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Trainer profile

Eve Johnson Houghton

6,366 runners in the lifetime window · 622 individual horses
As at 14 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Non-runners: 5.0% of 525 declared in the last 365 days, counting all recorded withdrawals, including reserves. For context, a typical day across all racing ends with about 6.5% withdrawn (middle half 5.2–8.0% over 364 racing days). As at 14 Nov 2026.
Last runner 9 days ago 99% of runners on the flat
from 1 Jan 2008 — the aggregate floor: every horse in the window has a complete captured career behind it
685–6,366
Wins / Runs
10.8%
Strike rate
n=6,366
1,860 (29%)
Placed
1.02
n=6,343 · 0.88 incl. margin
−1,047.81
£1 level stake
n=6,366 at SP · −16.5%
£11.3m
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
11.5%
KTB Yard Profile

Sends out around 340 runners a season, almost all on the flat, winning with 11% of them — level with the margin-free market read across the lifetime window (Fair A/E 1.02).

Deterministic profile computed from 6,366 archived runs (lifetime window) · updated 14 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance Fires Jan–Mar 33.6% when favourite Charles Bishop: 11.7% from 2,046 Claiming riders: 11.6% Sends off the favourite in 8% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Brighton (18.8%, n=314), Chepstow (18.7%, n=225) and Epsom (17%, n=159) — all clear of the yard's 10.8% baseline. A horse in first-time headgear has been a poor signal at 6.3% (n=336, Fair A/E 0.77). Charles Bishop rides 32% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (11.7%, A/E 1.01) — the market has that partnership priced right. 24 Group and Graded wins sit in the archive record — the biggest prize the yard has landed: the Queen Anne Stakes at Ascot (Jun 2018, £367,197). The stable star of the record: Goring (GER) — 12 wins from 65 runs for the yard. Seasonally, the yard fires Jan–Mar.

Written from the figures on this page — every claim carries its sample. Descriptive, not a tip.

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 10.8% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
8.8%−2.0
n=749 · A/E 1.04 · £1 −187.23
New recruits · first run for the yard
6.9%−3.9
n=72 · A/E 0.84 · £1 −17.29
Debutants · first career start
7.7%−3.1
n=532 · A/E 1.17 · £1 −11.74
First-time headgear · true-first definition
6.3%−4.5
n=336 · A/E 0.77 · £1 −170.84
Headgear returns · back on after a bare run
8.8%−2.0
n=171 · A/E 0.98 · £1 −57.67
When favourite
33.6%
n=488 · A/E 1.12 · £1 −17.54
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
11.6%+0.8
n=1,045 · A/E 1.16 · £1 −62.07
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
6.7%−4.1
n=343 · A/E 0.91 · £1 +4.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 10.8% baseline — descriptive splits with the sample always shown, for you to weigh. Tiles under 30 runs render muted. Headgear figures use the true-first definition (first gear appearance in the captured career); returns are gear back on after a bare run. Claiming riders are runs where the booked rider carried a weight claim. Group / Graded covers pattern and listed races. The same beliefs, tested across every yard and every GB and Irish race since 2005: Racing myths.

Notable angles

vs their own baseline
At Brighton 18.8% vs 10.8% · n=314
At Chepstow 18.7% vs 10.8% · n=225
On last-time-out winners 17.1% vs 10.8% · n=655
With Callum Hutchinson 18.1% vs 10.8% · n=94
With William Buick 17.4% vs 10.8% · n=121
At Epsom 17% vs 10.8% · n=159
Descriptive splits ranked by divergence × sample — insight, not instruction. Every angle carries its N; nothing under 30 runs qualifies. Rows within 2pts of the baseline appear only when the market-relative read (Fair A/E) diverges, and show it.

