Every race at Cheltenham in the OddsLens results database from 16 April 2025 to 24 October 2026: 7 flat races and 118 jumps races, 1,451 runners at official starting price. What the numbers say, recomputed every week and never edited by hand.
Across 118 races the favourite won 25.2% of the time (32 of 127 bets, joint favourites counted separately) and £1 on every one lost 17.5p in the pound. The same bet at every UK and Irish course over jumps over the same window won 35.1% and lost 10.7p in the pound. Favourites here have been a worse bet than the national picture.
| Ground | Races | Strike rate | £1 return |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or faster | 52 | 38.2% | +22.3% |
| Soft or heavy | 66 | 15.3% | −47.8% |
29 handicaps with 14 or more runners, an average field of 18.3. The winner's average starting price was about 10/1; 11 winners came in at 10/1 or bigger and 3 at 20/1 or bigger. Favourites won 10 of 30 and £1 on each returned a profit of 44.7p in the pound — on a small sample.
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.
| Trainer | Wins / runs | Strike rate | £1 return |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dan Skelton | 18 / 97 | 18.6% | +9.7% |
| W P Mullins | 8 / 78 | 10.3% | +21.8% |
| Martin Keighley | 5 / 25 | 20.0% | +300.0% |
| Fergal O'Brien | 5 / 30 | 16.7% | +36.1% |
| Joe Tizzard | 5 / 31 | 16.1% | +25.3% |
| Henry De Bromhead | 5 / 40 | 12.5% | −15.8% |
| Nicky Henderson | 5 / 50 | 10.0% | −42.7% |
| Gordon Elliott | 5 / 70 | 7.1% | −53.1% |
| Jockey | Wins / runs | Strike rate | £1 return |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Skelton | 17 / 69 | 24.6% | +44.8% |
| Jack Kennedy | 6 / 35 | 17.1% | +4.5% |
| Harry Cobden | 6 / 49 | 12.2% | −30.4% |
| Brendan Powell | 5 / 29 | 17.2% | +33.9% |
| Ben Jones | 5 / 35 | 14.3% | −12.9% |
| Sam Twiston-Davies | 5 / 51 | 9.8% | +38.2% |
| Sean Bowen | 5 / 58 | 8.6% | +21.1% |
| Paul Townend | 4 / 15 | 26.7% | +44.3% |
Fewer than 20 settled calls at Cheltenham so far (10), so no number worth quoting yet. Every call is on the public record as it settles.
Method. Every settled race at Cheltenham in the OddsLens results database from 16 April 2025 to 24 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.