The headline numbers only tell part of the story. Bishop has won 8 top-level races across his career, at venues that matter: Newmarket, Ascot, Haydock Park. These are the stages where reputations are made, and he has delivered on all of them. Most strikingly, he won three top-level races in the space of just three weeks in July 2025 — at Newmarket on the 10th, Newbury on the 19th, and Goodwood on the 29th. That kind of purple patch at the very highest level isn't luck; it's a jockey in full command of his craft.
His most important professional relationship is with trainer Eve Johnson Houghton. Out of 229 rides for her yard, Bishop has won 22 — a win rate of roughly 1 in every 10, which is meaningfully better than his overall season average. When a trainer keeps putting you on horses in big races, it tells you something about the trust that has been built up. That partnership looks like one of the steadier building blocks of his career.
The improvement year-on-year is worth paying attention to too. Last year he was winning 1 in every 17 rides; this season that has risen to 1 in 12. A jump from 6% to 8% might not sound dramatic written down, but across hundreds of rides it represents a genuine step forward. And right now he is running even hotter than that — 3 winners from 24 rides in the last two weeks works out at 1 in 8, well above his season average. He also tends to perform best on normal ground, where he wins 12 from 96 races, or 1 in 8 — suggesting he reads a fair, neutral track particularly well.
Still only four years into his career and already a multiple top-level winner, Bishop looks like a jockey hitting his stride at exactly the right moment.
| Course | Races | Wins | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lingfield Park | 81 | 4 | 4.9% |
| Kempton Park | 75 | 4 | 5.3% |
| Newbury | 45 | 3 | 6.7% |
| Wolverhampton | 44 | 4 | 9.1% |
| Goodwood | 33 | 5 | 15.2% |
| Bath | 29 | 2 | 6.9% |
| Windsor | 26 | 4 | 15.4% |
| Southwell | 25 | 1 | 4% |
| Chepstow | 24 | 3 | 12.5% |
| Salisbury | 24 | 1 | 4.2% |
| Brighton | 20 | 3 | 15% |
| Newmarket | 19 | 1 | 5.3% |
| Haydock Park | 17 | 1 | 5.9% |
| Ascot | 16 | 2 | 12.5% |
| Great Yarmouth | 12 | 1 | 8.3% |
| Leicester | 11 | 3 | 27.3% |
| chelmsford | 11 | 0 | 0% |
| Sandown Park | 9 | 1 | 11.1% |
| Doncaster | 9 | 0 | 0% |
| Epsom Downs | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| Chester | 6 | 0 | 0% |
| Ffos Las | 6 | 0 | 0% |
| Nottingham | 5 | 2 | 40% |
| York | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| The Curragh | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Newcastle | 1 | 0 | 0% |