Sly Man's Jockeys Taking Aim — Sunday 13 September 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 walks in with a 24% career strike rate across 1020 rides — that is not luck, that is a machine — and seven bookings today means the operation has backed him hard across the card. Two winners in the last seven days tells you the hands are warm, and with this volume of rides you are hunting multiples, not singles.
- 24% career strike rate (1020 rides)
- 7 rides across the card
- 2 winners in the last 7 days
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14:15
Star Of State T: Joseph Patrick O'Brien1/5 🏆 WON
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14:50
Sun Goddess T: A P O'Brien8/13 🏆 WON
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15:25
Mission Central T: A P O'Brien11/1 14th
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16:00
Giant Sequoia T: A P O'Brien7/2 6th
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16:35
Scandinavia T: A P O'Brien2/7 🏆 WON
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17:10
Thundering On T: Joseph Patrick O'Brien1/1 🏆 WON
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17:45
Amadeus Mozart T: A P O'Brien15/2 7th
Callum Rodriguez
⚡ Callum Rodriguez is in the kind of nick punters dream about — three winners in the last seven days, and a 19% career strike rate over 1306 rides tells you this is no hot streak built on thin air. Get him onside at 15:05 when he climbs aboard The Prettiest Star, a horse rated 109 that the favourites pages have almost certainly undersold.
- 3 winners in the last 7 days
- 19% career strike rate (1306 rides)
- On The Prettiest Star (SR 109) in the 15:05
- 13:25 Ancient State 15/2 🏆 WON
- 13:55 Blue Brother 9/2 🏆 WON
- 14:30 Intense Vision 11/1 10th
- 15:05 The Prettiest Star 13/2 🥉 3rd
- 15:40 Ernst Blofeld 13/2 🥈 2nd
Oisin Murphy
⚡ Oisin Murphy is red-hot right now — eight winners in the last seven days, and connections have noticed, handing him a heavy book of six rides today. A 22% career strike rate over 2664 rides tells you this isn't a flash in the pan; he's the name to follow across the card.
- 8 winners in the last 7 days
- 22% career strike rate (2664 rides)
- 6 rides across the card
- 13:25 Adrestia 11/2 🥈 2nd
- 13:55 Berkshire Whisper 10/1 13th
- 14:30 Ourbren 40/1 12th
- 15:05 Copacabana Sands 20/1 6th
- 15:40 Fantasy World 10/1 Race at 15:40
- 16:50 Rock Of England 5/1 🥉 3rd
Marco Ghiani
⚡ Marco Ghiani is red-hot right now — five winners in seven days from a man whose 16% career strike rate already marks him out as someone worth tracking. Six rides across the card and the plum booking of Adelaides Turn (SR 125) in the 16:25 tells you the stables know exactly where the form is sitting.
- 5 winners in the last 7 days
- On Adelaides Turn (SR 125) in the 16:25
- 6 rides across the card
- 14:40 Q T Boy 13/8 🏆 WON
- 15:50 Neptune Legend 14/1 17th
- 16:25 Adelaides Turn 40/1 4th
- 17:00 Wedgewood 22/1 🥈 2nd
- 17:30 Footstepinthewoods 7/1 🏆 WON
- 18:00 Danehill Star 7/1 🏆 WON
Wayne Lordan
⚡ Seven rides on the card tells you the trainers trust Wayne Lordan today, and a 16% career strike rate across 908 rides means that kind of volume converts. Get Haffner onside in the 16:00 — a speed rating of 123 is the class of the afternoon and Lordan doesn't get on horses like that by accident.
- 7 rides across the card
- 2 winners in the last 7 days
- On Haffner (SR 123) in the 16:00
- 13:45 Dmaniac 14/1 18th
- 14:15 Atlantic Bridge 6/1 5th
- 14:50 Alpha 13/2 5th
- 15:25 Brussels 80/1 7th
- 16:00 Haffner 11/2 7th
- 16:35 Queenstown 20/1 🥈 2nd
- 17:45 Kai Lung 12/1 10th