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Robert Smithers

37 rides in the lifetime window · 22 individual horses
As at 29 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last ride Nov 2019 100% of rides on the flat
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2015→)
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.
2–37
Wins / Runs
5.4%
Strike rate
n=37
3 (8%)
Placed
1.21
Fair A/E
n=37 · 0.92 incl. margin
−20.50
£1 level stake
n=37 at SP · −55.4%
£23,318
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%

Riding patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 5.4% baseline
First ride on the horse · first captured pairing
4.5%−0.9
n=22 · A/E 1.04 · £1 −11.00
Last-time-out winners · previous run was a win
0%−5.4
n=2 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −2.00
Fresh horses · 61+ days off
0%−5.4
n=9 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −9.00
Claiming rides · riding with a claim
5.4%+0.0
n=37 · A/E 1.21 · £1 −20.50
Big fields · 14+ runners
0%−5.4
n=25 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −25.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 5.4% 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.

Record by conditions

same window as header

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Soft 11 0 0% −11.00
Standard (AW) 10 1 10% −4.50
Good 7 0 0% −7.00
Good to Firm 4 1 25% +7.00
Good to Soft 3 0 0% −3.00
Heavy 2 0 0% −2.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Dundalk (AW) 10 1 10% −4.50
Curragh 6 1 16.7% +5.00
Gowran Park 4 0 0% −4.00
Killarney 3 0 0% −3.00
Cork 2 0 0% −2.00
Leopardstown 2 0 0% −2.00
Naas 2 0 0% −2.00
Navan 2 0 0% −2.00
Sligo 2 0 0% −2.00
Tipperary 2 0 0% −2.00
Fairyhouse 1 0 0% −1.00
Limerick 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
2nd–3rd fav 3 1 33.3% 3.03 +2.50
4th–6th fav 5 1 20% 2.39 +6.00
7th+ in betting 29 0 0% 0.00 −29.00
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.

Horses ridden

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Bert Leaf (GB) 8 0 0 15 Oct 16
Castle Guest (IRE) 4 1 1 8 Apr 17
Itsdacraic (IRE) 2 0 0 4 Jun 19
Yamato (IRE) 2 0 0 7 Aug 17
Paddy The Celeb (IRE) 2 0 0 30 Jun 17
Dark Alliance (IRE) 2 1 2 26 Oct 16
Lady Ranger (IRE) 2 0 0 11 May 16
Kitten On The Keys (USA) 1 0 0 6 Nov 19
Red Beacon (IRE) 1 0 0 26 Oct 19
Sarah Jessica (IRE) 1 0 0 28 Sep 19
Katie Blue (IRE) 1 0 0 5 May 19
Aggression (IRE) 1 0 0 28 Apr 19
All 22 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, lifetime
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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
TrainerRWSR£1
M Halford 16 2 12.5% +0.50
Seamus Fahey 12 0 0% −12.00
M D O'Callaghan 4 0 0% −4.00
Peter McCreery 2 0 0% −2.00
Gavin Cromwell 1 0 0% −1.00
Anthony McCann 1 0 0% −1.00
Edmond Daniel Linehan 1 0 0% −1.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2015→
2
Archived wins
£23,318
Prize money
2016
Best season · 2 wins
Castle Guest (IRE) — O'brien's Wines Handicap Curragh · Aug 2016
£10,455
Dark Alliance (IRE) — Christmas Party Nights At Dundalk Stadium Apprentice Handicap Dundalk (AW) · Oct 2016
£6,150
Notable horses
Castle Guest (IRE) Dark Alliance (IRE)

Sires of the horses ridden

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Kheleyf (USA) 0% · 0–8
Progeny have won 8.7% of 10,546 runs since 2008 (676 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 12.2% from 131. Weakest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 5.6% from 880.
Rock Of Gibraltar (IRE) 16.7% · 1–6
Progeny have won 9.8% of 11,565 runs since 2008 (871 horses).
Big Bad Bob (IRE) 0% · 0–3
Progeny have won 8.8% of 4,568 runs since 2008 (314 horses).
Bushranger (IRE) 0% · 0–2
Progeny have won 7.7% of 4,449 runs since 2008 (300 horses).
Dark Angel (IRE) 50% · 1–2
Progeny have won 11.3% of 21,905 runs since 2008 (1,595 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 15% from 107.
Frozen Power (IRE) 0% · 0–2
Progeny have won 8.4% of 1,887 runs since 2008 (132 horses).
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 29 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

