Tips for Wolverhampton Racecourse
Wolverhampton has grown in importance since its first All-Weather meeting in 1993. Of the 7 current All-Weather tracks, Wolverhampton holds the most meetings, so it can pay horse racing tipsters to follow Wolverhampton form lines.
In 2015, the fibresand track was replaced by a Tapeta surface. Trainers, jockeys and owners seem satisfied with the new surface for their horses, and the standard of runners at the West Midlands track has improved in recent years.
Wolverhampton Highlights: The big race at Wolverhampton is the Listed Lady Wulfruna Stakes, run in March around the same time as the Cheltenham Festival.
It seems flat trainers look at the prize money on offer at the Festival and come over all envious and target this valuable flat race (£28K).
The winner of the Lady Wulfruna tends to go for the All-Weather Mile Championship (£98k) at Newcastle in April.
Wolverhampton also holds some valuable handicaps, including a Lincoln Trial for horses primed to run in the early season Lincoln Handicap at Doncaster, as well as some end-of-season Class 2 Nurseries for 2-year-olds.
As mentioned above, the synthetic surface was changed to tapeta here in 2015, which is the same as Newcastle's all-weather track but different from the Polytrack at Chelmsford, Kempton, Lingfield and the fibresand at Southwell.
Wolverhampton's surface tends to ride a bit quicker than the tapeta at Newcastle, perhaps due more to the layout, whereby Newcastle has a long straight and stamina seems to be more important.
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* All statistics below are based on the previous five years at Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton Outright Favourite Statistics
- AW Handicaps: 726-2344 (31%) -235.76
- AW Non-Handicaps: 303-649 (47%) -43.74
Wolverhampton Racecourse Map
Left-handed, an oval circuit with tight bends and a short 2 furlong straight. The start for races run over seven furlongs and one mile, six furlongs are from a chute just after the first bend, after the winning post.
Wolverhampton Racecourse Address: Gorsebrook Rd, Wolverhampton WV6 0PE
Wolverhampton Racecourse Telephone: 01902 390000
To buy tickets for a race day at Wolverhampton, head over to their official ticket booking webpage.
Wolverhampton Draw Bias
✅ If you want the most profitable stall at Wolverhampton, then you need to look at races over 6f and focus on stall 5, as this has produced an LSP of +65.42 over the last five years.
❌ Backing stall 9 at Wolverhampton over a trip of 7f is the most unsuccessful stall and trip combination at Wolverhampton, returning an LSP of -287.42 over the last five years.
Here we have the draw bias for Wolverhampton 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)
- Long Distance (1m6f or further)
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.
Who are the best trainers & jockeys to bet on at Wolverhampton?
Who are the best all-weather jockeys and trainers to bet on at Wolverhampton?
Whilst A W Carroll is the most successful trainer at Wolverhampton with a total of one hundred nine winners, if you backed all of their runners, you would be showing a loss. M Appleby is the most successful trainer at Wolverhampton for those who show a profit if backing all their runners, thanks to a total of seventy-seven winners and an LSP of +40.78. With an eachway LSP of +71.60 at Wolverhampton, T Faulkner leads the trainers in profit for backing eachway, which has been helped by their twenty-three placings, which include a total of fourteen winners. A W Carroll does not have a great record at Wolverhampton, their LSP of -327.27 has them stone dead bottom of the trainers' list, which has come from one hundred nine winners from one thousand one hundred sixty-five runners, which is a 9% strike rate.
Focusing only on jockeys who show a profit when backing all of their rides, top of the pile at Wolverhampton for the number of winners is Rossa Ryan, who has produced a total of one hundred forty-five winners in return for an LSP of +63.95. Aiden Brookes is the jockey to follow at Wolverhampton if you are backing eachway, as they show the best LSP of all the jockeys in the eachway markets, that is +33.01, which is courtesy of their twenty-two placings (nine winners). At the other end of the spectrum is Cameron Hardie, who has a terrible record at Wolverhampton; of all the jockeys, their LSP of -349.57 is the worst; they have a 5% strike rate with thirty-three winners from six hundred seventy-four rides.
Wolverhampton Picks & Hints
Here are some factors at Wolverhampton for certain trainers or jockeys which have been profitable:
- 8-18 (44%) +40.88 - Backing James Ferguson runners when horses are aged 4yo
- 10-16 (63%) +33.13 - Backing Jim Crowley rides when on horses aged 3yo
- 6-10 (60%) +20.75 - Backing Kevin Foy runners when horses are aged 6yo
- 16-36 (44%) +21.31 - Backing Hector Crouch rides when over a trip of 1m4f
- 5-11 (45%) +18.08 - Backing S Curran runners when over a trip of 1m½f
Wolverhampton Top Jockey and Trainer Combinations
Here are the best trainer and jockey combinations here at Wolverhampton based on the number of winners:
- 32 Wins: Daniel Mark Loughnane & Mr Billy Loughnane
- 23 Wins: M Appleby & Ali Rawlinson
- 22 Wins: Alice Haynes & K T O'Neill
- 22 Wins: Sir Mark Prescott & Luke Morris
- 19 Wins: A W Carroll & Jack Doughty
Wolverhampton Top Trainers By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit
| Trainer | R-W-P | Win | EW |
|---|---|---|---|
| M Appleby | 594-77-191 | +40.78 | -29.50 |
| M Johnston | 240-42-87 | +0.84 | -3.87 |
| Mrs R A Carr | 303-38-95 | +24.46 | -1.35 |
| Hugo Palmer | 221-37-86 | +11.13 | -12.92 |
| Alice Haynes | 283-35-76 | +50.81 | +3.18 |
| George Scott | 128-24-50 | +2.62 | +3.37 |
| James Ferguson | 98-21-47 | +16.18 | +16.00 |
| Mrs H S Main | 106-18-42 | +18.13 | +8.49 |
| H J Evans | 118-16-39 | +24.33 | +19.21 |
| Keith Dalgleish | 95-14-29 | +4.46 | -13.34 |
Wolverhampton Top Jockeys By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit
| Jockey | R-W-P | Win | EW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rossa Ryan | 693-145-319 | +63.95 | -8.88 |
| Finley Marsh | 350-43-97 | +39.30 | -27.00 |
| Oisin Murphy | 154-40-86 | +13.27 | +3.74 |
| Robert Havlin | 248-38-97 | +12.38 | +1.37 |
| Joanna Mason | 267-32-79 | +73.63 | +6.82 |
| Ali Rawlinson | 238-31-70 | +11.77 | -3.97 |
| Francis Norton | 159-25-47 | +25.35 | +2.84 |
| Mr Dale Swift | 184-24-53 | +25.56 | +0.62 |
| Harry Davies | 178-24-55 | +0.58 | -28.72 |
| Charles Bishop | 178-20-59 | +1.39 | +19.52 |
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 Wolverhampton 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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