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Jockey profile

Billy Loughnane

4,670 rides in the last 5 seasons · 2,554 individual horses
As at 11 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last ride 4 days ago 100% of rides on the flat
from 1 Jan 2022
768–4,670
Wins / Runs
16.4%
Strike rate
n=4,670
1,856 (40%)
Placed
1.01
n=4,645 · 0.87 incl. margin
−872.86
£1 level stake
n=4,670 at SP · −18.7%
£13.7m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
19.9%
KTB Rider Profile

Rides around 930 times a season, almost all on the flat, winning on 16% 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 23% (661 rides).

Deterministic profile computed from 4,670 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 11 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Dec–Mar 36.6% when favourite George Boughey: 19.1% from 958 First rides: 16.9% LTO winners: 23.1% Rides the favourite in 20% of races
The read

It is weakest at Newmarket (8.9% over 135 rides) — the widest gap in the record. Rides on last-time-out winners have been a positive signal at 23.1% (n=661, Fair A/E 1.01), but rides in big fields of 14 or more have been a poor signal at 7.4% (n=378, Fair A/E 0.95). In Group and Graded company the record are the standout value angle: 14.9% strikes only just below baseline, but Fair A/E 1.22 and +51.98 to a £1 stake over 228 rides — a record the market has persistently underpriced. George Boughey supplies 21% of the rides and edges the rider's average (19.1% vs 16.4%, A/E 1.01) — the market has that partnership priced right. The rider also reads well off a 0-7-day break (24.1%, n=253). The record reads poorly in Class 2 — 10.2% over 413 rides, 6.2pts below the baseline. 34 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the rider has landed: the Visit Qatar Sussex Stakes at Goodwood (Jul 2026, £850,650). The standout partner of the record: Follow Your Heart (IRE) — 6 wins from 15 rides together. Seasonally, the rider fires Dec–Mar.

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

Riding patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 16.4% baseline
First ride on the horse · first captured pairing
16.9%+0.5
n=2,554 · A/E 1.04 · £1 −429.51
Last-time-out winners · previous run was a win
23.1%+6.7
n=661 · A/E 1.01 · £1 −153.13
Fresh horses · 61+ days off
15.3%−1.1
n=614 · A/E 1.05 · £1 −50.22
When favourite
36.6%
n=939 · A/E 1.05 · £1 −95.23
Claiming rides · riding with a claim
15.9%−0.5
n=580 · A/E 1.16 · £1 −108.60
Big fields · 14+ runners
7.4%−9.0
n=378 · A/E 0.95 · £1 −29.96
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
14.9%−1.5
n=228 · A/E 1.22 · £1 +51.98

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 16.4% 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 baseline
With Charlie Appleby 42.3% vs 16.4% · n=104
On last-time-out winners 23.1% vs 16.4% · n=661
Off a 0-7-day break 24.1% vs 16.4% · n=253
In Class 2 10.2% vs 16.4% · n=413
With Patrick Morris 5.9% vs 16.4% · n=34
At Newmarket 8.9% vs 16.4% · n=135
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
Standard (AW) 2,575 437 17% −481.61
Good to Firm 815 146 17.9% −22.58
Good 654 103 15.7% −142.61
Good to Soft 281 40 14.2% −100.70
Soft 270 29 10.7% −130.69
Heavy 61 9 14.8% +3.12
Firm 14 4 28.6% +2.21

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Wolverhampton (AW) 871 173 19.9% −42.15
Kempton (AW) 496 79 15.9% −91.49
Southwell (AW) 355 51 14.4% −125.31
Lingfield (AW) 326 48 14.7% −74.48
Newcastle (AW) 316 54 17.1% −99.07
Yarmouth 216 30 13.9% −45.05
Chelmsford (AW) 211 32 15.2% −49.11
Ascot 150 17 11.3% +59.34
Newmarket 135 12 8.9% −88.69
Newmarket 131 31 23.7% −14.26
Windsor 127 21 16.5% −39.14
Leicester 125 19 15.2% −46.13
Bath 117 19 16.2% −26.88
Doncaster 110 18 16.4% −34.80
Brighton 89 18 20.2% −14.50

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 5 1,322 239 18.1% −225.98
Class 6 1,284 202 15.7% −244.95
Class 4 1,024 178 17.4% −235.09
Class 2 413 42 10.2% −146.91
Class 3 396 73 18.4% −68.91
Class 1 228 34 14.9% +51.98

