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Jockey profile

S M McGovern

47 rides in the lifetime window · 32 individual horses
As at 6 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last ride Dec 2008 100% of rides over jumps
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2008→)
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.
0–47
Wins / Runs
0%
Strike rate
n=47
5 (11%)
Placed
0.00
Fair A/E
n=47 · 0.00 incl. margin
−47.00
£1 level stake
n=47 at SP · −100.0%
£13,208
Prize money (window)

Riding patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 0% baseline
First ride on the horse · first captured pairing
0%+0.0
n=22 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −22.00
Fresh horses · 61+ days off
0%+0.0
n=12 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −12.00
When favourite
0%
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00
Claiming rides · riding with a claim
0%+0.0
n=36 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −36.00
Big fields · 14+ runners
0%+0.0
n=40 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −40.00
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%+0.0
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 0% 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.

Record by conditions

same window as header

Race type

TypeRWSR£1
Hurdle 41 0 0% −41.00
Chase 6 0 0% −6.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Heavy 19 0 0% −19.00
Soft 18 0 0% −18.00
Good to Firm 3 0 0% −3.00
Good 3 0 0% −3.00
Firm 2 0 0% −2.00
Good to Soft 2 0 0% −2.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Down Royal 8 0 0% −8.00
Fairyhouse 6 0 0% −6.00
Downpatrick 5 0 0% −5.00
Punchestown 5 0 0% −5.00
Naas 4 0 0% −4.00
Cork 3 0 0% −3.00
Navan 3 0 0% −3.00
Thurles 3 0 0% −3.00
Clonmel 2 0 0% −2.00
Leopardstown 2 0 0% −2.00
Limerick 2 0 0% −2.00
Sligo 2 0 0% −2.00
Gowran Park 1 0 0% −1.00
Tramore 1 0 0% −1.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 1 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 1 0 0% 0.00 −1.00
2nd–3rd fav 3 0 0% 0.00 −3.00
4th–6th fav 6 0 0% 0.00 −6.00
7th+ in betting 37 0 0% 0.00 −37.00
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.

Jumping record

completion over obstacles · same window as header
83% completed · 47 obstacle rides (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Chase 6 83.3% 0 0 1 0 0
Hurdle 41 82.9% 0 1 5 0 1
Chases and hurdles only — bumpers have no obstacles, so completion is not a question there. F fell · UR unseated rider · PU pulled up · BD brought down · Oth covers refusals, slip-ups, run-outs and the rare disqualification. Non-runners are excluded throughout. Rows under n=30 are shown faded. A descriptive record, not a tip.

Horses ridden

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Sea Beauty (IRE) 5 0 2 15 Mar 08
Andrew's Hill (IRE) 4 0 0 30 May 08
Williamtown Lad (IRE) 4 0 0 27 Mar 08
Newport Boy (IRE) 3 0 0 21 May 08
Walls Of Jericho (IRE) 2 0 0 19 Dec 08
On Borrowed Time (IRE) 2 0 0 30 May 08
Deskelly Interiors (IRE) 2 0 0 14 Apr 08
Gogo Gizmo (IRE) 1 0 0 26 Dec 08
Stretch The Truth (IRE) 1 0 0 26 Dec 08
Tumbling Dice (IRE) 1 0 1 14 Dec 08
Billy No Mates (IRE) 1 0 0 14 Dec 08
Waterloo Chateau (IRE) 1 0 1 9 Nov 08
All 32 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
JFMAMJJASOND
0000000··000
A jumps rider: the season runs Oct–Apr. Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Riding for

same window · biggest samples first
TrainerRWSR£1
Patrick Allen 10 0 0% −10.00
T J Taaffe 10 0 0% −10.00
Adrian Maguire 8 0 0% −8.00
Oliver Finnegan 5 0 0% −5.00
H Smyth 3 0 0% −3.00
M V Manning 2 0 0% −2.00
Victor Wilson 2 0 0% −2.00
P J Rothwell 1 0 0% −1.00
L Byrne 1 0 0% −1.00
Paul W Flynn 1 0 0% −1.00
Patrick O Brady 1 0 0% −1.00
Stephen Ryan 1 0 0% −1.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
14
Archived wins
1
Pattern / graded wins
£241k
Prize money
2005
Best season · 8 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.
Tumbling Dice (IRE) — O'Connell Logistics Hilly Way Chase (Grade 2) Cork · Dec 2006 · Grade 2
£39,060
Solar System (IRE) — Coonan Cawley Solicitors Handicap Chase (0-140) Punchestown · Nov 2005
£18,879
Maralan (IRE) — Finnegan & McGovern Furniture Handicap Hurdle (81-123) Navan · Feb 2006
£12,784
Notable horses
Beautiful Vision (IRE) Miss Kilkeel (IRE) Rapid Flyer (IRE) General Alarm (GB) Streetshavenoname (IRE) Maralan (IRE)

