Simon Planque
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 40 times a season, almost all on the flat, winning on 9% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.94). When claiming the record reads 14% (222 rides).
Claiming rides have been a positive signal at 13.5% (n=222, Fair A/E 1.03), but rides in big fields of 14 or more have been a poor signal at 3.3% (n=275, Fair A/E 0.50). A & G Botti supplies 9% of the rides and beats the rider's average (14.5% vs 8.8%, A/E 1.26) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. 4 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the rider has landed: the Prix de Beaune at Compiegne (FR) (Oct 2025, £36,446). Seasonally, the rider fires Sep–Oct.
Riding patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 8.8% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 8.8% 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 baselineRecord by conditions
same window as headerRace type
Going
Courses
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Market position
Distance
By season
Handicaps
Field size
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 firstBy month
strike by month, lifetimeRiding for
same window · biggest samples firstCareer highlights
lifetime archive, 2020→Sires of the horses ridden
progeny record · win % by ground and tripThe record
latest 50 of 671 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 671 archived rides, newest first. The full record runs from 19 September 2020 to 30 January 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 Simon Planque's strike rate?
- Simon Planque has won 59 of 671 rides since 2008, a strike rate of 8.8% (as at 8 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does Simon Planque do best at?
- Chantilly (FR) by strike rate: 21 wins from 191 rides (11%) 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 Simon Planque ride most for?
- A & G Botti, with 62 rides since 2008 — 9% of the total. That pairing has won 9 (14.5%).
- What is Simon Planque's Fair A/E?
- 0.94, from 669 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.