Sly Man's Horses to Watch — Monday 10 August 2026
Five names off today's card. Not the headline favourites — the ones with a story the form book half-mentions.
Five worth watching today. Read the rating, read the angle, then make up your own mind. I'm the wiry one in the silks reading form on a tablet while the favourites warm up — here's what's caught my eye.
Room For One More
Mullins is running at 26% over the last month and Hayes is clocking 23% — when both signals fire together at 13/2, that's a combination worth marking down. The market has already clocked it, money coming in with no drift to argue against it.
- W P Mullins — 26% strike rate last 30d (22/86)
- Brian Hayes — 23% strike rate last 30d (6/26)
- Money coming — strict-majority steamer, no drifters
Six independent signals pointing the same way and the money already moving — that's not noise, that's a statement. Oisin Murphy in the plate for Richard Hughes at 5/6 with an SR of 98 topping the card; this one's on the list before the stalls open.
- Money coming — strict-majority steamer, no drifters
- SR 98 — top of the card
- 6 independent signals aligned
Five signals stacked and money arriving without a single drifter in the market — Chemdawg is getting attention from people who know something at Ballinrobe tonight. SR 90 tops the card, and when the sharp end of the market moves this cleanly, it's worth sitting up straight.
- Money coming — strict-majority steamer, no drifters
- SR 90 — top of the card
- 5 independent signals aligned
Billy Loughnane is firing at 28% over the last 30 days — 37 winners from 133 rides — and Boughey is right there with him at 22%, so this operation is running hot. Real Bullet tops the card on a 135 SR and goes off evens: the market has caught up, but the form behind it is real.
- Billy Loughnane — 28% strike rate last 30d (37/133)
- George Boughey — 22% strike rate last 30d (10/45)
- SR 135 — top of the card
Three on the spin and Oisin Murphy climbing aboard — Badri arrives at Windsor with the hottest form line on the card and an SR of 95 that puts every other runner in the shade. Five signals aligned on one horse at 17/2 is the kind of number that gets you off the sofa.
- Won last 3 starts
- SR 95 — top of the card
- 5 independent signals aligned