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	Beat Box (Good)	17 Aug 2024	4m 11.74s
2m 3f 34y	Tardree (Good)	01 Aug 2021	4m 44.6s
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	Herewegohoney (Good)	09 Jul 2023	7m 11.1s

Distance	Horse (Going)	Date	Winning time
2m 125y	Magnetic North (Good to Soft)	26 Dec 2024	3m 51.19s
2m 2f 140y	Midnight Jewel (Good)	01 Aug 2021	4m 27.5s
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	Poetic Music (Good)	16 Oct 2021	3m 14.39s
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
F O'Brien	23	8	6	£50,434	34.78%	£30.83
Dan Skelton	27	6	12	£49,260	22.22%	-£8.17
O Murphy	22	6	6	£87,713	27.27%	£11.30
O Greenall & J Guerriero	23	5	8	£25,672	21.74%	-£4.22
P Bowen	19	5	8	£36,703	26.32%	-£1.00
L Morgan	33	4	12	£25,877	12.12%	-£18.13
Charles & Pogson	22	4	10	£20,728	18.18%	-£3.75
P A Kirby	10	4	4	£16,908	40%	£19.50
H Morrison	5	4	0	£38,069	80%	£9.58
S England	21	3	10	£12,147	14.29%	£6.50

Trainer	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
O Murphy	76	15	39	£95,974	19.74%	-£34.69
F O'Brien	86	13	39	£82,466	15.12%	-£33.89
Dan Skelton	69	11	36	£43,910	15.94%	-£49.11
James Owen	33	9	10	£99,935	27.27%	£2.44
A Keatley	26	8	13	£48,461	30.77%	£23.63
T Lacey	13	7	3	£26,841	53.85%	£14.16
Jonjo & A J O'Neill	42	6	16	£24,341	14.29%	-£15.87
B Pauling	23	6	11	£27,321	26.09%	-£0.92
Nigel & Willy Twiston-Davies	24	6	7	£24,540	25%	-£10.35
M Walford	47	5	15	£26,511	10.64%	-£30.83

Trainer	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
O Murphy	12	3	5	£6,534	25%	-£5.25
Dan Skelton	15	2	10	£4,356	13.33%	-£8.63
F O'Brien	11	2	7	£22,110	18.18%	-£3.25
A King	9	2	4	£4,900	22.22%	£2.00
B Pauling	7	2	3	£16,350	28.57%	£0.75
Nigel & Willy Twiston-Davies	5	2	2	£4,290	40%	-£0.14
H D Daly	5	1	2	£2,178	20%	-£2.00
Jonjo & A J O'Neill	5	1	2	£2,722	20%	£1.00
P D Niven	5	1	1	£2,178	20%	£0.00
Mrs P Sly	4	1	1	£2,722	25%	£13.00

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	54	16	16	£110,126	29.63%	£0.98
B S Hughes	41	7	21	£34,871	17.07%	-£2.88
Henry Brooke	19	5	7	£30,894	26.32%	-£1.05
James Bowen	15	5	6	£35,779	33.33%	£11.75
Joe Williamson	16	5	3	£21,265	31.25%	£23.50
Harry Skelton	17	4	9	£38,434	23.53%	-£6.29
G Sheehan	15	4	5	£20,068	26.67%	-£2.42
H Cobden	12	4	3	£165,428	33.33%	£12.25
Jack Hogan	14	4	0	£44,802	28.57%	£12.25
Danny McMenamin	24	3	10	£17,956	12.5%	-£11.25

Jockey	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
S Bowen	72	16	35	£124,672	22.22%	-£27.76
Sam Twiston-Davies	35	10	13	£56,136	28.57%	-£11.81
Harry Skelton	44	9	23	£35,601	20.45%	-£26.11
B S Hughes	59	7	25	£46,167	11.86%	-£10.89
J J Burke	35	7	17	£59,765	20%	-£5.25
Danny McMenamin	36	7	13	£30,201	19.44%	-£16.79
Henry Brooke	29	7	11	£35,787	24.14%	£5.63
James Bowen	26	7	11	£43,416	26.92%	£1.73
G Sheehan	40	6	19	£55,203	15%	-£23.25
Stan Sheppard	11	6	2	£22,757	54.55%	£15.43

Jockey	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
S Bowen	16	4	6	£8,712	25%	-£6.52
B S Hughes	11	3	4	£18,594	27.27%	-£0.56
Sam Twiston-Davies	9	3	3	£6,468	33.33%	-£1.14
J J Burke	8	2	6	£22,110	25%	£2.75
Ben Jones	8	2	3	£4,290	25%	-£2.88
G Sheehan	7	2	3	£4,900	28.57%	£1.00
Harry Skelton	7	1	4	£2,178	14.29%	-£4.63
Tom Cannon	6	1	3	£2,178	16.67%	£2.50
Charlie Hammond	5	1	2	£2,722	20%	£1.00
Kielan Woods	5	1	2	£2,178	20%	-£1.75