Single-race breakdown with model vs market, value edge, confidence, and the reasons Slims Pickins is leaning in or stepping out.
Hassaleh rates as the value NAP at 31.1% fair chance versus 20% market probability (+52.3% EV). Price is shorter than the model makes it; going fit is weaker than the market suggests; there are enough red flags to oppose at the price.
The main play combines fair-price edge, suitability for conditions, and enough confidence to justify involvement.
Price is shorter than the model makes it; going fit is weaker than the market suggests; there are enough red flags to oppose at the price.
Hassaleh rates as the value NAP at 31.1% fair chance versus 20% market probability (+52.3% EV). Price is shorter than the model makes it; going fit is weaker than the market suggests; there are enough red flags to oppose at the price.
Price is shorter than the model makes it; going fit is weaker than the market suggests; there are enough red flags to oppose at the price.
Scored three times at 2yrs (including in 6f Listed event at Newmarket in June) and also runner-up in the Molecomb here; returned with a good fourth of 13 in Group 3 at Chantilly (5.5f, good) 18 days ago so must enter calculations.
Likeable front-runner who made up into a useful juvenile, winning Group 3 Princess Margaret Stakes at Ascot and signing off with a good fifth in Newmarket's Cheveley Park Stakes; shaped encouragingly when fifth of 12 in Nell Gwyn Stakes back at Newmarket (7f) on her recent return, leading long way; this drop back to 6f promises to suit, so she's a big player.
A fairly useful 5f winner at 2yrs; not disgraced after six months off when a close eighth of 14 in 5f Listed race at Bath last month but this requires more.
Built on debut promise when comfortably landing the odds in 7f maiden at Newmarket 16 days ago; this is much tougher but this Night Of Thunder filly looks to have a fair bit more to offer; very much one to consider.
Landed 5f maiden (for Raphael Freire) last spring before showing much improved form to follow up for her new yard in 5f Newbury Listed event in August; only seventh of ten in Group 3 at Longchamp (5f) final run and faces no easy task on her return.
Stylish winner of 6f Ascot novice in July and bettered that form when runner-up in the Sweet Solera at Newmarket (7f) and fourth in a Longchamp Group 2 (1m) in the autumn; hooded for her reappearance but she beat only one home in Fred Darling Stakes at Newbury; headgear quickly dispensed with.
Starman filly who went 2-2 when impressively landing 6f Newcastle novice in March; only ninth of 13 in Group 3 at Chantilly 18 days ago though so has plenty to find on form.
Last on her debut (for Jessica Harrington) at the Curragh in August but she comfortably landed a 6f Southwell maiden in January before improving again when a close sixth of eight in 7f AW Listed event at Lingfield the following month; this demands another sizeable step forward though.
Promising filly who has improved with each of her three runs; ready winner of a 7f Newmarket novice in November and reappeared with a good fifth of 14 in the Fred Darling Stakes at Newbury (7f) two weeks ago; drops back in trip but capable of better still and firmly in the picture.
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