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Trainer profile

R F Johnson Houghton

349 runners in our archive record, 2005–2006 · 40 individual horses
As at 6 Nov 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Nov 2006 97% of runners on the flat
Archive record 2005–2006
No runners from 1 Jan 2008, where our aggregate statistics normally begin — showing the full archive record instead, 14 Feb 2005 to 24 Nov 2006. Figures that need a horse's earlier runs (debuts, time since a run, first-time headgear, new connections, last-time-out winners) are left out: for runs this early our archive cannot see what came before.
28–349
Wins / Runs
8%
Strike rate
n=349
103 (30%)
Placed
0.84
n=347 · 0.72 incl. margin
−122.52
£1 level stake
n=349 at SP · −35.1%
£328k
Prize money (window)
Strike by season
6.6%
KTB Yard Profile

Sent out 349 runners in our archive record (2005–2006), almost all on the flat, winning with 8% of them — a touch below the margin-free market read across that record (Fair A/E 0.84).

Deterministic profile computed from 349 archived runs (archive record 2005–2006) · updated 6 Nov 2026
KTB at a glance 19.4% when favourite Steve Carson: 8.7% from 242 Sent off the favourite in 9% of races
The read

The record is strongest at Lingfield (AW) (12.9%, n=31), clear of the yard's 8% baseline. Steve Carson rode 69% of the entries and matches the yard's average almost exactly (8.7%, A/E 0.88). The yard also read well on Good to Firm going (13.5%, n=111) and in Class 4 (12.8%, n=86). The record read poorly over 1m – 1m1f — 2% over 50 runners, 6pts below the baseline. The market has consistently overbet the yard on Good going: Fair A/E 0.52 across 93 runners (4.3% strike, −41.50 to a £1 stake) — runners there underperformed what the price implied. The stable star of the record was Phluke (GB) — 7 wins from 27 runs for the yard.

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 8% baseline
When favourite
19.4%
n=31 · A/E 0.75 · £1 −8.85
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
10%+2.0
n=10 · A/E 1.17 · £1 +3.00
Group / Graded races · pattern & listed
0%−8.0
n=9 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −9.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 8% baseline — descriptive splits with the sample always shown, for you to weigh. Tiles under 30 runs render muted. Claiming riders are runs where the booked rider carried a weight claim. Group / Graded covers pattern and listed races. Tiles that depend on a horse's earlier runs (debuts, time off, first-time headgear, new connections, last-time-out winners) are not shown on an archive-era record: for runs this early our archive cannot see what came before. The same beliefs, tested across every yard and every GB and Irish race since 2005: Racing myths.

Notable angles

vs their own baseline
On Good to Firm going 13.5% vs 8% · n=111
Over 1m – 1m1f 2% vs 8% · n=50
In Class 4 12.8% vs 8% · n=86
In Class 6 3.1% vs 8% · n=32
At Lingfield (AW) 12.9% vs 8% · n=31
On Good going 4.3% vs 8% · n=93
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 339 28 8.3% −112.52
Hurdle 6 0 0% −6.00
Chase 4 0 0% −4.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Good to Firm 111 15 13.5% +3.25
Good 93 4 4.3% −41.50
Standard (AW) 58 4 6.9% −25.50
Good to Soft 46 3 6.5% −26.17
Soft 26 1 3.8% −24.60
Firm 14 1 7.1% −7.00
Heavy 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Windsor 33 2 6.1% −24.00
Lingfield (AW) 31 4 12.9% +1.50
Bath 22 0 0% −22.00
Kempton (AW) 19 0 0% −19.00
Salisbury 19 1 5.3% −15.00
Newbury 16 0 0% −16.00
Newmarket 13 0 0% −13.00
Warwick 13 1 7.7% −8.00
Sandown 12 0 0% −12.00
Brighton 12 2 16.7% +4.00
York 11 1 9.1% −5.50
Newmarket 10 0 0% −10.00
Yarmouth 10 1 10% −3.00
Leicester 9 1 11.1% +0.00
Haydock 9 0 0% −9.00

Class

ClassRWSR£1
Class 5 148 11 7.4% −66.27
Class 4 86 11 12.8% +21.25
Class 2 41 2 4.9% −27.50
Class 6 32 1 3.1% −27.50
Class 3 28 3 10.7% −8.50
Class 1 9 0 0% −9.00
Class 7 5 0 0% −5.00

Market position

In the bettingRWSRA/E£1
Favourite 36 7 19.4% 0.78 −8.35
2nd–3rd fav 80 8 10% 0.66 −29.67
4th–6th fav 85 8 9.4% 1.14 −20.50
7th+ in betting 148 5 3.4% 0.96 −64.00
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
Phluke (GB)then Eve Johnson Houghton 27 7 13 24 Nov 06
Mujood (GB)then Eve Johnson Houghton 25 3 10 27 Oct 06
Velvet Waters (GB) 20 0 9 10 Jul 06
Judd Street (GB)then Eve Johnson Houghton 19 3 13 11 Nov 06
Robustian (GB)then Eve Johnson Houghton 15 2 8 21 Oct 06
Thorny Mandate (GB)then Mark Brisbourne 15 2 5 7 Aug 06
Peace Lily (GB) 14 1 4 29 Jul 06
Tous Les Deux (GB)then Peter Grayson 13 1 4 9 Oct 06
Intoxicating (GB) 12 2 3 17 Jun 06
Girandola (GB) 11 0 0 23 Oct 06
Looking Great (USA) 11 0 2 3 Aug 06
All 40 horses sent out 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.
Where they came from · where they went next

Of the 40 horses listed, 20 have since run for another yard, most often for Eve Johnson Houghton (13); 20 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. Where a horse came from is not stated on an archive-era record: our archive cannot see before 2005. 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.

