Ben Pauling
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%".
Sends out around 400 runners a season, almost all over hurdles and fences, winning with 17% of them — beating the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 1.05). Debutants are a strength: 20% on first career starts (151 runs).
The record is strongest at Ludlow (34.1%, n=44) and Ffos Las (28.6%, n=63) — all clear of the yard's 17.3% baseline. It is weakest at Cheltenham (5.8% over 138 runners) — the largest sample in the record, and the widest gap. A horse having headgear put back on after a bare run has been a poor signal at 11.3% (n=80, Fair A/E 0.94). Ben Jones rides 35% of the entries and edges the yard's average (20.3% vs 17.3%, A/E 1.07) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The yard also reads well in Chase races (23.6%, n=640). 38 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Ladbrokes King George VI Chase at Kempton (Dec 2025, £142,375). The stable star of the record: Northern Bound (IRE) — 11 wins from 46 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires Jun–Aug.
Yard patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 17.3% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 17.3% 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.
Notable angles
vs their own baselineRecord by conditions
same window as headerRace type
Going
Courses
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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.
Jumping record
completion over obstacles · same window as headerHorses trained
same window as header · most-raced firstCurrent form
significance-gatedLast 14 days
Small sampleWhen the yard fires
strike by month, 5 seasonsJockey bookings
same window · biggest samples firstCareer highlights
lifetime archive, 2013→Sires in the string
progeny record · win % by ground and tripThe record
latest 50 of 3,871 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 3,871 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 22 September 2013 to 21 October 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 Ben Pauling's strike rate?
- Ben Pauling has won 342 of 1,977 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 17.3% (as at 22 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does Ben Pauling do best at?
- Ffos Las by strike rate: 18 wins from 63 runners (28.6%) since 2022. Read from the 15 courses with the most runners 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.
- Who rides most for Ben Pauling?
- Ben Jones, with 701 runners since 2022 — 35% of the total. That pairing has won 142 (20.3%).
- Is Ben Pauling in form?
- Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 10 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
- What is Ben Pauling's Fair A/E?
- 1.05, from 1,975 runners 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.