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 1,069 375 35.1% 1.05 −110.77
2nd–3rd fav 1,448 260 18% 1.02 −187.09
4th–6th fav 1,351 105 7.8% 0.91 −371.50
7th+ in betting 802 28 3.5% 0.92 −203.50
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
Ciotog (IRE) 21 2 8 2 Jun 26
King Of Speed (IRE) 20 3 10 17 Mar 26
Triggered (IRE) 18 3 7 29 Oct 25
Arcadian Nights (GB) 16 4 5 23 Oct 26
Starfighter (GB) 16 2 8 10 Mar 26
Oliver Show (IRE) 15 3 8 30 Aug 26
Giorgio M (IRE) 15 2 7 20 May 26
Follow Your Heart (IRE) 15 6 7 20 Dec 25
Percy Jones (GB) 14 3 5 2 Nov 26
Brasil Power (FR) 14 4 7 21 Oct 26
Rosy Affair (GB) 13 5 10 9 Aug 26
City Escape (IRE) 13 3 5 5 Apr 25
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 2,554 horses ridden in this window — each ran at least 7 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

Steady
5 from 36 13.9% · −2.5pts vs baseline
Last 14 days13.9%
5-season base16.4%
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
181818151214201815161321
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
21% of all rides
19.1% SR · A/E 1.01
TrainerRWSR£1
George Boughey 958 183 19.1% −165.47
Mark Loughnane 493 65 13.2% −15.98
Ian Williams 210 39 18.6% −46.86
Charlie Johnston 207 24 11.6% −107.39
Charlie Appleby 104 44 42.3% −5.20
Richard Hughes 89 15 16.9% −17.48
Ed Dunlop 86 12 14% −28.88
Charles Hills 72 8 11.1% −40.05
Ed Walker 69 10 14.5% +3.40
Michael Appleby 64 6 9.4% −45.04
Daniel & Claire Kubler 53 10 18.9% −19.78
Ollie Sangster 52 11 21.2% −2.20
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2022→
768
Archived wins
34
Pattern / graded wins
£13.7m
Prize money
2026
Best season · 245 wins
Bow Echo (IRE) — Visit Qatar Sussex Stakes (Group 1) Goodwood · Jul 2026 · Group 1
£850,650
Comanche Brave (IRE) — Al Basti Equiworld, Dubai July Cup Stakes (Group 1) Newmarket · Jul 2026 · Group 1
£453,680
Bow Echo (IRE) — St James's Palace Stakes (Group 1) (Rnd) Ascot · Jun 2026 · Group 1
£396,970

Sires of the horses ridden

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Dark Angel (IRE) 16.1% · 19–118
Progeny have won 11.3% of 21,953 runs since 2011 (1,596 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 15% from 107.
Starspangledbanner (AUS) 20% · 23–115
Progeny have won 11.1% of 7,230 runs since 2014 (664 horses). Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 14.6% from 1,199.
Mehmas (IRE) 15.8% · 18–114
Progeny have won 11.5% of 8,239 runs since 2020 (755 horses).
Blue Point (IRE) 19.8% · 20–101
Progeny have won 14% of 3,454 runs since 2023 (419 horses). Weakest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 10.4% from 212.
Kodiac (GB) 14.9% · 15–101
Progeny have won 10.4% of 23,604 runs since 2010 (1,666 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 14.3% from 147. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 7.1% from 254.
Dandy Man (IRE) 16.3% · 16–98
Progeny have won 9.1% of 14,989 runs since 2013 (930 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 5.3% from 171.
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 11 Nov 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 4,670 · newest first

The latest 50 of 4,670 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 24 October 2022 to 7 November 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
04 Nov 26 Kempton (AW) El Ghanema (IRE)T: Roger Varian Unibet/British EBF Fillies' Novice Stakes (Div II) (GBB/GBBPlus Race)Class 3 · 8f · Standard / Slow · 12 ran 4th 9/4

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 5 Oct 2026: the KTB Selection in 31 runs (won 10, 1 did not run) · top-rated on KTB Rating in 33 runs (won 8, 2 did not run) · fastest on KTB Speed in 19 runs (won 6, 2 did not run) · to 7 Nov 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 Billy Loughnane's strike rate?
Billy Loughnane has won 768 of 4,670 rides since 2022, a strike rate of 16.4% (as at 11 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Billy Loughnane do best at?
Newmarket by strike rate: 31 wins from 131 rides (23.7%) 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 Billy Loughnane ride most for?
George Boughey, with 958 rides since 2022 — 21% of the total. That pairing has won 183 (19.1%).
Is Billy Loughnane in form?
In the last 14 days: 36 rides, 5 winners, a strike rate of 13.9%. That is in line with the baseline of 16.4% since 2022.
What is Billy Loughnane's Fair A/E?
1.01, from 4,645 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 11 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).