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Jockey profile

Romain Auray

170 rides in the lifetime window · 104 individual horses
As at 29 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last ride Apr 2016 100% of rides on the flat
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2011→)
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.
14–170
Wins / Runs
8.2%
Strike rate
n=170
26 (15%)
Placed
1.30
Fair A/E
n=149 · 1.31 incl. margin
+81.20
£1 level stake
n=163 at SP · +49.8%
£208k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%
KTB Rider Profile

Rode around 30 times a season, almost all on the flat, winning on 8% of them — beating the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 1.30). The edge shows sharpest with horses returning fresh: 13% off breaks of two months or more (48 runs). Rode mostly for J Heloury — 48% of rides in the window.

Deterministic profile computed from 170 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 29 Oct 2026
KTB at a glance Fresh horses: 12.5% J Heloury: 3.7% from 82 First rides: 8.7%
The read

Horses returning fresh after 61+ days have been a positive signal at 12.5% (n=48, Fair A/E 2.02), but claiming rides have been a poor signal at 2.7% (n=74, Fair A/E 0.63). Rides in big fields of 14 or more are the standout value angle: 6.6% strikes only just below baseline, but Fair A/E 1.55 and +0.50 to a £1 stake over 106 rides — a record the market has persistently underpriced. J Heloury supplied 48% of the rides and sits below the rider's average (3.7% vs 8.2%, A/E 0.62). The rider also read well on Soft going (15.6%, n=32) and off a 61-180-day break (13.3%, n=30). The record read poorly on Standard (AW) going — 4.4% over 91 rides, 3.8pts below the baseline.

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

Riding patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 8.2% baseline
First ride on the horse · first captured pairing
8.7%+0.5
n=104 · A/E 1.39 · £1 +46.90
Last-time-out winners · previous run was a win
18.2%+10.0
n=11 · A/E 2.35 · £1 +14.90
Fresh horses · 61+ days off
12.5%+4.3
n=48 · A/E 2.02 · £1 +21.50
When favourite
50%
n=4 · A/E 3.33 · £1 +3.60
Claiming rides · riding with a claim
2.7%−5.5
n=74 · A/E 0.63 · £1 +11.40
Big fields · 14+ runners
6.6%−1.6
n=106 · A/E 1.55 · £1 +0.50
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−8.2
n=6 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −6.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 8.2% 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

vs their own baseline
On Soft going 15.6% vs 8.2% · n=32
When claiming 2.7% vs 8.2% · n=74
With J Heloury 3.7% vs 8.2% · n=82
Off a 61-180-day break 13.3% vs 8.2% · n=30
On Standard (AW) going 4.4% vs 8.2% · n=91
At Deauville (FR) 5.8% vs 8.2% · n=69
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
Standard (AW) 91 4 4.4% −9.10
Soft 32 5 15.6% +36.60
Good to Soft 16 1 6.3% +32.00
Good 16 3 18.8% +27.10
Heavy 15 1 6.7% −5.40

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Deauville (FR) 69 4 5.8% +38.20
Chantilly (FR) 26 1 3.8% −20.30
Maisons-Laffitte (FR) 21 2 9.5% +9.60
Saint-Cloud (FR) 19 2 10.5% +13.20
Vichy 5 2 40% +53.00
Cagnes-Sur-Mer 5 0 0% −5.00
Longchamp (FR) 5 0 0% −5.00
Lyon Parilly 3 0 0% −1.00
Lyon-La Soie 3 0 0% −3.00
Dieppe 2 0 0% −2.00
Toulouse (FR) 2 0 0% −2.00
Aix-Les-Bains 2 0 0% −1.00
Compiegne 1 0 0% —
Fontainebleau 1 1 100% —
Royan La Palmyre 1 0 0% —

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 6 0 0% −6.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 4 2 50% 3.33 +3.60
2nd–3rd fav 16 4 25% 2.07 +14.00
4th–6th fav 34 3 8.8% 0.51 +36.00
7th+ in betting 109 4 3.7% 1.24 +27.60
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
Zagros (FR) 9 0 1 25 Apr 14
Its You Again (GB) 7 1 1 16 Nov 13
Guardian Angel (GER) 6 2 2 28 Oct 15
Toxeas (FR) 6 0 0 4 Jan 13
Place Monge (FR) 4 0 0 23 Jan 15
Russian Reel (FR) 4 0 1 30 Apr 14
Ix Elle (FR) 4 0 0 19 Dec 12
Manuka (USA) 3 0 0 5 Jan 13
Chiquitita (IRE) 3 1 2 30 Dec 12
Silenzio Cantatore (ITY) 3 0 0 11 Oct 12
Pax Soprana (IRE) 3 1 1 30 May 12
Pont A Marcq (FR) 3 0 0 11 May 12
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 104 horses ridden in this window — each ran at least 1 time. 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
501302001720014152
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 yardJ Heloury
48% of all rides
3.7% SR · A/E 0.62
TrainerRWSR£1
J Heloury 82 3 3.7% +3.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2011→
14
Archived wins
£208k
Prize money
2012
Best season · 7 wins
Its You Again (GB) — Prix De La Ville Vichy (Handicap) Vichy · Jul 2012
£20,367
Irish Cliff (IRE) — Prix de Dammarie Les Lys Fontainebleau · May 2012
£12,083
I Am That (IRE) — Prix de Blonville (Handicap) (3yo+) (Turf) Deauville (FR) · Aug 2012
£10,833
Notable horses
Guardian Angel (GER) Mille Marchand (FR) Its You Again (GB) Chiquitita (IRE) Pax Soprana (IRE) Lamborgino (FR)

