David Fournier
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 10 times a season, almost all on the flat, winning on 6% of them. Rode mostly for N Leenders — 56% of rides in the window.
It is weakest at Deauville (FR) (2.9% over 69 rides) — the largest sample in the record, and the widest gap. Rides in big fields of 14 or more have been a poor signal at 2.9% (n=68, Fair A/E 0.63). N Leenders supplied 56% of the rides and edges the rider's average (8.8% vs 5.9%, A/E 0.92). The rider also read well over 1m2f – 1m4f (13.6%, n=44). The record read poorly over 1m – 1m1f — 0% over 31 rides, 5.9pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the rider on Standard (AW) going: Fair A/E 0.66 across 69 rides (2.9% strike, −14.00 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperformed what the price implied.
Riding patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 5.9% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 5.9% 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
Courses
Market position
Distance
By season
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, 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 104 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 104 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 4 April 2005 to 13 July 2014.
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 David Fournier's strike rate?
- David Fournier has won 6 of 101 rides since 2008, a strike rate of 5.9% (as at 6 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does David Fournier do best at?
- Deauville (FR) by strike rate: 2 wins from 69 rides (2.9%) 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.
- Which yard does David Fournier ride most for?
- N Leenders, with 57 rides since 2008 — 56% of the total. That pairing has won 5 (8.8%).
- What is David Fournier's Fair A/E?
- 0.55, from 80 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.