Robin Bastiman
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 110 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 7% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 0.81). In Group and Graded company the record reads 16% (37 runs).
In Group and Graded company the record reads well at 16.2% (n=37, Fair A/E 1.19), but debutants struggle at 0% (n=39, Fair A/E 0.00). The market has consistently overbet runners with a claiming rider up: 3.8% strike, Fair A/E 0.54 and −176.88 to a £1 stake over 263 runners — those runners underperformed what the price implied. Lee Newman rode 11% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (6.7%, A/E 0.84). The yard also read well in Class 1 (16.2%, n=37) and off a 0-7-day break (14.3%, n=35). 6 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes at York (Aug 2009, £136,248). The stable star of the record was Borderlescott (GB) — 13 wins from 76 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fired Aug–Sep.
Yard patterns
the angles behind the record · vs 6.8% baselineEach tile is the record in that situation vs the 6.8% 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
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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 1,249 · newest firstThe latest 50 of 1,249 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 5 January 2005 to 20 January 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 Robin Bastiman's strike rate?
- Robin Bastiman has won 58 of 857 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 6.8% (as at 3 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
- Which course does Robin Bastiman do best at?
- Thirsk by strike rate: 5 wins from 39 runners (12.8%) 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 Robin Bastiman?
- Lee Newman, with 90 runners since 2008 — 11% of the total. That pairing has won 6 (6.7%).
- What is Robin Bastiman's Fair A/E?
- 0.81, from 849 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.