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
Dan Skelton	29	6	14	£49,260	20.69%	-£10.17
F O'Brien	23	6	8	£40,928	26.09%	£21.83
O Murphy	20	6	7	£87,713	30%	£13.30
Charles & Pogson	25	5	9	£23,897	20%	-£4.75
O Greenall & J Guerriero	24	5	9	£25,672	20.83%	-£4.22
P A Kirby	10	4	4	£16,908	40%	£19.50
H Morrison	5	4	0	£38,069	80%	£9.58
Micky Hammond	33	3	13	£14,127	9.09%	-£7.00
M Walford	22	3	10	£20,142	13.64%	-£8.25
R Potter	21	3	10	£12,939	14.29%	-£10.04

Trainer	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
O Murphy	70	14	38	£91,890	20%	-£31.32
Dan Skelton	76	13	39	£52,921	17.11%	-£49.16
F O'Brien	85	12	38	£79,603	14.12%	-£39.13
James Owen	37	10	12	£113,534	27.03%	£0.82
Jonjo & A J O'Neill	43	7	15	£29,490	16.28%	-£10.87
T Lacey	13	7	3	£26,841	53.85%	£14.16
A Keatley	25	6	13	£33,047	24%	£6.58
J Parkinson & S Smith	44	6	9	£34,706	13.64%	-£0.25
Nigel & Willy Twiston-Davies	21	6	7	£24,540	28.57%	-£7.35
Mickey Bowen	14	6	6	£44,344	42.86%	-£0.90

Trainer	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
O Murphy	9	3	3	£6,534	33.33%	-£2.25
Dan Skelton	15	2	10	£4,356	13.33%	-£8.63
F O'Brien	11	2	7	£22,110	18.18%	-£2.25
B Pauling	7	2	3	£16,350	28.57%	£0.75
Nigel & Willy Twiston-Davies	5	2	2	£4,290	40%	-£0.14
A King	8	1	4	£2,178	12.5%	-£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	53	16	17	£111,314	30.19%	£2.48
James Bowen	21	7	7	£82,320	33.33%	£16.50
B S Hughes	33	6	17	£29,970	18.18%	£3.38
Henry Brooke	18	5	7	£30,894	27.78%	£0.95
Joe Williamson	15	5	3	£21,265	33.33%	£24.50
H Cobden	12	5	3	£173,143	41.67%	£15.50
Harry Skelton	20	4	12	£38,434	20%	-£9.29
G Sheehan	16	4	5	£20,068	25%	-£3.42
Jack Andrews	11	4	5	£22,445	36.36%	£6.00
Jack Hogan	13	4	0	£44,802	30.77%	£13.25

Jockey	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
S Bowen	65	15	35	£136,737	23.08%	-£26.28
Harry Skelton	51	11	27	£44,612	21.57%	-£27.16
Danny McMenamin	37	11	12	£52,547	29.73%	-£2.92
Sam Twiston-Davies	33	10	13	£56,136	30.3%	-£9.81
J J Burke	40	9	19	£75,773	22.5%	-£4.15
James Bowen	33	8	13	£48,862	24.24%	-£3.66
William Maggs	47	7	14	£35,595	14.89%	£7.63
G Sheehan	39	6	19	£55,203	15.38%	-£19.25
Stan Sheppard	12	6	3	£22,757	50%	£14.43
B S Hughes	44	5	18	£30,324	11.36%	-£5.09

Jockey	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
S Bowen	14	4	5	£8,712	28.57%	-£4.52
J J Burke	11	3	6	£24,288	27.27%	£3.00
B S Hughes	12	3	4	£18,594	25%	-£1.56
Sam Twiston-Davies	8	3	3	£6,468	37.5%	-£0.14
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
Tom Cannon	6	1	3	£2,178	16.67%	£2.50
James Bowen	5	1	3	£2,178	20%	-£2.75
Kielan Woods	5	1	2	£2,178	20%	-£1.75