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Jockey profile

Callum Shepherd

2,861 rides in the last 5 seasons · 1,642 individual horses
As at 20 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last ride yesterday 100% of rides on the flat
from 1 Jan 2022
319–2,861
Wins / Runs
11.1%
Strike rate
n=2,861
880 (31%)
Placed
0.99
n=2,849 · 0.85 incl. margin
−724.24
£1 level stake
n=2,861 at SP · −25.3%
£5.18m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
10%
KTB Rider Profile

Rides around 570 times a season, almost all on the flat, winning on 11% of them — level with the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 0.99). Riding last-time-out winners the record reads 18% (317 rides).

Deterministic profile computed from 2,861 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 20 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Dec–Feb 36.2% when favourite George Scott: 15.3% from 307 LTO winners: 18.3% Rides the favourite in 10% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Lingfield (20.9%, n=43) and Epsom Downs (20%, n=30) — all clear of the rider's 11.1% baseline. Rides on last-time-out winners have been a positive signal at 18.3% (n=317, Fair A/E 1.00), but rides in big fields of 14 or more have been a poor signal at 6.1% (n=246, Fair A/E 0.94). In Group and Graded company the record are the standout value angle: 11.1% strikes only just above baseline, but Fair A/E 1.34 and +33.10 to a £1 stake over 126 rides — a record the market has persistently underpriced. George Scott supplies 11% of the rides and edges the rider's average (15.3% vs 11.1%, A/E 1.07) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. 18 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the rider has landed: the Hardwicke Stakes at Ascot (Jun 2024, £141,775). The standout partner of the record: Aramis Grey (IRE) — 7 wins from 36 rides together. Seasonally, the rider fires Dec–Feb.

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

Riding patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 11.1% baseline
First ride on the horse · first captured pairing
10%−1.1
n=1,537 · A/E 1.01 · £1 −467.87
Last-time-out winners · previous run was a win
18.3%+7.2
n=317 · A/E 1.00 · £1 −42.35
Fresh horses · 61+ days off
10.2%−0.9
n=490 · A/E 1.09 · £1 −75.32
When favourite
36.2%
n=287 · A/E 1.13 · £1 −2.60
Big fields · 14+ runners
6.1%−5.0
n=246 · A/E 0.94 · £1 −109.67
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
11.1%+0.0
n=126 · A/E 1.34 · £1 +33.10

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 11.1% 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
With Rae Guest 23.7% vs 11.1% · n=114
On last-time-out winners 18.3% vs 11.1% · n=317
At Lingfield 20.9% vs 11.1% · n=43
With headgear back on 2.9% vs 11.1% · n=70
With Stuart Williams 2.3% vs 11.1% · n=43
At Epsom Downs 20% vs 11.1% · n=30
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) 1,503 177 11.8% −292.90
Good 516 62 12% −96.72
Good to Firm 461 43 9.3% −148.65
Good to Soft 164 14 8.5% −95.89
Soft 153 15 9.8% −65.15
Heavy 46 5 10.9% −15.00
Firm 18 3 16.7% −9.93

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Wolverhampton (AW) 359 47 13.1% −73.03
Kempton (AW) 341 24 7% −141.13
Southwell (AW) 255 32 12.5% −56.58
Lingfield (AW) 234 30 12.8% −49.33
Chelmsford City (AW) 227 35 15.4% +36.22
Yarmouth 149 20 13.4% −38.00
Windsor 131 15 11.5% −39.79
Newcastle (AW) 86 9 10.5% −8.05
Ascot 82 7 8.5% −31.25
Newmarket 79 6 7.6% +5.75
Newmarket 77 5 6.5% −30.38
Doncaster 76 6 7.9% −27.80
Bath 70 11 15.7% −15.50
Goodwood 68 5 7.4% −42.25
Sandown 62 6 9.7% −36.50

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 5 849 94 11.1% −303.20
Class 6 726 98 13.5% −68.15
Class 4 661 73 11% −158.20
Class 2 253 16 6.3% −122.87
Class 3 243 24 9.9% −101.92
Class 1 126 14 11.1% +33.10

