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Trainer profile

William Houston

7 runners in the lifetime window · 3 individual horses
As at 15 Oct 2026 · KTB archive: 2005–present, updated daily
Last runner Nov 2009 100% of runners over jumps
Last 5 seasons Lifetime (2009→)
No runners 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.
0–7
Wins / Runs
0%
Strike rate
n=7
0 (0%)
Placed
0.00
Fair A/E
n=7 · 0.00 incl. margin
−7.00
£1 level stake
n=7 at SP · −100.0%

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

Yard patterns

the angles behind the record · vs 0% baseline
Fresh · 61+ days off
0%+0.0
n=3 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −3.00
New recruits · first run for the yard
0%+0.0
n=2 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −2.00
Debutants · first career start
0%+0.0
n=1 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −1.00
Claiming riders · a claimer in the saddle
0%+0.0
n=5 · A/E 0.00 · £1 −5.00

Each tile is the record in that situation vs the 0% baseline — descriptive splits with the sample always shown, not tips. 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.

Record by conditions

same window as header

Race type

TypeRWSR£1
Hurdle 5 0 0% −5.00
NH Flat 2 0 0% −2.00

Going

GoingRWSR£1
Soft 5 0 0% −5.00
Good to Firm 1 0 0% −1.00
Good 1 0 0% −1.00

Courses

CourseRWSR£1
Down Royal 2 0 0% −2.00
Cork 1 0 0% −1.00
Wexford 1 0 0% −1.00
Bellewstown 1 0 0% −1.00
Punchestown 1 0 0% −1.00
Sligo 1 0 0% −1.00

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

Jumping record

completion over obstacles · same window as header
100% completed · 5 obstacle runners (chases & hurdles)
CodeRCompFURPUBDOth
Hurdle 5 100% 0 0 0 0 0
Chases and hurdles only — bumpers have no obstacles, so completion is not a question there. F fell · UR unseated rider · PU pulled up · BD brought down · Oth covers refusals, slip-ups, run-outs and the rare disqualification. Non-runners are excluded throughout. Rows under n=30 are shown faded. A descriptive record, not a tip.

Horses trained

same window as header · most-raced first
HorseRWPlLast ran
Heathery Hills (GB)from Mervyn Torrens 4 0 0 6 Nov 09
Dry Rein (IRE)then Benjamin Arthey 2 0 0 4 Jul 09
Lisbellaw Express (IRE)from Thomas McLaughlin 1 0 0 3 Jul 09
All 3 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 3 horses listed, 2 arrived from another yard in our archive; 1 had its first archived run for this yard.

1 has since run for another yard; 2 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.

Jockey bookings

same window · biggest samples first
RiderRWSR£1
Alan Crowe 2 0 0% −2.00
E J O'Connell 2 0 0% −2.00
Mr K H Clarke 1 0 0% −1.00
Mr N McParlan 1 0 0% −1.00
Miss Holly Curran 1 0 0% −1.00
Muted rows are under 30 rides.

Sires in the string

progeny record · win % by ground and trip
Tomba (GB) 0% · 0–4
Progeny have won 7.8% of 847 runs since 2008 (52 horses). Strongest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 11.1% from 216.
Bold Fact (USA) 0% · 0–2
Progeny have won 7.7% of 898 runs since 2008 (53 horses). Strongest over 1m – 1m1f (all codes): 10.8% from 186.
Shaamit (IRE) 0% · 0–1
Progeny have won 0% of 26 runs since 2008 (5 horses). A small sample.
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 15 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 7 archived runs · newest first

Every one of William Houston's 7 archived runners, from 21 June 2009 to 6 November 2009, newest first — no winners among them.

Best finish: 5th of 21 — Heathery Hills (GB), Punchestown, 27 Oct 2009.

DateCourseHorseRaceFinishSP
06 Nov 09 Down Royal Heathery Hills (GB)J: E J O'Connell Allianz Maiden Hurdle22f · Soft · 20 ran 12th 20/1
27 Oct 09 Punchestown Heathery Hills (GB)J: E J O'Connell Madigans Bars At Punchestown Maiden Hurdle20f · Yielding To Soft · 21 ran 5th 33/1
22 Aug 09 Cork Heathery Hills (GB)J: Alan Crowe Gouldshill Maiden Hurdle16f · Yielding · 23 ran 10th 50/1
06 Aug 09 Sligo Heathery Hills (GB)J: Alan Crowe Tote Ireland Placepot Races 1 To 6 Maiden Hurdle16f · Soft · 13 ran 10th 33/1
04 Jul 09 Bellewstown Dry Rein (IRE)J: Mr N McParlan Hireall Marquees 'see You Again In August' Flat Race17f · Yielding · 14 ran 6th 33/1
03 Jul 09 Wexford Lisbellaw Express (IRE)J: Mr K H Clarke Nick O'donnell Memorial Handicap Hurdle (80-95)16f · Good · 16 ran 9th 14/1
21 Jun 09 Down Royal Dry Rein (IRE)J: Miss Holly Curran Tote Ireland (pro/am) Flat Race16f · Good To Firm · 18 ran 7th 25/1

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 William Houston's strike rate?
William Houston has won 0 of 7 runners since 2008, a strike rate of 0% (as at 15 October 2026). Figures are computed from our own results archive. A small sample — fewer than 30 runners, 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 15 October 2026, computed from our own results archive (2005 onwards; aggregates from 2008).