Racecourse record
Chester racing stats
145 races at Chester over the last twelve months, across 20 race days. Here is how the track actually behaves - starting with the question everyone asks.
Do favourites win at Chester?
Favourites won 35% of their 153 runs here in the last twelve months (54 winners).
Joint favourites are counted. Across all UK and Irish racing the figure sits around a third, so anything well below that marks Chester out as a track where the market gets caught out more often than usual.
How our own picks do here
31% of our 144 settled picks at Chester won, and 55% 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
- Good901 runners
- Good To Soft174 runners
- Good To Firm88 runners
- Soft57 runners
- Heavy26 runners
Distances
- 6f222 runners
- 7f211 runners
- 7½f166 runners
- 1m2½f149 runners
- 5f128 runners
- 1m4½f125 runners
- 2m64 runners
- 2m2½f32 runners
Race class
- Class 4504 runners
- Class 5231 runners
- Class 3226 runners
- Class 2201 runners
- Class 184 runners
Winning-most trainers at Chester
- Andrew Balding19 from 76 · 25%
- Hugo Palmer14 from 93 · 15%
- Jennie Candlish8 from 51 · 16%
- Ian Williams7 from 59 · 12%
- Roger Varian6 from 17 · 35%
- William Haggas5 from 16 · 31%
- James Owen5 from 31 · 16%
- Charlie Johnston4 from 23 · 17%
Winning-most jockeys at Chester
- Oisin Murphy11 from 31 · 35%
- Jason Watson9 from 62 · 15%
- George Wood7 from 42 · 17%
- David Probert6 from 29 · 21%
- Ashley Lewis5 from 12 · 42%
- Cieren Fallon5 from 23 · 22%
- Hector Crouch4 from 18 · 22%
- Jason Hart4 from 35 · 11%
Figures cover 1,246 runners in settled races at Chester over the last twelve months and update as new meetings run. See every course, today’s card or recent results.