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Gemma Elford

36 rides in the lifetime window · 27 individual horses
As at 6 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last ride Apr 2011 100% of rides on the flat
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.
2–36
Wins / Runs
5.6%
Strike rate
n=36
2 (6%)
Placed
1.35
n=36 · 1.14 incl. margin
−18.50
£1 level stake
n=36 at SP · −51.4%
£4,508
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%
KTB at a glance Claiming: 6.5%

Riding patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 5.6% baseline
First ride on the horse · first captured pairing
3.7%−1.9
n=27 · A/E 1.00 · £1 −18.00
Last-time-out winners · previous run was a win
50%+44.4
n=2 · A/E 4.33 · £1 +6.50
Fresh horses · 61+ days off
0%−5.6
n=3 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −3.00
Claiming rides · riding with a claim
6.5%+0.9
n=31 · A/E 1.62 · £1 −13.50
Big fields · 14+ runners
11.1%+5.5
n=9 · A/E 2.94 · £1 +0.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 5.6% 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.

Record by conditions

same window as header

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 12 0 0% −12.00
Good to Firm 10 2 20% +7.50
Good 7 0 0% −7.00
Firm 3 0 0% −3.00
Good to Soft 3 0 0% −3.00
Soft 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Kempton (AW) 6 0 0% −6.00
Brighton 4 1 25% +4.50
Haydock 3 0 0% −3.00
Bath 3 0 0% −3.00
Salisbury 3 0 0% −3.00
Southwell (AW) 2 0 0% −2.00
Chelmsford (AW) 2 0 0% −2.00
Warwick 2 1 50% +7.00
Beverley 1 0 0% −1.00
Wolverhampton (AW) 1 0 0% −1.00
Catterick 1 0 0% −1.00
Ripon 1 0 0% −1.00
Redcar 1 0 0% −1.00
Chepstow 1 0 0% −1.00
Folkestone 1 0 0% −1.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 6 22 2 9.1% −4.50
Class 5 10 0 0% −10.00
Class 4 2 0 0% −2.00
Class 7 2 0 0% −2.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
2nd–3rd fav 3 1 33.3% 3.04 +6.00
4th–6th fav 10 1 10% 1.66 −1.50
7th+ in betting 23 0 0% 0.00 −23.00
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.

Horses ridden

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Annes Rocket (IRE) 4 2 2 5 Jul 09
Novillero (GB) 3 0 0 13 Apr 11
Lopinot (IRE) 3 0 0 10 Jun 09
Treetops Hotel (IRE) 2 0 0 20 Jun 09
Who's Winning (IRE) 2 0 0 18 May 09
Marron Flore (GB) 1 0 0 17 Feb 11
Dynamo Dave (USA) 1 0 0 24 Jun 09
Tricky Trev (USA) 1 0 0 23 Jun 09
Royal Fantasy (IRE) 1 0 0 20 Jun 09
My Jeanie (IRE) 1 0 0 18 Jun 09
Foreign Rhythm (IRE) 1 0 0 17 Jun 09
Second To Nun (IRE) 1 0 0 14 Jun 09
All 27 horses ridden in this window. 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
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A flat rider: the season runs Mar–Oct. Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Riding for

same window · biggest samples first
TrainerRWSR£1
Jimmy Fox 11 2 18.2% +6.50
Martin Bosley 6 0 0% −6.00
Brian Meehan 3 0 0% −3.00
Mark Usher 2 0 0% −2.00
Brendan Powell 2 0 0% −2.00
Lee James 2 0 0% −2.00
Nigel Tinkler 2 0 0% −2.00
William de Best-Turner 1 0 0% −1.00
Jean-Rene Auvray 1 0 0% −1.00
Alastair Lidderdale 1 0 0% −1.00
Sean Curran 1 0 0% −1.00
S W Hall 1 0 0% −1.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2007→
2
Archived wins
£4,508
Prize money
2009
Best season · 2 wins
This card is the full archive census (2005→); the statistics in the header aggregate from 2008 — the floor that guarantees every horse a complete captured career — so this card can legitimately show more wins than the header.
Annes Rocket (IRE) — Play Blackjack At Totesportcasino.com Handicap Brighton · May 2009 · Class 6
£2,461
Annes Rocket (IRE) — Knowle Apprentice Handicap Warwick · May 2009 · Class 6
£2,047
Notable horses

Sires of the horses ridden

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Fasliyev (USA) 50% · 2–4
Progeny have won 8.3% of 4,140 runs since 2008 (273 horses). Strongest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 12.1% from 124.
Noverre (USA) 0% · 0–3
Progeny have won 10.7% of 3,831 runs since 2008 (235 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 13.7% from 803. Weakest on Soft going: 6.9% from 407.
Pursuit of Love (GB) 0% · 0–3
Progeny have won 6.7% of 929 runs since 2008 (74 horses).
Docksider (USA) 0% · 0–2
Progeny have won 7.6% of 569 runs since 2008 (42 horses). Strongest on Good going: 13% from 123.
Grand Lodge (USA) 0% · 0–2
Progeny have won 8.3% of 1,359 runs since 2008 (104 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 11.6% from 250. Weakest on Soft going: 4.4% from 182.
Bien Bien (USA) 0% · 0–1
Progeny have won 12.8% of 180 runs since 2008 (16 horses).
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

all 38 archived runs · newest first

Every one of Gemma Elford's 38 archived rides, from 28 November 2007 to 13 April 2011, newest first — 2 winners among them.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
04 Mar 11 Wolverhampton (AW) Novillero (GB)T: Jimmy Fox atrpokerclub.com HandicapClass 7 · 9.5f · Standard · 13 ran 10th 66/1
16 Feb 11 Kempton (AW) Novillero (GB)T: Jimmy Fox kempton.co.uk Apprentice HandicapClass 7 · 10f · Standard · 14 ran 10th 40/1
05 Jul 09 Brighton Annes Rocket (IRE)T: Jimmy Fox Argus HandicapClass 6 · 8f · Firm · 10 ran 8th 8/1
24 Jun 09 Bath Dynamo Dave (USA)T: Mark Usher Bathwick Tyres Bridgend HandicapClass 6 · 10f · Firm · 7 ran 6th 40/1
23 Jun 09 Beverley Tricky Trev (USA)T: Sean Curran 'hands And Heels' Apprentice HandicapClass 6 · 5f · Good To Firm · 14 ran 12th 22/1
18 Jun 09 Warwick My Jeanie (IRE)T: Jimmy Fox Turftv Apprentice HandicapClass 6 · 8f · Good · 14 ran 11th 12/1
09 Jun 09 Salisbury Kilmeena Dream (GB)T: Jimmy Fox Bathwick Tyres Claiming StakesClass 5 · 7f · Good To Firm · 14 ran 14th 200/1
27 May 09 Lingfield (AW) Lopinot (IRE)T: Martin Bosley Eriskay Pony HandicapClass 4 · 8f · Standard · 9 ran 8th 33/1
18 May 09 Bath Who's Winning (IRE)T: Brendan Powell R&R Ices HandicapClass 5 · 5.5f · Good To Soft · 10 ran 6th 20/1

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 Gemma Elford's strike rate?
Gemma Elford has won 2 of 36 rides since 2008, a strike rate of 5.6% (as at 6 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
What is Gemma Elford's Fair A/E?
1.35, from 36 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).