all 37 archived runs · newest first

Every one of Robert Smithers's 37 archived rides, from 18 December 2015 to 6 November 2019, newest first — 2 winners among them.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
06 Nov 19 Dundalk (AW) Kitten On The Keys (USA)T: M D O'Callaghan Christmas Party Nights At Dundalk Stadium Nursery Handicap (Plus 10)6f · Standard · 14 ran 7th 10/1
26 Oct 19 Leopardstown Red Beacon (IRE)T: M D O'Callaghan Irish Stallion Farms EBF (C & G) Maiden (Plus 10)7f · Soft To Heavy · 16 ran 9th 50/1
28 Sep 19 Curragh Sarah Jessica (IRE)T: Gavin Cromwell Treacy Group Apprentice Handicap (45-70)8f · Soft · 24 ran 20th 10/1
04 Jun 19 Tipperary Itsdacraic (IRE)T: Seamus Fahey Welcome To Tipperary Races Claiming Race7.5f · Yielding To Soft · 11 ran 10th 66/1
21 May 19 Sligo Itsdacraic (IRE)T: Seamus Fahey Foleys Bar & Off Licence Sligo Median Auction Maiden6f · Good · 11 ran 8th 80/1
05 May 19 Gowran Park Katie Blue (IRE)T: M D O'Callaghan Honda Mowers & Quads At Murphy Machinery Kilkenny Apprentice Handicap (45-65)8f · Yielding · 16 ran 16th 22/1
28 Apr 19 Navan Aggression (IRE)T: M D O'Callaghan Navan Welcomes Owners Today Apprentice Handicap (45-70)5.5f · Yielding · 21 ran 20th 25/1
02 Sep 17 Navan Hazariban (IRE)T: Seamus Fahey Like Navan On Facebook Handicap (45-65)14f · Yielding · 23 ran 12th 33/1
07 Aug 17 Curragh Yamato (IRE)T: M Halford Curragh Training Grounds Apprentice Handicap8f · Good · 16 ran 8th 16/1
30 Jun 17 Curragh Paddy The Celeb (IRE)T: M Halford Hackett Apprentice Derby12f · Good · 19 ran 13th 28/1
08 Apr 17 Leopardstown Castle Guest (IRE)T: M Halford Leopardstown Summer Membership Handicap8f · Good To Yielding · 13 ran 9th 16/1
24 Feb 17 Dundalk (AW) Maknificent (IRE)T: M Halford Monasterboice Inn Apprentice Handicap12f · Standard · 14 ran 7th 20/1
09 Dec 16 Dundalk (AW) Yamato (IRE)T: M Halford Irishinjuredjockeys.com Handicap (45-75)10.5f · Standard · 14 ran 10th 8/1
26 Oct 16 Dundalk (AW) Dark Alliance (IRE)T: M Halford Christmas Party Nights At Dundalk Stadium Apprentice Handicap7f · Standard · 13 ran 1st 9/2
15 Oct 16 Cork Bert Leaf (GB)T: Seamus Fahey Follow Us On Twitter Apprentice Handicap (45-65) (Div 2)8.5f · Good To Yielding · 18 ran 10th 14/1
15 Oct 16 Cork Randall's Alannah (IRE)T: Seamus Fahey Follow Us On Twitter Apprentice Handicap (45-65) (Div 1)8.5f · Good To Yielding · 16 ran 5th 14/1
14 Oct 16 Dundalk (AW) Dark Alliance (IRE)T: M Halford Irishinjuredjockeys.com Apprentice Handicap7f · Standard · 14 ran 2nd 6/1
08 Oct 16 Limerick Bert Leaf (GB)T: Seamus Fahey JT McNamara Ladbrokes Munster National Tomorrow At Limerick Racecourse Handicap (45-65) (Div 2)11.5f · Soft · 15 ran 8th 16/1
07 Oct 16 Dundalk (AW) Shirley (IRE)T: M Halford Dundalk Stadium - Light Up Your Night Apprentice Handicap (45-65) (Div 1)8f · Standard · 14 ran 12th 25/1
25 Sep 16 Curragh Castle Guest (IRE)T: M Halford Dublin Coach Handicap8f · Heavy · 17 ran 8th 9/1

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 Smithers's strike rate?
Robert Smithers has won 2 of 37 rides since 2008, a strike rate of 5.4% (as at 29 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
What is Robert Smithers's Fair A/E?
1.21, from 37 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 29 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).