Ripon Racecourse Guide
Ripon in North Yorkshire is known as the Garden Racecourse, staging around 15 fixtures a year from April through to September.
Type of Racing: Flat Only
Highlights: The Ripon Champion Two-Year-Old Trophy is a listed race which, in 2025, carried a purse of £40,000; the race takes place at the end of August.
Three Class 2 races, including the 1 mile 4 Furlong Bell Ringer, the Great St Wilfrid Stakes is the big betting race at Ripon, and the Ripon Silver Trophy run over 6f.
TV Channel: Sky Sports Racing
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* All statistics below are based on the previous five years at Ripon
Ripon Outright Favourite Statistics
- Flat Handicaps: 119-360 (33%) -11.72
 - Flat Non-Handicaps: 70-140 (50%) +6.14
 
Ripon Racecourse Map
Flat Only: Right-handed oval of 13 furlongs, sharp in nature with tight bends and undulations in the home straight.
Ripon Address: Boroughbridge Rd, North Yorkshire, Ripon HG4 1UG
Ripon Racecourse Telephone: 01765 530530
To buy tickets for a race day at Ripon, head over to their official ticket booking webpage.

How to Bet at Ripon
Ripon tips by many tipsters will take the draw bias into their Ripon betting calculations, and the bookies will also shorten horses they think have a draw advantage.
It can be an idea that if you fancy a low-drawn horse, you take an early price and use the best odds guaranteed bookies. You can see which bookies offer the best odds guaranteed here.
Horses drawn on the outside should be noted for future runs if they run well. Look at replays of races at Ripon, and see the draw bias in action.
Check which horses you expect to try and make all, especially over shorter distances.
If you are going to Ripon races today, then be sure to download the OLBG app to keep up to date with all the latest Ripon tips at the course.
Ripon Draw Bias
✅ When breaking Ripon down into trips, you can look at which stall and trip combination has produced the best LSP. That would be stall 4 over a trip of 6f, which has, over the last five years, produced an LSP of +27.24.
❌ With an LSP of -76.90, the most unsuccessful stall at Ripon is stall 1 when backing runners over a trip of 6f over the last five years.
Here we have the draw bias for Ripon 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.
Ripon Jockey & Trainer Statistics
Who are the best flat jockeys and trainers to bet on at Ripon?
T D Easterby is the leading trainer here at Ripon with seventy-two winners, but you would have recorded a loss if you backed all of their runners, whilst following Tony Coyle would have returned the most winners (nine) from a profitable trainer. If you are looking for a trainer to follow in the eachway market, then it is Tony Coyle who leads the way at Ripon. They have had a total of twenty placings, which includes nine winners for an eachway LSP of +13.32. With an LSP of -194.20 at Ripon, T D Easterby heads the list for worst trainers at this course, which is a result of seventy-two winners from six hundred sixteen runners, which is a strike rate of 12%.
Backing all of the David Allan rides would have produced backing the most winners for a jockey here at Ripon, with fifty, but you would have returned a loss by doing so. Joe Fanning leads the way for a profitable jockey with an LSP of +0.23 from their eighteen winners. If you are more of an eachway player, then you may want to know which jockey is best to follow at Ripon, and that would be Joe Fanning, who shows the best eachway LSP, which is +15.47, thanks to their forty-six placings (eighteen winners). Cameron Hardie does not have a great record at Ripon; their LSP of -72.00 has them stone dead bottom of the jockeys' list, which has come from three winners from one hundred twenty-one rides, which is a 2% strike rate.
Ripon Picks & Hints
Here are some factors at Ripon for certain trainers or jockeys which have been profitable:
- 5-8 (63%) +16.41 - Backing Charles Hills runners when in a Handicap race
 - 7-11 (64%) +12.91 - Backing Simon Crisford runners when over a trip of 6f
 - 5-12 (42%) +12.60 - Backing Callum Rodriguez rides when over a trip of 1m4f
 - 6-11 (55%) +10.28 - Backing Simon Crisford runners when horses are aged 2yo
 
Ripon Top Jockey and Trainer Combinations
Here are the best trainer and jockey combinations here at Ripon based on the number of winners:
- 47 Wins: T D Easterby & David Allan
 - 15 Wins: D O'Meara & Daniel Tudhope
 - 9 Wins: T D Easterby & Duran Fentiman
 - 9 Wins: R A Fahey & Oisin Orr
 - 8 Wins: W J Haggas & Tom Marquand
 
Ripon Top Trainers By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit
| Trainer | R-W-P | Win | EW | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Tony Coyle | 53-9-20 | +21.50 | +13.32 | 
| Mark Walford | 54-8-19 | +10.83 | +12.39 | 
| Richard Hannon (Jnr) | 30-8-13 | +5.86 | +0.77 | 
| Simon Crisford | 24-8-15 | +4.24 | +0.46 | 
| Keith Dalgleish | 24-7-11 | +2.91 | +0.56 | 
| George Scott | 18-6-9 | +0.76 | -1.33 | 
| Charles Hills | 15-6-9 | +11.24 | +6.38 | 
| Adrian Nicholls | 59-5-18 | +4.63 | -0.87 | 
| Sam England | 37-4-9 | +5.38 | -4.31 | 
| P D Niven | 25-4-7 | +10.00 | +2.00 | 
Ripon Top Jockeys By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit
| Jockey | R-W-P | Win | EW | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Fanning | 102-18-46 | +0.23 | +15.47 | 
| Paul Mulrennan | 89-16-29 | +26.67 | +8.47 | 
| Oisin Orr | 65-11-24 | +13.09 | -9.03 | 
| G Lee | 66-9-20 | +28.33 | +14.47 | 
| Harrison Shaw | 66-4-15 | +26.00 | +6.49 | 
| William Pyle | 36-4-11 | +18.50 | +9.92 | 
| B McHugh | 34-4-11 | +11.63 | +3.63 | 
| Mr Billy Loughnane | 17-4-7 | +4.48 | +0.96 | 
| B D L Sayette | 16-4-5 | +1.41 | -2.92 | 
| Darragh Keenan | 10-4-6 | +11.10 | +7.32 | 
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 Ripon 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).


