Harry Bannister
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 220 times a season, almost all over hurdles and fences, winning on 12% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 0.94).
The record is strongest at Plumpton (25%, n=40) and Stratford (22.2%, n=54) — all clear of the rider's 11.5% baseline. It is weakest at Newbury (2.8% over 36 rides) — the widest gap in the record. Rides in big fields of 14 or more have been a poor signal at 4% (n=100, Fair A/E 0.77). The market has consistently overbet rides on last-time-out winners: 10.7% strike, Fair A/E 0.52 and −64.99 to a £1 stake over 103 rides — those runners underperform what the price implies. Richard J Bandey supplies 27% of the rides and edges the rider's average (14.1% vs 11.5%, A/E 0.96). The rider also reads well beyond 3m (18.8%, n=112). 9 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the rider has landed: the Unibet Grand National Trial Handicap Chase at Haydock (Feb 2020, £56,950). The standout partner of the record: Belles Benefit (IRE) — 6 wins from 25 rides together.
Riding patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 11.5% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 11.5% 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 headerRace type
Going
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Field size
Rows below n=30 are shown faded — a small sample is a fact, not a trend. Every figure carries its N.
Jumping record
completion over obstacles · same window as headerHorses ridden
same window as header · most-raced firstBy month
strike by month, 5 seasonsRiding for
same window · biggest samples firstCareer highlights
lifetime archive, 2012→Sires of the horses ridden
progeny record · win % by ground and tripThe record
latest 50 of 2,706 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 2,706 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 29 November 2012 to 1 October 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 Harry Bannister's strike rate?
- Harry Bannister has won 125 of 1,087 rides since 2022, a strike rate of 11.5% (as at 10 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does Harry Bannister do best at?
- Plumpton by strike rate: 10 wins from 40 rides (25%) 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 Harry Bannister ride most for?
- Richard J Bandey, with 298 rides since 2022 — 27% of the total. That pairing has won 42 (14.1%).
- What is Harry Bannister's Fair A/E?
- 0.94, from 1,086 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.