Racecourse guide · Thursday 8 October

Ripon

Right-handed oval · sharp · six-furlong chute

109races, last 12 months
34.9%favourites win ▼ 1.1 pts vs all flat
8.2runners per race
Nonereliable draw bias None in 111 races
15/36our winners here42% strike rate

Today's Ripon Tips

Thursday 8 October

There is no flat racing at Ripon today. Our selections for today's meetings are on today's tips, and the course stats below are updated every morning.

Our Record at Ripon

since 28 May

15 winners from 36 picks here on the daily card and the X thread. The biggest-priced of them:

8/1Glitter Code31 Aug 2026
8/1Angel Summer26 Sept 2026
6/1Yermanthere1 Sept 2026
5/1Spioradalta28 May 2026
9/2Rock Of England3 Jun 2026
4/1Salamanca City18 Jul 2026

Price is the one we put up. The full card record, losers included, is on the record page.

Trainers in Form

last 14 days

No trainer with a runner here today is in a hot spell.

At least 6 runners in the last 14 days, at any track, winning with 25% or more.

Course Winners Running Today

today's runners

Nobody in today's fields has won here twice or over today's trip.

Top Ripon Trainers

last 12 months, flat
TrainerW–RHereAll tracks1pt SP
Tim Easterby 15–133 11.3% 9.4% -17.48
Grant Tuer 6–18 33.3% 10.7% +15.75
Edward Bethell 6–19 31.6% 15.7% +2.09
Mark Walford 5–23 21.7% 9.6% +20.50
Michael & David Easterby 5–31 16.1% 8.8% +4.83
David O'Meara 5–41 12.2% 10.6% -13.77
Ruth Carr 4–23 17.4% 10.8% -4.55
Charlie Johnston 3–20 15.0% 11.4% -5.30
Roger Fell 3–22 13.6% 11.1% -6.10

Minimum 15 runners and 3 wins here. The last column is a 1pt win bet on every one at starting price: a good strike rate the market already knows about shows as a loss.

Top Ripon Jockeys

last 12 months, flat
JockeyW–RHereAll tracks1pt SP
Jason Hart 10–42 23.8% 13.7% -5.46
Joanna Mason 7–23 30.4% 11.0% +17.98
David Allan 7–52 13.5% 10.9% -3.31
Rhys Elliott 6–18 33.3% 7.1% +26.83
Daniel Tudhope 4–22 18.2% 15.0% -7.44
Mark Winn 4–26 15.4% 9.8% -0.25
Oisin Orr 4–35 11.4% 14.6% -19.97
Luke Morris 3–15 20.0% 11.4% +1.50
Sean Kirrane 3–23 13.0% 8.2% -0.50
Connor Beasley 3–29 10.3% 13.2% -8.50

Minimum 15 rides and 3 wins here. The last column is a 1pt win bet on every one at starting price: a good strike rate the market already knows about shows as a loss.

Ripon Draw Bias

flat races since 17 Apr

No part of the draw wins more than its share of runners by enough to rule out chance, at any trip. Over 111 races, where a horse is drawn here has mattered less than it is often given credit for.

5f to 6f111 races
Low 32%
Middle 30.9%
High 37.1%

On good or faster ground

5f to 6f96 races
Low 32.5%
Middle 31.3%
High 36.1%

Not enough races yet on good or faster ground over 7f to a mile, 9f to 11f, 1m 4f and further.

On good to soft or softer ground: no trip here has the 60 races we need yet, so we do not show it. This fills in as the record grows.

Stalls are split into low, middle and high thirds within each race. Each bar is that third's share of the winners and the tick is its share of the runners, so a bar past its tick is winning more than its share. We only call a bias when the gap is at least 15% of that share and two standard deviations clear of chance.

Ripon Track Guide

Ripon is a right-handed oval of one mile and five furlongs with a sharp bend before the five-furlong run-in.

A chute creates a six-furlong straight course.

The cramped bends and undulations in the straight make the course sharp, which suits front-runners.

Direction
Right-handed
Shape
Oval of one mile and five furlongs with a sharp bend before the run-in
Straight
Five-furlong run-in, six-furlong straight course via a chute
Surface
Turf

Every figure on this page is counted from official flat results for Ripon and refreshed each morning. Each section states its window, and anything below a minimum sample is left off rather than shown on thin numbers.