What really sets Johnson Houghton apart is her ability to win the races that matter most. She has landed 12 top-level races in her short career so far, at prestigious venues including Newbury, York and Newmarket — the kind of stages where reputations are made and where most trainers wait years for a single moment. In the space of just ten days in July 2025, she won at Newmarket on the 10th, Newbury on the 19th, and Goodwood on the 29th. Three top-level wins in a single month is the sort of run that gets people talking, and rightly so.
Her most productive working relationship is with jockey Charles Bishop, and the numbers tell a compelling story: 22 wins together from 229 rides, a win rate of 10% — or roughly 1 in every 10. In racing terms, a jockey and trainer clicking like that over such a large sample of races is a genuine partnership, built on trust and a shared understanding of how horses are being prepared and ridden. At Nottingham specifically, the yard has been particularly sharp, turning out 3 winners from just 8 runners there — nearly 1 in every 3, which is a remarkable conversion rate at any track.
Johnson Houghton is still only four years into a career that looks like it has decades to run. Twelve top-level wins before most trainers have even reached their stride, a yard that wins at the top and the bottom of the sport, and a run of big-race form in summer 2025 that announced her as a genuine force in British racing. The next few years should be very interesting indeed.
| Course | Races | Wins | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kempton Park | 65 | 4 | 6.2% |
| Newbury | 42 | 2 | 4.8% |
| Wolverhampton | 35 | 5 | 14.3% |
| Salisbury | 31 | 3 | 9.7% |
| Goodwood | 27 | 4 | 14.8% |
| Windsor | 26 | 4 | 15.4% |
| Southwell | 25 | 1 | 4% |
| Newmarket | 24 | 2 | 8.3% |
| Lingfield Park | 24 | 0 | 0% |
| Bath | 20 | 1 | 5% |
| Haydock Park | 17 | 1 | 5.9% |
| Ascot | 16 | 1 | 6.2% |
| Brighton | 16 | 1 | 6.2% |
| Leicester | 12 | 2 | 16.7% |
| Epsom Downs | 10 | 2 | 20% |
| Sandown Park | 10 | 0 | 0% |
| Great Yarmouth | 9 | 1 | 11.1% |
| Doncaster | 9 | 0 | 0% |
| Nottingham | 8 | 3 | 37.5% |
| Chepstow | 7 | 2 | 28.6% |
| York | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| Chester | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| chelmsford | 3 | 1 | 33.3% |
| Pontefract | 2 | 1 | 50% |
| Ffos Las | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| The Curragh | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Ripon | 1 | 0 | 0% |