Yet to win but rock-solid, with four straight finishes between 3rd and 4th showing genuine consistency. Has run over today's trip and going before, rated 104, and the yard is firing at 34% over the last fortnight — a leading danger if that placed form finally converts.
Form last 63-434
★AI Rating★★☆☆☆
85SR—RPR100OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 85 suggests ability but 17/2 reflects a stiff ask in this field.
Yet to win but placing regularly, with two runner-up efforts and two thirds across his last five starts, only fourth last time out. Has run over today's trip and going before, rated 106 here, well above his official mark of 98, and open to more.
Form last 6223-34
★AI Rating★★☆☆☆
86SR—RPR98OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 86 suggests ability but 15/2 reflects a stiff ask in this field.
Rated 115 here, a big jump on his official mark of 98, and enough to top this field despite recent efforts including a pulled-up run and a fall. Has run over today's trip and going before, and he remains the one to beat, though that indifferent form is the catch.
Form last 65F03-P
★AI Rating★☆☆☆☆
69SR—RPR98OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 69 is modest for this company — needs everything to go right at 18/1.
Yet to win but relentlessly consistent, third in each of his last three starts with a fourth and a second earlier in the sequence. Has run over today trip and going before, and our figure of 107 sits ten pounds above his official mark of 97, marking him a big threat.
Form last 6243-33
★AI Rating★★☆☆☆
81SR—RPR97OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 81 suggests ability but 11/1 reflects a stiff ask in this field.
Won once in his last five and was runner-up earlier still, but consecutive sixths in his two latest starts show the form has cooled. Has run over today trip and going before, and our 97 sits just above his official mark of 93 for a fair profile.
Form last 6214-66
★AI Rating★☆☆☆☆
70SR—RPR93OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 70 is modest for this company — needs everything to go right at 16/1.
Yet to win, with a pulled-up run last time out the low point after a spell of midfield finishes including a 2nd. Has run over today's trip and going before, rated 96, a shade above her official mark of 91, and capable of better than that last effort.
Form last 663-52P
★AI Rating★★☆☆☆
79SR—RPR91OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 79 suggests ability but 15/2 reflects a stiff ask in this field.
Yet to win, with a 3rd and a 4th either side of an unseated in the past four starts, and a 5th his most recent effort nine days ago. Has run over today's trip and going before, rated 95, just above his official mark of 93.
Form last 64U35
★AI Rating★☆☆☆☆
70SR—RPR93OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 70 is modest for this company — needs everything to go right at 18/1.
Yet to win, with the form consistently modest and nothing better than 6th across his last four starts. Has run over today's distance before, rated 94, and the yard's 29% strike rate over the last fortnight is about the best thing in his favour.
Form last 66776-
★AI Rating★★★☆☆
93SR—RPR89OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 93 is competitive — each-way claims if conditions suit on the day.
Yet to win and hard to fancy, with a 7th and a pulled-up run his last two starts, though a 4th and 3rd further back show he's not without ability. Has run over today's trip and going before, rated only 92, second from bottom in this field.
Form last 6348P-7
★AI Rating★★☆☆☆
68SR—RPR86OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 68 suggests ability but 18/1 reflects a stiff ask in this field.
A winner three starts back, preceded by an unseated and an unplaced effort, though his last run was itself 603 days ago. Has run over today's trip and going before, rated 94, well above his official mark of 81, but that long layoff is the major query.
Form last 60U138/
★AI Rating★★☆☆☆
69SR—RPR81OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 69 suggests ability but 20/1 reflects a stiff ask in this field.
Yet to win and rated bottom of this field on 89, with an unseated last time out capping a run that has yielded nothing better than 6th. Has run over today's trip and going before, but on this recent evidence he has a lot to find against these.
Form last 606-87U
★AI Rating★★☆☆☆
69SR—RPR75OR—Votes
✦AI verdict
SR 69 suggests ability but 9/1 reflects a stiff ask in this field.
Prices update each odds sync. Green ▼ = shortened (steamer),
Red ▲ = drifted, Blue = = unchanged since last sync.
Best column highlights the bookmaker offering the longest price.
Cool Million owns one of the strongest chamber scores in this field. The Balanced lens likes the blend of SR strength (74) and market confidence (49). There is still enough pricing upside to keep the pick from looking overexposed. The profile stays composed even after the chamber introduces race-day variance.
N/AFaye BramleyTBA
63%Confidence
⚠ Danger Runner
Zerouali
Nearest rival if the simulation drifts off the primary path.
N/A · Ben Lund✓ Value Signal
Harry Gulliver
Strongest upside if you want a less obvious route through the field.
20/1 · Alex Hales◈ Chamber Memory
Balanced
Even weighting across form, market confidence and race-day volatility.
Ashdown Forest (SR 93, 5/4) is a 4-year-old from Dan Skelton's yard — the highest strike-rate operation in this field at 21% from 1,180 runners — ridden by Harry Skelton (27% career strike rate from 667 rides), the single most powerful jockey-trainer combination declared. Carrying 10-13, it sits towards the lower end of the weight range for a horse with the strongest connections advantage in the race. The form string of 6776- looks modest but this is a horse stepping into a Class 5 handicap hurdle (ClassMv:=) after running at the same level, and Skelton juveniles/lightly-raced 4-year-olds on summer hurdle cards routinely outperform their raw figures — the yard does not send Harry Skelton to Uttoxeter in a 37-runner handicap without serious intent. No horse in this field carries an SR meaningfully above 134, so the SR ceiling is broadly flat; connections quality is the decisive differentiator. The 5/4 market price, while short, reflects exactly this stable/jockey dominance rather than the horse's own bare form.
Each-way alternative: American Empire.
Main danger: Cougarontheloose — Cougarontheloose (SR 130) is Olly Murphy's most likely lead runner from three declared, carries a manageable 10-9, has form of 342-4 showing consistent mid-field finishes, and Murphy's 20% career strike rate from 809 runners makes him a constant threat in this grade.
ShortlistAshdown Forest, Whermyrosemarygoes, Cougarontheloose, Iwanttobreakfree, American Empire