Pat Eddery
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 140 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 9% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.92).
A horse in first-time headgear has been a poor signal at 2.6% (n=39, Fair A/E 0.38). The market has consistently overbet horses returning fresh after 61+ days: 5.7% strike, Fair A/E 0.79 and −75.75 to a £1 stake over 157 runners — those runners underperformed what the price implied. Paul Eddery rode 13% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (9.6%, A/E 0.90). The yard also read well over 1m5f – 2m (18.3%, n=93). The record read poorly off a break of 180+ days — 0% over 44 runners, 8.7pts below the baseline. One Group or Graded win sits in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Prix Francois Boutin at Deauville (FR) (Aug 2009, £26,699). The stable star of the record was Captain John Nixon (GB) — 7 wins from 16 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fired Mar–Apr.
Yard patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 8.7% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 8.7% baseline — descriptive splits with the sample always shown, for you to weigh. 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. The same beliefs, tested across every yard and every GB and Irish race since 2005: Racing myths.
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.
Horses 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 1,368 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 1,368 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 10 December 2005 to 7 November 2015.
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 Pat Eddery's strike rate?
- Pat Eddery has won 94 of 1,086 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 8.7% (as at 5 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does Pat Eddery do best at?
- Sandown by strike rate: 4 wins from 31 runners (12.9%) 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 Pat Eddery?
- Paul Eddery, with 136 runners since 2008 — 13% of the total. That pairing has won 13 (9.6%).
- What is Pat Eddery's Fair A/E?
- 0.92, from 1,076 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.