Dane O'Neill
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%".
Rides around 70 times a season, almost all on the flat, winning on 14% of them — beating the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 1.27). Riding last-time-out winners the record reads 41% (32 rides).
Rides on last-time-out winners have been a positive signal at 40.6% (n=32, Fair A/E 2.34), but rides in big fields of 14 or more have been a poor signal at 4.9% (n=41, Fair A/E 0.97). Henry Candy supplies 23% of the rides and matches the rider's average almost exactly (12.9%, A/E 1.27) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The rider also reads well at trips under 6f (30%, n=30) and off a 8-14-day break (24.4%, n=45). The market has also underrated the rider in Class 6: Fair A/E 1.81 across 58 rides (20.7% strike, +7.56 to a £1 stake). 54 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the rider has landed: the Commonwealth Cup at Ascot (Jun 2015, £229,854). The standout partner of the record: La Estrella (USA) — 13 wins from 19 rides together. Seasonally, the rider fires May–Jul.
Riding patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 14.2% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 14.2% 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
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Handicaps
Field size
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 firstBy month
strike by month, 5 seasonsRiding for
same window · biggest samples firstCareer highlights
lifetime archive, 2005→Sires of the horses ridden
progeny record · win % by ground and tripThe record
latest 50 of 10,540 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 10,540 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 3 January 2005 to 10 July 2023.
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 Dane O'Neill's strike rate?
- Dane O'Neill has won 52 of 366 rides since 2022, a strike rate of 14.2% (as at 22 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does Dane O'Neill do best at?
- Kempton (AW) by strike rate: 3 wins from 39 rides (7.7%) 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 Dane O'Neill ride most for?
- Henry Candy, with 85 rides since 2022 — 23% of the total. That pairing has won 11 (12.9%).
- What is Dane O'Neill's Fair A/E?
- 1.27, from 366 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.