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Jockey profile

Rachael Blackmore

1,384 rides in the last 5 seasons · 527 individual horses
As at 15 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last ride May 2025 96% of rides over jumps
from 1 Jan 2022
184–1,384
Wins / Runs
13.3%
Strike rate
n=1,384
492 (36%)
Placed
0.86
Fair A/E
n=1,384 · 0.71 incl. margin
−508.76
£1 level stake
n=1,384 at SP · −36.8%
£6.93m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
7.5%
KTB Rider Profile

Rides around 280 times a season, almost all over hurdles and fences, winning on 13% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 0.86). The edge shows sharpest with horses returning fresh: 16% off breaks of two months or more (430 runs). Rides mostly for Henry De Bromhead — 76% of rides in the window.

Deterministic profile computed from 1,384 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 15 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Feb–Mar Fresh horses: 16% 30% when favourite Henry De Bromhead: 15.8% from 1,048 Rides the favourite in 18% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Tipperary (26.1%, n=46) and Gowran Park (23.7%, n=38) — all clear of the rider's 13.3% baseline. It is weakest at Fairyhouse (5.7% over 122 rides) — the widest gap in the record. First rides on a horse have been a poor signal at 8.3% (n=411, Fair A/E 0.65). The market has consistently overbet rides on last-time-out winners: 11.8% strike, Fair A/E 0.68 and −135.82 to a £1 stake over 221 rides — those runners underperform what the price implies. Henry De Bromhead supplies 76% of the rides and edges the rider's average (15.8% vs 13.3%, A/E 0.95). The record reads poorly off a 8-14-day break — 1.6% over 62 rides, 11.7pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the rider in Flat races: Fair A/E 0.16 across 61 rides (1.6% strike, −56.00 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperform what the price implies. 110 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the rider has landed: the Randox Grand National Handicap Chase at Aintree (Apr 2021, £375,000). The standout partner of the record: Honeysuckle (GB) — 17 wins from 19 rides together. Seasonally, the rider fires Feb–Mar.

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

Riding patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 13.3% baseline
First ride on the horse · first captured pairing
8.3%−5.0
n=411 · A/E 0.65 · £1 −205.04
Last-time-out winners · previous run was a win
11.8%−1.5
n=221 · A/E 0.68 · £1 −135.82
Fresh horses · 61+ days off
16%+2.7
n=430 · A/E 0.97 · £1 −97.05
When favourite
30%
n=253 · A/E 0.88 · £1 −74.66
Claiming rides · riding with a claim
0%−13.3
n=5 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −5.00
Big fields · 14+ runners
9.1%−4.2
n=574 · A/E 0.75 · £1 −294.89
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
10.8%−2.5
n=369 · A/E 0.83 · £1 −148.07

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 13.3% 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 baseline
At Tipperary 26.1% vs 13.3% · n=46
Off a 8-14-day break 1.6% vs 13.3% · n=62
In Flat races 1.6% vs 13.3% · n=61
With W P Mullins 3.6% vs 13.3% · n=56
At Gowran Park 23.7% vs 13.3% · n=38
At Fairyhouse 5.7% vs 13.3% · n=122
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
Hurdle 827 109 13.2% −312.87
Chase 489 74 15.1% −132.89
Flat 61 1 1.6% −56.00
NH Flat 7 0 0% −7.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Soft 654 84 12.8% −234.83
Good 248 37 14.9% −81.65
Good to Soft 247 33 13.4% −60.79
Heavy 229 30 13.1% −125.49
Standard (AW) 4 0 0% −4.00
Good to Firm 2 0 0% −2.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Punchestown 150 13 8.7% −71.70
Fairyhouse 122 7 5.7% −99.37
Leopardstown 89 7 7.9% −55.82
Tramore 85 14 16.5% −21.16
Naas 70 14 20% +13.06
Cheltenham 68 12 17.6% +12.18
Wexford 62 10 16.1% −33.21
Navan 59 8 13.6% −25.37
Thurles 55 5 9.1% −36.83
Kilbeggan 54 8 14.8% −23.52
Killarney 52 8 15.4% −13.99
Cork 51 10 19.6% +7.38
Galway 47 3 6.4% −12.50
Tipperary 46 12 26.1% −2.28
Clonmel 45 9 20% −9.41

