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Jockey profile

Mr H C Swan

683 rides in the last 5 seasons · 470 individual horses
As at 14 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last ride 6 days ago
from 1 Jan 2022
95–683
Wins / Runs
13.9%
Strike rate
n=683
262 (38%)
Placed
1.00
n=682 · 0.82 incl. margin
−198.09
£1 level stake
n=683 at SP · −29.0%
£1.26m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
15.3%
KTB Rider Profile

Rides around 140 times a season, winning on 14% of them — level with the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 1.00). Riding last-time-out winners the record reads 19% (57 rides). Rides mostly for Gordon Elliott — 51% of rides in the window.

Deterministic profile computed from 683 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 14 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Nov–Feb Fresh horses: 17.6% 43.6% when favourite Gordon Elliott: 19.1% from 346 LTO winners: 19.3% Rides the favourite in 15% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Fairyhouse (22.4%, n=49), clear of the rider's 13.9% baseline. It is weakest at Galway (4.1% over 49 rides) — the widest gap in the record. Rides on last-time-out winners have been a positive signal at 19.3% (n=57, Fair A/E 1.04), but in Group and Graded company the record reads poorly at 6.1% (n=49, Fair A/E 0.72). Horses returning fresh after 61+ days are the standout value angle: 17.6% strikes only just above baseline, but Fair A/E 1.23 and +15.64 to a £1 stake over 119 rides — a record the market has persistently underpriced. The market has consistently overbet rides in big fields of 14 or more: 6.6% strike, Fair A/E 0.73 and −114.92 to a £1 stake over 211 rides — those runners underperform what the price implies. Gordon Elliott supplies 51% of the rides and beats the rider's average (19.1% vs 13.9%, A/E 1.00) — the market has that partnership priced right. The record reads poorly over 2m5f – 3m — 4.2% over 48 rides, 9.7pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the rider in Chase races: Fair A/E 0.65 across 74 rides (5.4% strike, −46.62 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperform what the price implies. 4 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the rider has landed: the Goffs Defender Bumper at Punchestown (Apr 2024, £59,000). Seasonally, the rider fires Nov–Feb.

Written from the figures on this page — every claim carries its sample. Descriptive, not a tip.

Riding patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 13.9% baseline
First ride on the horse · first captured pairing
11.3%−2.6
n=462 · A/E 0.84 · £1 −219.64
Last-time-out winners · previous run was a win
19.3%+5.4
n=57 · A/E 1.04 · £1 −6.75
Fresh horses · 61+ days off
17.6%+3.7
n=119 · A/E 1.23 · £1 +15.64
When favourite
43.6%
n=101 · A/E 1.18 · £1 +1.51
Claiming rides · riding with a claim
13%−0.9
n=391 · A/E 0.93 · £1 −129.78
Big fields · 14+ runners
6.6%−7.3
n=211 · A/E 0.73 · £1 −114.92
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
6.1%−7.8
n=49 · A/E 0.72 · £1 −17.75

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 13.9% 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 baseline
At Galway 4.1% vs 13.9% · n=49
Over 2m5f – 3m 4.2% vs 13.9% · n=48
In Chase races 5.4% vs 13.9% · n=74
At Fairyhouse 22.4% vs 13.9% · n=49
Off a 8-14-day break 5.1% vs 13.9% · n=39
In Class 1 5.9% vs 13.9% · n=51
Descriptive splits ranked by divergence × sample — insight, not instruction. Every angle carries its N; nothing under 30 runs qualifies. Rows within 2pts of the baseline appear only when the market-relative read (Fair A/E) diverges, and show it.

Record by conditions

same window as header

Race type

TypeRWSR£1
NH Flat 428 65 15.2% −122.05
Flat 113 19 16.8% −24.67
Chase 74 4 5.4% −46.62
Hurdle 68 7 10.3% −4.75

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Soft 268 37 13.8% −63.97
Good 182 26 14.3% −38.77
Good to Soft 127 14 11% −90.33
Heavy 93 15 16.1% −25.02
Standard (AW) 13 3 23.1% +20.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Punchestown 74 9 12.2% −19.80
Galway 49 2 4.1% −36.17
Fairyhouse 49 11 22.4% +16.80
Leopardstown 31 5 16.1% −14.75
Listowel 30 5 16.7% −14.25
Cork 28 3 10.7% −12.00
Killarney 28 2 7.1% −18.50
Clonmel 28 6 21.4% +1.78
Thurles 27 0 0% −27.00
Naas 27 5 18.5% −10.54
Wexford 27 3 11.1% −10.80
Limerick 26 3 11.5% −10.67
Down Royal 25 7 28% +10.31
Downpatrick 25 4 16% −13.25
Ballinrobe 25 2 8% −18.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 51 3 5.9% −19.75
Class 2 6 0 0% −6.00
Class 3 3 0 0% −3.00
Class 5 3 1 33.3% −1.50
Class 4 2 1 50% −0.27
Class 6 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 112 44 39.3% 1.11 −9.49
2nd–3rd fav 217 35 16.1% 0.96 −47.10
4th–6th fav 199 12 6% 0.80 −80.50
7th+ in betting 155 4 2.6% 0.93 −61.00
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.

