Sly Man's Jockeys Taking Aim — Thursday 6 August 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.
⚡ Billy Loughnane is red-hot right now — seven winners in seven days is not a purple patch, it's a man in the form of his life. Get him onside in the 15:30 where Crown And Two hands him a rating of 152 and five rides today means he's not here to make up the numbers.
- 7 winners in the last 7 days
- 18% career strike rate (1694 rides)
- On Crown And Two (SR 152) in the 15:30
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14:55
Lord Ragnar T: Ed Dunlop6/4 4th
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15:30
Crown And Two T: Tom Clover2/1 🏆 WON
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16:00
Cerro Blanco T: Charlie Appleby1/20 🏆 WON
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16:33
Imperial Sovereign T: Philip Kirby13/2 5th
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17:08
Educator T: Henrietta C Knight11/10 🏆 WON
Oisin Murphy
⚡ Oisin Murphy is running hot — seven winners in the last seven days, and a 22% career strike rate over 1,269 rides tells you this is no purple patch built on thin air. The 17:38 booking on Crazee In Havana, rated 146, is the one the front pages glossed over, and that is exactly where you want to be.
- 7 winners in the last 7 days
- 22% career strike rate (1269 rides)
- On Crazee In Havana (SR 146) in the 17:38
- 17:38 Crazee In Havana 7/1 🥈 2nd
- 18:13 See The Mountain 25/1 4th
- 18:48 Edwin Hubble 15/8 🏆 WON
- 19:23 Desert Shadow 9/4 🏆 WON
- 19:58 Great Blasket 8/15 🥉 3rd
Cieren Fallon
⚡ Cieren Fallon has fired home seven winners in the last seven days and shows no sign of cooling, with a career strike rate of 20% across 783 rides telling you this is no purple patch built on air. Get him onside in the 16:00 where Tacticalist — a horse carrying a speed rating of 137 — hands him the kind of top-drawer ammunition that makes bookmakers quietly nervous.
- 7 winners in the last 7 days
- 20% career strike rate (783 rides)
- On Tacticalist (SR 137) in the 16:00
- 15:30 Fast Performer evn 4th
- 16:00 Tacticalist 16/1 🥉 3rd
- 16:33 High Fibre 6/4 🏆 WON
- 17:08 Revelio 11/2 4th
Dylan Browne McMonagle
⚡ Dylan Browne McMonagle has been absolutely on fire this week — six winners in seven days tells you the hands are working and the eye is sharp right now. The 17:25 booking on Magnum Cor (speed rating 149) is the one that matters most, and trainers don't hand a 149-rated horse to a rider who isn't their first call.
- 6 winners in the last 7 days
- On Magnum Cor (SR 149) in the 17:25
- 6 rides across the card
- 16:50 Jesus Green 14/1 🥈 2nd
- 17:25 Magnum Cor 11/2 4th
- 18:00 Al Haarith 17/2 8th
- 18:35 Endorsement 11/10 7th
- 19:10 Gordon Bennett 12/1 10th
- 19:45 Darkdeserthighway 7/1 🥈 2nd
Ryan Moore
⚡ Ryan Moore arrives at the yard in form — three winners in the last seven days from a man who already converts at 27% across 477 career rides, which is the kind of number that makes bookmakers quietly uncomfortable. Point your marker at the 16:50, where he partners Drumbeat on a speed rating of 151 — that is the best number on his card today and Moore does not waste rides like that.
- 3 winners in the last 7 days
- 27% career strike rate (477 rides)
- On Drumbeat (SR 151) in the 16:50
- 16:50 Drumbeat 9/2 🥉 3rd
- 18:00 Isaac Newton 7/1 🏆 WON
- 18:35 Ethical Diamond 11/8 🏆 WON