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Course guide · Bath · Britain · updated 26 October 2026

Bath racecourse: favourites, the draw, and who wins there

Every race at Bath in the OddsLens results database from 4 April 2025 to 19 October 2026: 275 flat races, 2,396 runners at official starting price. What the numbers say, recomputed every week and never edited by hand.

34.5%
Favourites' strike rate on the flat · 275 races
−2.7%
£1 on every favourite here
−11.6%
Same bet at every course · 14,777 races

Favourites at Bath

Favourites on the flat

Across 275 races the favourite won 34.5% of the time (100 of 290 bets, joint favourites counted separately) and £1 on every one lost 2.7p in the pound. The same bet at every UK and Irish course on the flat over the same window won 32.9% and lost 11.6p in the pound. Favourites here lose less than the national picture.

GroundRacesStrike rate£1 return
Good or faster22136.8%+2.5%
Soft or heavy5425.4%−23.5%

The draw

Flat races with eight or more runners, each field split into thirds by stall number, and the winners counted. A third that wins more than its share of the runners is where the stalls have helped.

Five and six furlongs · 75 races

StallsShare of runnersShare of winners
Lowest third36.5%34.7%
Middle third33.7%38.7%
Highest third29.8%26.7%

Seven furlongs to a mile · 57 races

StallsShare of runnersShare of winners
Lowest third36.6%47.4%
Middle third33.9%26.3%
Highest third29.4%26.3%

Over five and six furlongs the thirds have won roughly in proportion to their numbers: no draw bias worth the name. (75 races.) Over seven furlongs to a mile the low stalls have won 47.4% of the races from 36.6% of the runners: a real lean to low. (57 races.) Thirds are by stall number, so the lowest third holds the spare runner when a field does not divide by three; that is why the runner shares are unequal.

Big-field handicaps

Big-field handicaps on the flat

10 handicaps with 14 or more runners, an average field of 14.3. The winner's average starting price was about 10/1; 3 winners came in at 10/1 or bigger and 1 at 20/1 or bigger. Favourites won 4 of 10 and £1 on each returned a profit of 67.1p in the pound — on a small sample.

Who wins at Bath

Trainers and jockeys with at least 15 runners and four winners here in the window. Strike rate is wins over runs; the return is £1 on every runner at SP. Thirty runs is a small sample, and the yards with the best strike rates are usually the yards with the best horses everywhere.

On the flat

TrainerWins / runsStrike rate£1 return
Tony Carroll23 / 11020.9%+9.6%
Adrian Wintle15 / 13311.3%−37.8%
Grace Harris10 / 1158.7%−60.0%
Joe Tickle7 / 5413.0%−33.8%
Andrew Balding6 / 2425.0%−0.4%
Ollie Sangster6 / 2623.1%+24.2%
Jonathan Portman6 / 4114.6%+11.9%
Christopher Mason5 / 1827.8%+62.5%
JockeyWins / runsStrike rate£1 return
Finley Marsh12 / 10012.0%−49.1%
Jason Watson9 / 5516.4%+5.7%
Rossa Ryan9 / 6713.4%−47.4%
Rob Hornby9 / 1018.9%−38.7%
Jack Doughty8 / 5016.0%−42.3%
Taylor Fisher8 / 7211.1%−34.4%
Tom Marquand7 / 2429.2%+24.8%
Jack Mitchell7 / 2825.0%+75.1%

OddsLens at Bath

Since 17 April 2026 the OddsLens model has made 132 calls at Bath, each logged before the off with the best price at that moment. 35 won, a 26.5% strike rate, for a −18.2% return at the logged prices and an average closing line value of +9.5%. That makes Bath one of the model's weaker tracks so far; every one of those calls, and every call to come, sits on the public record, wins and losses alike.

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Method. Every settled race at Bath in the OddsLens results database from 4 April 2025 to 19 October 2026 (official returns, starting price, non-runners excluded). "Favourite" means the shortest starting price in the race; joint favourites are each backed for £1. Ground is the official going for the meeting: soft, heavy and their variants against everything else. The draw study uses flat races with at least eight drawn runners, in two bands (five to six and a half furlongs; seven furlongs to a mile and half a furlong), each field split into thirds by stall number. Big handicaps are races with "handicap" in the title and 14 or more runners at SP. The OddsLens record is the public ledger only (no shadow models), settled calls, at the prices logged before the off. Sections with too few races to say anything true are left out. Recomputed weekly; this page was built on 26 October 2026.