Pontefract Tips and Racecourse Guide
Pontefract in West Yorkshire stages around 16 meetings a year from April through to October.
Highlights: Pontefract plays host to five listed races, the Flying Fillies Stakes (August), Pipalong Stakes (July), Pontefract Castle Stakes (June), Pomfret Stakes (July), and Silver Tankard Stakes (October).
Type of Racing: Flat only.
TV Channel: Racing TV
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Horses that are drawn low at Pontefract generally do have an advantage, especially over sprint trips, as they are covering less ground on this left-handed track. When the ground is soft, the draw bias is less pronounced as runners tend to come to the stand side after the turn into the home straight.
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* All statistics below are based on the previous five years at Pontefract
Pontefract Outright Favourite Statistics
- Flat Handicaps: 128-367 (35%) +21.19
- Flat Non-Handicaps: 52-121 (43%) -21.42
Pontefract Racecourse Map
Flat: left-handed oval-shaped course, undulating in nature.
The final three furlongs are uphill, which emphasises stamina. You could argue that the course is generally stiff, and saving ground is important.
Pontefract Racecourse Address: Pontefract Park, Park Rd, Pontefract WF8 4QD
Pontefract Racecourse Telephone: 01977 781307
To buy tickets for a race day at Pontefract, head over to their official ticket booking webpage.
Pontefract Draw Bias
✅ Backing stall 5 at Pontefract over a trip of 1m2f is the most profitable stall and trip combination at Pontefract, returning an LSP of +99.54 over the last five years.
❌ For the least profitable stall at Pontefract, you need to look at races over 6f and focus on stall 3 as this has produced an LSP of -93.76 over the last five years.
Here we have the draw bias for Pontefract 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.
Pontefract Jockey & Trainer Statistics
Who are the best flat jockeys and trainers to bet on at Pontefract?
When looking at profitable trainers only, then it is P T Midgley who leads the way with a total of eighteen winners producing an LSP of +37.50, whilst T D Easterby leads the overall list with thirty-eight winners but shows a loss overall. When looking at trainers and looking for some eachway value at Pontefract, then the trainer who shows the best eachway profit is B M R Haslam, that LSP is +58.21, which has been accumulated by a total of twenty placings, which includes six winners. The trainer with the worst record at Pontefract based on LSP is T D Easterby, who has only a 10% strike rate with thirty-eight winners from three hundred sixty-eight runners, which have returned an LSP of -128.88.
Backing all of the Daniel Tudhope rides would have produced backing the most winners for a jockey here at Pontefract, with thirty-four, but you would have returned a loss by doing so Kevin Stott leads the way for profitable jockey with an LSP of +2.75 from their seventeen winners. If you are more of an eachway player, then you may want to know which jockey is best to follow at Pontefract, and that would be Andrew Mullen, who shows the best eachway LSP, which is +49.24, thanks to their eighteen placings (six winners). Tom Eaves does not have a great record at Pontefract; their LSP of -87.79 has them stone dead bottom of the jockeys' list, which has come from six winners from one hundred eighteen rides, which is a 5% strike rate.
Pontefract Picks & Hints
Here are some factors at Pontefract for certain trainers or jockeys which have been profitable:
- 8-19 (42%) +32.29 - Backing Rossa Ryan rides when on horses aged 2yo
- 6-12 (50%) +28.08 - Backing Hollie Doyle rides when over a trip of 6f
- 5-11 (45%) +21.58 - Backing Simon Crisford runners when in a Handicap race
- 7-12 (58%) +22.00 - Backing Daniel Tudhope rides when on horses aged 5yo
- 5-9 (56%) +20.50 - Backing W J Haggas runners when over a trip of 6f
Pontefract Top Jockey and Trainer Combinations
Here are the best trainer and jockey combinations at Pontefract based on the number of winners:
- 20 Wins: T D Easterby & David Allan
- 13 Wins: D O'Meara & Daniel Tudhope
- 12 Wins: K R Burke & Clifford Lee
- 10 Wins: R A Fahey & Oisin Orr
- 7 Wins: M W Easterby & Joanna Mason
Pontefract Top Trainers By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit
| Trainer | R-W-P | Win | EW |
|---|---|---|---|
| P T Midgley | 155-18-45 | +37.50 | +5.65 |
| W J Haggas | 42-16-22 | +11.20 | +1.72 |
| George Boughey | 46-15-27 | +25.55 | +15.28 |
| M Dods | 125-14-38 | +12.25 | -5.44 |
| Mrs R A Carr | 85-12-23 | +18.91 | -0.55 |
| Roger Fell | 52-11-22 | +12.28 | +1.79 |
| J J Quinn | 70-10-21 | +12.82 | -5.63 |
| E A L Dunlop | 42-10-18 | +25.81 | +12.07 |
| Archie Watson | 34-8-13 | +0.28 | -0.82 |
| Miss J A Camacho | 43-7-11 | +1.50 | -4.43 |
Pontefract Top Jockeys By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit
| Jockey | R-W-P | Win | EW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Stott | 87-17-37 | +2.75 | -3.30 |
| Connor Beasley | 132-16-40 | +19.08 | +1.43 |
| Rossa Ryan | 53-15-22 | +28.02 | +8.83 |
| Hollie Doyle | 49-13-22 | +7.03 | +3.21 |
| D Nolan | 80-12-28 | +4.13 | +0.78 |
| Callum Rodriguez | 68-12-22 | +8.99 | +0.22 |
| Tom Marquand | 55-12-22 | +0.73 | -13.00 |
| Sean Kirrane | 58-11-20 | +46.00 | +33.22 |
| G Lee | 108-9-22 | +8.00 | -9.38 |
| William Buick | 28-9-14 | +1.87 | -0.86 |
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 Pontefract 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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