Sean Quinlan

This season he has ridden 47 winners from 455 races — roughly 1 in every 10, or 10% — which represents a slight dip from last year's 13%. That kind of drop is worth watching rather than worrying about. Volume riders go through phases, and 455 races in a single season is a punishing schedule. Keeping the win rate above 1 in 10 across that many rides still puts him in respectable territory among jump jockeys.

The most eye-catching number in his file, though, is the partnership with La Zoubida — 3 wins from just 8 races together, which works out at 37.5%, or better than 1 in every 3 rides. That is the kind of ratio that gets noticed in racing yards. When a jockey clicks with a particular horse, it is often about feel and timing, and those numbers hint at a genuine understanding between the two.

On fast, dry ground, Quinlan has won 2 from 3 races — a tiny sample, but a 67% hit rate is hard to ignore entirely. If the summer brings a dry spell and he gets the right horses under him, that could be a useful thread to follow.

The one figure that raises an eyebrow is the partnership with trainer Lizzie Quinlan — the shared surname is hard to miss — where the record reads 2 wins from 103 rides, a win rate of around 2%, or roughly 1 in every 50. That is a low conversion for what appears to be a regular working arrangement, and suggests the yard is perhaps sending him out on some tough tasks. It does not reflect badly on the rider, but it does drag on the overall numbers. Strip that out, and Quinlan's record elsewhere looks considerably sharper. At 286 career winners and four top-level victories before the age of any meaningful career peak, the trajectory here still points upward.