Mick Kinane
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 100 times a season, almost all on the flat, winning on 16% of them — beating the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 1.03). The edge shows sharpest with horses returning fresh: 19% off breaks of two months or more (128 runs). Rode mostly for John M Oxx — 67% of rides in the window.
It is weakest at Curragh (12.4% over 129 rides) — the largest sample in the record, and the widest gap. First rides on a horse have been a poor signal at 11% (n=236, Fair A/E 0.91). John M Oxx supplied 67% of the rides and beats the rider's average (21.4% vs 16.4%, A/E 1.13) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The rider also read well on Heavy going (21.1%, n=95) and over 1m5f – 2m (22.2%, n=36). The record read poorly on Good to Soft going — 10.4% over 67 rides, 6pts below the baseline. 90 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the rider has landed: the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp (FR) (Oct 2009, £2,219,029). The standout partner of the record was Sea The Stars (IRE) — 8 wins from 9 rides together. Seasonally, the rider fired Aug–Oct.
Riding patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 16.4% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 16.4% 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 headerGoing
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 1,740 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 1,740 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 20 March 2005 to 17 August 2013.
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 Mick Kinane's strike rate?
- Mick Kinane has won 100 of 610 rides since 2008, a strike rate of 16.4% (as at 28 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does Mick Kinane do best at?
- Dundalk (AW) by strike rate: 16 wins from 83 rides (19.3%) 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 Mick Kinane ride most for?
- John M Oxx, with 407 rides since 2008 — 67% of the total. That pairing has won 87 (21.4%).
- What is Mick Kinane's Fair A/E?
- 1.03, from 610 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.