Blair Campbell
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 60 times a season, almost all over hurdles and fences, winning on 10% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.93). Riding last-time-out winners the record reads 21% (57 rides). Rode mostly for Lucinda Russell — 78% of rides in the window.
The record is strongest at Hexham (16.5%, n=79), clear of the rider's 10.3% baseline. It is weakest at Newcastle (2.8% over 36 rides) — the widest gap in the record. Rides on last-time-out winners have been a positive signal at 21.1% (n=57, Fair A/E 1.04), but rides in big fields of 14 or more have been a poor signal at 4.6% (n=65, Fair A/E 0.80). The market has consistently overbet horses returning fresh after 61+ days: 7.1% strike, Fair A/E 0.79 and −73.25 to a £1 stake over 140 rides — those runners underperformed what the price implied. Lucinda Russell supplied 78% of the rides and matches the rider's average almost exactly (11.8%, A/E 0.98) — the market has that partnership priced right. The record read poorly off a 8-14-day break — 2.5% over 40 rides, 7.8pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the rider off a break of 180+ days: Fair A/E 0.55 across 59 rides (5.1% strike, −43.25 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperformed what the price implied. The standout partner of the record was Mighty Thunder (GB) — 7 wins from 20 rides together. Seasonally, the rider fired Mar–Apr.
Riding patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 10.3% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 10.3% 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 baselineRecord by conditions
same window as headerRace type
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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, 2012→Sires of the horses ridden
progeny record · win % by ground and tripThe record
latest 50 of 601 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 601 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 8 March 2012 to 3 October 2021.
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 Blair Campbell's strike rate?
- Blair Campbell has won 62 of 601 rides since 2008, a strike rate of 10.3% (as at 22 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does Blair Campbell do best at?
- Hexham by strike rate: 13 wins from 79 rides (16.5%) 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 Blair Campbell ride most for?
- Lucinda Russell, with 468 rides since 2008 — 78% of the total. That pairing has won 55 (11.8%).
- What is Blair Campbell's Fair A/E?
- 0.93, from 600 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.