Clifford Lee

October 2025 gave a sharp illustration of where he currently stands. He won three top-level races inside two weeks — two at Newmarket on consecutive days, then another at Pontefract ten days later. That kind of cluster at elite venues is not luck; it is what happens when trainers trust you with their best horses on the biggest days. Pontefract is worth paying attention to specifically: he has won 6 races from just 15 rides there, which works out at 2 in every 5 — the sort of record that suggests he genuinely understands how to ride that particular track.

His most consistent alliance is with trainer K R Burke. From 213 races together they have produced 46 wins — a win rate of 22%, or almost 1 in every 4 and a half. That is meaningfully better than his overall average, which tells you something real: Burke clearly rates him highly enough to keep putting him up, and the results back it up.

Right now, though, the most striking thing about Lee is simply his current form. Over the last two weeks he has ridden 7 winners from 27 races — a win rate of 26%, well above his already solid seasonal average. And there is one more detail that smart punters tend to notice: on wet or muddy ground he wins 13 from 38, which is 34%, or roughly 1 in every 3. Whether that reflects a particular technique, a preference among the trainers who book him in those conditions, or something else entirely is hard to say — but when the forecast turns bad, that number becomes very relevant very quickly.