Sly Man's Jockeys Taking Aim — Friday 26 June 2026
The riders I'm watching today — the loaded books, the marquee bookings, the form jocks pinging the radar.
Five riders worth watching today. A loaded book is a market signal in itself — when a form jock has multiple chances, the yard sees the day as live. I read the diaries with one eye on the silks, one on the trainer form. Here's what's caught my eye.
⚡ Billy Loughnane is on fire right now — seven winners in seven days is not a purple patch, it is a man who has found his rhythm and is daring you to look elsewhere. Get to Chelmsford for the 16:45 and watch him aboard Acting Lady; a speed rating of 133 on a rider running at 18% career strike rate is exactly the kind of quiet favourite the favourites pages sleep through.
- 7 winners in the last 7 days
- 18% career strike rate (1492 rides)
- On Acting Lady (SR 133) in the 16:45
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16:45
Acting Lady T: Charlie Appleby6/5 🥉 3rd
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17:50
Eskimo Pie T: Jane Chapple-Hyam12/1 5th
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18:25
Phantom Watch T: Hugo Palmer11/8 🥈 2nd
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19:00
Jodhpur Blue T: Ian Williams5/1 🥈 2nd
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19:35
Amorim T: George Boughey7/4 🥉 3rd
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20:10
Betelgeuse T: S Woods5/1 🥈 2nd
Harry Skelton
⚡ Harry Skelton posts a 26% career strike rate across 613 rides — that is not a fluke, that is a machine — and four rides today means he is here to work. The one that matters is Colegram in the 19:08, rated 130, and you do not put Skelton on a 130-rated horse in a handicap unless the yard fancies it.
- 26% career strike rate (613 rides)
- 2 winners in the last 7 days
- On Colegram (SR 130) in the 19:08
- 18:33 Glenmalure Flyer 13/8 🏆 WON
- 19:08 Colegram evn 🏆 WON
- 19:43 Supreme Yeats 9/2 🏆 WON
- 20:18 Evening Tess 11/4 Race at 20:18
Cieren Fallon
⚡ Cieren Fallon is running hot right now — three winners in the last seven days and seven rides today means the bookmakers are going to have a busy afternoon crossing his name off. A 20% career strike rate over 669 rides tells you this is no flash in the pan, and a book this heavy on a day when his eye is in is exactly the kind of overlap sharp punters circle in red.
- 3 winners in the last 7 days
- 7 rides across the card
- 20% career strike rate (669 rides)
- 10:30 Kelly Burn 3/1 🏆 WON
- 11:00 Lady Rosalind 11/2 9th
- 11:30 Luzon Heights 6/5 🥈 2nd
- 12:00 Raise The Stakes 6/5 🥉 3rd
- 12:30 Raging Raj 4/1 🏆 WON
- 13:00 Fantasy Obsessor 6/1 🥈 2nd
- 13:30 Bear Steps 10/3 6th
Oisin Murphy
⚡ Oisin Murphy is running hot right now — six winners in seven days is not a purple patch you ignore, and with a career strike rate of 22% over 1,079 rides he is no flash in the pan. Tokyo Tower carries a speed rating of 148 into the 19:20, and Murphy in this form climbing aboard a horse of that class is the booking that matters today.
- 6 winners in the last 7 days
- 22% career strike rate (1079 rides)
- On Tokyo Tower (SR 148) in the 19:20
- 17:35 Majestic King 15/2 14th
- 18:10 Summer Island 10/3 🏆 WON
- 19:20 Tokyo Tower 13/2 6th
- 19:55 Delta 10/3 10th
Connor Beasley
⚡ Connor Beasley has hit a hot streak that the casual punter is sleeping on — four winners in the last seven days from a rider whose 15% career strike rate already demands respect. Five rides across the card and the plum booking on Green Area (Speed Rating 149) in the 10:15 makes this a name you write at the top of the sheet before you do anything else.
- 4 winners in the last 7 days
- On Green Area (SR 149) in the 10:15
- 5 rides across the card
- 10:15 Green Area 11/2 🥉 3rd
- 10:45 Golden Harvest 125/1 5th
- 11:15 Papa Cocktail 6/1 🥈 2nd
- 11:45 Enpassant 17/2 4th
- 13:15 La Tosca 3/1 🥈 2nd