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Jockey profile

Gianluca Sanna

201 rides in the last 5 seasons · 92 individual horses
As at 12 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last ride 49 days ago 100% of rides on the flat
from 1 Jan 2022
12–201
Wins / Runs
6%
Strike rate
n=201
50 (25%)
Placed
0.71
n=201 · 0.61 incl. margin
−81.51
£1 level stake
n=201 at SP · −40.6%
£130k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%
KTB Rider Profile

Rides around 40 times a season, almost all on the flat, winning on 6% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 0.71). The edge shows sharpest with horses returning fresh: 12% off breaks of two months or more (41 runs).

Deterministic profile computed from 201 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 12 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance Fresh horses: 12.2% First rides: 10.4%
The read

It is weakest at Newcastle (AW) (2.4% over 42 rides) — the largest sample in the record, and the widest gap. Horses returning fresh after 61+ days have been a positive signal at 12.2% (n=41, Fair A/E 2.01). The market has consistently overbet claiming rides: 5.9% strike, Fair A/E 0.69 and −80.51 to a £1 stake over 185 rides — those runners underperform what the price implies. The rider also reads well on Good going (10%, n=40). The record reads poorly off a 15-30-day break — 1.3% over 77 rides, 4.7pts below the baseline.

Written from the figures on this page — every claim carries its sample. Descriptive, not a tip.

Riding patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 6% baseline
First ride on the horse · first captured pairing
10.4%+4.4
n=77 · A/E 1.51 · £1 +12.16
Last-time-out winners · previous run was a win
11.8%+5.8
n=17 · A/E 0.69 · £1 −5.17
Fresh horses · 61+ days off
12.2%+6.2
n=41 · A/E 2.01 · £1 −5.59
When favourite
40%
n=5 · A/E 1.21 · £1 +0.16
Claiming rides · riding with a claim
5.9%−0.1
n=185 · A/E 0.69 · £1 −80.51
Big fields · 14+ runners
0%−6.0
n=14 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −14.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 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.

Notable angles

vs their own baseline
Off a 15-30-day break 1.3% vs 6% · n=77
On first rides for the horse 10.4% vs 6% · n=77
On Good going 10% vs 6% · n=40
At Newcastle (AW) 2.4% vs 6% · n=42
On Good to Firm going 2.9% vs 6% · n=35
Off a 31-60-day break 8.3% vs 6% · n=36
Descriptive splits ranked by divergence × sample — insight, not instruction. Every angle carries its N; nothing under 30 runs qualifies. Rows within 2pts of the baseline appear only when the market-relative read (Fair A/E) diverges, and show it.

Record by conditions

same window as header

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 85 4 4.7% −46.09
Good 40 4 10% −6.75
Good to Firm 35 1 2.9% −20.00
Good to Soft 24 1 4.2% −11.00
Soft 15 1 6.7% +0.00
Heavy 2 1 50% +2.33

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Newcastle (AW) 42 1 2.4% −34.50
Southwell (AW) 27 2 7.4% +2.50
Doncaster 17 1 5.9% −4.00
Thirsk 15 1 6.7% −11.75
Ayr 11 1 9.1% −3.50
Redcar 11 0 0% −11.00
Wolverhampton (AW) 10 1 10% −8.09
Ripon 9 1 11.1% −3.50
Carlisle 9 1 11.1% +6.00
Haydock 8 1 12.5% +7.00
Catterick 6 2 33.3% +15.33
Musselburgh 6 0 0% −6.00
Beverley 6 0 0% −6.00
Chelmsford City (AW) 5 0 0% −5.00
Pontefract 4 0 0% −4.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 6 85 5 5.9% −30.59
Class 5 81 5 6.2% −24.67
Class 4 27 1 3.7% −21.50
Class 2 4 0 0% −4.00
Class 3 4 1 25% −0.75

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 10 2 20% 0.71 −4.84
2nd–3rd fav 37 3 8.1% 0.51 −20.67
4th–6th fav 63 5 7.9% 1.01 −3.00
7th+ in betting 91 2 2.2% 0.63 −53.00
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
Renewable Dream (GB) 13 0 4 24 Sep 26
Kalikapour (IRE) 12 1 3 25 Jun 26
One More Dream (GB) 7 1 3 22 Mar 24
Eco Power Boy (IRE) 6 0 1 20 Jan 26
Regimento (GB) 6 0 1 15 Jun 22
Willow Baby (IRE) 5 0 2 10 Feb 24
Shaka (GB) 5 0 1 17 Jan 24
Viva Voce (IRE) 5 0 0 16 May 23
Startling (GB) 4 0 2 18 Jul 26
Homer Stokes (GB) 4 0 0 23 Feb 23
Doomsday (GB) 4 0 2 27 Jun 22
Antagonize (GB) 4 0 3 24 Jun 22
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 92 horses ridden in this window — each ran at least 1 time. Horses with fewer runs aren't listed; search finds any horse since 2005. 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, 5 seasons
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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
Main yardBryan Smart
23% of all rides
4.3% SR · A/E 0.44
TrainerRWSR£1
Bryan Smart 47 2 4.3% −34.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2018→
26
Archived wins
£215k
Prize money
2021
Best season · 12 wins
Tommy G (GB) — Sky Bet Sunday Series Apprentice Training Series Handicap Musselburgh · Jul 2021 · Class 4
£12,885
Brazen Bolt (GB) — Great Prices On bresbet.com Handicap Thirsk · Sep 2023 · Class 3
£10,308
Firebomb (GB) — Affordable Ownership With Titanium Racing Handicap Ripon · Apr 2022 · Class 4
£6,156

Sires of the horses ridden

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Bated Breath (GB) 5% · 1–20
Progeny have won 10.8% of 8,180 runs since 2016 (670 horses). Weakest on Soft going: 7.6% from 857.
Lope De Vega (IRE) 8.3% · 1–12
Progeny have won 13.8% of 12,241 runs since 2014 (1,110 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 9.4% from 961.
Camacho (GB) 0% · 0–8
Progeny have won 8.1% of 9,326 runs since 2009 (596 horses).
Brazen Beau (AUS) 16.7% · 1–6
Progeny have won 10.2% of 2,475 runs since 2019 (186 horses). Weakest on Good to Soft going: 3.7% from 162. Strongest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 15.8% from 158.
Casamento (IRE) 0% · 0–6
Progeny have won 8.6% of 3,633 runs since 2016 (299 horses). Weakest at trips under 6f (all codes): 4.9% from 287.
Zoffany (IRE) 0% · 0–6
Progeny have won 9.9% of 10,785 runs since 2015 (799 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 12 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

latest 50 of 281 · newest first

The latest 50 of 281 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 18 October 2018 to 24 September 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
25 Jun 26 Newcastle (AW) Kalikapour (IRE)T: John Wainwright Fly From Newcastle Airport HandicapClass 6 · 8f · Standard To Slow · 13 ran 10th 40/1
03 Jun 26 Ripon Eeetee (IRE)T: John Wainwright Bishopton Equine HandicapClass 5 · 8f · Good · 12 ran 8th 50/1
23 Sep 25 Beverley Tropez Power (IRE)T: Mark Walford FanGo HandicapClass 4 · 7.5f · Soft · 13 ran 4th 22/1

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 Gianluca Sanna's strike rate?
Gianluca Sanna has won 12 of 201 rides since 2022, a strike rate of 6% (as at 12 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Gianluca Sanna do best at?
Newcastle (AW) by strike rate: 1 wins from 42 rides (2.4%) 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.
What is Gianluca Sanna's Fair A/E?
0.71, from 201 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.
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 12 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).