What really sets Lee apart is his record at the very top level. He has won 40 Class 1 races in his career — the biggest, most prestigious races in Britain — at venues like Newmarket, Ascot and York. Those are not tracks where average riders go to pick up easy winners. They are places where the best horses in the country turn up, and winning there 40 times in four years is the kind of statistic that makes trainers take notice. Three of those wins came in the space of just two weeks in October 2025: back-to-back wins at Newmarket on the 10th and 11th, followed by another at Pontefract on the 20th.
That Pontefract result is worth lingering on. Lee has won 6 races from just 15 rides there — that is 40%, meaning he wins at that track 2 times in every 5. For context, his overall win rate is 1 in 6. Something about that course suits him, and riders who know how to read a track tend to find more ways to win than the numbers suggest they should.
His partnership with trainer K R Burke is the professional relationship at the heart of his career. From 208 rides for Burke, Lee has produced 44 winners — a win rate of 21%, or roughly 1 in every 5. That is meaningfully better than his overall average, which suggests these two bring something out in each other.
Right now, he is in the kind of form that makes you wish you had noticed him a fortnight earlier. In the last two weeks he has ridden 4 winners from just 13 races — a win rate of 31%, nearly double his season average. Add in the fact that he wins 34% of his races on wet or muddy ground — 13 wins from 38 races, or more than 1 in every 3 — and you have a jockey worth watching whenever the skies open.
| Course | Races | Wins | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| York | 44 | 7 | 15.9% |
| Haydock Park | 34 | 3 | 8.8% |
| Ayr | 29 | 6 | 20.7% |
| Wolverhampton | 28 | 3 | 10.7% |
| Newmarket | 26 | 5 | 19.2% |
| Ascot | 23 | 2 | 8.7% |
| Southwell | 21 | 4 | 19.0% |
| Leicester | 17 | 0 | 0% |
| Ripon | 16 | 1 | 6.2% |
| Pontefract | 15 | 6 | 40% |
| Beverley | 15 | 4 | 26.7% |
| Carlisle | 14 | 4 | 28.6% |
| Hamilton Park | 13 | 3 | 23.1% |
| Nottingham | 13 | 1 | 7.7% |
| Sandown Park | 13 | 1 | 7.7% |
| Thirsk | 12 | 1 | 8.3% |
| Musselburgh | 11 | 2 | 18.2% |
| Newcastle | 11 | 2 | 18.2% |
| Newbury | 8 | 2 | 25% |
| The Curragh | 7 | 1 | 14.3% |
| Great Yarmouth | 7 | 1 | 14.3% |
| Doncaster | 7 | 1 | 14.3% |
| Goodwood | 6 | 1 | 16.7% |
| Windsor | 6 | 1 | 16.7% |
| Redcar | 6 | 1 | 16.7% |
| chelmsford | 6 | 1 | 16.7% |
| Kempton Park | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| Catterick Bridge | 3 | 1 | 33.3% |
| Epsom Downs | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Leopardstown | 2 | 1 | 50% |
| Naas | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Bath | 1 | 0 | 0% |