Market Rasen Course Guide

Market Rasen stage National Hunt meetings all year round with a strong emphasis on summer jumping. Two of its seasonal highlights, the Listed Summer Plate and the Summer Hurdle, both take place during the same Saturday meeting in mid-July.

Run over two and a half miles, the Summer Plate is the richest race run at the course and one of the highlights of the summer jumping season. The 2008 renewal went to the Peter Bowen-trained Snoopy Loopy, who that autumn won the Grade 1 Betfair Chase at Haydock Park.

Jumps Racing

Right handed, sharp with minor undulations. Generally favours nippy types (though the ground can get testing), plenty of races being won by those who quicken best on the run to the first obstacle in the home straight. Fairly easy fences, with the third last catching out fewer in recent seasons than used to be the case.

Not many courses put such a premium on the ability to travel through a race as Market Rasen. Even though it’s relatively flat, it’s a hard place to make up a lot of ground. You can turn into the straight thinking you’ve loads of time to make a challenge but, if others quicken away from you at that point, you struggle to get back to them. If you kick from the turn in, though, it’s a fair way home and you almost look up with a furlong left and ask yourself ‘am I not there yet’. The home straight really is l-o-n-g.

View from the saddle: Mick Fitzgerald

Market Rasen Top Times
Last 5 years

Chase
Hurdle
National Hunt Flat

Distance	Horse (Going)	Date	Winning time
2m 1f 43y	Gower Prince (Good)	15 Aug 2026	4m 8.93s
2m 3f 34y	Ostend (Good)	26 Mar 2025	4m 47.6s
2m 5f 89y	Francky Du Berlais (Good)	16 Jul 2022	5m 16.4s
2m 6f 191y	Red Maple (Good)	13 Aug 2022	5m 50.47s
2m 7f 191y	Golfe Clair (Good)	17 Aug 2024	5m 57.78s
3m 3f 123y	Paper Mill (Good to Soft)	25 Oct 2026	4m 35.45s

Distance	Horse (Going)	Date	Winning time
2m 125y	Magnetic North (Good to Soft)	26 Dec 2024	3m 51.19s
2m 2f 140y	Callin Baton Rouge (Good)	17 Aug 2024	4m 29.3s
2m 4f 139y	Flying Fortune (Good)	20 Jul 2024	5m 2.7s
2m 7f 16y	Pounding Poet (Good)	06 May 2022	5m 39.2s

Distance	Horse (Going)	Date	Winning time
1m 5f 21y	Fiercely Proud (Good to Soft)	15 Oct 2022	3m 18.81s
2m 125y	The Bogmans Ball (Good)	17 Apr 2022	3m 54.3s

Market Rasen Top Trainers
Last 3 years (ordered by number of winners)

Chase
Hurdle
National Hunt Flat

Trainer	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
O Murphy	24	7	9	£91,542	29.17%	£10.03
Dan Skelton	32	6	15	£49,260	18.75%	-£13.17
F O'Brien	24	6	8	£40,928	25%	£20.83
O Greenall & J Guerriero	26	5	10	£25,672	19.23%	-£6.22
Charles & Pogson	25	5	9	£23,897	20%	-£4.75
P A Kirby	13	4	6	£16,908	30.77%	£16.50
T Ellis	10	4	5	£15,712	40%	£3.10
H Morrison	5	4	0	£38,069	80%	£9.58
J Parkinson & S Smith	23	3	14	£19,672	13.04%	-£13.38
Micky Hammond	32	3	13	£14,127	9.38%	-£6.00

Trainer	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
O Murphy	78	16	44	£85,058	20.51%	-£38.92
Dan Skelton	88	15	41	£62,988	17.05%	-£51.41
F O'Brien	82	12	36	£79,603	14.63%	-£34.13
James Owen	38	10	13	£113,534	26.32%	-£0.18
Nigel & Willy Twiston-Davies	27	9	8	£61,689	33.33%	-£5.37
A Keatley	29	7	13	£41,216	24.14%	£8.08
Jonjo & A J O'Neill	43	6	16	£25,406	13.95%	-£14.12
J Parkinson & S Smith	44	6	9	£34,706	13.64%	-£0.25
N G Richards	17	6	8	£24,821	35.29%	£7.71
Mickey Bowen	16	6	8	£44,344	37.5%	-£3.90

Trainer	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
O Murphy	10	3	4	£6,534	30%	-£3.25
Dan Skelton	15	2	10	£4,356	13.33%	-£9.63
F O'Brien	11	2	7	£22,110	18.18%	-£2.25
Nigel & Willy Twiston-Davies	7	2	3	£4,290	28.57%	-£2.14
B Pauling	7	2	3	£16,350	28.57%	£0.75
A King	7	1	3	£2,178	14.29%	£0.50
D Pipe	5	1	3	£19,932	20%	£12.00
Mickey Bowen	5	1	3	£2,178	20%	-£2.75
Mrs P Sly	5	1	2	£2,722	20%	£12.00
Jonjo & A J O'Neill	5	1	2	£2,722	20%	£1.00

Market Rasen Top Jockeys
Last 3 years (ordered by number of winners)

Chase
Hurdle
National Hunt Flat

Jockey	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
S Bowen	58	16	20	£103,525	27.59%	-£11.79
B S Hughes	35	9	17	£44,757	25.71%	£18.13
James Bowen	21	7	8	£82,320	33.33%	£15.50
Jack Andrews	14	5	7	£26,274	35.71%	£5.10
Henry Brooke	17	5	6	£30,894	29.41%	£1.95
Joe Williamson	17	5	5	£21,265	29.41%	£22.50
Harry Cobden	11	5	3	£173,143	45.45%	£16.50
Harry Skelton	22	4	13	£38,434	18.18%	-£11.29
Charlie Hammond	22	4	9	£25,085	18.18%	-£5.13
G Sheehan	16	4	5	£20,068	25%	-£3.42

Jockey	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
S Bowen	71	17	40	£129,245	23.94%	-£32.39
Danny McMenamin	43	14	14	£67,004	32.56%	£6.33
Harry Skelton	60	13	29	£54,679	21.67%	-£26.41
Sam Twiston-Davies	34	11	11	£76,105	32.35%	-£7.58
J J Burke	43	9	22	£75,773	20.93%	-£7.15
James Bowen	38	8	16	£48,862	21.05%	-£9.66
G Sheehan	40	6	19	£55,203	15%	-£20.25
William Maggs	47	6	13	£30,314	12.77%	£0.63
Stan Sheppard	14	6	3	£22,757	42.86%	£12.43
Ben Jones	19	5	11	£24,944	26.32%	-£5.42

Jockey	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
S Bowen	16	5	6	£10,890	31.25%	-£3.77
J J Burke	11	3	6	£24,288	27.27%	£3.00
B S Hughes	13	3	5	£18,594	23.08%	-£2.56
Sam Twiston-Davies	9	3	4	£6,468	33.33%	-£1.14
Ben Jones	8	2	3	£4,290	25%	-£2.88
Harry Skelton	8	1	5	£2,178	12.5%	-£5.63
G Sheehan	7	1	4	£2,178	14.29%	-£2.50
James Bowen	6	1	4	£2,178	16.67%	-£3.75
Tom Cannon	6	1	3	£2,178	16.67%	£2.50
Kielan Woods	5	1	2	£2,178	20%	-£1.75