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Course guide · Leicester · Britain · updated 26 October 2026

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

Every race at Leicester in the OddsLens results database from 4 April 2025 to 13 October 2026: 246 flat races and 57 jumps races, 2,452 runners at official starting price. What the numbers say, recomputed every week and never edited by hand.

30.9%
Favourites' strike rate on the flat · 246 races
−17.6%
£1 on every favourite here
−11.6%
Same bet at every course · 14,777 races

Favourites at Leicester

Favourites on the flat

Across 246 races the favourite won 30.9% of the time (83 of 269 bets, joint favourites counted separately) and £1 on every one lost 17.6p 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 have been a worse bet than the national picture.

GroundRacesStrike rate£1 return
Good or faster20031.0%−21.4%
Soft or heavy4630.2%−2.4%

Favourites over jumps

Across 57 races the favourite won 40.7% of the time (24 of 59 bets, joint favourites counted separately) and £1 on every one lost 5.1p 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 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 · 57 races

StallsShare of runnersShare of winners
Lowest third36.3%40.4%
Middle third34.0%31.6%
Highest third29.6%28.1%

Seven furlongs to a mile · 64 races

StallsShare of runnersShare of winners
Lowest third36.2%31.3%
Middle third33.9%32.8%
Highest third29.9%35.9%

Over five and six furlongs the thirds have won roughly in proportion to their numbers: no draw bias worth the name. (57 races.) Over seven furlongs to a mile the high stalls have won 35.9% of the races from 29.9% of the runners: a real lean to high. (64 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

15 handicaps with 14 or more runners, an average field of 15.0. The winner's average starting price was about 9/1; 4 winners came in at 10/1 or bigger and 2 at 20/1 or bigger. Favourites won 2 of 16 and £1 on each lost 48.4p in the pound — on a small sample.

Who wins at Leicester

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 Carroll9 / 5616.1%+41.1%
David O'Meara8 / 2927.6%+62.2%
James Owen7 / 3023.3%+9.3%
James Fanshawe6 / 2128.6%−36.3%
George Boughey6 / 3517.1%+7.4%
Tim Easterby6 / 669.1%−35.3%
William Haggas5 / 1926.3%+17.9%
Julie Camacho5 / 2420.8%+6.8%
JockeyWins / runsStrike rate£1 return
David Probert11 / 4822.9%+57.6%
Billy Loughnane11 / 7414.9%−35.9%
Rossa Ryan10 / 6415.6%−2.3%
Tom Marquand7 / 3221.9%+113.5%
Daniel Muscutt7 / 4316.3%+0.7%
Rob Hornby7 / 5313.2%−26.5%
Daniel Tudhope5 / 2025.0%+43.5%
Jack Mitchell5 / 2619.2%+49.3%

Over jumps

TrainerWins / runsStrike rate£1 return
Olly Murphy5 / 1631.3%−23.4%
JockeyWins / runsStrike rate£1 return
Sean Bowen4 / 1723.5%−37.4%

OddsLens at Leicester

Since 13 April 2026 the OddsLens model has made 113 calls at Leicester, each logged before the off with the best price at that moment. 37 won, a 32.7% strike rate, for a +6.6% return at the logged prices and an average closing line value of +12.5%. That makes Leicester one of the model's better 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 Leicester in the OddsLens results database from 4 April 2025 to 13 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.