Record by conditions

same window as header

Race type

TypeRWSR£1
Flat 6,332 684 10.8% −1,017.56
Hurdle 25 1 4% −21.25
NH Flat 9 0 0% −9.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good to Firm 1,802 214 11.9% −133.26
Standard (AW) 1,763 172 9.8% −434.11
Good 1,471 151 10.3% −205.70
Good to Soft 642 71 11.1% −143.37
Soft 454 53 11.7% −38.89
Firm 144 17 11.8% −46.69
Heavy 90 7 7.8% −45.79

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Kempton (AW) 819 78 9.5% −158.51
Newbury 459 36 7.8% −40.66
Windsor 437 46 10.5% −86.50
Lingfield (AW) 430 42 9.8% −121.08
Salisbury 352 39 11.1% −56.20
Bath 348 39 11.2% −104.53
Goodwood 325 28 8.6% −94.72
Brighton 314 59 18.8% +48.97
Wolverhampton (AW) 288 30 10.4% −111.81
Ascot 230 20 8.7% −31.80
Sandown 230 20 8.7% −5.50
Chepstow 225 42 18.7% +52.88
Leicester 191 20 10.5% −1.90
Newmarket 169 13 7.7% −82.55
Epsom 159 27 17% −22.54

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 5 2,146 245 11.4% −443.61
Class 4 1,634 180 11% −38.79
Class 6 1,052 125 11.9% −207.87
Class 2 685 60 8.8% −229.45
Class 3 483 49 10.1% −128.97
Class 1 344 23 6.7% +3.00
Class 7 9 1 11.1% +0.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 587 184 31.3% 1.11 −30.71
2nd–3rd fav 1,512 245 16.2% 0.99 −205.50
4th–6th fav 2,302 188 8.2% 1.00 −379.60
7th+ in betting 1,965 68 3.5% 0.96 −432.00
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 trained

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
New Rich (GB)from Sylvester Kirk 75 8 26 8 Jun 19
Goring (GER) 65 12 23 12 Mar 21
Accidental Agent (GB) 59 7 14 6 Nov 24
Uncle Dick (GB) 58 9 21 16 Oct 25
Mujood (GB)from R F Johnson Houghton 55 8 18 6 Sep 11
Ice Age (IRE)then Ronald Thompson 53 8 23 28 Sep 20
Granary Queen (IRE) 52 6 21 25 Feb 25
Hedging (IRE) 51 6 14 5 Oct 21
What About Carlo (FR) 51 7 15 20 Jul 19
Catchanova (IRE) 51 6 16 24 Sep 13
Phluke (GB)from R F Johnson Houghton 51 4 10 17 Sep 12
Jumby (IRE) 47 6 17 31 Jul 26
Showing the 60 most-raced of the 622 horses sent out in this window — each ran at least 23 times. Horses with fewer runs aren't listed; search finds any horse since 2005. 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.
Where they came from · where they went next

Of the 60 horses listed, 11 arrived from another yard in our archive, most often from R F Johnson Houghton (5); 49 had their first archived run for this yard.

10 have since run for another yard, most often for Alan King (2); 50 have no later run for another yard in our archive.

Read from each listed horse's whole archived career (2005 onwards), not only this window, and counted over the horses listed above, not the whole string. “First archived run” means our archive holds nothing earlier, not that the horse was unraced. A horse with no later run elsewhere may still be here, be off the track, or have run somewhere our archive does not cover — none of that is asserted.

Current form

significance-gated

Last 14 days

Small sample
1 from 5
Only 5 runners in the last 14 days — too few to read against the baseline (gate: n≥15). The card states the sample and stays neutral.