Sires of the horses ridden

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Slickly (FR) 0% · 0–9
Progeny have won 8% of 3,070 runs since 2008 (318 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 11% from 310. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 4.9% from 243.
Avonbridge (GB) 14.3% · 1–7
Progeny have won 8.6% of 3,930 runs since 2008 (262 horses). Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 11.6% from 795.
One Cool Cat (USA) 0% · 0–6
Progeny have won 9.4% of 3,592 runs since 2008 (254 horses). Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 13.4% from 605.
Paolini (GER) 33.3% · 2–6
Progeny have won 9% of 200 runs since 2008 (35 horses).
Hawk Wing (USA) 0% · 0–5
Progeny have won 8.5% of 4,330 runs since 2008 (330 horses).
Super Celebre (FR) 0% · 0–5
Progeny have won 4.4% of 228 runs since 2008 (44 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

latest 50 of 170 · newest first

The latest 50 of 170 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 20 September 2011 to 13 April 2016.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
13 Apr 16 Maisons-Laffitte (FR) Royale Way (FR)T: C Martinon Prix de Tarnos (Handicap) (5yo+) (Turf)12.5f · Heavy · 14 ran 7th 8/1
13 Apr 16 Maisons-Laffitte (FR) Galesburg (FR)T: C Martinon Prix de Castillon (Handicap) (5yo+) (Turf)12.5f · Heavy · 14 ran 10th 31/1
17 Dec 15 Deauville (FR) Royal Sun (FR)T: F Rohaut Prix de la Bourdonniere (Claimer) (4yo+) (Polytrack)7.5f · Standard · 10 ran 1st 42/10
17 Dec 15 Deauville (FR) Fenouplaisir (FR)T: D De Waele Prix de Marolles (Claimer) (2yo) (Polytrack)7.5f · Standard · 14 ran 12th 202/10
28 Oct 15 Maisons-Laffitte (FR) Guardian Angel (GER)T: Bruce Hellier Prix de Bazemont (Claimer) (4yo+) (Turf)12f · Heavy · 11 ran 5th 41/5
09 Oct 15 Chantilly (FR) Voler La Nuit (FR)T: P Capelle Prix de la Butte Ronde (Handicap) (4yo) (Turf)8f · Soft · 15 ran 11th 163/10
25 Sep 15 Saint-Cloud (FR) Voler La Nuit (FR)T: P Capelle Prix Chuchoteur (Handicap) (4yo) (Turf)10.5f · Very Soft · 14 ran 4th 43/1
05 Feb 15 Chantilly (FR) Spidermania (FR)T: G Perret Prix de Nointel (Handicap) (5yo+) (Polytrack)8f · Standard · 17 ran 13th 74/1
23 Jan 15 Chantilly (FR) Place Monge (FR)T: S Culin Prix du Vieux Chemin de Creil (Handicap) (5yo+) (Polytrack)14.5f · Standard · 16 ran 12th 75/1
23 Jan 15 Chantilly (FR) Guardian Angel (GER)T: Bruce Hellier Prix de l'Allee des Merisiers (Handicap) (4yo+) (Polytrack)10.5f · Standard · 16 ran 10th 131/10
13 Dec 14 Deauville (FR) First Company (FR)T: S Wattel Prix de Marolles (Claimer) (2yo) (Polytrack)7.5f · Standard · 16 ran 11th 58/10
03 Dec 14 Deauville (FR) Guardian Angel (GER)T: Bruce Hellier Prix de Marmouille (Handicap) (4yo+) (Polytrack)12.5f · Standard · 16 ran 7th 137/10
03 Dec 14 Deauville (FR) Broken Times (FR)T: D De Waele Prix de Monteillerie (Claimer) (3yo) (Polytrack)6.5f · Standard · 13 ran 8th 138/10
02 Dec 14 Deauville (FR) Borneo (IRE)T: Bruce Hellier Prix de Precolette (Conditions) (3yo Colts & Geldings) (Polytrack)12.5f · Standard · 14 ran 13th 40/1
29 Sep 14 Maisons-Laffitte (FR) Short Stack (IRE)T: C Martinon Prix de la Hume (Handicap) (4yo+) (Turf)15.5f · Very Soft · 20 ran 2nd 19/2
25 Sep 14 Maisons-Laffitte (FR) Ar Poulgwenn (IRE)T: J-C Rouget Prix de Marsinval (Claimer) (3yo) (Turf)12f · Good To Soft · 9 ran 2nd 31/10
22 Sep 14 Chantilly (FR) Short Stack (IRE)T: C Martinon Prix de Borest (Handicap) (5yo+) (Turf)12f · Soft · 16 ran 4th 43/5
04 Sep 14 Lyon-La Soie (FR) Someone Like You (FR)T: J Parize Prix de Saint-Cyr-les-Vignes (Maiden) (2yo) (Viscoride)9f · Standard · 9 ran 6th 45/1
27 Aug 14 Royan La Palmyre Christomax (FR)T: J Planque Prix de Saint Palais Sur Mer (Turf)14.5f · Good To Soft · 4 ran 2nd —
30 May 14 Maisons-Laffitte (FR) Royale De Juilley (FR)T: C Weber Prix La Bascoe (Handicap) (4yo) (Turf)12f · Very Soft · 17 ran 8th 14/1

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 Romain Auray's strike rate?
Romain Auray has won 14 of 170 rides since 2008, a strike rate of 8.2% (as at 29 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Romain Auray do best at?
Deauville (FR) by strike rate: 4 wins from 69 rides (5.8%) 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 Romain Auray ride most for?
J Heloury, with 82 rides since 2008 — 48% of the total. That pairing has won 3 (3.7%).
What is Romain Auray's Fair A/E?
1.30, from 149 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).