Ian Mongan
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 240 times a season, almost all on the flat, winning on 10% of them — beating the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 1.04). Riding last-time-out winners the record reads 17% (231 rides).
The record is strongest at Salisbury (17.5%, n=63), clear of the rider's 10.2% baseline. It is weakest at Sandown (2.2% over 89 rides) — the widest gap in the record. Rides on last-time-out winners have been a positive signal at 16.5% (n=231, Fair A/E 1.08), but rides in big fields of 14 or more have been a poor signal at 4% (n=422, Fair A/E 0.72). Pat Phelan supplied 13% of the rides and matches the rider's average almost exactly (9.4%, A/E 0.95). The rider also read well on Soft going (16.3%, n=166). 11 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the rider has landed: the Juddmonte International Stakes at York (Aug 2011, £396,970). The standout partner of the record was Baddam (GB) — 5 wins from 25 rides together. Seasonally, the rider fired Dec–Mar.
Riding patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 10.2% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 10.2% baseline — descriptive splits with the sample always shown, not tips. 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
Courses
Class
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 4,177 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 4,177 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 3 January 2005 to 12 September 2018.
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 Ian Mongan's strike rate?
- Ian Mongan has won 267 of 2,619 rides since 2008, a strike rate of 10.2% (as at 28 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does Ian Mongan do best at?
- Salisbury by strike rate: 11 wins from 63 rides (17.5%) 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 Ian Mongan ride most for?
- Pat Phelan, with 340 rides since 2008 — 13% of the total. That pairing has won 32 (9.4%).
- What is Ian Mongan's Fair A/E?
- 1.04, from 2,606 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.