Sires of the horses ridden

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Bob's Return (IRE) 0% · 0–5
Progeny have won 8.5% of 2,268 runs since 2008 (219 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 11.8% from 254.
Anshan (GB) 0% · 0–4
Progeny have won 9.6% of 4,216 runs since 2008 (387 horses). Strongest on Good to Firm going: 14.2% from 520.
Houmayoun (FR) 0% · 0–4
Progeny have won 4.2% of 285 runs since 2008 (40 horses).
Montjeu (IRE) 0% · 0–3
Progeny have won 12.3% of 7,971 runs since 2008 (665 horses). Strongest on Heavy going: 16.3% from 686.
Old Vic (GB) 0% · 0–3
Progeny have won 11.7% of 6,916 runs since 2008 (630 horses).
Oscar (IRE) 0% · 0–3
Progeny have won 10.9% of 16,543 runs since 2008 (1,456 horses). Strongest on Standard (AW) going: 18.1% from 105.
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 223 · newest first

The latest 50 of 223 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 2 January 2005 to 26 December 2008.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
26 Dec 08 Leopardstown Stretch The Truth (IRE)T: T J Taaffe Durkan New Homes 4-y-o Maiden Hurdle18f · Soft · 28 ran UR 33/1
26 Dec 08 Leopardstown Gogo Gizmo (IRE)T: T J Taaffe Durkan New Homes Maiden Hurdle18f · Soft · 23 ran 13th 66/1
19 Dec 08 Downpatrick Walls Of Jericho (IRE)T: T J Taaffe INH Stallion Owners EBF Maiden Hurdle18.5f · Yielding · 15 ran 7th 25/1
14 Dec 08 Cork Billy No Mates (IRE)T: T J Taaffe J.b.c. Maiden Hurdle16f · Heavy · 20 ran 17th 33/1
14 Dec 08 Cork Tumbling Dice (IRE)T: T J Taaffe O'Connell Logistics Hilly Way Chase (Grade 2)16f · Heavy · 12 ran 3rd 20/1
03 Dec 08 Fairyhouse Walls Of Jericho (IRE)T: T J Taaffe Membership 2009 Maiden Hurdle (Div 1)18f · Soft To Heavy · 14 ran 11th 66/1
09 Nov 08 Limerick Waterloo Chateau (IRE)T: T J Taaffe Martinstown Opportunity Maiden Hurdle16f · Heavy · 18 ran 3rd 6/4F
29 Oct 08 Punchestown Knocklayde Vic (IRE)T: T J Taaffe Tote Sports Lounge Novice Hurdle16f · Soft To Heavy · 20 ran 9th 25/1
25 Oct 08 Naas Inagh Valley (IRE)T: T J Taaffe Naas Annual Membership Maiden Hurdle16f · Soft To Heavy · 22 ran 6th 33/1
14 Jul 08 Downpatrick Born Supreme (IRE)T: T J Taaffe Magners Cider Handicap Hurdle (77-90)18f · Good · 15 ran 11th 14/1
22 Jun 08 Down Royal Insan Flyer (IRE)T: Victor Wilson Club Tonic Hurdle16f · Yielding · 5 ran 2nd 5/1
20 Jun 08 Down Royal West End Wonder (IRE)T: H Smyth Finlay Communications Handicap Hurdle (81-102)16f · Good To Firm · 18 ran 12th 25/1
30 May 08 Down Royal Andrew's Hill (IRE)T: Oliver Finnegan Fone Logistics Opportunity Handicap Hurdle (81-102)20f · Firm · 13 ran 5th 25/1
30 May 08 Down Royal On Borrowed Time (IRE)T: H Smyth O2 Opportunity Maiden Hurdle16f · Firm · 19 ran REF 33/1
21 May 08 Sligo Newport Boy (IRE)T: Patrick Allen Fiddlers Creek Bar & Rest (C & G) Maiden Hurdle18f · Good To Firm · 14 ran 7th 12/1
09 May 08 Downpatrick On Borrowed Time (IRE)T: H Smyth Magners Cider Maiden Hurdle18.5f · Good · 15 ran PU 16/1
07 May 08 Punchestown Andrew's Hill (IRE)T: Oliver Finnegan K.S.P.C.A. Maiden Hurdle (Div 2)24f · Good To Firm · 21 ran 12th 33/1
04 May 08 Sligo (IRE) Frankly Supreme (IRE)T: Victor Wilson Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders' Fund Hurdle16f · Heavy · 9 ran 6th 20/1
23 Apr 08 Punchestown December Sun (IRE)T: L Byrne Martinstown Opportunity Final Handicap Hurdle (81-123)20f · Good To Yielding · 25 ran 12th 25/1
14 Apr 08 Tramore Deskelly Interiors (IRE)T: M V Manning Saltan Properties Handicap Chase (0-95)22f · Good · 16 ran 6th 33/1

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 S M McGovern's strike rate?
S M McGovern has won 0 of 47 rides since 2008, a strike rate of 0% (as at 6 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
What is S M McGovern's Fair A/E?
0.00, from 47 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).