Jumping record

completion over obstacles · same window as header
77.5% completed · 142 obstacle rides (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 74 67.6% 4 2 17 1 0
Hurdle 68 88.2% 1 1 5 1 0
Chases and hurdles only — bumpers have no obstacles, so completion is not a question there. F fell · UR unseated rider · PU pulled up · BD brought down · Oth covers refusals, slip-ups, run-outs and the rare disqualification. Non-runners are excluded throughout. Rows under n=30 are shown faded. A descriptive record, not a tip.

Horses ridden

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
I Am Shadow (IRE) 7 1 4 10 Aug 23
Music Of Life (IRE) 6 0 2 8 Nov 25
Our Soldier (IRE) 4 1 2 10 Oct 26
Arch Empire (FR) 4 0 2 14 Jul 26
Miss Corby (IRE) 4 2 2 16 Apr 26
Koktail Brut (FR) 4 1 2 1 May 25
Machismo (IRE) 4 0 0 7 Oct 24
Gers Gigi (IRE) 4 1 4 6 Jul 24
The Enabler (IRE) 4 2 3 3 Feb 24
Miss Agusta (IRE) 4 0 1 26 Apr 23
Mind Your Money (GB) 4 2 3 28 Jul 22
Hartford (IRE) 3 0 2 4 Nov 26
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 470 horses ridden in this window — each ran at least 2 times. Horses with fewer runs aren't listed; search finds any horse since 2005. 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.

Current form

significance-gated

Last 14 days

Small sample
1 from 3
Only 3 rides in the last 14 days — too few to read against the baseline (gate: n≥15). The card states the sample and stays neutral.

By month

strike by month, 5 seasons
JFMAMJJASOND
1715715101913711142626
A jumps rider: the season runs Oct–Apr. Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Riding for

same window · biggest samples first
51% of all rides
19.1% SR · A/E 1.00
TrainerRWSR£1
Gordon Elliott 346 66 19.1% −100.41
John Patrick Ryan 38 2 5.3% −28.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2018→
104
Archived wins
4
Pattern / graded wins
£1.37m
Prize money
2025
Best season · 23 wins
Sermandzarak (FR) — Goffs Defender Bumper Punchestown · Apr 2024
£59,000
Brighterdaysahead (FR) — Tattersalls Ireland George Mernagh Memorial Sales Bumper Fairyhouse · Apr 2023
£59,000
Fauda (FR) — Prix Colonel de la Horie - Chall. de l'Obst. Equinaxy (Handicap Chase) (Turf) Auteuil (FR) · Mar 2026
£23,870

Sires of the horses ridden

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Walk In The Park (IRE) 20% · 12–60
Progeny have won 13.4% of 7,102 runs since 2011 (712 horses).
Getaway (GER) 6.7% · 2–30
Progeny have won 11.3% of 11,040 runs since 2016 (1,034 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 23.1% from 134.
No Risk At All (FR) 19.2% · 5–26
Progeny have won 14.5% of 3,177 runs since 2016 (440 horses). Strongest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 17.6% from 957.
Yeats (IRE) 21.1% · 4–19
Progeny have won 11.9% of 9,857 runs since 2013 (709 horses). Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 6.9% from 204. Strongest beyond 3m (all codes): 15.2% from 820.
Blue Bresil (FR) 20% · 3–15
Progeny have won 12.1% of 3,569 runs since 2013 (469 horses).
Flemensfirth (USA) 13.3% · 2–15
Progeny have won 11.8% of 17,298 runs since 2008 (1,595 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 2008, as at 14 Nov 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

latest 50 of 769 · newest first

The latest 50 of 769 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 23 June 2018 to 8 November 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP

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).

KTB’s figures

the forward record · since 5 Oct 2026

KTB’s figures on this rider’s mounts since 10 Oct 2026: the KTB Selection in 1 run (won 1) · top-rated on KTB Rating in 2 runs (won 1) · fastest on KTB Speed in 2 runs (won 1) · to 4 Nov 2026.

Each pick was a KTB figure’s choice before the off — the published KTB Selection, the top-rated horse on KTB Rating, the fastest on KTB Speed — settled against the result the next morning and never worked out again; “did not run” is counted apart. GB and Irish races only. A record of weeks so far: read it as a count, not a verdict.

Quick answers

What is Mr H C Swan's strike rate?
Mr H C Swan has won 95 of 683 rides since 2022, a strike rate of 13.9% (as at 14 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Mr H C Swan do best at?
Fairyhouse by strike rate: 11 wins from 49 rides (22.4%) 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 Mr H C Swan ride most for?
Gordon Elliott, with 346 rides since 2022 — 51% of the total. That pairing has won 66 (19.1%).
Is Mr H C Swan in form?
Too few rides in the last 14 days to read — 3 rides, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is Mr H C Swan's Fair A/E?
1.00, from 682 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.
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 14 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).