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 397 42 10.6% −163.57
Class 2 11 1 9.1% +4.00
Class 3 4 0 0% −4.00
Class 4 2 0 0% −2.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 287 86 30% 0.92 −69.00
2nd–3rd fav 486 75 15.4% 0.94 −121.76
4th–6th fav 398 17 4.3% 0.54 −217.00
7th+ in betting 213 6 2.8% 0.72 −101.00
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
89% completed · 1,316 obstacle rides (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 489 82.8% 24 12 46 1 1
Hurdle 827 92.6% 15 6 37 3 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
Captain Guinness (IRE) 15 4 10 29 Apr 25
The Folkes Tiara (IRE) 13 2 7 3 Apr 25
Amirite (IRE) 12 2 4 4 Apr 25
Envoi Allen (FR) 12 2 4 13 Mar 25
Bob Olinger (IRE) 12 5 8 13 Mar 25
Freddie Robdal (IRE) 12 1 6 15 Jan 25
Ballyadam (IRE) 11 2 7 12 Mar 25
Tag Man (IRE) 11 2 7 30 Aug 24
Music Of Tara (GB) 11 2 7 12 May 24
Telmesomethinggirl (IRE) 11 1 4 4 May 24
The Short Go (IRE) 10 2 5 3 May 25
Lets Go Champ (IRE) 10 2 6 30 Apr 25
The 60 most-raced of 527 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.

By month

strike by month, 5 seasons
JFMAMJJASOND
9151612140201312131713
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
76% of all rides
15.8% SR · A/E 0.95
TrainerRWSR£1
Henry De Bromhead 1,048 166 15.8% −270.55
W P Mullins 56 2 3.6% −50.32
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2010→
576
Archived wins
110
Pattern / graded wins
£16.2m
Prize money
2018
Best season · 84 wins
Minella Times (IRE) — Randox Grand National Handicap Chase (Grade 3) (GBB Race) Aintree · Apr 2021 · Grade 3
£375,000
A Plus Tard (FR) — Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup Chase (Grade 1) (GBB Race) Cheltenham · Mar 2022 · Grade 1
£351,688
Honeysuckle (GB) — Unibet Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy (Grade 1) (GBB Race) Cheltenham · Mar 2022 · Grade 1
£253,215

Sires of the horses ridden

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Walk In The Park (IRE) 16.4% · 12–73
Progeny have won 13.2% of 6,915 runs since 2008 (685 horses).
Fame And Glory (GB) 14.9% · 7–47
Progeny have won 12.5% of 6,200 runs since 2008 (504 horses).
Kayf Tara (GB) 20% · 9–45
Progeny have won 12.6% of 13,736 runs since 2008 (1,148 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 16.2% from 1,708.
Westerner (GB) 20% · 8–40
Progeny have won 12.1% of 11,815 runs since 2008 (940 horses). Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 8.5% from 188.
Mahler (GB) 15.4% · 6–39
Progeny have won 10.8% of 8,825 runs since 2008 (782 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 15.1% from 119.
Sholokhov (IRE) 27% · 10–37
Progeny have won 12.4% of 4,254 runs since 2008 (419 horses). Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 8.9% from 157.
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 15 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

latest 50 of 4,562 · newest first

The latest 50 of 4,562 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 28 January 2010 to 10 May 2025.

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).

Quick answers

What is Rachael Blackmore's strike rate?
Rachael Blackmore has won 184 of 1,384 rides since 2022, a strike rate of 13.3% (as at 15 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Rachael Blackmore do best at?
Tipperary by strike rate: 12 wins from 46 rides (26.1%) 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 Rachael Blackmore ride most for?
Henry De Bromhead, with 1,048 rides since 2022 — 76% of the total. That pairing has won 166 (15.8%).
What is Rachael Blackmore's Fair A/E?
0.86, from 1,384 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 15 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).