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John Lawson

22 rides in the lifetime window · 18 individual horses
As at 28 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last ride Feb 2014 100% of rides on the flat
No rides in the last 5 seasons — showing the lifetime record, from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it.
1–22
Wins / Runs
4.5%
Strike rate
n=22
3 (14%)
Placed
0.52
n=22 · 0.45 incl. margin
−13.00
£1 level stake
n=22 at SP · −59.1%
£4,642
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
0%

Small sample — fewer than 30 runs in this window. Read the Ns before the percentages.

Riding patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 4.5% baseline
First ride on the horse · first captured pairing
5.6%+1.1
n=18 · A/E 0.72 · £1 −9.00
Last-time-out winners · previous run was a win
0%−4.5
n=3 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −3.00
Fresh horses · 61+ days off
0%−4.5
n=4 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −4.00
When favourite
0%
n=2 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −2.00
Claiming rides · riding with a claim
4.8%+0.3
n=21 · A/E 0.53 · £1 −12.00
Big fields · 14+ runners
25%+20.5
n=4 · A/E 4.47 · £1 +5.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 4.5% baseline — descriptive splits with the sample always shown, not tips. Tiles under 30 runs render muted. First rides are the first captured pairing of horse and rider; last-time-out winners are horses whose previous captured run was a win; claiming rides are runs where the rider carried a weight claim. Group / Graded covers pattern and listed races.

Record by conditions

same window as header

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Standard (AW) 9 0 0% −9.00
Good 5 1 20% +4.00
Good to Firm 4 0 0% −4.00
Good to Soft 3 0 0% −3.00
Soft 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Lingfield (AW) 5 0 0% −5.00
Wolverhampton (AW) 3 0 0% −3.00
Salisbury 2 0 0% −2.00
Beverley 2 0 0% −2.00
Ffos Las 2 0 0% −2.00
Nottingham 1 0 0% −1.00
Redcar 1 0 0% −1.00
Ripon 1 0 0% −1.00
Sandown 1 0 0% −1.00
Brighton 1 0 0% −1.00
Yarmouth 1 0 0% −1.00
Kempton (AW) 1 0 0% −1.00
Leicester 1 1 100% +8.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 5 13 1 7.7% −4.00
Class 6 9 0 0% −9.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 2 0 0% 0.00 −2.00
2nd–3rd fav 4 0 0% 0.00 −4.00
4th–6th fav 5 1 20% 2.66 +4.00
7th+ in betting 11 0 0% 0.00 −11.00
Fair A/E per band is the tell: near 1.00 the market had it priced right; well above, the wins came where the market didn't expect them.

Rows below n=30 are shown faded — a small sample is a fact, not a trend. Every figure carries its N.

Horses ridden

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Great Conquest (USA) 2 0 0 12 Feb 14
Intensive (IRE) 2 0 0 24 Jan 14
Living The Life (IRE) 2 1 2 28 Sep 13
Roman Sioux (IRE) 2 0 0 15 Sep 10
Ain't No Surprise (IRE) 1 0 0 6 Feb 14
Brandywell Boy (IRE) 1 0 0 15 Jan 14
Dawn Beat (GB) 1 0 0 22 Oct 13
Only You Maggie (IRE) 1 0 0 9 Oct 13
Jody Bear (GB) 1 0 0 8 Oct 13
Red Flash (IRE) 1 0 0 10 Aug 11
Corr Point (IRE) 1 0 1 8 Aug 11
Coalburn (GB) 1 0 0 28 Jul 11
All 18 horses ridden in this window. Runs, wins and places only: a strike rate or a return on a handful of runs is noise, so none is quoted per horse — each horse's full record is on its own page.

