Sly Man's Top Rated — Wednesday 23 September 2026
Each Top Rated lane is judged by its own historical evidence. Price filters are applied only where the ledger shows they improve selection quality.
Sly Man’s Briefing · 2026-09-23
Today’s Top Rated
35
races
379
runners scanned
Signals converging
The FoldThe FoldWhere two or more of Saturday Racing’s primary analytical signals converge on the same horse. The higher the count, the stronger the signal.
1 horse appears in two of today’s primary signals.
Editorial
Sly Man’s Take
Three minutes with the day.
1 horse in the Fold today.
Columbus at 14:30 Listowel is the day's clearest focal point, landing in The Fold with an SR of 157 and drawing agreement from all three systems — Balanced lens, Mr Fox, and the Steamer board — at a current price of 11/8. That triple-source convergence in the same race is the kind of alignment that earns a morning highlight, and the OR-rated duo of French Dynamite and Funiculi Funicula (both OR 149) later at 16:15 Listowel suggests the Irish track is carrying genuine quality today. Over at Goodwood's 15:15, Lion's Pride catches the eye on two counts: a TS of 102 shared with Naqeeb, plus a meaningful jockey upgrade to William Buick (25.0% strike rate) from Benoit de la Sayette (5.3%) — the market hasn't fully priced that switch in, so worth a look. The Kempton evening card throws up Tees Aggregates steaming from 17/2 into 9/2 at 16:41 Redcar, a move of that magnitude demanding respect, though no rating system backs it directly, so treat the market signal as a prompt to investigate rather than a green light. On balance, today's convergence is concentrated rather than broad — Columbus is the anchor, everything else is context.
The scan
Top Signals TodayTop SignalsThe highest-conviction hit from each race today, one row per race. Filters the whole card down to what’s actually worth watching.
The highest-conviction hits, one per race.
By the numbers
The Ratings
Top three horses by each rating system today.
Cross-system agreement
Systems ConsensusSystems ConsensusWhen multiple independent Saturday Racing engines (AI models, Sly Man, Mr Fox, market read) land on the same horse. Cross-system agreement is unusual and worth taking seriously.
The horses Saturday Racing's independent analytical engines all landed on. When four systems built on different signals agree, the market usually catches up quickly.
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3 SYSTEMS
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3 SYSTEMS
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3 SYSTEMS
AGREE
Market moves
The MoneyThe MoneyThe board’s view of the race — which horses the market is backing, which it’s abandoning, and by how much.
What the boards are telling us.
Steamers — sharp money coming inSteamerA horse whose odds have shortened significantly as the market backs it. Sharp money coming in.
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33/1 18/1 44%SHARP MONEY11th Out of the frameVerify
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17/2 9/2 42%SHARP MONEY🥉 3rd Placed thirdVerify
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14/1 17/2 37%SHARP MONEY10th Out of the frameVerify
Drifters — sanity checkDrifterA horse whose odds have lengthened as the market cools on it. Sanity-check signal — sometimes right, sometimes wrong.
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50/1 200/1 294%MARKET COOLING6th Finished 6th
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50/1 200/1 294%MARKET COOLING11th Out of the frame
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50/1 150/1 196%MARKET COOLINGFell Fell during the race
Contextual edges
The Angles
The situational reads.
Trainer hot streak
14 days-
Roger Teal
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Pat Phelan
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Patrick Neville
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Emma Lavelle
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Sam England
Jockey upgrade
New pilot-
17/2 9th
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14/1 10th
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15/2 6th
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7/2 4th
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10/1 5th
Course & distance
Specialist-
9/2 🥉 3rd
Class dropper
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16/1 5th
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3/1 🥈 2nd
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10/1 🥉 3rd
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9/2 🏆 WON
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3/1 8th