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Jockey profile

R. P. Cleary

1,790 rides in the last 5 seasons · 763 individual horses
As at 11 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last ride 10 days ago 100% of rides on the flat
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)
from 1 Jan 2022
83–1,790
Wins / Runs
4.6%
Strike rate
n=1,790
295 (17%)
Placed
0.93
Fair A/E
n=1,790 · 0.75 incl. margin
−692.76
£1 level stake
n=1,790 at SP · −38.7%
£1.79m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
3.8%
KTB Rider Profile

Rides around 360 times a season, almost all on the flat, winning on 5% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 0.93). Riding last-time-out winners the record reads 11% (90 rides).

Deterministic profile computed from 1,790 archived runs (last 5 seasons) · updated 11 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance 23.4% when favourite J S Bolger: 5.3% from 434 LTO winners: 11.1% Rides the favourite in 3% of races
The read

Rides on last-time-out winners have been a positive signal at 11.1% (n=90, Fair A/E 1.15). J S Bolger supplies 24% of the rides and matches the rider's average almost exactly (5.3%, A/E 0.74). The rider also reads well off a 0-7-day break (8.7%, n=127). The record reads poorly on Good to Firm going — 0% over 40 rides, 4.6pts below the baseline. 16 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the rider has landed: the Tattersalls Irish 2,000 Guineas at Curragh (May 2021, £228,000). The standout partner of the record: Kodiac Prince (IRE) — 5 wins from 44 rides together.

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

Riding patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 4.6% baseline
First ride on the horse · first captured pairing
4.2%−0.4
n=698 · A/E 1.21 · £1 −234.67
Last-time-out winners · previous run was a win
11.1%+6.5
n=90 · A/E 1.15 · £1 +0.25
Fresh horses · 61+ days off
3.7%−0.9
n=323 · A/E 0.91 · £1 −204.50
When favourite
23.4%
n=47 · A/E 0.97 · £1 −9.22
Big fields · 14+ runners
3.9%−0.7
n=828 · A/E 0.90 · £1 −359.25
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
3.9%−0.7
n=77 · A/E 0.84 · £1 −23.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 4.6% 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
On last-time-out winners 11.1% vs 4.6% · n=90
With C&D winners 9.2% vs 4.6% · n=131
Off a 0-7-day break 8.7% vs 4.6% · n=127
With Kevin Thomas Coleman 9.6% vs 4.6% · n=52
With debutants 1% vs 4.6% · n=197
On Good to Firm going 0% vs 4.6% · n=40
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 545 22 4% −200.21
Standard (AW) 469 22 4.7% −197.75
Soft 411 23 5.6% −108.38
Heavy 175 10 5.7% −71.00
Good to Soft 150 6 4% −75.42
Good to Firm 40 0 0% −40.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Dundalk (AW) 466 22 4.7% −194.75
Curragh 268 8 3% −170.75
Leopardstown 148 7 4.7% −55.75
Navan 110 3 2.7% −46.50
Naas 109 7 6.4% −16.50
Gowran Park 107 8 7.5% −4.87
Cork 86 4 4.7% −12.75
Galway 70 5 7.1% −2.00
Roscommon 67 3 4.5% −44.00
Bellewstown 57 3 5.3% −18.67
Down Royal 52 3 5.8% +31.91
Limerick 39 0 0% −39.00
Fairyhouse 37 0 0% −37.00
Killarney 36 1 2.8% −21.00
Tipperary 32 1 3.1% −25.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 77 3 3.9% −23.00
Class 2 3 0 0% −3.00
Class 5 2 0 0% −2.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 67 14 20.9% 0.94 −14.22
2nd–3rd fav 147 19 12.9% 0.85 −42.54
4th–6th fav 357 22 6.2% 0.92 −108.00
7th+ in betting 1,219 28 2.3% 1.00 −528.00
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
Kodiac Prince (IRE) 23 3 8 16 Jun 24
Clever And Cool (IRE) 16 3 4 26 Sep 23
Numidia (IRE) 14 1 2 20 Jun 26
Step Back In Time (IRE) 13 2 3 21 Oct 26
Jackandthefox (IRE) 13 0 3 5 Sep 26
Calrissiana (GB) 13 1 2 12 Oct 25
Sli Na Ghealai (IRE) 13 2 6 9 Oct 24
Idomything (IRE) 12 1 1 3 Jul 26
Neo Smart (IRE) 12 1 2 3 Nov 24
Sylkie (GB) 11 2 4 29 Oct 26
Thatwilldoso (IRE) 11 4 9 18 Oct 26
Serious Challenge (IRE) 11 0 3 2 Jul 24
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 763 horses ridden in this window — each ran at least 6 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.

