Sly Man's Jockeys Taking Aim — Saturday 4 July 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.
⚡ Ryan Moore is running hot — five winners in seven days and a 28% career strike rate that doesn't lie — and whoever put him up in the Coral-Eclipse at 15:35 knew exactly what they were doing. He arrives in that Group 1 with the kind of momentum that makes the rest of the field's connections sweat.
- 5 winners in the last 7 days
- 28% career strike rate (418 rides)
- Booked in Coral-Eclipse (Group 1) at 15:35
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14:25
Liberty Lane T: K R Burke20/1 5th
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15:00
Sacred Ground T: John & Thady Gosden11/4 4th
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15:35
Constitution River T: A P O'Brien5/6 🏆 WON
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16:47
Loblolly T: S Woods7/1 4th
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17:22
Point Of Contact T: Andrew Balding2/1 8th
Oisin Murphy
⚡ Oisin Murphy is running hot — three winners in seven days and seven rides on the card today is not a coincidence, that is a jockey in form filling his boots. A 22% career strike rate over 1,100 rides tells you this is no flash in the pan, so pick your spot and get on.
- 3 winners in the last 7 days
- 22% career strike rate (1100 rides)
- 7 rides across the card
- 13:50 Asfoora 5/2 9th
- 14:25 Mirsky 28/1 9th
- 15:00 Estissa 9/1 🥉 3rd
- 15:35 A Boy Named Susie 9/1 🥈 2nd
- 16:10 Sunny Smile 14/1 🥈 2nd
- 16:47 Akho Mezzna 5/1 🥈 2nd
- 17:22 Spoken Truth 3/1 6th
Billy Loughnane
⚡ Billy Loughnane is absolutely scorching right now — nine winners in seven days from a man who already converts at 18% across 1,538 career rides tells you this is not a hot streak built on thin air. Words Of Truth at 13:50 carries a speed rating of 116 and has Loughnane in the plate, which is the only booking on today's card I'd have got out of bed early to spot.
- 9 winners in the last 7 days
- 18% career strike rate (1538 rides)
- On Words Of Truth (SR 116) in the 13:50
- 13:50 Words Of Truth 3/1 Race at 13:50
- 14:25 Hard Endeavor 11/1 🥈 2nd
- 15:00 Act Of Kindness 7/2 6th
- 16:10 He's Waliim 22/1 🏆 WON
- 16:47 Bridge Of Eagles 9/4 🥉 3rd
- 17:22 Cloth Of Gold 10/1 7th
Rossa Ryan
⚡ Rossa Ryan is red-hot right now — four winners in the last seven days tells you he's in one of those spells where everything he touches finds a way to win. Get him onside in the 13:50 where he partners Shagraan, a 105-rated horse that looks the class act of the book.
- 4 winners in the last 7 days
- On Shagraan (SR 105) in the 13:50
- 5 rides across the card
- 13:50 Shagraan 8/1 7th
- 15:00 Secret Of Life 4/1 🏆 WON
- 16:10 Richie's Rocket 8/1 5th
- 16:47 Barbury Boy 4/1 7th
- 17:22 Flying Frontier 5/1 4th
Cieren Fallon
⚡ Cieren Fallon is firing on all cylinders right now — three winners in the last seven days, and a 20% career strike rate over 700 rides tells you this isn't a man who wastes his afternoons. He climbs aboard Nightbloom in the 14:17, a horse rated 154, and that booking alone is enough to have your pen out.
- 3 winners in the last 7 days
- 20% career strike rate (700 rides)
- On Nightbloom (SR 154) in the 14:17
- 14:17 Nightbloom 7/2 Race at 14:17
- 14:52 Under Arrest 10/1 5th
- 15:24 Happy Humpo 11/2 4th
- 16:02 Al Aasy 4/7 🏆 WON
- 16:35 Cancelled 11/1 4th
- 17:40 Battenburg Belle 9/4 5th