EVE Johnson Houghton beat her previous best tally of winners in a calendar year in Great Britain when Goring capped a 25-1 Chepstow double for her Blewbury yard, near Didcot.

Statuario’s two-and-a-half-length debut success in a novice stakes under Tom Queally at the Welsh track saw the Woodway stables handler match last year’s total of 41 winners.

And she soon set a new mark when the same rider powered home Goring, sporting first-time cheekpieces, by a neck from Clear Spring in a six-furlong handicap.

Johnson Houghton, who is hoping her Curragh winner, Ice Age, will make the cut for the William Hill Ayr Gold Cup on Saturday, continued her impressive season when On To Victory justified odds-on favouritism at Salisbury.

And Hedging made it four winners in the space of three days for the yard by taking an extended seven-furlong handicap at Lingfield .

Meanwhile, Johnson Houghton’s stable star, Scarlet Dragon, who suffered a head defeat in the Group 3 September Stakes at Kempton last time out, could bid to go one better in the Listed Mukhadram Godolphin Stakes at Newmarket on September 29.

The trainer said: “We will stick to Listed and Group 3 races now as he is not big enough to carry top weight in those big handicaps.

“A mile and a half seems to be his trip as he didn’t get the mile and three-quarters in the Ebor.”

Capton followed up last month’s Newbury win for Wantage trainer Henry Candy with a clear-cut success at Sandown.

The four-year-old made all the running under Fran Berry to take a mile and a quarter handicap by two and a quarter lengths from Sparte Quercus.