Current form

significance-gated

Last 14 days

Small sample
0 from 8
Only 8 rides in the last 14 days — too few to read against the baseline (gate: n≥15). The card states the sample and stays neutral.

By month

strike by month, 5 seasons
JFMAMJJASOND
425126475758
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 S Bolger
24% of all rides
5.3% SR · A/E 0.74
TrainerRWSR£1
J S Bolger 434 23 5.3% −241.71
Ms Sheila Lavery 92 4 4.3% −55.00
Adrian McGuinness 90 5 5.6% −47.00
Thomas Cleary 86 4 4.7% −34.25
C W J Farrell 84 3 3.6% +16.00
Kevin Thomas Coleman 52 5 9.6% −8.38
Miss Jennifer Anne Lynch 48 1 2.1% +19.00
Brendan W Duke 38 3 7.9% −2.50
Donal Kinsella 35 1 2.9% −25.00
Keith Henry Clarke 33 1 3% −4.00
Peter Lawlor 33 3 9.1% −0.50
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
394
Archived wins
16
Pattern / graded wins
£7.80m
Prize money
2008
Best season · 35 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.
Mac Swiney (IRE) — Tattersalls Irish 2,000 Guineas (Group 1) Curragh · May 2021 · Group 1
£228,000
Panstarr (GB) — Irish Stallion Farms EBF 'Northfields' Handicap Curragh · Sep 2017
£88,500
Moracana (IRE) — Irish Stallion Farms EBF 'Petingo' Handicap (Premier Handicap) Leopardstown · Sep 2022
£88,500
Notable horses
Kodiac Prince (IRE) Bluesbreaker (IRE) Kimbay (IRE) Miranda's Girl (IRE) General Bunching (USA) Cash Or Casualty (IRE)

Sires of the horses ridden

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Dawn Approach (IRE) 2.7% · 3–113
Progeny have won 8% of 3,580 runs since 2017 (359 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 12.6% from 333. Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 12% from 125. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 5% from 181.
Teofilo (IRE) 9.5% · 8–84
Progeny have won 12.5% of 10,092 runs since 2011 (908 horses). Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 7.2% from 628.
Vocalised (USA) 6.8% · 5–73
Progeny have won 6.7% of 2,033 runs since 2014 (172 horses).
Profitable (IRE) 3.9% · 2–51
Progeny have won 9.6% of 4,449 runs since 2021 (358 horses).
Kodiac (GB) 6% · 3–50
Progeny have won 10.4% of 23,604 runs since 2010 (1,666 horses). Strongest on Firm going: 14.3% from 147. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 7.1% from 254.
Belardo (IRE) 2.5% · 1–40
Progeny have won 10.2% of 3,746 runs since 2020 (281 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 11 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 8,510 · newest first

