The most intriguing number in Bowring's record is the one that sits at zero. His most frequent jockey partnership is with Lewis Edmunds, and across 23 rides together they have yet to find the winner's enclosure. Twenty-three races is a meaningful sample — that is not bad luck, that is a combination still searching for the formula. It does not necessarily mean the partnership is wrong, but it is the kind of stat that makes you wonder whether a change might unlock something for both of them.
Where Bowring does show a real edge is on wet ground. In slightly soft conditions, his horses have won 1 from 4 races — 25%, or one in every four — which is well above his overall rate and suggests he knows how to place a horse when there is cut in the ground. In a sport where reading conditions is everything, that is a useful calling card. His partnership with Shazani has produced 1 win from 7 races together, a modest return but a relationship that clearly keeps being renewed, which usually means there is more to come.
Sixty-six winners in four years, a consistent if unspectacular current season, and a clear affinity for soft ground — Bowring is the kind of trainer worth watching when the rain comes down.
| Course | Races | Wins | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwell | 16 | 0 | 0% |
| Doncaster | 14 | 1 | 7.1% |
| Nottingham | 9 | 2 | 22.2% |
| Wolverhampton | 5 | 2 | 40% |
| Leicester | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| Beverley | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| Pontefract | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Catterick Bridge | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Thirsk | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Newmarket | 1 | 0 | 0% |