Darryll Holland
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 280 times a season, almost all on the flat, winning on 12% of them — beating the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 1.04). Riding last-time-out winners the record reads 17% (267 rides).
The record is strongest at Southwell (AW) (22%, n=91) and Brighton (20.3%, n=79) — all clear of the rider's 11.5% baseline. It is weakest at York (0% over 49 rides) — the widest gap in the record. Rides on last-time-out winners have been a positive signal at 16.5% (n=267, Fair A/E 1.10), but in Group and Graded company the record reads poorly at 5.4% (n=202, Fair A/E 0.66). Mick Channon supplied 9% of the rides and matches the rider's average almost exactly (13%, A/E 0.98) — the market has that partnership priced right. The rider also read well on Firm going (19.7%, n=66). The record read poorly in Class 1 — 5.4% over 202 rides, 6.1pts below the baseline. 35 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the rider has landed: the Meon Valley Fillies' Mile at Ascot (Sep 2006, £134,324). The standout partner of the record was Almaty Express (GB) — 6 wins from 21 rides together.
Riding patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 11.5% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 11.5% 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
Going
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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.
Horses ridden
same window as header · most-raced firstBy month
strike by month, lifetimeRiding 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 4,677 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 4,677 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 18 March 2005 to 29 September 2016.
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 Darryll Holland's strike rate?
- Darryll Holland has won 288 of 2,506 rides since 2008, a strike rate of 11.5% (as at 28 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does Darryll Holland do best at?
- Southwell (AW) by strike rate: 20 wins from 91 rides (22%) 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 Darryll Holland ride most for?
- Mick Channon, with 231 rides since 2008 — 9% of the total. That pairing has won 30 (13%).
- What is Darryll Holland's Fair A/E?
- 1.04, from 2,488 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.