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Luke Smith

6 rides in our archive record, 2005 · 3 individual horses
As at 28 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last ride Aug 2005 100% of rides on the flat
Archive record 2005
No rides from 1 Jan 2008, where our aggregate statistics normally begin — showing the full archive record instead, 2 Feb 2005 to 12 Aug 2005. Figures that need a horse's earlier runs (debuts, time since a run, first-time headgear, new connections, last-time-out winners) are left out: for runs this early our archive cannot see what came before.
1–6
Wins / Runs
16.7%
Strike rate
n=6
1 (17%)
Placed
1.88
Fair A/E
n=6 · 1.58 incl. margin
+1.50
£1 level stake
n=6 at SP · +25.0%
£3,515
Prize money (window)

Small sample — fewer than 30 runs in this window. Read the Ns before the percentages.

Riding patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 16.7% baseline
Claiming rides · riding with a claim
16.7%+0.0
n=6 · A/E 1.88 · £1 +1.50
Big fields · 14+ runners
33.3%+16.6
n=3 · A/E 3.47 · £1 +4.50

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 16.7% baseline — descriptive splits with the sample always shown, not tips. Tiles under 30 runs render muted. Claiming rides are runs where the rider carried a weight claim. Group / Graded covers pattern and listed races. Tiles that depend on a horse's earlier runs (debuts, time off, first-time headgear, new connections, last-time-out winners) are not shown on an archive-era record: for runs this early our archive cannot see what came before.

Record by conditions

same window as header

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 4 1 25% +3.50
Good to Firm 1 0 0% −1.00
Good 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Lingfield (AW) 4 1 25% +3.50
Folkestone 1 0 0% −1.00
Goodwood 1 0 0% −1.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 5 3 1 33.3% +4.50
Class 7 2 0 0% −2.00
Class 4 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
2nd–3rd fav 2 1 50% 4.14 +5.50
4th–6th fav 2 0 0% 0.00 −2.00
7th+ in betting 2 0 0% 0.00 −2.00
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
Quantum Leap (GB) 3 1 1 12 Aug 05
Fairland (IRE) 2 0 0 14 Feb 05
Taranaki (GB) 1 0 0 12 Feb 05
All 3 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.

Riding for

same window · biggest samples first
TrainerRWSR£1
Simon Dow 5 1 20% +2.50
Peter Cundell 1 0 0% −1.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
1
Archived wins
£3,515
Prize money
2005
Best season · 1 win
In our archive from its very first year (2005), so this career almost certainly began earlier than our record does. The figures above count 2005 onwards only — what the archive holds, not a full-career total. On this page the header statistics and this card both count from the archive floor (2005), so they agree.
Quantum Leap (GB) — Apprentice Handicap Lingfield (AW) · Feb 2005 · Class 5
£3,515
Notable horses
Quantum Leap (GB)

Sires of the horses ridden

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Efisio (GB) 33.3% · 1–3
Progeny have won 10.4% of 2,661 runs since 2005 (159 horses).
Blues Traveller (IRE) 0% · 0–2
Progeny have won 5.4% of 276 runs since 2005 (25 horses).
Delta Dancer (GB) 0% · 0–1
Progeny have won 9.7% of 226 runs since 2005 (11 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 2005, as at 28 Oct 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 6 archived runs · newest first

Every one of Luke Smith's 6 archived rides, from 2 February 2005 to 12 August 2005, newest first — one winner among them.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
12 Aug 05 Folkestone Quantum Leap (GB)T: Simon Dow Arena Leisure PLC Apprentice HandicapClass 5 · 7f · Good To Firm · 7 ran 6th 13/2
10 Jun 05 Goodwood Quantum Leap (GB)T: Simon Dow Hildon HandicapClass 4 · 7f · Good · 15 ran 11th 16/1
14 Feb 05 Lingfield (AW) Fairland (IRE)T: Simon Dow Banded StakesClass 7 · 13f · Standard · 13 ran 11th 33/1
12 Feb 05 Lingfield (AW) Taranaki (GB)T: Peter Cundell Apprentice HandicapClass 5 · 6f · Standard · 12 ran 6th 7/1
05 Feb 05 Lingfield (AW) Quantum Leap (GB)T: Simon Dow Apprentice HandicapClass 5 · 7f · Standard · 14 ran 1st 13/2
02 Feb 05 Lingfield (AW) Fairland (IRE)T: Simon Dow Apprentice Banded StakesClass 7 · 13f · Standard · 14 ran 7th 11/2

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 Luke Smith's strike rate?
Luke Smith has won 1 of 6 rides in 2005, a strike rate of 16.7% (as at 28 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive. A small sample — fewer than 30 rides, so read the count before the percentage. Our archive begins in 2005, so anything earlier is not counted.
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 28 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008). This profile has no runs from 2008, so every figure on this page counts from the start of the archive instead.