The top-level success is what really sets Scott apart. Eight Class 1 victories in four years — at venues including Goodwood, Lingfield Park, and Sandown Park — means he has consistently produced horses good enough to beat the very best in Britain. Most trainers wait years for a single result like that. Scott has built a small collection of them, with a Class 1 win at Doncaster in September 2024, another at Newbury the previous July, and most recently a winner at Sandown Park on the 4th of July 2025 adding to that tally. These are the biggest occasions the sport offers, and his horses keep showing up for them.
If you want to find where Scott's horses are at their most dangerous, look at the track conditions. On fast, dry ground, his record stands at 1 win from just 3 races — a 33% rate, meaning he wins 1 in every 3 races run in those conditions. That kind of conversion is eye-catching, suggesting the yard targets these conditions deliberately and sends horses out primed to perform. Catterick Bridge tells a similar story: 3 winners from just 6 runners, winning exactly half the time at that track.
The partnership with jockey Callum Shepherd has been one of the quiet engines behind all of this. Across 126 rides together they have combined for 19 wins — roughly 1 in every 7 — a steady, reliable relationship that suggests a real understanding between trainer and jockey about how and when to deploy horses. In a sport where the trainer-jockey dynamic can make or break a season, Scott and Shepherd look like a partnership still growing into itself. Four years in, the upward curve shows no sign of flattening.
| Course | Races | Wins | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wolverhampton | 27 | 10 | 37.0% |
| Kempton Park | 23 | 1 | 4.3% |
| Great Yarmouth | 19 | 4 | 21.1% |
| Southwell | 19 | 3 | 15.8% |
| chelmsford | 18 | 2 | 11.1% |
| Ascot | 17 | 1 | 5.9% |
| Newmarket | 17 | 1 | 5.9% |
| Haydock Park | 16 | 4 | 25% |
| Windsor | 15 | 2 | 13.3% |
| Lingfield Park | 15 | 2 | 13.3% |
| Doncaster | 14 | 1 | 7.1% |
| Newcastle | 11 | 3 | 27.3% |
| Leicester | 9 | 3 | 33.3% |
| Beverley | 9 | 1 | 11.1% |
| Chester | 9 | 0 | 0% |
| Ripon | 8 | 2 | 25% |
| Newbury | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| York | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| Catterick Bridge | 6 | 3 | 50% |
| meydan | 6 | 1 | 16.7% |
| Goodwood | 6 | 0 | 0% |
| Redcar | 5 | 2 | 40% |
| Sandown Park | 5 | 1 | 20% |
| Bath | 4 | 2 | 50% |
| Musselburgh | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| Nottingham | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| Chepstow | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Pontefract | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Dundalk | 2 | 1 | 50% |
| Salisbury | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Carlisle | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Epsom Downs | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Thirsk | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Wetherby | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Brighton | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Naas | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Ffos Las | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| bahrain | 1 | 0 | 0% |