Moonrunner shaped with real promise when second three starts back and arrives here fresh on 19 days' rest, with experience over today's trip and our rating of 83 suggesting he holds strong claims; the risk is he remains yet to win in his last five starts.
Form last 64-3254
★AI Rating★★★☆☆
79SR83RPR75OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 79 is competitive — each-way claims if conditions suit on the day.
Patrol has been a model of consistency in recent starts, finishing second last time out and third two starts back, and he has experience of today's distance and going. Carrying 134 lb from stall three, he looks the one to beat despite being yet to win in his last six starts.
Form last 6243632
★AI Rating★★★☆☆
85SR86RPR74OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 85 is competitive — each-way claims if conditions suit on the day.
Carnival Day has shown consistent placing ability in recent starts, finishing third two of his last five outings, and returns here fit on 13 days' rest having already experienced today's trip and conditions; the concern is he remains winless in this recent sequence.
Form last 6-37453
★AI Rating★★★☆☆
82SR85RPR74OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 82 is competitive — each-way claims if conditions suit on the day.
Beach Point won last time out and has run over today's distance and going, giving him a solid platform, though he has found the top four his ceiling for much of his recent starts and must shoulder 134 lb from stall eight.
Form last 6348441
★AI Rating★★★☆☆
74SR76RPR74OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 74 is competitive — each-way claims if conditions suit on the day.
Skibo shaped with promise when third and second in consecutive starts not long ago, and has run over today's trip and going, giving him a solid profile at 132 lb from stall 2; the concern is that he has drifted to eighth and seventh in his last two outings, so recovering that earlier form is the key ask.
Form last 6723-78
★AI Rating★☆☆☆☆
50SR79RPR72OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 50 is modest for this company — needs everything to go right at 50/1.
Second two starts back gives Barry's Boy an obvious platform, but he was beaten into sixth last time out and that ninth three starts back is a concern; he has run over today's trip and going, carries 132 lb from stall six, and the ratings suggest he is a shade ahead of his official mark.
Form last 6-15926
★AI Rating★☆☆☆☆
57SR77RPR72OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 57 is modest for this company — needs everything to go right at 18/1.
Beaten into sixth last time out and winless in her last four starts, Thankyou Baroness also returns after a 195-day absence, making her hard to fancy; a win five starts back and experience over today's trip are modest consolations.
Form last 6148-06
★AI Rating★☆☆☆☆
44SR72RPR68OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 44 is modest for this company — needs everything to go right at 40/1.
Fifth last time out and seventh two starts back, Super Hit has disappointed in his most recent efforts after winning four starts back, and our figures rank him ninth of ten here, making him hard to fancy despite the experience over today's distance and going.
Form last 6131375
★AI Rating★★★☆☆
68SR71RPR67OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 68 is competitive — each-way claims if conditions suit on the day.
Ranked bottom of the field on our figures, Bobacious is hard to fancy after finishing seventh last time out, and his overall recent record of one win in his last six starts offers little encouragement, though he has run over today's trip and going before and returns on a fresh enough 17-day break.
Form last 6346517
★AI Rating★★☆☆☆
67SR70RPR65OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 67 suggests ability but 10/1 reflects a stiff ask in this field.
Yokkell won two starts back but has posted a sixth since, and 47 days off the track is a fitness query; she has run over today's trip and going before, and her rating of 72 gives her a small edge over her official mark, though she is up against it from a midfield draw in four.
Form last 6635416
★AI Rating★★☆☆☆
58SR72RPR64OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 58 suggests ability but 16/1 reflects a stiff ask in this field.
Prices update each odds sync. Green ▼ = shortened (steamer),
Red ▲ = drifted, Blue = = unchanged since last sync.
Best column highlights the bookmaker offering the longest price.
Carnival Day owns one of the strongest chamber scores in this field. The Balanced lens likes the blend of SR strength (46) and market confidence (90). The profile stays composed even after the chamber introduces race-day variance.
9/4Jim BoylePat Cosgrave
71%Confidence
⚠ Danger Runner
Moonrunner
Nearest rival if the simulation drifts off the primary path.
9/2 · Charlie Fellowes✓ Value Signal
Skibo
Strongest upside if you want a less obvious route through the field.
50/1 · Barry Brennan◈ Chamber Memory
Balanced
Even weighting across form, market confidence and race-day volatility.
Carnival Day (SR:82, 9/4) is the highest-rated credible contender once weight and form are weighed properly, and the 19% market move in signals strong professional backing. GoingFit:+ is the decisive edge in this field — today's good to soft is confirmed ground for this horse, while the two market rivals Patrol and Beach Point show GoingFit:- and GoingFit:? respectively. The drop in class (↓1) and a 1lb mark relief (MarkMv:-1) further stack conditions in Carnival Day's favour, and Pat Cosgrave's booking — a strike rate of 11% across nearly 1,000 rides — is a solid if unspectacular partnership. The recent form string -37453 shows consistency without brilliance, but a horse stepping down in class on its proven going type with market support is the cleanest story in the race.
Each-way alternative: Patrol.
Main danger: Patrol — Patrol (SR:85, 3/1) is the highest-rated runner in the field and has shortened 12% in the market, suggesting genuine confidence from connections, though GoingFit:- is a real concern on today's ground and the visor first-time use adds an unknown variable.
⚖Case against4clamped▾
Carnival Day's form string -37453 shows no win in recent starts and a fall at some point; a horse that hasn't converted when dropped in class before offers limited confidence it will do so now.
Patrol (SR:85) is 3 points superior on ratings with a stronger recent form cycle (243632) and 11-day freshness — Carnival Day is not clearly the best horse in the race on raw figures.
Jim Boyle's 10% trainer strike rate across 619 runners is modest, and Pat Cosgrave's 11% across nearly 1,000 rides suggests neither handler nor jockey is in a particularly sharp vein of form to capit…
The 19% market move looks compelling but at 9/4 Carnival Day is already a short price for a horse whose best recent finish is a 3rd; value and margin for error are both thin if Patrol's GoingFit:- pr…
ShortlistCarnival Day, Patrol, Beach Point, Super Hit