Gregory Benoist
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 70 times a season, almost all on the flat, winning on 12% of them — beating the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 1.24). In Group and Graded company the record reads 15% (65 runs). Rides mostly for Y Barberot — 42% of rides in the window.
The record is strongest at Deauville (FR) (17.1%, n=105), clear of the rider's 12.3% baseline. It is weakest at Longchamp (FR) (8.8% over 57 rides) — the widest gap in the record. In Group and Graded company the record reads well at 15.4% (n=65, Fair A/E 1.45), but rides in big fields of 14 or more have been a poor signal at 9% (n=156, Fair A/E 1.09). First rides on a horse are the standout value angle: 12.9% strikes only just above baseline, but Fair A/E 1.51 and +21.10 to a £1 stake over 116 rides — a record the market has persistently underpriced. Y Barberot supplies 42% of the rides and beats the rider's average (17.9% vs 12.3%, A/E 1.42) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The rider also reads well over 6f – 7f (16.1%, n=112). The record reads poorly on Good to Soft going — 8.9% over 90 rides, 3.4pts below the baseline. 110 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the rider has landed: the Prix de Diane Longines at Chantilly (FR) (Jun 2014, £476,167). The standout partner of the record: Don Bosco I (FR) — 8 wins from 29 rides together.
Riding patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 12.3% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 12.3% 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
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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, 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 6,512 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 6,512 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 12 March 2005 to 20 August 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).
Quick answers
- What is Gregory Benoist's strike rate?
- Gregory Benoist has won 42 of 342 rides since 2022, a strike rate of 12.3% (as at 8 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does Gregory Benoist do best at?
- Deauville (FR) by strike rate: 18 wins from 105 rides (17.1%) 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 Gregory Benoist ride most for?
- Y Barberot, with 145 rides since 2022 — 42% of the total. That pairing has won 26 (17.9%).
- What is Gregory Benoist's Fair A/E?
- 1.24, from 342 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.