Sly Man's Top Rated — Sunday 5 July 2026
Every rating, pick and market move that matters, in one read.
Sly Man’s Briefing · 2026-07-05
Today’s Top Rated
22
races
197
runners scanned
Editorial
Sly Man’s Take
Three minutes with the day.
The Fold is empty today — 22 races, 197 runners, and not a single horse fires across two primary signals, so the honest call is to treat this as a watchlist morning rather than a bet-slip one. The strongest mechanical signal belongs to Rogue Impact in the 14:20 at Market Rasen, posting an SR of 157 to lead the speed ratings, though the market has declined to endorse that figure with any conviction and no OR or AI layer backs it up. The most interesting market move is Brosno Town in the same 14:20, steaming from 17/2 into 10/3 — that kind of money talks, but when the SR top-rated and the market's steamer occupy the same race without any cross-signal convergence, it raises questions as much as it answers them. Elsewhere, Cisco Disco in the 15:15 at Ayr brings three course-and-distance wins over the Ayr mile-and-two to the table, which is a durable edge in isolation, yet with Thyer drifting the wrong way out of that same race — steaming from 5/2 to 5/1, which is a significant deterioration of confidence — even that angle feels fragile. Signals are thin across the board today; the sharper move is to watch how markets settle in the hour before each off rather than commit early.
The scan
Top Signals TodayTop SignalsThe highest-conviction hit from each race today, one row per race. Filters the whole card down to what’s actually worth watching.
The highest-conviction hits, one per race.
Race
Horse
Price
Consensus
Steamer
Notes
Result
By the numbers
The Ratings
Top three horses by each rating system today.
Market moves
The MoneyThe MoneyThe board’s view of the race — which horses the market is backing, which it’s abandoning, and by how much.
What the boards are telling us.
Steamers — sharp money coming inSteamerA horse whose odds have shortened significantly as the market backs it. Sharp money coming in.
Drifters — sanity checkDrifterA horse whose odds have lengthened as the market cools on it. Sanity-check signal — sometimes right, sometimes wrong.
Contextual edges
The Angles
The situational reads.
Trainer hot streak
14 days-
Ed Dunlop
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Michael Herrington
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S Woods
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David Pipe
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Grant Tuer
Jockey upgrade
New pilot-
40/1 9th
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10/1 6th
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17/2 9th
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10/3 8th
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4/1 10th
Course & distance
Specialist-
40/1 10th
Class dropper
-1 class-
5/2 10th
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22/1 10th
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14/1 7th
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8/1 🥈 2nd
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3/1 🥈 2nd