Racecourse record
Pontefract racing stats
178 races at Pontefract over the last twelve months, across 26 race days. Here is how the track actually behaves - starting with the question everyone asks.
Do favourites win at Pontefract?
Favourites won 44% of their 193 runs here in the last twelve months (85 winners).
Joint favourites are counted. Across all UK and Irish racing the figure sits around a third, so anything well below that marks Pontefract out as a track where the market gets caught out more often than usual.
How our own picks do here
26% of our 176 settled picks at Pontefract won, and 53% placed.
Every pick is published in advance and settled at Betfair starting prices, losers included. Some tracks suit the model better than others and we publish both. Past results never guarantee future ones.
The going it really races on
- Good711 runners
- Good To Firm316 runners
- Good To Soft262 runners
- Soft125 runners
Distances
- 6f503 runners
- 1m307 runners
- 5f228 runners
- 1m2f167 runners
- 1m4f82 runners
- 2m1f51 runners
- 1m6y21 runners
- 2m2f20 runners
Race class
- Class 5468 runners
- Class 4367 runners
- Class 6279 runners
- Class 3152 runners
- Class 280 runners
- Class 168 runners
Winning-most trainers at Pontefract
- Ruth Carr13 from 55 · 24%
- Tim Easterby11 from 114 · 10%
- William Haggas8 from 15 · 53%
- K R Burke6 from 18 · 33%
- Brian Ellison6 from 22 · 27%
- Ivan Furtado6 from 30 · 20%
- David O'Meara6 from 51 · 12%
- John & Sean Quinn5 from 24 · 21%
Winning-most jockeys at Pontefract
- Daniel Tudhope17 from 68 · 25%
- Jason Hart13 from 78 · 17%
- Joanna Mason10 from 55 · 18%
- David Allan8 from 79 · 10%
- Clifford Lee7 from 25 · 28%
- Rowan Scott7 from 27 · 26%
- Callum Rodriguez6 from 23 · 26%
- David Nolan6 from 38 · 16%
Figures cover 1,414 runners in settled races at Pontefract over the last twelve months and update as new meetings run. See every course, today’s card or recent results.