What actually wins · Great Britain

What actually wins at Dunstall Park

1,786 races, 10,350 runs and 153 meetings from 30 October 2025 to 29 October 2026. Recomputed from the results as they arrive; last racing counted 29 October 2026.

The short version

  • There is no trap worth backing blind at Dunstall Park: every box wins within 15% of its even-chance share over 10,350 runs.
  • Favourites win 37.7% of races at Dunstall Park at an average 2.6 and lose money at starting price (-6.4% on level stakes).
  • Early pace is decisive: dogs the stewards note as showing early pace win 29.7% of the time here, against 8.8% for the rest.
  • A quick break wins 15.8% of the time; a slow one 7.1%.
  • S W Deakin is the trainer to follow at Dunstall Park: 213 winners from 1271 runs (16.8%).
  • 99.9% of the results behind these figures have been confirmed by an independent second source.

Trap bias

Win rate by trap over every race in the window, against the even-chance share for a 5.8-runner field. A bar well above the dashed line is a draw the track favours; how far above is the size of the edge.

18.7%Trap 117.7%Trap 217.1%Trap 317.3%Trap 417.2%Trap 515.5%Trap 6even chance 17.1%
DistanceRunsT1T2T3T4T5T6
480m6,83618.2%17.5%17.2%17.5%16.9%17.0%
270m3,32119.1%18.2%16.5%17.0%17.9%13.0%
660m13434.8%13.6%16.7%26.1%4.5%10.0%
715m510.0%22.2%44.4%0.0%33.3%0.0%

Favourites and prices

Strike rate and level-stakes return at starting price. A negative return means the market at Dunstall Park already prices that band tighter than it wins.

Favourite wins
37.7%
1,786 races with SP
Average fav price
2.60
decimal
Fav return at SP
-6.4%
level stakes
Starting priceRunsWinsStrike rateReturn
evens or shorter25714958.0%-5.1%
2/1 – 3/13,05385127.9%-17.7%
3/1 – 5/12,72544716.4%-23.1%
5/1 – 8/12,17624311.2%-23.7%
8/1 and bigger2,139964.5%-47.1%

How races are run

From 10,344 stewards' comments parsed into how each dog broke, where it ran and whether it showed early pace.

Early pace

Dogs noted for early pace won 29.7% of their races here; everyone else 8.8%.

Quick away29815.8%
Slowly away2,0787.1%
Very slowly away2375.1%
Missed the break260.0%
Running line
Rails1,74018.9%
Rails to middle1,47218.3%
Middle3,52417.7%
Middle to wide93216.6%
Wide1,79616.3%

Trainers to follow

TrainerW/RSRSP return
S W Deakin213/127116.8%-26.9%
D T Smith189/104518.1%-31.2%
K S Harrison183/102217.9%-24.5%
R Williams150/92516.2%-25.7%
J R Hall120/69917.2%-24.7%
M T Field108/62417.3%-19.8%
I E Walker107/73914.5%-27.0%
R Short77/40119.2%-19.9%

Dogs that win here

DogW/RBest
FALSE WARRIOR12/3528.75
MALAIKA QUEEN10/2916.12
MADDIES LASS10/3516.36
PHARIS ROXY9/3016.23
FASTNET FORCE8/2116.25
POPSTAR ROSE8/2228.83
ASHTONS ERNIE8/2516.14
LYNNIA MAISIE8/3029.16

Track pars

The typical winning time per trip and the fastest recorded in the window. A dog whose best is near the par line is running to the standard of a winner here.

TripRacesMedian winFastest
480m1,18829.09s27.87s
270m56116.31s15.50s
660m2440.23s39.39s

How this page is made

Every figure is counted from the results we hold for Dunstall Park over the last 365 days and recomputed as new results arrive, so the page is never older than the racing. Non-runners are excluded; trap shares are compared with an even chance for the average field size; returns are level stakes at the industry starting price. Running-style figures come from the stewards' comments parsed into fields. 99.9% of the results in this window have been confirmed by an independent second source — see our data quality page.

Today's card and recent results: Dunstall Park track page. Trap bias across every track: trap statistics.