David Allan
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 650 times a season, almost all on the flat, winning on 11% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 0.93). Riding last-time-out winners the record reads 14% (304 rides). Rides mostly for Tim Easterby — 81% of rides in the window.
The record is strongest at Southwell (AW) (17.6%, n=159), clear of the rider's 10.7% baseline. It is weakest at York (2.1% over 189 rides) — the widest gap in the record. Rides on last-time-out winners have been a positive signal at 14.1% (n=304, Fair A/E 0.87), but rides in big fields of 14 or more have been a poor signal at 5.1% (n=453, Fair A/E 0.70). The market has consistently overbet horses returning fresh after 61+ days: 5.5% strike, Fair A/E 0.68 and −178.92 to a £1 stake over 345 rides — those runners underperform what the price implies. Tim Easterby supplies 81% of the rides and matches the rider's average almost exactly (10.7%, A/E 0.90). The record reads poorly off a break of 180+ days — 4.4% over 180 rides, 6.3pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the rider in Class 2: Fair A/E 0.60 across 229 rides (4.8% strike, −159.99 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperform what the price implies. 42 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the rider has landed: the Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes at Ascot (Oct 2023, £283,550). The standout partner of the record: Garden Oasis (GB) — 11 wins from 51 rides together.
Riding patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 10.7% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 10.7% 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 baselineRecord by conditions
same window as headerGoing
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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 firstCurrent form
significance-gatedLast 14 days
SteadyBy 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 12,507 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 12,507 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 2 January 2005 to 4 November 2026.
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).
KTB’s figures
the forward record · since 5 Oct 2026KTB’s figures on this rider’s mounts since 8 Oct 2026: the KTB Selection in 6 runs (won 2) · top-rated on KTB Rating in 8 runs (won 2) · fastest on KTB Speed in 2 runs (won 2) · to 4 Nov 2026.
Each pick was a KTB figure’s choice before the off — the published KTB Selection, the top-rated horse on KTB Rating, the fastest on KTB Speed — settled against the result the next morning and never worked out again; “did not run” is counted apart. GB and Irish races only. A record of weeks so far: read it as a count, not a verdict.
Quick answers
- What is David Allan's strike rate?
- David Allan has won 345 of 3,238 rides since 2022, a strike rate of 10.7% (as at 5 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does David Allan do best at?
- Southwell (AW) by strike rate: 28 wins from 159 rides (17.6%) 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 David Allan ride most for?
- Tim Easterby, with 2,620 rides since 2022 — 81% of the total. That pairing has won 280 (10.7%).
- Is David Allan in form?
- In the last 14 days: 39 rides, 5 winners, a strike rate of 12.8%. That is in line with the baseline of 10.7% since 2022.
- What is David Allan's Fair A/E?
- 0.93, from 3,218 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.