14:20 Haydock
William Hill Silver Bowl Handicap (Heritage Handicap)
1m · Flat · Class 2 · Abandoned · 40 runners · £51,540 · Saturday, 23 May 2026
Pundit corner
Racing Post · third-partyHaving done well to defy a penalty in a novice at Kempton, when he was carried right in the straight, LANGSTONE (nap) is the pick.
Forecast 11/4 Princling, 11/2 Langstone, 13/2 Laureate Crown, Crest Of Fire, 8/1 Blue Courvoisier, 9/1 Astrazar, 16/1 Vincenzo Peruggia, Jamestown, 20/1 Sovereign Ocean, Penny Time, 25/1 Sir Albert, Suspended Sentence, 33/1 Synners Kid, Special Dividend
Editorial from Racing Post analysts via the Racing API — not generated by Racing Alpha. Formbook forecast prices are estimates, not market prices.
Princling
Cieren Fallon · William Haggas · 3yo
The Racing Alpha rating combines four signals. Below is the breakdown — components driving this pick first.
- Freshness10% weight100very strong27d since last run (race-fit window)
- Form20% weight89very strongLast 6: 2-2-1
- Ratings50% weight63averageOR 87 · RPR 113 · TS 85
- Trainer20% weight58averageWilliam Haggas: 12/52 winners last 14d (23%)
v1.3 rating — a field-relative score, not a win probability; for market-derived value see the Fair column in the runners table. Weights and method on /about. Tips are opinions, not advice.
Pace map
inferred from last 6 runsShape: Mixed shape — pace likely to be honest but not lightning.
- Front-runners(2)
- Prominent(2)
- Mid-division(2)
- Hold-up / closers(5)
- Unknown(3)
Bucketed from the opening clause of each past run's comment. Front-runner / prominent / mid / hold-up — the classic race-shape framework. Unknown = no usable comments parsed.
Draw bias — Haydock 1m
full course data →Moderate: low (inside) favoured (IV 1.24).
Today: Princling (draw 2) and Langstone (draw 1) get the bias; Penny Time (draw 10) is in the least-favoured band.
IV = impact value: 1.00 is neutral, above it a stall band wins more often than its share of runners predicts. 177 qualifying races at this course and trip, 3-year window.
Runners · sorted by AI score
OR = official rating · AI = model score (0–100) · form reads oldest → latest · Fair= the market's own consensus: median price across 30 bookmakers per horse with the 31% overround stripped out. A green best price pays above that consensus — a price check, not a tip: the market can be wrong about a horse, this only tells you when a book stands out from it.
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