The latest 50 of 8,510 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 20 March 2005 to 1 November 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
01 Nov 26 Curragh (IRE) Camino Vino (IRE)T: Gavin Cromwell QuinnBet Finale Stakes (Listed)Class 1 · 12f · Yielding · 12 ran 12th 150/1
01 Nov 26 Curragh (IRE) Mapa (CAN)T: Ms Sheila Lavery Velo Coffee At The Curragh Maiden12f · Yielding · 19 ran 7th 200/1
01 Nov 26 Curragh (IRE) Buddy Batt (IRE)T: Tracey Collins Mongey Communications Sprint Handicap5f · Yielding To Soft · 13 ran 7th 8/1
01 Nov 26 Curragh (IRE) Silent Promise (IRE)T: Adrian McGuinness Irish EBF Maiden (Smullen Series)8f · Yielding To Soft · 23 ran 12th 150/1
30 Oct 26 Dundalk (AW) (IRE) Gaineamh Min (IRE)T: Sean Byrne View Restaurant At Dundalk Handicap5f · Standard · 14 ran 7th 80/1
30 Oct 26 Dundalk (AW) (IRE) Spotswood (IRE)T: Keith Henry Clarke Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden5f · Standard · 13 ran 6th 66/1
29 Oct 26 Punchestown (IRE) Kayamite (IRE)T: Chris Timmons See You At The GR1 Double Header – 21 & 22 November Handicap (Div II)7f · Yielding · 11 ran 10th 33/1
29 Oct 26 Punchestown (IRE) Sylkie (GB)T: Daniel John Howard Punchestown Premiere Weekend Sat 21 & Sun 22 November Handicap8f · Yielding · 14 ran 2nd 11/1
28 Oct 26 Dundalk (AW) (IRE) Essential Comedy (IRE)T: Ms Claire O'Connell Happy Halloween Handicap12f · Standard · 13 ran 7th 50/1
28 Oct 26 Dundalk (AW) (IRE) Violet Dove (IRE)T: Kevin Thomas Coleman Irish Stallion Farms EBF Auction Maiden6f · Standard · 13 ran 5th 80/1
28 Oct 26 Dundalk (AW) (IRE) Strikepoint (IRE)T: John James Feane Christmas Party Nights At Dundalk Stadium Handicap (Div II)7f · Standard · 13 ran 3rd 4/1
28 Oct 26 Dundalk (AW) (IRE) Cash On Black (IRE)T: Miss Jennifer Anne Lynch Christmas Party Nights At Dundalk Stadium Handicap (Div I)7f · Standard · 14 ran 14th 33/1
28 Oct 26 Dundalk (AW) (IRE) Bettercalltheboss (IRE)T: Miss Jennifer Anne Lynch Irishinjuredjockeys.com Fillies Maiden7f · Standard · 14 ran 13th 200/1
21 Oct 26 Navan (IRE) Goodie Girl (IRE)T: Dermot A McLoughlin Navan Racecourse Handicap14f · Yielding · 23 ran 12th 33/1
21 Oct 26 Navan (IRE) Lion Of Fortune (IRE)T: Kieran P Cotter Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden5f · Yielding · 10 ran 10th 66/1
21 Oct 26 Navan (IRE) Step Back In Time (IRE)T: Chris Timmons Christmas Parties At Navan Racecourse 5th & 13th December Handicap6f · Yielding · 21 ran 12th 20/1
20 Oct 26 Curragh (IRE) Dark Willow (IRE)T: Mrs Mary Whelehan Always Gambling Responsibly With 1xBet.ie Handicap8f · Yielding · 23 ran 23rd 50/1
19 Oct 26 Gowran Park (IRE) Dropping Dimes (IRE)T: Jarlath P Fahey Golf At Gowran Park Nursery Handicap7f · Yielding · 12 ran 9th 18/1
18 Oct 26 Leopardstown (IRE) Thatwilldoso (IRE)T: Kevin Thomas Coleman Bahrain Turf Club October Handicap11.5f · Good · 15 ran 2nd 12/1
17 Oct 26 Leopardstown (IRE) Hypiradon (IRE)T: Kevin Thomas Coleman Irish Stallion Farms EBF Nursery Handicap8.5f · Good · 7 ran 6th 22/1

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 R. P. Cleary's strike rate?
R. P. Cleary has won 83 of 1,790 rides since 2022, a strike rate of 4.6% (as at 11 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does R. P. Cleary do best at?
Gowran Park by strike rate: 8 wins from 107 rides (7.5%) 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 R. P. Cleary ride most for?
J S Bolger, with 434 rides since 2022 — 24% of the total. That pairing has won 23 (5.3%).
Is R. P. Cleary in form?
Too few rides in the last 14 days to read — 8 rides, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is R. P. Cleary's Fair A/E?
0.93, from 1,790 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 11 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).