David Rees
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 50 runners a season, almost all over hurdles and fences, winning with 11% of them — beating the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 1.07). Horses with headgear back on after a bare run strike at 14% (44 runs).
It is weakest at Taunton (3.3% over 30 runners) — the widest gap in the record. A horse having headgear put back on after a bare run has been a positive signal at 13.6% (n=44, Fair A/E 1.41), but debutants struggle at 0% (n=45, Fair A/E 0.00). Horses returning fresh after 61+ days are the standout value angle: 11.3% strikes only just above baseline, but Fair A/E 1.48 and +39.25 to a £1 stake over 230 runners — a record the market has persistently underpriced. Paul Moloney rides 20% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (12.2%, A/E 1.22) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The yard also reads well off a 0-7-day break (24%, n=50). The stable star of the record: Gardiners Hill (IRE) — 8 wins from 36 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires Mar–Apr.
Yard patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 10.6% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 10.6% 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
Class
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.
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, lifetimeJockey bookings
same window · biggest samples firstCareer highlights
lifetime archive, 2005→Sires in the string
progeny record · win % by ground and tripThe record
latest 50 of 1,162 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 1,162 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 24 January 2005 to 14 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 David Rees's strike rate?
- David Rees has won 107 of 1,014 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 10.6% (as at 25 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does David Rees do best at?
- Fontwell by strike rate: 6 wins from 42 runners (14.3%) since 2008. 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 David Rees?
- Paul Moloney, with 205 runners since 2008 — 20% of the total. That pairing has won 25 (12.2%).
- Is David Rees in form?
- Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 1 runner, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
- What is David Rees's Fair A/E?
- 1.07, from 1,014 runners 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.