Mr William Biddick
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 20 times a season, almost all over hurdles and fences, winning on 15% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.93). Riding last-time-out winners the record reads 23% (80 rides).
It is weakest at Cheltenham (5.7% over 87 rides) — the largest sample in the record, and the widest gap. Rides on last-time-out winners have been a positive signal at 22.5% (n=80, Fair A/E 1.07), but rides in big fields of 14 or more have been a poor signal at 4% (n=150, Fair A/E 0.45). Venetia Williams supplies 25% of the rides and sits below the rider's average (12.4% vs 14.6%, A/E 0.95). The record reads poorly on Good to Firm going — 3.1% over 32 rides, 11.5pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the rider in Class 2: Fair A/E 0.43 across 63 rides (3.2% strike, −49.50 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperform what the price implies. Seasonally, the rider fires Jan–Feb.
Riding patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 14.6% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 14.6% 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
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Handicaps
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, 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 571 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 571 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 7 April 2005 to 21 October 2025.
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 Mr William Biddick's strike rate?
- Mr William Biddick has won 67 of 459 rides since 2008, a strike rate of 14.6% (as at 14 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does Mr William Biddick do best at?
- Exeter by strike rate: 8 wins from 39 rides (20.5%) 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 Mr William Biddick ride most for?
- Venetia Williams, with 113 rides since 2008 — 25% of the total. That pairing has won 14 (12.4%).
- What is Mr William Biddick's Fair A/E?
- 0.93, from 458 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.