Racecourse guide · Thursday 8 October

Thirsk

Left-handed oval · six-furlong straight · flat only

108races, last 12 months
29.6%favourites win ▼ 6.4 pts vs all flat
9.9runners per race
Nonereliable draw bias None in 179 races
6/43our winners here14% strike rate

Today's Thirsk Tips

Thursday 8 October

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

Our Record at Thirsk

since 31 May

6 winners from 43 picks here on the daily card and the X thread. The biggest-priced of them:

5/2Sunlit Sea24 Jul 2026
5/2Fractional14 Sept 2026
9/4Zooella24 Jul 2026
7/4Satyress14 Sept 2026
7/4Sixty Plus24 Jul 2026
EvsKing Of Berkshire5 Jun 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 Thirsk Trainers

last 12 months, flat
TrainerW–RHereAll tracks1pt SP
Tim Easterby 6–97 6.2% 9.4% -50.70
David O'Meara 5–38 13.2% 10.6% +6.00
Kevin Ryan 5–40 12.5% 9.6% -13.75
Michael Dods 4–64 6.2% 9.1% -43.28
Julie Camacho 3–17 17.6% 7.3% +36.00
Roger Fell 3–21 14.3% 11.1% -7.17
Paul Midgley 3–25 12.0% 9.6% +3.00
Declan Carroll 3–25 12.0% 9.3% -5.00
Ruth Carr 3–28 10.7% 10.8% -2.50

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 Thirsk Jockeys

last 12 months, flat
JockeyW–RHereAll tracks1pt SP
Connor Beasley 6–57 10.5% 13.2% -29.70
Kevin Stott 5–25 20.0% 12.4% +0.75
Daniel Tudhope 5–28 17.9% 15.0% +10.33
Jason Hart 5–36 13.9% 13.7% +14.25
David Allan 5–41 12.2% 10.9% +6.00
Paul Mulrennan 4–23 17.4% 9.9% -1.32
Joanna Mason 4–49 8.2% 11.0% -31.17
David Nolan 3–19 15.8% 9.8% +19.00
P. J. McDonald 3–22 13.6% 12.5% -9.31

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.

Thirsk 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 179 races, where a horse is drawn here has mattered less than it is often given credit for.

5f to 6f96 races
Low 30.5%
Middle 36.8%
High 32.6%
7f to a mile83 races
Low 24.3%
Middle 35.1%
High 40.5%

On good or faster ground

5f to 6f90 races
Low 30.3%
Middle 37.1%
High 32.6%
7f to a mile71 races
Low 25.8%
Middle 35.5%
High 38.7%

Not enough races yet on good or faster ground over 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.

Thirsk Track Guide

Thirsk is a left-handed oval just over one mile and two furlongs round, and it hosts flat racing only.

The straight course is six furlongs and slightly undulating, while the round course is almost totally flat.

A ridge on the turn into the home straight requires balance.

Direction
Left-handed
Shape
Oval of just over one mile and two furlongs
Straight
Six-furlong straight course, roughly four-furlong run-in
Surface
Turf
Racing
Flat only

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