Every race at York in the OddsLens results database from 14 May 2025 to 6 September 2026: 236 flat races, 3,084 runners at official starting price. What the numbers say, recomputed every week and never edited by hand.
Across 236 races the favourite won 30.6% of the time (79 of 258 bets, joint favourites counted separately) and £1 on every one returned a profit of 0.8p 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. That makes York one of the few courses where backing every favourite on the flat has not lost money in this window, on a sample this size; a tendency, not a system.
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.
| Stalls | Share of runners | Share of winners |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest third | 35.6% | 40.7% |
| Middle third | 33.4% | 34.6% |
| Highest third | 31.0% | 24.7% |
| Stalls | Share of runners | Share of winners |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest third | 35.6% | 37.0% |
| Middle third | 33.5% | 29.6% |
| Highest third | 30.9% | 35.2% |
Over five and six furlongs the low stalls have won 40.7% of the races from 35.6% of the runners: a real lean to low. (81 races.) Over seven furlongs to a mile the thirds have won roughly in proportion to their numbers: no draw bias worth the name. (54 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.
95 handicaps with 14 or more runners, an average field of 18.0. The winner's average starting price was about 9/1; 39 winners came in at 10/1 or bigger and 8 at 20/1 or bigger. Favourites won 28 of 105 and £1 on each returned a profit of 8.5p in the pound.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Balding | 25 / 112 | 22.3% | +26.2% |
| William Haggas | 24 / 87 | 27.6% | +27.7% |
| John & Thady Gosden | 12 / 52 | 23.1% | −18.8% |
| K R Burke | 10 / 86 | 11.6% | −20.3% |
| Richard Hannon | 8 / 46 | 17.4% | +12.5% |
| Ralph Beckett | 7 / 53 | 13.2% | +47.8% |
| Richard Hughes | 5 / 26 | 19.2% | +39.0% |
| A P O'Brien | 5 / 34 | 14.7% | −56.6% |
| Jockey | Wins / runs | Strike rate | £1 return |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Buick | 17 / 69 | 24.6% | +4.8% |
| Oisin Murphy | 16 / 82 | 19.5% | +14.1% |
| Tom Marquand | 13 / 82 | 15.9% | −18.1% |
| P J McDonald | 11 / 90 | 12.2% | +8.2% |
| Rossa Ryan | 9 / 80 | 11.3% | −4.8% |
| Cieren Fallon | 8 / 35 | 22.9% | +15.2% |
| Ryan Moore | 8 / 59 | 13.6% | −45.6% |
| Clifford Lee | 8 / 81 | 9.9% | −24.0% |
Since 13 May 2026 the OddsLens model has made 106 calls at York, each logged before the off with the best price at that moment. 34 won, a 32.1% strike rate, for a +27.5% return at the logged prices and an average closing line value of +15.6%. That makes York 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.
Method. Every settled race at York in the OddsLens results database from 14 May 2025 to 6 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.