What makes Dow particularly interesting right now is his recent form. In the last two weeks alone, he has sent out 1 winner from just 5 runners — a 20% hit rate that is more than double his season average. Small sample, yes, but that kind of spike often signals a yard coming into form, with horses peaking at the right moment and everything clicking behind the scenes.
There is also a course where Dow's numbers genuinely stand out. At Lingfield Park, he has trained 8 winners from 77 runners — and for context, Lingfield is one of the busiest all-weather tracks in Britain, used year-round by competitive yards. Clocking up 8 wins there is not a fluke. It suggests Dow knows the track, understands the horses that suit it, and keeps going back with the right ones.
On wet or muddy ground, his record is striking: 2 wins from just 5 races, a 40% success rate that puts him among the best in those conditions. That kind of figure on a small sample should be taken seriously — it hints that Dow is adept at identifying which horses genuinely thrive when the ground is testing, rather than running them regardless.
His most productive jockey partnership is with Paddy Bradley, who has ridden 8 winners from 84 races for the yard — winning roughly 1 in every 10 times they team up. That is a meaningful relationship built over dozens of rides together. Perhaps the more eyecatching number, though, is with Jack Langley: 3 wins from just 15 races, a 1-in-5 success rate that suggests real chemistry when those two combine. For a trainer still in the early stages of his career, having reliable pilot options and a home track to exploit is exactly the kind of platform Dow appears to be building on.
| Course | Races | Wins | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lingfield Park | 77 | 8 | 10.4% |
| Kempton Park | 48 | 4 | 8.3% |
| Epsom Downs | 10 | 1 | 10% |
| Brighton | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| Goodwood | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| chelmsford | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| Windsor | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Sandown Park | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Chester | 1 | 0 | 0% |