Racecourse guide · Thursday 8 October

Hamilton

Flat only · undulating straight · May to September

126races, last 12 months
39.7%favourites win ▲ 3.7 pts vs all flat
7.5runners per race
Nonereliable draw bias None in 218 races
16/69our winners here23% strike rate

Today's Hamilton Tips

Thursday 8 October

There is no flat racing at Hamilton today. Our selections for today's meetings are on today's tips, and the course stats below are updated every morning.

Our Record at Hamilton

since 27 May

16 winners from 69 picks here on the daily card and the X thread. The biggest-priced of them:

12/1Bradbury20 Sept 2026
8/1Gangsta Man25 Jun 2026
6/1Uncle Liam4 Jun 2026
7/2Thornaby Pearl11 Jul 2026
7/2El Matador28 Sept 2026
7/2Off Spin28 Sept 2026

Price is the one we put up. The full card record, losers included, is on the record page.

Trainers in Form

last 14 days

No trainer with a runner here today is in a hot spell.

At least 6 runners in the last 14 days, at any track, winning with 25% or more.

Course Winners Running Today

today's runners

Nobody in today's fields has won here twice or over today's trip.

Top Hamilton Trainers

last 12 months, flat
TrainerW–RHereAll tracks1pt SP
Jim Goldie 18–143 12.6% 10.5% +16.53
Tim Easterby 14–50 28.0% 9.4% -0.38
Edward Bethell 8–25 32.0% 15.7% +13.32
Tristan Davidson 7–22 31.8% 15.0% +9.75
Iain Jardine 7–69 10.1% 11.7% -33.87
Charlie Johnston 5–37 13.5% 11.4% -10.96
Richard & Peter Fahey 5–39 12.8% 9.8% -10.12
K. R. Burke 4–23 17.4% 19.4% -2.00
Kevin Ryan 4–31 12.9% 9.6% -4.90
David O'Meara 4–36 11.1% 10.6% +57.10

Minimum 15 runners and 3 wins here. The last column is a 1pt win bet on every one at starting price: a good strike rate the market already knows about shows as a loss.

Top Hamilton Jockeys

last 12 months, flat
JockeyW–RHereAll tracks1pt SP
Rowan Scott 9–23 39.1% 14.0% +110.75
David Allan 9–35 25.7% 10.9% -1.88
Paul Mulrennan 9–63 14.3% 9.9% -8.08
Sam James 8–33 24.2% 12.6% +1.41
Connor Beasley 7–53 13.2% 13.2% -8.75
Jack Nicholls 6–28 21.4% 11.9% +2.75
Lauren Young 6–53 11.3% 9.3% -0.97
Daniel Tudhope 5–30 16.7% 15.0% -15.40
Andrew Mullen 5–39 12.8% 10.3% -18.87
Jason Hart 3–22 13.6% 13.7% -12.76

Minimum 15 rides and 3 wins here. The last column is a 1pt win bet on every one at starting price: a good strike rate the market already knows about shows as a loss.

Hamilton Draw Bias

flat races since 17 Apr

No part of the draw wins more than its share of runners by enough to rule out chance, at any trip. Over 218 races, where a horse is drawn here has mattered less than it is often given credit for.

5f to 6f127 races
Low 38%
Middle 35%
High 27%
9f to 11f91 races
Low 36.2%
Middle 24.6%
High 39.1%

On good or faster ground

5f to 6f77 races
Low 41.4%
Middle 37.9%
High 20.7%
9f to 11f67 races
Low 34.7%
Middle 24.5%
High 40.8%

Not enough races yet on good or faster ground over 7f to a mile, 1m 4f and further.

On good to soft or softer ground: no trip here has the 60 races we need yet, so we do not show it. This fills in as the record grows.

Stalls are split into low, middle and high thirds within each race. Each bar is that third's share of the winners and the tick is its share of the runners, so a bar past its tick is winning more than its share. We only call a bias when the gap is at least 15% of that share and two standard deviations clear of chance.

Hamilton Track Guide

Hamilton Park is a flat-only course just south of Glasgow, racing from May to September, with an undulating straight course.

Surface
Turf
Racing
Flat only

Every figure on this page is counted from official flat results for Hamilton and refreshed each morning. Each section states its window, and anything below a minimum sample is left off rather than shown on thin numbers.