Hope of Acklam arrives in fine fettle just 11 days after finishing third last time out, and a second two starts back underlines his consistency; top-rated here on a mark of 65, he is yet to win in recent starts but remains the most solid profile in the field.
Form last 6923
★AI Rating★★★☆☆
69SR68RPR65OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 69 is competitive — each-way claims if conditions suit on the day.
Placed last time out and third again three starts back, Son of A Fish arrives here fit on 15 days' rest with experience of today's trip and conditions, and our rating puts him right in contention — yet the main concern is a trainer firing at just 4% in the last fortnight.
Form last 65373
★AI Rating★★★☆☆
65SR68RPR64OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 65 is competitive — each-way claims if conditions suit on the day.
Winless in his last five starts, Dakota Brave did show a flash of promise with a third three starts back, though consecutive fourths since suggest he finds winning tough; experience over today's trip and going helps, but 63 days off the track is a query from stall 3.
Form last 665344
★AI Rating★★☆☆☆
56SR59RPR62OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 56 suggests ability but 15/2 reflects a stiff ask in this field.
Winless in his last three starts, including back-to-back sixth-place finishes, Lopefernza arrives here 20 days on from his latest effort and has run over today's trip before, though carrying 131 lb from stall four is no small ask for a horse rated 61.
Form last 6667
★AI Rating★☆☆☆☆
49SR58RPR61OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 49 is modest for this company — needs everything to go right at 10/1.
Craven Force carries a rating of 67 from our assessment, suggesting he is modestly ahead of his official mark of 56, and stall two gives him a handy pitch; the concern is that he has been winless in his last three starts and returns after 132 days off.
Form last 6670
★AI Rating★☆☆☆☆
46SR67RPR56OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 46 is modest for this company — needs everything to go right at 16/1.
Winless in his last four starts, King of Persia steps back out 15 days on, and while he has run over today's trip and going, a string of finishes from sixth to eighth makes improvement hard to see from stall six off 124 lb.
Form last 67768
★AI Rating★☆☆☆☆
42SR59RPR54OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 42 is modest for this company — needs everything to go right at 16/1.
Winless in his last three starts, Diplomacy has run over today's trip and going before and arrives on a 29-day freshener carrying 122 lb from stall 7, with our rating of 62 suggesting he holds more ability than his official mark of 52 implies — the risk is that recent form has been poor, with back-to-back ninths to overcome.
Form last 6699
★AI Rating★★☆☆☆
32SR62RPR52OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 32 suggests ability but 33/1 reflects a stiff ask in this field.
Winless in his last three starts, with consecutive ninths before an eighth last time out, Right Up My Ali faces a stiff task from a field-low ranking and an official mark of 51; he has run over today's trip, at least, and 32 days between runs suggests he arrives fresh.
Form last 6998
★AI Rating★☆☆☆☆
25SR47RPR51OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 25 is modest for this company — needs everything to go right at 40/1.
Winless in her last four starts and ranked ninth of ten on our figures, Astral Calling is hard to fancy, though she does at least bring distance and going experience to the table and a second last time out offers a crumb of encouragement.
Form last 66702
★AI Rating★★★☆☆
61SR55RPR51OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 61 is competitive — each-way claims if conditions suit on the day.
Winless in her last four starts and ranked eighth of ten on our figures, Wells Fargo Stage faces a stiff task here; she has run over today's going before and draws stall one, but her recent sequence of unplaced efforts makes her very hard to fancy.
Form last 60590
★AI Rating★☆☆☆☆
30SR57RPR50OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 30 is modest for this company — needs everything to go right at 40/1.
Prices update each odds sync. Green ▼ = shortened (steamer),
Red ▲ = drifted, Blue = = unchanged since last sync.
Best column highlights the bookmaker offering the longest price.
Son of A Fish owns one of the strongest chamber scores in this field. The Balanced lens likes the blend of SR strength (36) and market confidence (90). The profile stays composed even after the chamber introduces race-day variance.
9/4Richard HannonPaul Mulrennan
66%Confidence
⚠ Danger Runner
Hope of Acklam
Nearest rival if the simulation drifts off the primary path.
11/4 · Michael & David Easterby✓ Value Signal
Right Up My Ali
Strongest upside if you want a less obvious route through the field.
33/1 · Mark Walford◈ Chamber Memory
Balanced
Even weighting across form, market confidence and race-day volatility.
Hope of Acklam (SR:69, 3/1) is the top-rated horse in this field by a clear margin and has steamed in 20% in the market — the most significant positive move of any runner. Dropping two class tiers makes this a much easier assignment than recent starts, and Billy Garritty (12% SR) is a competent booking. The concern is GoingFit:? and DistFit:? (trip is 7f219y, a stiff test for a two-year-old), but the class drop and SR advantage outweigh those unknowns. The form figure of '3' last time out at Class 5 or higher, combined with a course place (W0P1 at Redcar), suggests the horse handles this track and is coming into form at the right time.
Each-way alternative: Astral Calling.
Main danger: Astral Calling — Astral Calling (SR:61, 3/1) is trained by K.R. Burke whose 20% career strike rate is the best in the field, and the horse's last run produced a '2' — its best recent finish — suggesting it is coming to a peak, though DistFit:- is a genuine concern at this extended trip.
⚖Case against4clamped▾
Son of A Fish (SR:65, 5/2) is only 4 SR points behind yet is the market favourite at a shorter price, suggesting tissue pricing and stable confidence favours the Hannon runner over the pick.
Astral Force (SR:61, 3/1) is trained by K.R. Burke (20% SR — the highest in the field) and finished 2nd last time out, representing a live market rival at the same odds with sharper recent form.
Both GoingFit and DistFit are unknown for a two-year-old tackling the demanding 7f219y trip — that extended stamina test at Redcar's stiff finish is a genuine unknown for a horse whose form figure of…
The yard (Michael & David Easterby, 10% SR) is running three horses today (also Diplomacy and sharing Stable:1 with King of Persia stable flag), raising the question of whether this is genuinely thei…
ShortlistHope of Acklam, Astral Calling, Son of A Fish