Racecourse record
Pontefract racing stats
149 races at Pontefract over the last twelve months, across 22 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 160 runs here in the last twelve months (70 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 149 settled picks at Pontefract won, and 50% 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
- Good515 runners
- Good To Firm266 runners
- Good To Soft262 runners
- Soft125 runners
Distances
- 6f391 runners
- 1m259 runners
- 5f200 runners
- 1m2f139 runners
- 1m4f69 runners
- 2m1f40 runners
- 1m6y21 runners
- 2m2f14 runners
Race class
- Class 5402 runners
- Class 4304 runners
- Class 6248 runners
- Class 384 runners
- Class 272 runners
- Class 158 runners
Winning-most trainers at Pontefract
- Ruth Carr10 from 43 · 23%
- Tim Easterby7 from 89 · 8%
- K R Burke6 from 18 · 33%
- David O'Meara6 from 44 · 14%
- William Haggas5 from 10 · 50%
- Brian Ellison5 from 15 · 33%
- John & Sean Quinn5 from 19 · 26%
- Ivan Furtado5 from 28 · 18%
Winning-most jockeys at Pontefract
- Daniel Tudhope12 from 55 · 22%
- Jason Hart12 from 60 · 20%
- Joanna Mason9 from 49 · 18%
- Clifford Lee7 from 22 · 32%
- David Allan7 from 68 · 10%
- Rowan Scott5 from 20 · 25%
- David Nolan5 from 35 · 14%
- Kaiya Fraser4 from 13 · 31%
Figures cover 1,168 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.