When the yard fires

strike by month, 2005–2006
JFMAMJJASOND
00251110512612200
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 riderSteve Carson
69% of all rides
8.7% SR · A/E 0.88
RiderRWSR£1
Steve Carson 242 21 8.7% −89.02
Muted rows are under 30 rides and sit behind "Show all".

Career highlights

lifetime archive, 2005→
28
Archived wins
£328k
Prize money
2005
Best season · 16 wins
In our archive from its very first year (2005), so this career almost certainly began earlier than our record does. The figures above count 2005 onwards only — what the archive holds, not a full-career total. On this page the header statistics and this card both count from the archive floor (2005), so they agree.
Beaver Patrol (IRE) — Vodafone Sprint Handicap Epsom Downs · Jun 2006 · Class 2
£24,928
Intoxicating (GB) — Smith Brothers Handicap York · Sep 2005 · Class 2
£14,638
Intoxicating (GB) — totescoop6 Handicap Nottingham · May 2005 · Class 3
£13,780

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Mujahid (USA) 13.5% · 5–37
Progeny have won 10.1% of 3,739 runs since 2005 (195 horses). Weakest at trips under 6f (all codes): 7.1% from 353.
Tagula (IRE) 6.7% · 2–30
Progeny have won 9% of 7,506 runs since 2005 (483 horses). Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 5.9% from 1,219.
Inchinor (GB) 7.1% · 2–28
Progeny have won 8.9% of 2,986 runs since 2005 (197 horses). Weakest at trips under 6f (all codes): 5.7% from 210.
Most Welcome (GB) 25.9% · 7–27
Progeny have won 10.9% of 1,276 runs since 2005 (64 horses). Strongest on Standard (AW) going: 14.1% from 403. Weakest on Good to Soft going: 7.1% from 140. Strongest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 14.5% from 296. Weakest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 6.2% from 178.
Unfuwain (USA) 0% · 0–20
Progeny have won 11.6% of 1,576 runs since 2005 (113 horses). Strongest on Soft going: 15.3% from 255. Weakest on Standard (AW) going: 7.1% from 240. Strongest over 1m2f – 1m4f (all codes): 14.6% from 370. Weakest over 6f – 7f (all codes): 4.5% from 111.
Compton Place (GB) 15.8% · 3–19
Progeny have won 8.5% of 10,727 runs since 2005 (610 horses). Weakest over 2m1f – 2m4f (all codes): 4.2% from 120.
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 2005, as at 6 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 349 · newest first

The latest 50 of 349 archived runners, newest first. The full record runs from 14 February 2005 to 24 November 2006.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
24 Nov 06 Kempton (AW) Phluke (GB)J: Steve Carson AJ Morrisroe & Sons Ltd HandicapClass 4 · 7f · Standard · 14 ran 14th 16/1
31 Oct 06 Southwell (AW) Phlaunt (GB)J: Steve Carson World Bet Exchange Banded StakesClass 7 · 12f · Standard To Fast · 14 ran 6th 12/1
28 Oct 06 Newmarket Phluke (GB)J: Steve Carson Bet365.com HandicapClass 4 · 7f · Soft · 18 ran 6th 33/1
27 Oct 06 Newmarket Mujood (GB)J: Steve Carson Doutelle StakesClass 4 · 6f · Good To Soft · 7 ran 6th 8/1
26 Oct 06 Lingfield (AW) Beaver Patrol (IRE)J: Steve Carson Weatherbys Bank HandicapClass 3 · 7f · Standard · 14 ran 5th 25/1
25 Oct 06 Nottingham Haut La Vie (GB)J: Steve Carson Little John Selling StakesClass 6 · 8f · Soft · 15 ran 12th 12/1
20 Oct 06 Lingfield (AW) Philandering (GB)J: Steve Carson E.B.F. Maiden StakesClass 5 · 7f · Standard · 10 ran 9th 66/1
19 Oct 06 Brighton Mujood (GB)J: Steve Carson Weatherbys Insurance HandicapClass 4 · 6f · Good To Soft · 13 ran 1st 8/1
19 Oct 06 Brighton Eager Igor (USA)J: Steve Carson Sporting Index Nursery HandicapClass 5 · 7f · Good To Soft · 15 ran 4th 20/1
13 Oct 06 Newmarket Phluke (GB)J: Steve Carson Special Events HandicapClass 2 · 7f · Good To Soft · 19 ran 14th 50/1

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 R F Johnson Houghton's strike rate?
R F Johnson Houghton has won 28 of 349 runners between 2005 and 2006, a strike rate of 8% (as at 6 November 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive. Our archive begins in 2005, so anything earlier is not counted.
Which course does R F Johnson Houghton do best at?
Lingfield (AW) by strike rate: 4 wins from 31 runners (12.9%) between 2005 and 2006. 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 R F Johnson Houghton?
Steve Carson, with 242 runners between 2005 and 2006 — 69% of the total. That pairing has won 21 (8.7%).
What is R F Johnson Houghton's Fair A/E?
0.84, from 347 runners with a computed fair probability between 2005 and 2006. 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 6 November 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008). This profile has no runs from 2008, so every figure on this page counts from the start of the archive instead.