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Course guide · Leopardstown · Ireland · updated 10 September 2026

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

Every race at Leopardstown in the OddsLens results database from 30 March 2025 to 20 August 2026: 209 flat races and 51 jumps races, 2,897 runners at official starting price. What the numbers say, recomputed every week and never edited by hand.

31.8%
Favourites' strike rate on the flat · 209 races
−11.6%
£1 on every favourite here
−11.7%
Same bet at every course · 13,489 races

Favourites at Leopardstown

Favourites on the flat

Across 209 races the favourite won 31.8% of the time (71 of 223 bets, joint favourites counted separately) and £1 on every one lost 11.6p in the pound. The same bet at every UK and Irish course on the flat over the same window won 32.9% and lost 11.7p in the pound. Much the same as everywhere else.

GroundRacesStrike rate£1 return
Good or faster17632.1%−10.2%
Soft or heavy3330.6%−18.7%

Favourites over jumps

Across 51 races the favourite won 30.4% of the time (17 of 56 bets, joint favourites counted separately) and £1 on every one lost 18.7p 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 have been a worse bet 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.

Seven furlongs to a mile · 83 races

StallsShare of runnersShare of winners
Lowest third36.2%41.0%
Middle third33.7%38.6%
Highest third30.1%20.5%

Over seven furlongs to a mile the thirds have won roughly in proportion to their numbers: no draw bias worth the name. (83 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

42 handicaps with 14 or more runners, an average field of 16.8. The winner's average starting price was about 8/1; 12 winners came in at 10/1 or bigger and 4 at 20/1 or bigger. Favourites won 7 of 47 and £1 on each lost 30.3p in the pound.

Big-field handicaps over jumps

14 handicaps with 14 or more runners, an average field of 19.2. The winner's average starting price was about 14/1; 7 winners came in at 10/1 or bigger and 2 at 20/1 or bigger. Favourites won 4 of 19 and £1 on each lost 10.5p in the pound — on a small sample.

Who wins at Leopardstown

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
A P O'Brien33 / 13823.9%−14.8%
Joseph Patrick O'Brien19 / 14113.5%−27.8%
J P Murtagh14 / 8516.5%−1.4%
Mrs John Harrington14 / 10014.0%−15.5%
G M Lyons10 / 7812.8%−28.1%
Noel Meade7 / 4914.3%−4.1%
D K Weld7 / 6710.4%−40.9%
Andrew Slattery5 / 539.4%−51.6%
JockeyWins / runsStrike rate£1 return
Dylan Browne McMonagle16 / 9816.3%−14.9%
Shane Foley15 / 9216.3%+32.8%
Chris Hayes14 / 11212.5%+2.1%
Ryan Moore13 / 2846.4%+37.8%
Wayne Lordan13 / 6918.8%−9.0%
Ben Coen13 / 9913.1%−14.5%
Colin Keane10 / 8112.3%−51.2%
W J Lee9 / 7112.7%−31.9%

Over jumps

TrainerWins / runsStrike rate£1 return
Gordon Elliott19 / 8223.2%+84.2%
W P Mullins9 / 1028.8%−74.3%
JockeyWins / runsStrike rate£1 return
Jack Kennedy12 / 3435.3%+27.9%
Sam Ewing5 / 1827.8%+497.2%
Mark Walsh4 / 2317.4%−28.3%
Paul Townend4 / 2416.7%−68.3%

OddsLens at Leopardstown

Since 12 April 2026 the OddsLens model has made 83 calls at Leopardstown, each logged before the off with the best price at that moment. 24 won, a 28.9% strike rate, for a −10.9% return at the logged prices and an average closing line value of +6.1%. That makes Leopardstown 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 Leopardstown in the OddsLens results database from 30 March 2025 to 20 August 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.