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Jockey profile

Damien Devesse

124 rides in the lifetime window · 77 individual horses
As at 6 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last ride May 2016 99% of rides over jumps
No rides in the last 5 seasons — showing the lifetime record, from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it.
4–124
Wins / Runs
3.2%
Strike rate
n=124
16 (13%)
Placed
0.69
n=111 · 0.58 incl. margin
−54.60
£1 level stake
n=114 at SP · −47.9%
£208k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%
KTB Rider Profile

Rode around 20 times a season, almost all over hurdles and fences, winning on 3% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.69). When claiming the record reads 7% (54 rides).

Deterministic profile computed from 124 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 6 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance First rides: 5.2% Claiming: 7.4%

Riding patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 3.2% baseline
First ride on the horse · first captured pairing
5.2%+2.0
n=77 · A/E 1.37 · £1 −9.60
Last-time-out winners · previous run was a win
0%−3.2
n=3 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −3.00
Fresh horses · 61+ days off
3.2%+0.0
n=31 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −27.00
When favourite
0%
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00
Claiming rides · riding with a claim
7.4%+4.2
n=54 · A/E 1.19 · £1 +10.40
Big fields · 14+ runners
3.3%+0.1
n=61 · A/E 0.97 · £1 −44.60
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−3.2
n=10 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −9.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 3.2% 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
When claiming 7.4% vs 3.2% · n=54
With horses switching code 0% vs 3.2% · n=32
On first rides for the horse 5.2% vs 3.2% · n=77
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

Race type

TypeRWSR£1
Hurdle 95 3 3.2% −70.60
Chase 28 1 3.6% +17.00
Flat 1 0 0% −1.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Soft 78 3 3.8% −12.60
Heavy 43 1 2.3% −40.00
Good to Soft 1 0 0% −1.00
Good 1 0 0% −1.00
Standard (AW) 1 0 0% —

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Auteuil (FR) 65 2 3.1% −15.00
Enghien (FR) 51 2 3.9% −34.60
Pau (FR) 1 0 0% −1.00
Lyon Parilly (FR) 1 0 0% —
Strasbourg 1 0 0% −1.00
Moulins 1 0 0% −1.00
Aix-Les-Bains 1 0 0% —
Fontainebleau 1 0 0% −1.00
Saint-Cloud (FR) 1 0 0% −1.00
Compiegne 1 0 0% —

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 10 0 0% −9.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 1 0 0% 0.00 −1.00
2nd–3rd fav 8 1 12.5% 1.10 −2.60
4th–6th fav 19 1 5.3% 0.76 −8.00
7th+ in betting 86 1 1.2% 0.57 −43.00
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.

Jumping record

completion over obstacles · same window as header
66.7% completed · 123 obstacle rides (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 28 67.9% 1 0 7 0 1
Hurdle 95 66.3% 5 0 24 0 3
Chases and hurdles only — bumpers have no obstacles, so completion is not a question there. F fell · UR unseated rider · PU pulled up · BD brought down · Oth covers refusals, slip-ups, run-outs and the rare disqualification. Non-runners are excluded throughout. Rows under n=30 are shown faded. A descriptive record, not a tip.

Horses ridden

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Zimbar (FR) 7 0 1 21 Jun 12
Valentina Girl (FR) 6 0 2 23 Mar 11
Singapore Sling (FR) 4 0 1 15 May 12
Snalo De Glanville (FR) 4 0 0 13 May 11
Guillie (FR) 3 0 0 12 Nov 14
Alpagueur (FR) 3 0 0 30 Nov 12
Khalini (FR) 3 0 0 14 Nov 12
Prince Lim (FR) 3 1 1 5 Mar 12
One Lucky (FR) 3 0 0 2 Dec 11
Calyne Club (FR) 2 0 1 27 Apr 16
Adios Clemento (FR) 2 0 0 5 Apr 16
Queenly Julia (FR) 2 0 0 29 Apr 14
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 77 horses ridden in this window — each ran at least 1 time. 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.

By month

strike by month, lifetime
JFMAMJJASOND
006007·00640
A jumps rider: the season runs Oct–Apr. Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Riding for

same window · biggest samples first
TrainerRWSR£1
J Bertran De Balanda 24 1 4.2% −18.00
A Bonin 15 0 0% −14.00
J Clais 12 0 0% −12.00
L Metais 11 1 9.1% +32.00
J-L Gay 8 0 0% −8.00
Mme P Butel 7 2 28.6% +10.40
C Gourdain 5 0 0% −5.00
Mme T Devesse 5 0 0% −5.00
A Le Duff 4 0 0% −3.00
Mlle S Sine 4 0 0% −4.00
Y Gourraud 4 0 0% −4.00
L Ferard 4 0 0% −4.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2009→
4
Archived wins
£208k
Prize money
2012
Best season · 1 win
Calizzano (FR) — Prix le Pontet (Hurdle) Auteuil (FR) · Nov 2009
£21,437
Val Heureux (FR) — Prix Ouistreham (Chase) (Claimer) (4yo) (Turf) Auteuil (FR) · Jun 2010
£9,345
Enrijack (FR) — Prix De Borely (Hurdle) (Claimer) (4yo Colts & Geldings) (Turf) Enghien (FR) · Mar 2012
£9,200

Sires of the horses ridden

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Martaline (GB) 0% · 0–9
Progeny have won 14.2% of 7,347 runs since 2008 (723 horses). Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 9.4% from 128. Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 10% from 120.
Astarabad (USA) 0% · 0–7
Progeny have won 13.2% of 1,601 runs since 2008 (162 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 18.3% from 377.
Bernebeau (FR) 0% · 0–7
Progeny have won 10% of 771 runs since 2008 (78 horses).
Limnos (JPN) 20% · 1–5
Progeny have won 7.9% of 619 runs since 2008 (75 horses).
Goldneyev (USA) 0% · 0–4
Progeny have won 14% of 767 runs since 2008 (116 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 18% from 183. Strongest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 19.5% from 118.
Muhtathir (GB) 0% · 0–4
Progeny have won 11.3% of 4,719 runs since 2008 (494 horses). Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 7.9% from 967.
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 6 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 124 · newest first

The latest 50 of 124 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 24 February 2009 to 23 May 2016.

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).

Quick answers

What is Damien Devesse's strike rate?
Damien Devesse has won 4 of 124 rides since 2008, a strike rate of 3.2% (as at 6 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Damien Devesse do best at?
Enghien (FR) by strike rate: 2 wins from 51 rides (3.9%) 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.
What is Damien Devesse's Fair A/E?
0.69, from 111 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.
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 6 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).