David Probert

Welcome to our profile of jockey David Probert.

Welsh jockey David Probert, born in 1988, shared the title of British flat racing Champion Apprentice in 2008.

Probert was raised competing in pony racing and gymkhana in and around Wales. He was born in Bargoed, Wales, and attended Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni Welsh language school. He went to Newmarket’s British Racing School.

His first winner came in 2007 on Mountain Pass for John Lewis Llewellyn, but since leaving the school, he has ridden for Andrew Balding and has had Ian Balding as a mentor. He and William Buick shared the 2008 British Flat Racing Champion Apprentice title.

Then, in 2016, he and three-year-old filly Dancing Star at Goodwood took home the Stewards Cup, becoming just the second filly to do so since Lochsong, a horse to which she was related.

Find out more about David Probert, his past and future races in our guide:

Contents

1 David Probert Runners Today
2 David Probert Recent Form
3 Key Stats about David Probert
4 Jockey Profile – D Probert
5 David Probert – Key Jockey Stats
6 David Probert’s Big Race Wins
7 David Probert’s Most Famous Victories
8 David Probert Rides
9 Summary of Jockey David Probert
10 Other Top Jockeys

David Probert Runners Today

Here are all the David Probert horses running today and future entries:

Time/date	Course	Distance	Class	Horse	Trainer
17:50 10th Jun 23	Chepstow	5f 16y	C6	Rhubarb	R J Price
18:20 10th Jun 23	Chepstow	5f 16y	C5	Make It Easy (IRE)	Jack Channon
18:55 10th Jun 23	Chepstow	5f 16y	C5	Doctor Mozart (IRE)	P D Evans
19:30 10th Jun 23	Chepstow	6f 16y	C6	Port Noir	R Stephens
20:00 10th Jun 23	Chepstow	7f 16y	C4	Flatley	A Wintle
20:30 10th Jun 23	Chepstow	7f 16y	C6	Deacs Delight	P & O Cole
21:00 10th Jun 23	Chepstow	1m 4f	C6	Prince Ali	D Faulkner
14:10 11th Jun 23	Goodwood	6f	C4	Soldier's Secret	S bin Suroor
15:55 11th Jun 23	Goodwood	2m	C3	Monsieur Lambrays	B J Llewellyn
14:00 12th Jun 23	Lingfield Park	1m 4f	C6	Star Sight	D Menuisier
14:30 12th Jun 23	Lingfield Park	1m 2f	C6	Third Batch	S P C Woods
15:00 12th Jun 23	Lingfield Park	1m 1y	C6	Dourado (IRE)	P R Chamings
16:30 12th Jun 23	Lingfield Park	7f	C6	Amathus (IRE)	P R Chamings
17:00 12th Jun 23	Lingfield Park	6f	C5	Magical Merlin (IRE)	R Charlton
14:30 13th Jun 23	Southwell	1m 6f 21y	C6	Ship To Shore	P R Chamings
15:30 13th Jun 23	Southwell	1m 13y	C4	Garrick Painter (IRE)	T Ward
16:00 13th Jun 23	Southwell	1m 13y	C5	Eminent Hipster (IRE)	P R Chamings
17:20 14th Jun 23	Haydock Park	1m 2f 42y	C4	Westerton (IRE)	A King
20:15 14th Jun 23	Kempton Park	1m 2f 219y	C6	Tawtheef (IRE)	P R Chamings
16:55 15th Jun 23	Nottingham	5f 8y	C6	Boarhunt	M Appleby
17:05 15th Jun 23	Newbury	1m 4f	C5	Royal Deeside	A King

David Probert Recent Form

Period	Runs	1st	2nd	3rd	Win%	£ level stake
Last 7 Days (Combined )	7	0	1	0	0.0	-7.0
Season (Combined )	390	47	46	49	12.05	-65.04

Key Stats about David Probert

Name – David Probert

Date of Birth – 1 January 1988

Birthplace – Bargoed, Wales

Riding Weight – 8st 4lbs

Big Wins: Sky Bet York Stakes, Duchess of Cambridge Stakes, Lancashire Oaks, Sweet Solera Stakes, Stewards’ Cup, Albany Stakes, John of Gaunt Stakes and many more!

Jockey Profile – D Probert

Probert revealed a natural talent for riding at an early age and was soon competing in pony racing and gymkhana.

He then attended the British Racing School in Newmarket before joining the Balding stable at Kingsclere.

His first winner under rules was Mountain Pass for Welsh Trainer John Llewellyn in 2007.

David Probert – Key Jockey Stats

Probert shared the 2008 British Champion Apprentice title with William Buick, another leading jockey to emerge from the Balding camp.

He has been a prolific jockey ever since, recording his first century in a season in 2014.

He rode a career-best 112 winners in 2019 and is set to pass that total comfortably in 2021.

In 2016 Probert rode his first four-timer at Brighton at accumulative odds in excess of 8000-1.

David Probert’s Big Race Wins

Probert rode the well-backed Dancing Star to win the Stewards’ Cup for Jeff Smith and Andrew Balding in 2016.

Most of his big-race successes have been for Balding, including Group 2 victories aboard Bangkok (York Stakes) and Sandrine (Duchess of Cambridge Stakes) in 2021.

He has also won the Group 3 Sweet Solera Stakes on Majestic Glory and the Albany Stakes on Sandrine.

His first Group race victories abroad and in Britain both came aboard Balding’s Highland Knight in 2012. Highland Knight won the Darley Oettingen-Rennen at Baden-Baden, a race Probert would later win on Here Comes When for the same stable in 2015.

One of the best horses he has ridden was one-time Derby favourite Elm Park who won the Listed Stonehenge Stakes at Salisbury as a two-year-old.

David Probert’s Most Famous Victories

Probert’s win on 9-2 Stewards’ Cup favourite Dancing Star in 2016 was a very important victory for him and the horse’s connections. He had ridden the filly to success in a valuable handicap at Newmarket on her previous start and retained the ride for the big Goodwood sprint.

Dancing Star was related to Lochsong who had won the race in the same colours 24 years’ earlier.

Bangkok’s surprise 14-1 success in the 2021 Sky Bet York Stakes was a perfect demonstration of Probert’s talents. The five-year-old is well known to take a fierce hold in his races and was expected to run out of steam behind hot favourite Mohaafeth and Aidan O’Brien’s Armory. In a slowly-run race, Probert managed to keep enough in reserve to repel Juan Elcano and Mohaafeth by a head and a neck in a thrilling finish.

David Probert Rides

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