Selection, the top-rated horse on KTB Rating, the fastest on KTB Speed — settled against the result the next morning and never worked out again; “did not run” is counted apart. GB and Irish races only. A record of weeks so far: read it as a count, not a verdict.

Quick answers

What is Ben Coen's strike rate?
Ben Coen has won 293 of 2,892 rides since 2022, a strike rate of 10.1% (as at 31 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Ben Coen do best at?
Tipperary by strike rate: 15 wins from 71 rides (21.1%) since 2022. 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 Ben Coen ride most for?
J P Murtagh, with 1,369 rides since 2022 — 47% of the total. That pairing has won 182 (13.3%).
Is Ben Coen in form?
In the last 14 days: 26 rides, 4 winners, a strike rate of 15.4%. That is above the baseline of 10.1% since 2022.
What is Ben Coen's Fair A/E?
1.01, from 2,888 rides with a computed fair probability since 2022. 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.
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%". Three sample sizes are reported and never blended: runs (n), the ROI basis (n at SP), and the fair-A/E basis (n with a computed fair probability).

Strike rate is wins over all runs (n). ROI is £1 level stakes at SP over runs with a parseable price (n at SP). Fair A/E is wins over margin-stripped market expectation, over runs with a computed fair probability (n fair). The three Ns can legitimately differ and are always shown. Figures as at 31 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).