Riding for

same window · biggest samples first
TrainerRWSR£1
Jamie Osborne 10 1 10% −1.00
Robin Bastiman 5 0 0% −5.00
Gary Harrison 3 0 0% −3.00
Jonathan Portman 2 0 0% −2.00
Seamus Durack 1 0 0% −1.00
Dominic Ffrench Davis 1 0 0% −1.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2010→
1
Archived wins
£4,642
Prize money
2013
Best season · 1 win
Living The Life (IRE) — Racing Excellence 'hands And Heels' Apprentice Series Handicap Leicester · Sep 2013 · Class 5
£2,588
Notable horses

Sires of the horses ridden

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Antonius Pius (USA) 0% · 0–2
Progeny have won 8.1% of 3,236 runs since 2008 (195 horses). Weakest on Good to Soft going: 5% from 339.
First Samurai (USA) 0% · 0–2
Progeny have won 9% of 155 runs since 2008 (18 horses).
Progeny have won 10.2% of 12,798 runs since 2008 (937 horses). Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 6.9% from 320.
Intense Focus (USA) 0% · 0–2
Progeny have won 8.3% of 3,630 runs since 2008 (218 horses). Strongest on Good to Soft going: 11.5% from 349. Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 11.5% from 384.
Atraf (GB) 0% · 0–1
Progeny have won 6.9% of 1,220 runs since 2008 (86 horses). Strongest on Standard (AW) going: 11% from 317. Weakest on Good to Firm going: 3.9% from 204. Strongest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 10.4% from 135. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 3.1% from 293.
Azamour (IRE) 0% · 0–1
Progeny have won 13.1% of 4,328 runs since 2008 (351 horses). Weakest over 2m5f – 3m (all codes): 8.8% from 215.
Top line: the rider's own record with each sire's runners (win %, wins–runs), same window as the header; faded under 30 runs. Beneath it: every run by that sire's progeny in our archive since 2008, as at 28 Oct 2026 — what they have done, not a forecast. A going or a distance is named only where at least 100 progeny runs sit 3 or more points from the sire's own win rate. Distance bands cover Flat and jumps together.

The record

all 22 archived runs · newest first

Every one of John Lawson's 22 archived rides, from 30 August 2010 to 12 February 2014, newest first — one winner among them.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
12 Feb 14 Kempton (AW) Great Conquest (USA)T: Jamie Osborne BetBright.com HandicapClass 6 · 10f · Standard · 12 ran UR 20/1
24 Jan 14 Lingfield (AW) Intensive (IRE)T: Jamie Osborne 32red Maiden StakesClass 5 · 10f · Standard · 14 ran 12th 66/1
28 Jul 11 Ffos Las Coalburn (GB)T: Gary Harrison Gravells Maiden StakesClass 5 · 5f · Good To Firm · 7 ran 6th 50/1
14 Sep 10 Yarmouth Miss Blink (GB)T: Robin Bastiman Thomas Prior Memorial Maiden StakesClass 5 · 6f · Good To Soft · 12 ran 5th 100/1

Drawn from the whole archive (2005 onwards), so it can include runs outside the window the header statistics cover. Non-runners are not listed. A finish shown in letters is a non-completion (F fell · UR unseated · PU pulled up · BD brought down).

Quick answers

What is John Lawson's strike rate?
John Lawson has won 1 of 22 rides since 2008, a strike rate of 4.5% (as at 28 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive. A small sample — fewer than 30 rides, so read the count before the percentage.
Fair A/E compares wins with a margin-stripped market expectation. Favourite-heavy samples — top yards, leading riders — naturally read a few points warm, so 1.05 means "beat the margin-free market read", not "the market underrates this by 5%". Three sample sizes are reported and never blended: runs (n), the ROI basis (n at SP), and the fair-A/E basis (n with a computed fair probability).

Strike rate is wins over all runs (n). ROI is £1 level stakes at SP over runs with a parseable price (n at SP). Fair A/E is wins over margin-stripped market expectation, over runs with a computed fair probability (n fair). The three Ns can legitimately differ and are always shown. Figures as at 28 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).