What time is the Gowran Park Golf Optional Claiming Race?
The Gowran Park Golf Optional Claiming Race is off at 14:22 on 12 August 2026 at Gowran Park (Ireland).
Gowran Park Golf Optional Claiming Race
1m · Flat · Good To Firm · 18 runners · €6,000 · Wednesday, 12 August 2026
AI-written, grounded in our data on this race. May be wrong. Verify before staking. Opinion, not advice.
Highest AI score (57.3) in the field, 10.9 clear of the next best. Best price is currently 30% 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.
Top-half AI rating in the EW price sweet spot. Each-way splits stake: half on the win, half on the place portion.
W J Lee · K J Condon · 3yo
The Racing Alpha rating combines four signals. Below is the breakdown — components driving this pick first.
v1.3 rating · weights and method explained on /about. Tips are opinions, not advice.
Shape: 4 confirmed front-runners — expect a pace duel; closers from the rear advantaged.
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.
Strong: low (inside) favoured (IV 1.38).
Today: Contrite (draw 1) and Jp's Express (draw 6) get the bias; Star Of Beauty (draw 18) 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. 145 qualifying races at this course and trip, 3-year window.
OR = official rating · AI = model score (0–100) · form reads oldest → latest · Fair= the market's own consensus: median price across 25–28 bookmakers per horse with the 51% 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.
The Gowran Park Golf Optional Claiming Race is off at 14:22 on 12 August 2026 at Gowran Park (Ireland).
1m, Flat, 18 runners declared.
Going is reported as Good To Firm on Turf.
The AI top-rated runner is Star Of Beauty (score 57.3, best price 8.50). Methodology: ratings combine OR, RPR, TS, trainer 14-day form, days since last run and going.
The market favourite is Liberate at a best price of 4.70. The Racing Alpha AI top pick is a different horse — Star Of Beauty.
Bill Silvers holds a clear advantage at the head of the ratings, sitting 10 lb clear of Slight Of Foot and 11 lb ahead of Star Of Beauty in a wide-open 18-runner field at Gowran Park over eight furlongs on good-to-firm ground. Slight Of Foot and Star Of Beauty represent the most credible threats from the chasing pack, while Minaun View cannot be entirely dismissed, though the rating gap makes it a tall order for any of them. The confidence here is high that Bill Silvers's superiority on form is enough to see him through, even in such a competitive contest. **Bill Silvers** is our selection.
Racing Post pick: Bill Silvers
Editorial verdict from Racing Post via the Racing API — not generated by Racing Alpha.
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