His most regular partnership is with trainer Maurice Andrew Ahern, though that combination has yet to fully click — just 1 win from 26 rides together, which is roughly 1 in every 26, or about 4%. That kind of booking frequency tells you there is clearly a working relationship being built, even if the winners have been hard to come by in that pairing so far. Volume of rides with one yard at this stage of a career is worth more than it might look: it means a trainer believes in you enough to keep putting you up, and that trust tends to pay off over time.
The most intriguing detail in Pietropaolo's record so far is what happens when the rain arrives. On wet or muddy ground, he has won 2 from 15 races — a 13% win rate, or roughly 1 in every 7 or 8. That is meaningfully better than his overall average, and while 15 races is too small a sample to treat as gospel, it is the kind of pattern worth watching. Some jockeys just ride differently when the ground gets heavy — more patient, more decisive — and if Pietropaolo genuinely has an edge in those conditions, trainers will start to notice.
Fourteen winners from 181 races in your first year is not headline-grabbing, but it was never going to be. What matters at this point in a jockey's career is momentum, and Pietropaolo has it. A rising win rate, regular bookings, and a possible strength in testing conditions — there is enough here to suggest this is a career worth following from the ground floor.
| Course | Races | Wins | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dundalk | 71 | 6 | 8.5% |
| The Curragh | 16 | 0 | 0% |
| Cork | 12 | 0 | 0% |
| Gowran Park | 10 | 1 | 10% |
| Naas | 9 | 0 | 0% |
| Killarney | 8 | 1 | 12.5% |
| Galway | 7 | 1 | 14.3% |
| Down Royal | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| Navan | 6 | 0 | 0% |
| Bellewstown | 5 | 1 | 20% |
| Listowel | 4 | 1 | 25% |
| Fairyhouse | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| Leopardstown | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| Punchestown | 3 | 2 | 66.7% |
| Tipperary | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Roscommon | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Limerick | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Thurles | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Ballinrobe | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Tramore | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Doncaster | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Sligo | 1 | 0 | 0% |