R P Walsh
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 40 times a season, almost all on the flat, winning on 4% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.76).
The record is strongest at Nottingham (10%, n=30), clear of the rider's 4.4% baseline. Horses returning fresh after 61+ days have been a poor signal at 1.2% (n=86, Fair A/E 0.35). The market has consistently overbet first rides on a horse: 3% strike, Fair A/E 0.58 and −205.48 to a £1 stake over 266 rides — those runners underperformed what the price implied. Scott Dixon supplied 14% of the rides and matches the rider's average almost exactly (6%, A/E 0.93). The rider also read well off a 0-7-day break (10.3%, n=58). The record read poorly off a break of 180+ days — 0% over 30 rides, 4.4pts below the baseline. Seasonally, the rider fired Oct–Nov.
Riding patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 4.4% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 4.4% 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 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, 2007→Sires of the horses ridden
progeny record · win % by ground and tripThe record
latest 50 of 481 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 481 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 12 April 2007 to 9 January 2020.
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 R P Walsh's strike rate?
- R P Walsh has won 21 of 476 rides since 2008, a strike rate of 4.4% (as at 6 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does R P Walsh do best at?
- Nottingham by strike rate: 3 wins from 30 rides (10%) 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 R P Walsh ride most for?
- Scott Dixon, with 67 rides since 2008 — 14% of the total. That pairing has won 4 (6%).
- What is R P Walsh's Fair A/E?
- 0.76, from 474 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.