F-M Cottin
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%".
Sent out around 280 runners a season, almost all over hurdles and fences, winning with 9% of them — level with the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 1.02).
The record is strongest at Pau (31.1%, n=45) and Cagnes-Sur-Mer (19.6%, n=51) — all clear of the yard's 8.9% baseline. A horse in first-time headgear has been a poor signal at 4.4% (n=136, Fair A/E 0.84). The market has consistently overbet debutants: 6% strike, Fair A/E 0.50 and −140.35 to a £1 stake over 403 runners — those runners underperformed what the price implied. Regis Schmidlin rode 24% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (8.3%, A/E 0.96). 84 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Gras Savoye Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris at Auteuil (FR) (May 2008, £271,324). The stable star of the record was Corazones (FR) — 8 wins from 39 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fired Jun–Jul.
Yard patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 8.9% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 8.9% 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 firstWhen 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 4,176 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 4,176 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 9 January 2005 to 5 July 2021.
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 F-M Cottin's strike rate?
- F-M Cottin has won 355 of 3,989 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 8.9% (as at 15 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does F-M Cottin do best at?
- Pau by strike rate: 14 wins from 45 runners (31.1%) 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 F-M Cottin?
- Regis Schmidlin, with 962 runners since 2008 — 24% of the total. That pairing has won 80 (8.3%).
- What is F-M Cottin's Fair A/E?
- 1.02, from 3,627 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.