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Course guide · Newmarket (July) · Britain · updated 10 September 2026

Newmarket (July) racecourse: favourites, the draw, and who wins there

Every race at Newmarket (July) in the OddsLens results database from 20 June 2025 to 22 August 2026: 207 flat races, 1,567 runners at official starting price. What the numbers say, recomputed every week and never edited by hand.

32.6%
Favourites' strike rate on the flat · 207 races
−21.0%
£1 on every favourite here
−11.7%
Same bet at every course · 13,489 races

Favourites at Newmarket (July)

Favourites on the flat

Across 207 races the favourite won 32.6% of the time (72 of 221 bets, joint favourites counted separately) and £1 on every one lost 21.0p 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.

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 · 35 races

StallsShare of runnersShare of winners
Lowest third36.4%31.4%
Middle third34.0%34.3%
Highest third29.7%34.3%

Seven furlongs to a mile · 43 races

StallsShare of runnersShare of winners
Lowest third36.7%27.9%
Middle third33.7%46.5%
Highest third29.6%25.6%

Over five and six furlongs the thirds have won roughly in proportion to their numbers: no draw bias worth the name. (35 races.) Over seven furlongs to a mile the thirds have won roughly in proportion to their numbers: no draw bias worth the name. (43 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 Newmarket (July)

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
Charlie Appleby26 / 6440.6%+19.8%
Stuart Williams13 / 7018.6%+8.1%
Andrew Balding9 / 4122.0%−7.3%
Tom Clover7 / 2626.9%+20.2%
James Owen7 / 4515.6%−7.0%
K R Burke6 / 1931.6%−0.8%
John & Thady Gosden6 / 3815.8%−59.1%
William Haggas6 / 4015.0%−43.6%
JockeyWins / runsStrike rate£1 return
Billy Loughnane26 / 8132.1%−1.2%
William Buick10 / 2638.5%+45.7%
Marco Ghiani10 / 5817.2%+26.6%
Cieren Fallon8 / 5215.4%+49.7%
Dougie Costello7 / 2528.0%+88.5%
Jason Watson6 / 1931.6%+70.2%
Harry Davies6 / 3020.0%+40.8%
Callum Hutchinson5 / 1926.3%+27.4%

OddsLens at Newmarket (July)

Since 19 June 2026 the OddsLens model has made 90 calls at Newmarket (July), each logged before the off with the best price at that moment. 25 won, a 27.8% strike rate, for a −17.3% return at the logged prices and an average closing line value of +10.6%. That makes Newmarket (July) 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 Newmarket (July) in the OddsLens results database from 20 June 2025 to 22 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.