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 329 114 34.7% 1.14 −1.39
2nd–3rd fav 689 111 16.1% 0.92 −157.18
4th–6th fav 930 73 7.8% 0.99 −130.67
7th+ in betting 913 21 2.3% 0.73 −435.00
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
Aramis Grey (IRE) 27 4 18 26 Jun 25
Tiger Crusade (FR) 19 3 3 9 Apr 26
Checkandchallenge (GB) 15 1 5 26 Sep 26
Masterclass (GB) 15 2 8 9 Apr 24
Holy Fire (GB) 14 2 5 25 Feb 26
Moulin Booj (IRE) 13 2 7 20 Mar 26
Lhebayeb (GER) 13 3 7 12 Jan 26
Charlatan (IRE) 13 5 8 6 Jan 26
Essme (GB) 12 0 6 14 Jan 24
Caballo De Mar (IRE) 11 5 9 6 Sep 25
City Of York (GB) 10 2 2 13 Dec 25
The Feminine Urge (IRE) 10 2 3 13 Aug 25
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 1,642 horses ridden in this window — each ran at least 5 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
3 from 36 8.3% · −2.8pts vs baseline
Last 14 days8.3%
5-season base11.1%
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
131711989141111131213
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 yardGeorge Scott
11% of all rides
15.3% SR · A/E 1.07
TrainerRWSR£1
George Scott 307 47 15.3% −54.75
David Simcock 264 40 15.2% −31.50
Charlie Johnston 175 22 12.6% −20.75
Charlie Fellowes 168 14 8.3% −81.06
Michael Bell 146 17 11.6% −61.42
William Knight 134 16 11.9% −36.09
Rae Guest 114 27 23.7% +31.15
George Boughey 83 7 8.4% −41.38
Stella Barclay 65 8 12.3% −3.02
Jamie Osborne 52 3 5.8% −1.50
James Fanshawe 52 4 7.7% −28.92
Simon & Ed Crisford 51 7 13.7% −28.33
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2014→
677
Archived wins
18
Pattern / graded wins
£8.23m
Prize money
2024
Best season · 87 wins
Isle Of Jura (GB) — Hardwicke Stakes (Group 2) Ascot · Jun 2024 · Group 2
£141,775
Bay City Roller (IRE) — Betfred Champagne Stakes (Group 2) Doncaster · Sep 2024 · Group 2
£88,800
Quddwah (GB) — Anne Cowley Memorial Summer Mile Stakes (Group 2) (Rnd) Ascot · Jul 2024 · Group 2
£79,394

Sires of the horses ridden

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Kodiac (GB) 5.7% · 4–70
Progeny have won 10.4% of 23,534 runs since 2008 (1,665 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 14.3% from 147. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 7.1% from 252.
Lope De Vega (IRE) 11.3% · 7–62
Progeny have won 13.8% of 12,150 runs since 2008 (1,099 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 9.3% from 953.
Dandy Man (IRE) 7% · 4–57
Progeny have won 9.1% of 14,917 runs since 2008 (930 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 5.3% from 170.
No Nay Never (USA) 13.5% · 7–52
Progeny have won 12.1% of 6,307 runs since 2008 (704 horses). Weakest on Good to Soft going: 9% from 612. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 7.6% from 185.
Showcasing (GB) 9.6% · 5–52
Progeny have won 10.1% of 11,577 runs since 2008 (996 horses). Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 5.6% from 108.
Bated Breath (GB) 11.8% · 6–51
Progeny have won 10.8% of 8,128 runs since 2008 (669 horses). Weakest on Soft going: 7.7% from 843.
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 20 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 6,309 · newest first

The latest 50 of 6,309 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 27 February 2014 to 19 October 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
16 Oct 26 Redcar Folkene (FR)T: Roger Fell racingtv.com Handicap StakesClass 6 · 7f · Good · 18 ran 17th 14/1
14 Oct 26 Nottingham Lone Warrior (IRE)T: George Scott EBF Maiden Stakes (GBB Race)Class 4 · 8.5f · Good To Soft · 14 ran 3rd 13/8F
12 Oct 26 Yarmouth Potters Prince (GB)T: Matt Crawley Moulton Racing Club Handicap StakesClass 6 · 8f · Good To Soft · 12 ran 1st 5/2F
12 Oct 26 Yarmouth Raffles Angel (GB)T: Jack Jones First Furnishings Handicap StakesClass 5 · 6f · Good To Soft · 13 ran 12th 13/2
12 Oct 26 Yarmouth Koffee And Kale (GB)T: Michael Bell Quinnbet Handicap StakesClass 5 · 5f · Good To Soft · 7 ran 2nd 5/2

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 Callum Shepherd's strike rate?
Callum Shepherd has won 319 of 2,861 rides since 2022, a strike rate of 11.1% (as at 20 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Callum Shepherd do best at?
Bath by strike rate: 11 wins from 70 rides (15.7%) 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 Callum Shepherd ride most for?
George Scott, with 307 rides since 2022 — 11% of the total. That pairing has won 47 (15.3%).
Is Callum Shepherd in form?
In the last 14 days: 36 rides, 3 winners, a strike rate of 8.3%. That is in line with the baseline of 11.1% since 2022.
What is Callum Shepherd's Fair A/E?
0.99, from 2,849 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 20 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).