Simon & Ed Crisford

The numbers from the last twelve months tell the story clearly. Seventy-nine winners from 489 runners — that is roughly 1 in every 6 races, or a 16% win rate — puts them comfortably among the sharper operations in British racing. But what really sets the Crisfords apart is where those wins have come. Twenty-six of their career victories have been at the top level — Class 1 races, the ones that matter most — at venues like Newmarket, York, and Goodwood. Those are the biggest stages in British racing, and the Crisfords have shown up and delivered at all of them. Two Class 1 wins in the space of two months in late summer 2025, at York in August and Newmarket in September, underlines that this is a yard entirely comfortable in the biggest contests.

Not every interesting stat involves the grandest occasions, though. At Ripon, a smaller track in North Yorkshire, the yard has won 4 races from just 9 runners. That is nearly 1 in every 2, a hit rate that suggests they know exactly when to target that track and arrive with horses ready to win. It is the kind of detail that separates a well-organised operation from one that is simply throwing horses at races and hoping.

The Crisfords' most productive partnership is with jockey Harry Davies — 22 wins from 152 rides together, around 1 in every 7. That is a consistent, trusted alliance built over dozens of races. Meanwhile, their partnership with Zambezi River catches the eye for a different reason: one win from three races together is a perfectly respectable return and suggests a horse the yard have targeted carefully rather than run into the ground.

Forty-nine races is a lot of racing to pack into twelve months, but 79 winners from that 489-runner sample is the sign of a team that is not wasting journeys. After just four years, Simon and Ed Crisford look less like newcomers finding their feet and more like a yard that already knows exactly what it is doing.