Ripon Racetrack 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 worth close to £20,000, 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, a sprint handicap that tends to attract 18+ runners.
* All statistics below are based on the previous five seasons at Ripon
Ripon Outright Favorite Statistics
- Flat Handicaps: 117-344 (34%) +1.40
- Flat Non-Handicaps: 62-134 (46%) -7.80
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.
Ripon Draw Bias
With an LSP of +27.00, the most successful stall at Ripon is stall 6 when backing runners over a trip of 6f over the last five years. For the least profitable stall at Ripon, you need to look at races over 6f and focus on stall 5 as this has produced an LSP of -78.34 over the last five years.
Here we have the draw bias for Ripon 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.
Ripon Jockey & Trainer Statistics
Who are the best flat jockeys and trainers to bet on at Ripon?
When looking at profitable trainers only, then it is P T Midgley who leads the way with a total of fifteen winners producing an LSP of +26.33 whilst T D Easterby leads the overall list with seventy-eight winners but shows a loss overall. If you are more of an eachway player then you may want to know which trainer is best to follow at Ripon and that would be C W Fairhurst who shows the best eachway LSP which is +21.51 thanks to their five placings (four winners). T D Easterby does not have a great record at Ripon, their LSP of -106.84 has them stone dead bottom of the trainers' list, which has come from seventy-eight winners from five hundred sixty-nine runners which is a 14% strike rate.
Following Daniel Tudhope would have returned a profit here at Ripon with an LSP of +6.99 and their thirty-nine winners have them at the head of the profitable jockeys' list. David Allan does lead the jockeys' list overall with fifty-four winners but shows an overall loss. With an eachway LSP of +24.89 at Ripon, M Harley leads the jockeys in profit for backing eachway which has been helped by their five placings which include a total of two winners. With an LSP of -73.50 at Ripon, Cameron Hardie heads the list for worst jockeys at this course, which is a result of three winners from one hundred sixteen rides which is a strike rate of 3%.
Ripon Picks & Hints
Here are some factors at Ripon for certain trainers or jockeys which have been profitable:
- 13-32 (41%) +28.66 - Backing Daniel Tudhope rides when on horses aged 2yo
- 12-28 (43%) +23.16 - Backing Daniel Tudhope rides when in a Novices race
- 5-11 (45%) +23.13 - Backing K T O'Neill rides when in a Handicap race
- 6-9 (67%) +17.66 - Backing Charles Hills runners when horses are aged 3yo
- 5-11 (45%) +12.66 - Backing Charles Hills runners when in a Handicap race
Ripon Top Jockey and Trainer Combinations
Here are the best trainer and jockey combinations here at Ripon based on the number of winners:
- 50 Wins: T D Easterby & David Allan
- 16 Wins: D O'Meara & Daniel Tudhope
- 13 Wins: T D Easterby & Duran Fentiman
- 9 Wins: M Johnston & Joe Fanning
- 8 Wins: N Tinkler & Rowan Scott
Ripon Top Trainers By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit
Trainer | R-W-P | Win | EW |
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P T Midgley | 96-15-33 | +26.33 | +9.39 |
Mrs R A Carr | 85-10-23 | +13.42 | -2.30 |
K A Ryan | 70-10-21 | +11.33 | -4.53 |
Roger Varian | 32-10-15 | +1.30 | -2.49 |
B M R Haslam | 57-9-19 | +4.84 | +1.40 |
Adrian Paul Keatley | 51-8-21 | +23.50 | +20.99 |
R / Murray Fell | 27-8-10 | +16.01 | +5.19 |
Charles Hills | 17-6-9 | +9.66 | +4.45 |
P A Kirby | 39-5-11 | +7.38 | +1.30 |
Sam England | 29-5-8 | +21.38 | +7.03 |
Ripon Top Jockeys By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit
Jockey | R-W-P | Win | EW |
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Daniel Tudhope | 144-39-84 | +6.99 | +7.88 |
Paul Mulrennan | 103-16-34 | +19.97 | +1.79 |
G Lee | 109-15-32 | +9.33 | -5.88 |
Duran Fentiman | 117-14-29 | +11.28 | -2.46 |
Jason Hart | 105-14-33 | +2.08 | -12.59 |
Tony Hamilton | 62-8-19 | +19.95 | +9.80 |
Joanna Mason | 37-8-14 | +1.91 | -1.68 |
K T O'Neill | 19-8-11 | +24.88 | +14.81 |
Patrick Mathers | 39-6-15 | +8.75 | +6.64 |
Billy Garritty | 37-5-11 | +0.50 | +0.99 |