Salisbury Tips

Salisbury racecourse in Wiltshire has around 16 meetings a year, their season starts at the end of April with the last meeting normally mid-October. 

Type of Racing: Flat racing only.

Highlights: There are two Group 3 races, the Dick Poole Fillies Stakes and the Sovereign Stakes and three Listed races, the Stonehenge Stakes. Cathedral Stakes and Upavon Fillies Stakes.

Others: Bibury Cup, Lochsong Fillies Stakes, Persian Punch Conditions Stakes, Salisbury Quidhampton Fillies Maiden.

TV Channel: Racing TV

Bookmaker Streaming Services Available from: Bet 365, Betfair, Coral, Hills, Unibet.

If you are going to the Salisbury races then why not download the OLBG app to get all the latest Salisbury tips at the course?

* All statistics below are based on the previous five seasons at Salisbury

Salisbury Outright Favourite Statistics

• Flat Handicaps: 75-254 (30%) -37.40
• Flat Non-Handicaps: 70-155 (45%) +6.69

The prize money is decent for both the Group 3 races (Dick Poole Fillies Stakes, Sovereign Stakes) and the big southern yards aiming their quality animals at those races. The Listed Cathedral Stakes in June has been won by the Richard Hannon (Senior then Junior) stable six times since 2008.

Low numbers over shorter trips seem to have an advantage from the gates on this right-handed track, especially if they jump well, however as the race progresses the camber seems to inconvenience those close to the rail as the ground falls away. Those horses are more to the middle of the course as the race reaches the final 2 furlongs and seem to be racing on a more even course, with forwarding motion seemingly easier.  

So, in an ideal world, you would be drawn low and run low for 3 furlongs and then gradually move 3 or 4 horse widths away from the rail in the final 2 furlongs. Salisbury can ride a bit like Goodwood with the reverse loop and is very similar to Hamilton.

When breaking Salisbury down into trips then you can look at which stall and trip combination has produced the best LSP, that would be stall 5 over a trip of 1m which has, over the last five years produced an LSP of +101.20. When breaking Salisbury down into trips then you can look at which stall and trip combination has produced the worst LSP, that would be stall 2 over a trip of 6f which has, over the last five years produced an LSP of -52.62.

Here we have the draw bias for Salisbury taken into consideration races with ten or more runners, we will break down the figures by race distance, draws can be much more important over the shorter trips in which runners do not have time to find their position during the race meaning the draw is probably more important than the races over longer distances.

• Sprints (5f to 7½f)
• Mile (1m to 1m1½f)
• Middle Distance (1m2f to 1m5½f)

The following table shows a breakdown over 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 lowest stall number to highest.

Who are the best flat jockeys and trainers to bet on at Salisbury?

Whilst Richard Hannon (Jnr) is the most successful trainer at Salisbury with a total of thirty winners if you backed all of their runners you would be showing a loss. W J Haggas is the most successful trainer at Salisbury for those who show a profit if backing all their runner's thanks to a total of thirteen winners and an LSP of +12.25. When looking at trainers and looking for some eachway value at Salisbury then the trainer who shows the best eachway profit is J A Osborne, that LSP is +40.37 which has been accumulated by a total of ten placings which includes two winners. At the other end of the spectrum is Richard Hannon (Jnr) who has a terrible record at Salisbury, of all the trainers their LSP of -87.52 is the worse, they have a 9% strike rate with thirty winners from three hundred twenty-one runners.

Focusing only on jockeys who show a profit when backing all of their rides, top of the pile at Salisbury for the number of winners is Oisin Murphy who has produced a total of thirty-two winners in return for an LSP of +29.93. If you are looking for a jockey to follow in the eachway market then it is Kieran Shoemark who leads the way at Salisbury, they have had a total of eighteen placings which includes eight winners over the previous five years for an eachway LSP of +75.19. Tom Marquand does not have a great record at Salisbury, their LSP of -74.50 has them stone dead bottom of the jockeys' list, which has come from fourteen winners from one hundred thirty-five rides which is a 10% strike rate.

Salisbury Picks & Hints

Here are some factors at Salisbury for certain trainers or jockeys which have been profitable:

• 11-22 (50%) +39.67 - Backing Oisin Murphy rides when over a trip of 7f
• 7-13 (54%) +31.70 - Backing Sir Mark Prescott runners when horses are aged 3yo
• 13-27 (48%) +30.09 - Backing Oisin Murphy rides when in a Novices race
• 7-13 (54%) +13.75 - Backing W J Haggas runners when in a Handicap race
• 5-11 (45%) +10.98 - Backing Roger Varian runners when in a Maiden race

Salisbury Top Jockey and Trainer Combinations

Here are the best trainer and jockey combinations here at Salisbury based on the number of winners:

• 9 Wins: J H M Gosden & Robert Havlin
• 8 Wins: Richard Hannon (Jnr) & Pat Dobbs
• 8 Wins: A M Balding & Oisin Murphy
• 8 Wins: R M Beckett & Hector Crouch
• 7 Wins: Eve Johnson Houghton & Charles Bishop

Salisbury Top Trainers By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit

Trainer	R-W-P	Win	EW
W J Haggas	41-13-22	+12.25	+4.55
H Candy	53-11-17	+13.88	-4.40
Charles Hills	58-8-20	+7.23	+3.11
H Morrison	38-7-15	+10.58	+11.61
Hugo Palmer	26-7-11	+11.33	+3.25
Sir Mark Prescott	21-7-10	+23.70	+11.93
R A Teal	43-6-12	+41.00	+27.38
B J Meehan	40-5-14	+4.75	+0.50
Ian Williams	33-5-9	+1.63	-5.17
W R Muir	43-4-12	+31.50	+16.80

Salisbury Top Jockeys By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit

Jockey	R-W-P	Win	EW
Oisin Murphy	103-32-49	+29.93	+5.92
Hector Crouch	111-21-48	+52.47	+43.61
David Probert	135-19-37	+30.88	-3.21
Jason Watson	81-14-28	+4.78	-5.70
Jack Mitchell	70-12-29	+1.13	-0.25
James Doyle	50-11-20	+11.06	-4.00
Kieran Shoemark	68-8-18	+133.38	+75.19
K T O'Neill	50-8-12	+72.75	+34.01
L P Keniry	74-7-14	+1.25	-12.85
Hayley Turner	24-6-7	+9.11	+1.28