Johnny Boom

Now eight years old, Johnny Boom has built a career record of 5 wins and 12 places from 35 races, which works out at roughly 1 win in every 7 races overall. That is a modest return at first glance, but the picture changes when you look at where those wins have come and what conditions have produced them. On normal ground, Johnny Boom has won 4 of 14 races — that is nearly 1 in every 3, a dramatically better number than the career average, and a clear signal that wet or very dry ground knocks the edge off what this horse can do. At a distance of around a mile to a mile and two furlongs, the figures sharpen again: 2 wins from 8 races, or 1 in 4.

The horse races mainly at Class 5 level, which is the bread-and-butter end of the sport rather than the big occasions, and the win rate there — just 1 from 18 races, around 6% — reflects how competitive even that grade can be. Trainer Shaun Lycett operates out of Leafield in Oxfordshire and has sent out 2 winners so far this season. Clifford Lee is the most regular jockey in the partnership, winning 1 from 6 rides together, or roughly 1 in every 6 trips.

The last win came at Leicester on 28 October 2025 — about eight months ago now — and the recent run of form reads 5th, 3rd, 2nd, 6th, 7th across the last five completed races. There is a place in there, and a second, which suggests the ability has not entirely evaporated. Johnny Boom raced just yesterday and remains active, which at eight years old says something about the horse's durability if nothing else. The next win may require the right combination — Wolverhampton, normal ground, a mile or so — but when those pieces have aligned before, this horse has known exactly what to do with them.