What actually wins · Great Britain

What actually wins at Yarmouth

1,587 races, 8,290 runs and 134 meetings from 13 September 2025 to 12 September 2026. Recomputed from the results as they arrive; last racing counted 12 September 2026.

The short version

  • Trap 3 is the place to be at Yarmouth: it wins 23.7% of races against an even-chance 18.8%, a 26% edge over 1,494 runs.
  • Trap 5 is the one to be wary of, winning 15.4% (18% below its share).
  • Over 462m the draw matters most: trap 3 takes 23.1% of those races.
  • Over 277m the draw matters most: trap 3 takes 28.0% of those races.
  • Favourites win 39.4% of races at Yarmouth at an average 2.39 and lose money at starting price (-8.5% on level stakes).
  • A quick break wins 12.3% of the time; a slow one 5.0%.
  • E G Samuels is the trainer to follow at Yarmouth: 264 winners from 1469 runs (18.0%).
  • 99.3% 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 5.3-runner field. A bar well above the dashed line is a draw the track favours; how far above is the size of the edge.

18.6%Trap 119.6%Trap 223.7%Trap 319.4%Trap 415.4%Trap 517.8%Trap 6even chance 18.8%
DistanceRunsT1T2T3T4T5T6
462m7,11018.9%19.2%23.1%19.6%15.8%18.6%
277m1,09616.9%23.5%28.0%18.6%10.0%13.2%
659m7723.1%7.1%21.4%14.3%50.0%0.0%
843m60.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%100.0%0.0%

Favourites and prices

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

Favourite wins
39.4%
1,587 races with SP
Average fav price
2.39
decimal
Fav return at SP
-8.5%
level stakes
Starting priceRunsWinsStrike rateReturn
evens or shorter37919551.5%-14.7%
2/1 – 3/12,77684030.3%-12.3%
3/1 – 5/11,87831216.6%-22.3%
5/1 – 8/11,5631539.8%-33.6%
8/1 and bigger1,684915.4%-35.1%

How races are run

From 8,149 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 0.0% of their races here; everyone else 18.1%.

Quick away70512.3%
Slowly away1005.0%
Very slowly away30.0%
Missed the break150.0%
Running line
Rails1,13716.2%
Rails to middle1,02018.5%
Middle3,02619.8%
Middle to wide1,06016.7%
Wide1,11315.4%

Trainers to follow

TrainerW/RSRSP return
E G Samuels264/146918.0%-25.6%
K L Windebank237/126018.8%-15.8%
C R Morris165/54930.1%-13.9%
I J Barnard148/72420.4%-13.9%
K J Cobbold116/44026.4%-6.7%
M Lewis83/51916.0%-36.8%
P I Cross72/31722.7%-0.7%
M P Brown69/37718.3%-22.0%

Dogs that win here

DogW/RBest
HARLEQUIN GAMBIT12/2727.82
CASSANDRAS GIRL12/3616.20
TRUMPERS TUCCI11/2527.78
GUNDY11/2916.24
MONTANA TIGER10/2227.52
STORMY NEYMAR10/3016.27
GAMBET10/3027.77
BACKING IT UP9/2227.48

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
462m1,33928.27s27.23s
277m20516.53s16.02s

How this page is made

Every figure is counted from the results we hold for Yarmouth 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. 99.3% 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: Yarmouth track page. Trap bias across every track: trap statistics.