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Ben James

3 runners in the last 5 seasons · 2 individual horses
As at 15 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Mar 2022 100% of runners on the flat
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2021→)
from 1 Jan 2022
0–3
Wins / Runs
0%
Strike rate
n=3
0 (0%)
Placed
0.00
Fair A/E
n=3 · 0.00 incl. margin
−3.00
£1 level stake
n=3 at SP · −100.0%
£444
Prize money (window)

Small sample — fewer than 30 runs in this window. Read the Ns before the percentages.

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 0% baseline
Debutants · first career start
0%+0.0
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
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, not tips. Tiles under 30 runs render muted. Headgear figures use the true-first definition (first gear appearance in the captured career); returns are gear back on after a bare run. Claiming riders are runs where the booked rider carried a weight claim. Group / Graded covers pattern and listed races.

Record by conditions

same window as header

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Lingfield (AW) 1 0 0% −1.00
Southwell (AW) 1 0 0% −1.00
Kempton (AW) 1 0 0% −1.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
4th–6th fav 2 0 0% 0.00 −2.00
7th+ in betting 1 0 0% 0.00 −1.00
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 trained

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Stiletto (GB)from John Gosden · then Keiran Burke 2 0 0 26 Feb 22
Whitcombe Rockstar (GB)then Keiran Burke 1 0 0 2 Mar 22
All 2 horses sent out 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.
Where they came from · where they went next

Of the 2 horses listed, 1 arrived from another yard in our archive; 1 had its first archived run for this yard.

2 have since run for another yard, most often for Keiran Burke (2).

Read from each listed horse's whole archived career (2005 onwards), not only this window, and counted over the horses listed above, not the whole string. “First archived run” means our archive holds nothing earlier, not that the horse was unraced. A horse with no later run elsewhere may still be here, be off the track, or have run somewhere our archive does not cover — none of that is asserted.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first
RiderRWSR£1
Adam McNamara 2 0 0% −2.00
Richard Kingscote 1 0 0% −1.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2021→
3
Archived wins
£11,696
Prize money
2021
Best season · 3 wins
Vitalline (GB) — Free Replays On Attheraces.com Handicap Lingfield (AW) · Sep 2021 · Class 5
£3,240
Vitalline (GB) — Try Our New Price Boosts At Unibet Handicap Kempton (AW) · Aug 2021 · Class 6
£2,322
Vitalline (GB) — Visit attheraces.com/marketmovers Handicap (Div 2) Lingfield · Jun 2021 · Class 6
£2,322
Notable horses
Vitalline (GB)

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Frankel (GB) 0% · 0–2
Progeny have won 18% of 7,475 runs since 2008 (870 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 12.5% from 321. Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 12.4% from 266.
Footstepsinthesand (GB) 0% · 0–1
Progeny have won 10.2% of 12,765 runs since 2008 (936 horses). Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 6.9% from 320.
Top line: the yard'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 15 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 15 archived runs · newest first

Every one of Ben James's 15 archived runners, from 8 June 2021 to 2 March 2022, newest first — 3 winners among them.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
02 Mar 22 Kempton (AW) Whitcombe Rockstar (GB)J: Adam McNamara Unibet Novice Stakes (GBB Race)Class 5 · 8f · Standard To Slow · 12 ran 4th 100/1
26 Feb 22 Lingfield (AW) Stiletto (GB)J: Richard Kingscote BetYourWay At Betway HandicapClass 5 · 10f · Standard · 8 ran 8th 10/1
27 Jan 22 Southwell (AW) Stiletto (GB)J: Adam McNamara BetYourWay At Betway HandicapClass 5 · 12f · Standard To Slow · 9 ran 9th 14/1
29 Nov 21 Wolverhampton (AW) Stiletto (GB)J: Adam McNamara Read Katie Walsh On Betway Insider HandicapClass 5 · 9.5f · Standard · 12 ran 7th 11/1
24 Nov 21 Kempton (AW) Petite Joe (GB)J: Tom Marquand Try Our New Super Boosts At Unibet NurseryClass 5 · 8f · Standard To Slow · 13 ran 6th 6/1
20 Nov 21 Wolverhampton (AW) Vitalline (GB)J: Mark Crehan MansionBet Proud Partners Of AWC HandicapClass 4 · 7f · Standard To Fast · 12 ran 8th 11/1
29 Oct 21 Kempton (AW) Petite Joe (GB)J: Kieran Shoemark Unibet/British Stallion Studs EBF Restricted Novice Stakes (Div 2) (GBB Race)Class 5 · 7f · Standard To Slow · 13 ran 4th 25/1
21 Oct 21 Wolverhampton (AW) Petite Joe (GB)J: Rob Hornby Play Coral Racing-Super-Series For Free EBF Restricted Novice Stakes (GBB Race)Class 5 · 7f · Standard · 12 ran 8th 22/1
20 Oct 21 Kempton (AW) Vitalline (GB)J: Thomas Greatrex Unibet 3 Uniboosts A Day HandicapClass 4 · 7f · Standard To Slow · 13 ran 4th 9/1
11 Sep 21 Lingfield (AW) Vitalline (GB)J: Thomas Greatrex Free Replays On Attheraces.com HandicapClass 5 · 7f · Standard · 9 ran 1st 11/4F
18 Aug 21 Kempton (AW) Petite Joe (GB)J: Pat Cosgrave racingtv.com EBF Restricted Novice Stakes (GBB Race)Class 4 · 7f · Standard To Slow · 14 ran 9th 25/1
18 Aug 21 Kempton (AW) Vitalline (GB)J: Hollie Doyle Try Our New Price Boosts At Unibet HandicapClass 6 · 7f · Standard To Slow · 13 ran 1st 11/8F
26 Jul 21 Lingfield Vitalline (GB)J: Oisin Murphy Read Kevin Blake On attheraces.com HandicapClass 6 · 7.5f · Good To Soft · 6 ran 2nd 6/5F
28 Jun 21 Lingfield Vitalline (GB)J: Hollie Doyle Visit attheraces.com/marketmovers Handicap (Div 2)Class 6 · 7f · Soft · 9 ran 1st 15/2
08 Jun 21 Salisbury Vitalline (GB)J: Hollie Doyle MansionBet Proud To Support British Racing HandicapClass 6 · 6f · Good To Firm · 9 ran 7th 7/1

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 Ben James's strike rate?
Ben James has won 0 of 3 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 0% (as at 15 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive. A small sample — fewer than 30 runners, so read the count before the percentage.
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 15 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).