E J O'Grady
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 100 runners a season, winning with 6% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across five seasons (Fair A/E 0.82). The edge shows sharpest with horses returning fresh: 9% off breaks of two months or more (109 runs).
It is weakest at Punchestown (0% over 31 runners) — the widest gap in the record. Horses returning fresh after 61+ days have been a positive signal at 9.2% (n=109, Fair A/E 1.42). The market has consistently overbet runners with a claiming rider up: 5.4% strike, Fair A/E 0.74 and −89.12 to a £1 stake over 147 runners — those runners underperform what the price implies. Mark McDonagh rides 15% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (8%, A/E 1.48) — the partnership beats the margin-free market read. The yard also reads well over 2m5f – 3m (13.6%, n=44) and off a break of 180+ days (12.2%, n=49). The record reads poorly over 1m2f – 1m4f — 0% over 34 runners, 6.2pts below the baseline. 45 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Paddy Power Gold Cup Chase Grade 3 at Cheltenham (Nov 2009, £85,515). The stable star of the record: Catch Me (GER) — 11 wins from 53 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires Aug–Sep.
Yard patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 6.2% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 6.2% 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
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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 firstWhen the yard fires
strike by month, 5 seasonsJockey 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 4,348 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 4,348 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 2 January 2005 to 25 July 2025.
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 E J O'Grady's strike rate?
- E J O'Grady has won 30 of 487 runners since 2022, a strike rate of 6.2% (as at 22 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does E J O'Grady do best at?
- Clonmel by strike rate: 3 wins from 34 runners (8.8%) 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 E J O'Grady?
- Mark McDonagh, with 75 runners since 2022 — 15% of the total. That pairing has won 6 (8%).
- What is E J O'Grady's Fair A/E?
- 0.82, from 487 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.