Sly Man's Horses to Watch — Sunday 6 September 2026
Five names off today's card. Not the headline favourites — the ones with a story the form book half-mentions.
Five worth watching today. Read the rating, read the angle, then make up your own mind. I'm the wiry one in the silks reading form on a tablet while the favourites warm up — here's what's caught my eye.
County Champs
Chris Gordon is firing at 30% this month and County Champs has walked in at a career-best SR of 86 — the form is right there in the numbers. The market has already clocked it, money coming in with no pushback, and at 3/1 this one is firmly on the watchlist.
- Chris Gordon — 30% strike rate last 30d (3/10)
- SR 86 — near career best (86)
- Money coming — strict-majority steamer, no drifters
James Bowen is firing at 35% in the last 30 days and he's landed the plum ride here. Midnight Jewel clocks an SR of 102 — two shy of her career best — and she's the best number on the card at Fontwell today.
- James Bowen — 35% strike rate last 30d (6/17)
- SR 102 — near career best (104)
- SR 102 — top of the card
Five signals pointing the same direction, SR top of the card at 111, and the money is already moving — Extremely Zain is the one the market knows about before the rest of us catch up. Fallon and Haggas don't run a horse like this at York at 5/1 without meaning it.
- Money coming — strict-majority steamer, no drifters
- SR 111 — top of the card
- 5 independent signals aligned
Five signals lined up and the market's already moving one way — the money on High Fibre is not a coincidence. SR 94 tops the card at York's 14:40, and when Cieren Fallon climbs aboard a strict-majority steamer, that's a runner worth watching very closely.
- Money coming — strict-majority steamer, no drifters
- SR 94 — top of the card
- 5 independent signals aligned
Hitting an SR of 110 — a tick above her career best of 109 — and topping the entire card at Fontwell, Ask A Sainte has four independent signals pointing the same direction today. Sean Bowen doesn't take the spare on a 9/4 shot running at peak level for nothing.
- SR 110 — near career best (109)
- SR 110 — top of the card
- 4 independent signals aligned