When the yard fires

strike by month, lifetime
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A flat yard: the season runs Mar–Oct. Muted months are small samples (under 30 runs) — read them with the caution they deserve.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first
Go-to riderCharles Bishop
32% of all rides
11.7% SR · A/E 1.01
RiderRWSR£1
Charles Bishop 2,046 240 11.7% −326.10
Georgia Dobie 549 60 10.9% −48.35
John Fahy 485 60 12.4% −16.58
Steve Carson 223 12 5.4% −129.50
Edward Greatrex 202 22 10.9% −7.04
George Downing 192 24 12.5% −17.54
Tom Queally 172 12 7% −44.25
Cathy Gannon 123 14 11.4% −55.36
William Buick 121 21 17.4% −22.94
Oliver Carmichael 107 13 12.1% +99.50
Shane Kelly 97 7 7.2% −32.32
Callum Hutchinson 94 17 18.1% +3.57
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2007→
707
Archived wins
24
Pattern / graded wins
£11.5m
Prize money
2024
Best season · 56 wins
This card is the full archive census (2005→); the statistics in the header aggregate from 2008 — the floor that guarantees every horse a complete captured career — so this card can legitimately show more wins than the header.
Accidental Agent (GB) — Queen Anne Stakes (Group 1) (British Champions Series) (Str) Ascot · Jun 2018 · Group 1
£367,197
Zavateri (IRE) — Goffs Vincent O'Brien National Stakes (Group 1) Curragh · Sep 2025 · Group 1
£236,000
Night In Vegas (IRE) — Weatherbys £300,000 2-Y-O Stakes (GBB Race) Doncaster · Sep 2026 · Class 2
£201,979

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Bahamian Bounty (GB) 10.9% · 24–220
Progeny have won 9.6% of 9,353 runs since 2008 (598 horses). Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 1% from 202.
Tagula (IRE) 11.1% · 18–162
Progeny have won 9.1% of 5,561 runs since 2008 (382 horses). Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 6.1% from 909.
Saxon Warrior (JPN) 15.7% · 21–134
Progeny have won 11.6% of 2,955 runs since 2022 (370 horses). Strongest on Standard (AW) going: 15.1% from 970. Weakest on Heavy going: 5.6% from 142.
Champs Elysees (GB) 16.3% · 21–129
Progeny have won 11.5% of 7,132 runs since 2013 (521 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 7.9% from 391. Weakest over 6f – 7f (all codes): 7.5% from 387.
Havana Gold (IRE) 14.4% · 17–118
Progeny have won 9.5% of 5,064 runs since 2017 (402 horses). Weakest on Heavy going: 4.2% from 118. Strongest at trips under 6f (all codes): 13% from 523. Weakest over 1m5f – 2m (all codes): 6.2% from 177.
Clodovil (IRE) 12.1% · 13–107
Progeny have won 9.7% of 6,514 runs since 2008 (415 horses). Strongest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 13.5% from 155.
Top line: the yard'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 14 Nov 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

latest 50 of 6,582 · newest first

The latest 50 of 6,582 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 25 February 2007 to 5 November 2026.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
19 Oct 26 Bath Chief Minister (GB)J: Charles Bishop Mj Church Nursery Handicap StakesClass 5 · 5f · Good To Soft · 9 ran 9th 3/1F

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).

KTB’s figures

the forward record · since 5 Oct 2026

KTB’s figures on this yard’s runners since 5 Oct 2026: the KTB Selection in 3 runs (won 2) · top-rated on KTB Rating in 3 runs (won 1) · fastest on KTB Speed in 12 runs (won 2) · to 5 Nov 2026.

Each pick was a KTB figure’s choice before the off — the published KTB Selection, the top-rated horse on KTB Rating, the fastest on KTB Speed — settled against the result the next morning and never worked out again; “did not run” is counted apart. GB and Irish races only. A record of weeks so far: read it as a count, not a verdict.

Quick answers

What is Eve Johnson Houghton's strike rate?
Eve Johnson Houghton has won 685 of 6,366 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 10.8% (as at 14 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive.
Which course does Eve Johnson Houghton do best at?
Brighton by strike rate: 59 wins from 314 runners (18.8%) since 2008. Read from the 15 courses with the most runners on the same basis, and only those with at least 30 — a small sample cannot top the list, and a rarely-visited course is not in the comparison.
Who rides most for Eve Johnson Houghton?
Charles Bishop, with 2,046 runners since 2008 — 32% of the total. That pairing has won 240 (11.7%).
Is Eve Johnson Houghton in form?
Too few runners in the last 14 days to read — 5 runners, which is not a sample we will draw a conclusion from.
What is Eve Johnson Houghton's Fair A/E?
1.02, from 6,343 runners with a computed fair probability since 2008. Fair A/E compares actual wins with a margin-stripped market expectation, so 1.00 is par: above it the wins came at bigger prices than the margin-free market implied, below it they did not.
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 14 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).