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Course guide · Carlisle · Britain · updated 10 September 2026

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

Every race at Carlisle in the OddsLens results database from 23 March 2025 to 9 September 2026: 177 flat races and 86 jumps races, 2,288 runners at official starting price. What the numbers say, recomputed every week and never edited by hand.

27.9%
Favourites' strike rate on the flat · 177 races
−24.1%
£1 on every favourite here
−11.7%
Same bet at every course · 13,489 races

Favourites at Carlisle

Favourites on the flat

Across 177 races the favourite won 27.9% of the time (53 of 190 bets, joint favourites counted separately) and £1 on every one lost 24.1p in the pound. The same bet at every UK and Irish course on the flat over the same window won 32.9% and lost 11.7p in the pound. Favourites here have been a worse bet than the national picture.

GroundRacesStrike rate£1 return
Good or faster9624.5%−38.9%
Soft or heavy8131.8%−6.8%

Favourites over jumps

Across 86 races the favourite won 40.0% of the time (36 of 90 bets, joint favourites counted separately) and £1 on every one lost 7.3p in the pound. The same bet at every UK and Irish course over jumps over the same window won 35.2% and lost 10.3p in the pound. Favourites here lose less than the national picture.

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 · 45 races

StallsShare of runnersShare of winners
Lowest third36.9%44.4%
Middle third33.8%20.0%
Highest third29.3%35.6%

Seven furlongs to a mile · 52 races

StallsShare of runnersShare of winners
Lowest third36.6%38.5%
Middle third33.7%34.6%
Highest third29.7%26.9%

Over five and six furlongs the thirds have won roughly in proportion to their numbers: no draw bias worth the name. (45 races.) Over seven furlongs to a mile the thirds have won roughly in proportion to their numbers: no draw bias worth the name. (52 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.

Who wins at Carlisle

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
Tim Easterby11 / 1288.6%−51.4%
K R Burke9 / 2634.6%+6.8%
Iain Jardine9 / 7112.7%−17.6%
Michael & David Easterby6 / 2821.4%+55.4%
David O'Meara6 / 2920.7%−8.4%
Kevin Ryan6 / 3915.4%+15.5%
Michael Dods6 / 4413.6%+28.4%
Jim Goldie5 / 4411.4%−46.2%
JockeyWins / runsStrike rate£1 return
Mark Winn9 / 2733.3%+160.2%
Clifford Lee7 / 2725.9%−15.1%
Daniel Tudhope7 / 3619.4%−17.2%
Connor Beasley7 / 719.9%−32.1%
Sam James6 / 3616.7%−13.9%
P J McDonald5 / 2718.5%+39.8%
Callum Rodriguez5 / 3116.1%−27.7%
Andrew Mullen5 / 4112.2%−4.1%

Over jumps

TrainerWins / runsStrike rate£1 return
Nicky Richards8 / 2532.0%+37.0%
Mark Walford4 / 1723.5%+40.2%
Olly Murphy4 / 1822.2%−26.5%
Micky Hammond4 / 2516.0%+4.8%
JockeyWins / runsStrike rate£1 return
Danny McMenamin15 / 5030.0%+13.2%
Brian Hughes6 / 4214.3%+1.7%
Jamie Hamilton5 / 2520.0%+11.3%
Sean Bowen4 / 1625.0%−17.3%
Nathan Moscrop4 / 2119.0%+38.1%
Sean Quinlan4 / 429.5%−45.6%

OddsLens at Carlisle

Since 18 May 2026 the OddsLens model has made 86 calls at Carlisle, each logged before the off with the best price at that moment. 19 won, a 22.1% strike rate, for a −16.9% return at the logged prices and an average closing line value of +11.1%. That makes Carlisle 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 Carlisle in the OddsLens results database from 23 March 2025 to 9 September 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 10 September 2026.