Robert Havlin
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 540 times a season, almost all on the flat, winning on 14% of them — beating the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 1.03). Riding last-time-out winners the record reads 21% (296 rides). The rider is quiet just now — 2 winners in the last fortnight, below their own baseline.
The record is strongest at Newcastle (AW) (25.8%, n=89) and Nottingham (24.6%, n=61) — all clear of the rider's 14.2% baseline. It is weakest at Ascot (4.2% over 72 rides) — the widest gap in the record. Rides on last-time-out winners have been a positive signal at 20.6% (n=296, Fair A/E 0.99), but rides in big fields of 14 or more have been a poor signal at 7% (n=200, Fair A/E 0.92). The market has consistently overbet in Group and Graded company the record: 10.3% strike, Fair A/E 0.75 and −61.19 to a £1 stake over 204 rides — those runners underperform what the price implies. Right now the rider is in a quiet spell: 2 from 29 rides in the last 14 days (6.9%, 7.3pts below the 14.2% baseline). John & Thady Gosden supplies 32% of the rides and beats the rider's average (21.2% vs 14.2%, A/E 1.01) — the market has that partnership priced right. The rider also reads well off a 0-7-day break (26.7%, n=60). 70 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the rider has landed: the bet365 Fillies' Mile at Newmarket (Oct 2022, £299,854). The standout partner of the record: Salute (IRE) — 7 wins from 41 rides together. Seasonally, the rider fires Mar–Apr.
Riding patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 14.2% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 14.2% 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
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Rows below n=30 are shown faded — a small sample is a fact, not a trend. Every figure carries its N.
Horses ridden
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lifetime archive, 2005→Sires of the horses ridden
progeny record · win % by ground and tripThe record
latest 50 of 11,036 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 11,036 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 2 January 2005 to 26 October 2026.
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 Robert Havlin's strike rate?
- Robert Havlin has won 383 of 2,700 rides since 2022, a strike rate of 14.2% (as at 27 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does Robert Havlin do best at?
- Newcastle (AW) by strike rate: 23 wins from 89 rides (25.8%) 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 Robert Havlin ride most for?
- John & Thady Gosden, with 865 rides since 2022 — 32% of the total. That pairing has won 183 (21.2%).
- Is Robert Havlin in form?
- In the last 14 days: 29 rides, 2 winners, a strike rate of 6.9%. That is below the baseline of 14.2% since 2022.
- What is Robert Havlin's Fair A/E?
- 1.03, from 2,684 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.