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Jockey profile

Richard Mullen

1,822 rides in the lifetime window · 1,182 individual horses
As at 6 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last ride Jul 2016 100% of rides on the flat
No rides in the last 5 seasons — showing the lifetime record, from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it.
182–1,822
Wins / Runs
10%
Strike rate
n=1,822
512 (28%)
Placed
0.89
n=1,812 · 0.76 incl. margin
−673.57
£1 level stake
n=1,822 at SP · −37.0%
£2.15m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%
KTB Rider Profile

Rode around 200 times a season, almost all on the flat, winning on 10% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.89). Riding last-time-out winners the record reads 16% (192 rides).

Deterministic profile computed from 1,822 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 6 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance 29.3% when favourite Ed McMahon: 15.7% from 230 LTO winners: 15.6% Rode the favourite in 11% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Chester (20.3%, n=69) and Warwick (18%, n=50) — all clear of the rider's 10% baseline. It is weakest at York (0% over 45 rides) — the widest gap in the record. Rides on last-time-out winners have been a positive signal at 15.6% (n=192, Fair A/E 0.96), but rides in big fields of 14 or more have been a poor signal at 6.9% (n=378, Fair A/E 1.14). The market has consistently overbet horses returning fresh after 61+ days: 7.4% strike, Fair A/E 0.69 and −100.73 to a £1 stake over 243 rides — those runners underperformed what the price implied. Ed McMahon supplied 13% of the rides and beats the rider's average (15.7% vs 10%, A/E 0.96). 13 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the rider has landed: the 200,000 Tattersalls Millions Median Auction Trophy at Newmarket (Sep 2011, £108,200).

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

Riding patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 10% baseline
First ride on the horse · first captured pairing
9%−1.0
n=1,126 · A/E 0.88 · £1 −463.14
Last-time-out winners · previous run was a win
15.6%+5.6
n=192 · A/E 0.96 · £1 −49.40
Fresh horses · 61+ days off
7.4%−2.6
n=243 · A/E 0.69 · £1 −100.73
When favourite
29.3%
n=205 · A/E 0.90 · £1 −51.14
Big fields · 14+ runners
6.9%−3.1
n=378 · A/E 1.14 · £1 −126.12
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
8.7%−1.3
n=138 · A/E 1.08 · £1 −37.75

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 10% 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 Chester 20.3% vs 10% · n=69
With Marcus Tregoning 21.4% vs 10% · n=42
At York 0% vs 10% · n=45
With Gary Moore 0% vs 10% · n=42
At Warwick 18% vs 10% · n=50
With Ed McMahon 15.7% vs 10% · n=230
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

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good to Firm 660 59 8.9% −264.81
Good 473 55 11.6% −156.33
Standard (AW) 299 25 8.4% −135.27
Good to Soft 215 19 8.8% −97.57
Soft 120 16 13.3% −6.84
Heavy 28 5 17.9% −2.00
Firm 27 3 11.1% −10.75

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Yarmouth 162 13 8% −97.26
Kempton (AW) 120 8 6.7% −58.50
Newmarket 104 7 6.7% −66.32
Doncaster 97 8 8.2% −29.90
Newmarket 93 5 5.4% −57.75
Leicester 82 7 8.5% −50.50
Nottingham 81 11 13.6% −22.75
Haydock 79 8 10.1% −36.42
Wolverhampton (AW) 71 4 5.6% −50.12
Chester 69 14 20.3% +36.21
Newbury 66 8 12.1% +10.88
Goodwood 64 3 4.7% −43.30
Lingfield (AW) 61 9 14.8% −8.90
Ascot 58 5 8.6% −3.50
Windsor 57 8 14% +28.25

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 5 639 84 13.1% −142.39
Class 4 420 32 7.6% −234.46
Class 6 267 22 8.2% −141.22
Class 3 189 19 10.1% −61.00
Class 2 168 13 7.7% −55.75
Class 1 137 12 8.8% −36.75

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 242 72 29.8% 0.97 −38.39
2nd–3rd fav 405 59 14.6% 0.92 −71.18
4th–6th fav 549 38 6.9% 0.86 −171.50
7th+ in betting 626 13 2.1% 0.59 −392.50
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.

Horses ridden

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Spin Cycle (IRE) 15 2 3 18 Sep 10
Vainglory (USA) 11 0 4 1 Oct 09
Vitoria (IRE) 10 2 6 15 Aug 10
Beauty Pageant (IRE) 9 2 6 20 Aug 12
Fear Nothing (GB) 9 1 4 3 Sep 10
Don't Call Me (IRE) 8 2 4 25 Jul 15
Forray (GB) 8 1 3 10 Oct 12
Radio Gaga (GB) 7 1 3 6 Oct 12
Watered Silk (GB) 7 2 5 19 Sep 12
Tight Lipped (IRE) 7 0 4 9 Sep 11
Electric Waves (IRE) 7 4 5 9 Oct 10
Courageous (IRE) 7 0 1 29 Jul 10
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 1,182 horses ridden in this window — each ran at least 4 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.

