Racecourse record
Chester racing stats
174 races at Chester over the last twelve months, across 24 race days. Here is how the track actually behaves - starting with the question everyone asks.
Do favourites win at Chester?
Favourites won 36% of their 189 runs here in the last twelve months (68 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
29% of our 170 settled picks at Chester 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
- Good901 runners
- Good To Soft311 runners
- Soft122 runners
- Heavy93 runners
- Good To Firm88 runners
Distances
- 7f267 runners
- 6f267 runners
- 7½f196 runners
- 1m2½f179 runners
- 5f170 runners
- 1m4½f142 runners
- 2m95 runners
- 1m6½f49 runners
Race class
- Class 4615 runners
- Class 5297 runners
- Class 3266 runners
- Class 2239 runners
- Class 198 runners
Winning-most trainers at Chester
- Andrew Balding22 from 86 · 26%
- Hugo Palmer16 from 111 · 14%
- Jennie Candlish10 from 63 · 16%
- Ian Williams9 from 67 · 13%
- Roger Varian6 from 19 · 32%
- Charlie Johnston6 from 29 · 21%
- James Owen6 from 33 · 18%
- William Haggas5 from 18 · 28%
Winning-most jockeys at Chester
- Oisin Murphy11 from 31 · 35%
- Jason Watson11 from 72 · 15%
- Hector Crouch8 from 30 · 27%
- George Wood8 from 46 · 17%
- David Probert7 from 34 · 21%
- Ashley Lewis6 from 18 · 33%
- Cieren Fallon6 from 28 · 21%
- Callum Hutchinson4 from 16 · 25%
Figures cover 1,515 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.