18:45 Nottingham

Get Best Odds With Oddschecker Apprentice Handicap Stakes

2m · Flat · Class 6 · Good To Firm · 5 runners · £3,402 · Tuesday, 11 August 2026

E/W terms2 places at 1/4 odds in a 5-runner field — the place half of an each-way bet has historically returned −14% to −22% at these terms· the study →

Furlong's verdict

Reading the form…

AI-written, grounded in our data on this race. May be wrong. Verify before staking. Opinion, not advice.

AI top-rated

Hope Rising · No. 3 · best 4/5·1.80 Ladbrokes

Highest AI score (55.2) in the field, 8.6 clear of the next best. Best price is currently 10% below the market's fair price — no value at the current quote. Not on today's published card — the v1.0 filter rejects this race profile.

Racing Alpha pick

Hope Rising

Harry Vigors(3) · Jamie Snowden · 5yo

55.2/100

+8.6 vs next best (46.6)

The Racing Alpha rating combines four signals. Below is the breakdown — components driving this pick first.

Trainer20% weight
100very strong
Jamie Snowden: 1/1 winners last 14d (100%)
Freshness10% weight
70strong
7d since last run (quick turnaround)
Form20% weight
49below average
Last 6: 6-6-0-4-1
Ratings50% weight
37below average
OR 55

MarketBest price 1.80 (Ladbrokes) — market favourite. AI agrees with the market.

v1.3 rating · weights and method explained on /about. Tips are opinions, not advice.

Pace map

inferred from last 6 runs

Shape: Mixed shape — pace likely to be honest but not lightning.

Front-runners(0)—
Prominent(2)
2Joanna Hiffernan 3Hope Rising
Mid-division(0)—
Hold-up / closers(3)
4Simiyann 5Zooter 6Assured

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 — Nottingham 2m

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Strong: high (outside) favoured (IV 1.26).

Low (1–2)

IV 0.66

Mid (3–4)

IV 1.14

High (5–6)

IV 1.26

Today: Zooter (draw 6) and Simiyann (draw 5) get the bias; Assured (draw 2) 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. 41 qualifying races at this course and trip, 3-year window.

Runners · sorted by AI score

Fair price = de-overrounded market consensus · green best price = beats fair

No.	Horse	Form	Wt	OR	RPR	TS	AI	Fair	Best
3	Hope RisingPick J: Harry Vigors(3) · T: Jamie Snowden · draw 4 5yo · M · b	66041	10-01	55	—	—	55.2	EVS·2.01	4/5·1.80 Ladbrokes · -10% vs fair
5	Zooter J: Connor Planas · T: Jack Jones · draw 6 3yo · G · b	25343	9-06	63	—	—	46.6	14/1·14.48	16·16.00 Betfair Exchange · +11% vs fair
2	Joanna Hiffernan J: Jack Callan · T: Owen Burrows · draw 3 4yo · F · b	6442	10-02	61	—	—	46.5	9/4·3.34	3.7·3.70 Betfair Exchange · +11% vs fair
6	Assured J: Warren Fentiman · T: Tom Gretton · draw 2 5yo · M · chp	57605	9-03	48	—	—	39.6	80/1·74.64	90·91.00 SmarketsSBK · +22% vs fair
4	Simiyann J: Ryan Kavanagh · T: Ian Williams · draw 5 6yo · G · bb	600423	9-12	57	—	—	39.5	15/2·8.36	8.2·8.20 Betfair Exchange · -2% vs fair
—	Free WorldNon-runner J: Tom Kiely-Marshall(3) · T: Ian Williams · draw 1 5yo · G · ch	90941	10-06	60	—	—	—	—	Withdrawn

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 11% 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.

Frequently asked questions

What time is the Get Best Odds With Oddschecker Apprentice Handicap Stakes?

The Get Best Odds With Oddschecker Apprentice Handicap Stakes is off at 18:45 on 11 August 2026 at Nottingham (Great Britain).

What is the field size and distance of the 18:45 Nottingham?

2m, Class 6, Flat, 5 runners declared.

What is the going for the 18:45 Nottingham?

Going is reported as Good To Firm on Turf.

What is the Racing Alpha AI top pick for the 18:45 Nottingham?

The AI top-rated runner is Hope Rising (score 55.2, best price 1.80). Methodology: ratings combine OR, RPR, TS, trainer 14-day form, days since last run and going.

Who is the favourite for the 18:45 Nottingham?

The market favourite is Hope Rising at a best price of 1.80.

Racing Post verdict

Third-party

Free World holds a narrow edge over the field on these figures and, over a stiff sixteen furlongs on good-to-firm ground at Nottingham, that small superiority should be enough. Simiyann and Zooter are the most likely threats, with Hope Rising also worth keeping onside given the open nature of this Class 6 contest. **Free World** is our selection.

Racing Post pick: Free World

Editorial verdict from Racing Post via the Racing API — not generated by Racing Alpha.

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