By month

strike by month, lifetime
JFMAMJJASOND
··07119118111013·
A flat rider: the season runs Mar–Oct. Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Riding for

same window · biggest samples first
Main yardEd McMahon
13% of all rides
15.7% SR · A/E 0.96
TrainerRWSR£1
Ed McMahon 230 36 15.7% −42.67
Sir Michael Stoute 172 26 15.1% −40.25
David Simcock 161 23 14.3% +3.07
John Gosden 97 13 13.4% −24.95
William Muir 92 6 6.5% −42.75
Bryan Smart 87 13 14.9% +1.03
David Brown 55 5 9.1% −27.67
John Dunlop 55 3 5.5% −43.14
Kevin Ryan 50 4 8% −33.43
Richard Hannon Snr 43 3 7% −2.12
Marcus Tregoning 42 9 21.4% +15.11
Gary Moore 42 0 0% −42.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
275
Archived wins
13
Pattern / graded wins
£3.12m
Prize money
2008
Best season · 56 wins
In our archive from its very first year (2005), so this career almost certainly began earlier than our record does. The figures above count 2005 onwards only — what the archive holds, not a full-career total. This card is the full archive census (2005→); the statistics in the header aggregate from 2008 — the floor that guarantees every horse a complete captured career — so this card can legitimately show more wins than the header.
Tell Dad (GB) — 200,000 Tattersalls Millions Median Auction Trophy Newmarket · Sep 2011 · Class 2
£108,200
Temple Meads (GB) — Weatherbys Super Sprint Newbury · Jul 2010 · Class 2
£98,480
Vital Equine (IRE) — Sportsman Champagne Stakes (Group 2) York · Sep 2006 · Group 2
£56,780

Sires of the horses ridden

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Exceed and Excel (AUS) 17.2% · 10–58
Progeny have won 11.9% of 16,036 runs since 2008 (1,161 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 20.7% from 198. Weakest on Soft going: 7.9% from 1,194.
Medicean (GB) 12.5% · 5–40
Progeny have won 10.4% of 9,890 runs since 2008 (682 horses).
Oasis Dream (GB) 23.7% · 9–38
Progeny have won 11.8% of 18,040 runs since 2008 (1,511 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 17.3% from 150. Weakest on Heavy going: 8.5% from 484. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 7.1% from 792.
Acclamation (GB) 11.1% · 4–36
Progeny have won 10% of 19,711 runs since 2008 (1,327 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 15.2% from 151. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 6.7% from 195.
Bahamian Bounty (GB) 11.1% · 4–36
Progeny have won 9.6% of 9,353 runs since 2008 (598 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 1% from 202.
Invincible Spirit (IRE) 8.8% · 3–34
Progeny have won 11.9% of 20,863 runs since 2008 (1,574 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 16.1% from 161. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 7.8% from 844.
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 6 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 3,180 · newest first

The latest 50 of 3,180 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 28 March 2005 to 29 July 2016.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
29 Jul 16 Newmarket Q Cee (GB)T: Eugene Stanford Racing Uk Hd Maiden StakesClass 5 · 8f · Good To Firm · 8 ran 8th 33/1
22 Jul 16 Newmarket Phoenix Dawn (GB)T: Brendan Powell Home Of Horseracing NurseryClass 4 · 7f · Good To Firm · 5 ran 5th 14/1
22 Jul 16 Newmarket Dark Amber (GB)T: Brendan Powell 32Red.com HandicapClass 5 · 8f · Good To Firm · 8 ran 6th 33/1
16 Jul 16 Newbury Dark Emerald (IRE)T: Brendan Powell Bet365 HandicapClass 2 · 7f · Good To Firm · 9 ran 2nd 7/1
22 Aug 15 Chester Flash Fire (IRE)T: Charlie Appleby Sportingbet HandicapClass 2 · 7.5f · Good · 11 ran 11th 5/1J
21 Aug 15 Sandown North America (GB)T: Charlie Appleby YAS TV HandicapClass 4 · 10f · Good To Soft · 8 ran 3rd 16/1
21 Aug 15 Sandown Pallister (GB)T: Charlie Appleby National Archive Of The UAE HandicapClass 3 · 8f · Good To Soft · 8 ran 3rd 9/1
15 Aug 15 Newmarket Shootingsta (IRE)T: Bryan Smart Betway Insider HandicapClass 4 · 7f · Good · 10 ran 7th 11/1
15 Aug 15 Newmarket Mythmaker (GB)T: Bryan Smart Betway Price Blitz HandicapClass 2 · 6f · Good · 17 ran 10th 20/1
08 Aug 15 Lingfield Cross Examine (IRE)T: David Simcock titanbet.co.uk NurseryClass 6 · 6f · Good To Firm · 10 ran 8th 5/1
07 Aug 15 Newmarket Munfallet (IRE)T: David Brown 10 Free At 32Red.com HandicapClass 3 · 6f · Good To Firm · 10 ran 6th 9/2C

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 Richard Mullen's strike rate?
Richard Mullen has won 182 of 1,822 rides since 2008, a strike rate of 10% (as at 6 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Richard Mullen do best at?
Chester by strike rate: 14 wins from 69 rides (20.3%) 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 Richard Mullen ride most for?
Ed McMahon, with 230 rides since 2008 — 13% of the total. That pairing has won 36 (15.7%).
What is Richard Mullen's Fair A/E?
0.89, from 1,812 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.
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 6 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).