Chelmsford City Racecourse Tips
Chelmsford City Racecourse is based in Essex and is one of seven 'All-Weather' tracks in the United Kingdom. It has a Polytrack surface and was originally known as Great Leighs before its closure for a few years and opening under the new banner.
Type of Racing: Flat only, floodlights enable the course to stage numerous evening race meetings throughout the year.
Highlights: Family Fun Day on Bank Holiday Monday at the end of August, when 50% of admission fees go to the Macmillan charity. Check out the dates for future Chelmsford races by going to the official Chelmsford City Racecourse website.
TV Channel: Racing TV
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Read on below for useful Chelmsford top trainer and jockey stats, plus informative hints and tips for Chelmsford races to help you get the most out of your betting experience.
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* All statistics below are based on the previous five years at Chelmsford City
Chelmsford City Outright Favourite Statistics
- AW Handicaps: 348-1139 (31%) -131.80
- AW Non-Handicaps: 147-361 (41%) -75.86
Chelmsford City Racecourse Map
Left-handed Polytrack, a pure oval with sweeping bends, makes it a good track for galloping types. Kickback has been a major issue, resulting in coming off the pace being more difficult. Changes are being made to make this less of a hindrance.
Races over 7f and 8f are run from different chutes, with the milers negotiating an extra bend. It often pays to follow horses that are up with the pace, as producing a turn of foot in the closing stages can be difficult.
Chelmsford Racecourse Address: Chelmsford City Racecourse, Chelmsford CM3 1QP
Chelmsford Racecourse Telephone: 01245 360300
To buy tickets for a race day at Chelmsford, head over to their official ticket booking webpage.
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Chelmsford City Draw Bias
✅ Backing stall 9 at Chelmsford City over a trip of 1m2f is the most profitable stall and trip combination at Chelmsford City, returning an LSP of +74.58 over the last five years.
❌ When breaking Chelmsford City down into trips, you can look at which stall and trip combination has produced the worst LSP. That would be stall 5 over a trip of 1m2f, which has, over the last five years, produced an LSP of -221.71.
Here we have the draw bias for Chelmsford City taken into consideration in races with ten or more runners. We will break down the figures by race trips. Draws can be much more important in shorter trips, where runners do not have time to find their position during the race, meaning the draw is probably more important than in races over longer distances.
- Sprints (5f to 7½f)
- Mile (1m to 1m1½f)
- Middle Distance (1m2f to 1m5½f)
The following table shows a breakdown of a group of trips and shows how each position of the draw does, for example, in a twelve-runner race would be Low (Stalls 1-4), Mid (Stalls 5-8) and High (Stalls 9-12). The positions will always be the lowest stall number to the highest.
Chelmsford Jockey and Trainer Statistics
Who are the best all-weather jockeys and trainers to bet on at Chelmsford City?
Following Richard Hughes would have returned a profit here at Chelmsford City with an LSP of +79.41, and their forty-five winners have them at the head of the profitable trainers' list. M Appleby leads the trainers' list overall with fifty-six winners, but shows an overall loss. Henry Spiller is the trainer to follow at Chelmsford City if you are backing eachway, as they show the best LSP of all the trainers in the eachway markets, that is +55.80, which is courtesy of their sixty-five placings (twenty-seven winners). At the other end of the spectrum is P S McEntee, who has a terrible record at Chelmsford City of all the trainers; their LSP of -139.29 is the worst, they have a 7% strike rate with eighteen winners from two hundred sixty-four runners.
With a total number of sixty-three winners at Chelmsford City, Rossa Ryan leads the way for winners from jockeys who have shown a profit (+13.01) for all of their rides at Chelmsford City. With an eachway LSP of +39.42 at Chelmsford City, William Carver leads the jockeys in profit for backing eachway, which has been helped by their fourteen placings, which include a total of four winners. A total of thirty-five winners from three hundred thirty-one rides at Chelmsford City has D Muscutt at the wrong end of the jockeys' list with their 11% strike rate and worst LSP of -135.45.
Chelmsford City Picks & Hints
Here are some factors at Chelmsford City for certain trainers or jockeys which have been profitable:
- 7-17 (41%) +26.03 - Backing Jack Gilligan rides when in a Handicap race
- 6-10 (60%) +24.17 - Backing Charlie Appleby runners when over a trip of 7f
- 6-9 (67%) +22.68 - Backing M L W Bell runners when over a trip of 1m5½f
- 12-27 (44%) +17.83 - Backing J H M Gosden runners when over a trip of 7f
Chelmsford City Top Jockey and Trainer Combinations
Here are the best trainer and jockey combinations here at Chelmsford City, based on the number of winners:
- 18 Wins: S C Williams & Marco Ghiani
- 16 Wins: Alice Haynes & K T O'Neill
- 16 Wins: Archie Watson & Hollie Doyle
- 15 Wins: J H M Gosden & Robert Havlin
- 14 Wins: Richard Hughes & Finley Marsh
Chelmsford City Top Trainers By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit
| Trainer | R-W-P | Win | EW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Hughes | 210-45-99 | +79.41 | +44.95 |
| Charlie Johnston | 196-37-72 | +4.14 | -9.10 |
| R M H Cowell | 197-27-61 | +82.92 | +33.45 |
| Henry Spiller | 184-27-65 | +100.33 | +55.80 |
| Jane Chapple-Hyam | 169-26-59 | +13.85 | +12.93 |
| E A L Dunlop | 217-21-66 | +15.37 | +1.69 |
| D O'Meara | 143-21-58 | +6.62 | -0.10 |
| R M Beckett | 81-19-38 | +10.74 | +5.47 |
| Charlie Appleby | 58-18-31 | +2.07 | -3.02 |
| P D Evans | 134-17-49 | +28.99 | +6.99 |
Chelmsford City Top Jockeys By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit
| Jockey | R-W-P | Win | EW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rossa Ryan | 315-63-137 | +13.01 | +6.79 |
| Luke Morris | 528-51-140 | +18.54 | -47.02 |
| Jack Mitchell | 281-50-109 | +2.12 | -12.51 |
| Callum Shepherd | 329-47-115 | +24.49 | +3.46 |
| Hector Crouch | 164-31-72 | +14.15 | +6.95 |
| Richard Kingscote | 175-29-74 | +32.82 | +11.97 |
| R Dawson | 149-28-59 | +50.10 | +17.41 |
| Cieren Fallon | 179-27-61 | +2.78 | -8.28 |
| Kevin Stott | 91-25-48 | +14.07 | +11.44 |
| S M Levey | 161-17-59 | +11.75 | +4.79 |
With a huge combined experience of horse racing between them, this content has been created and is maintained by Darren Brett, James Banting and Andy Powell.
*All of the data for Chelmsford City Racecourse, which includes the trainer and jockey statistics, has been created using statistics available from HorseRaceBase. The data includes all races throughout the last five years (2021 to 2025).
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