What time is the McDermott Farm Machinery Handicap Hurdle?
The McDermott Farm Machinery Handicap Hurdle is off at 18:48 on 19 August 2026 at Sligo (Ireland).
McDermott Farm Machinery Handicap Hurdle
2m4½f · Hurdle · Good · 16 runners · €6,000 · Wednesday, 19 August 2026
AI-written, grounded in our data on this race. May be wrong. Verify before staking. Opinion, not advice.
No book currently stands out from the market consensus in this race. Prices refresh every few minutes.
Top-half AI rating in the EW price sweet spot. Each-way splits stake: half on the win, half on the place portion.
Wild Mandate heads a competitive 17-runner field at Sligo over two and a half miles on good ground, rated narrowly ahead of Phoenix Arizona and a couple of pounds clear of Firstupbestdressed and Sekakarma, who share a rating and represent the chief dangers in what looks an open contest. The trip and ground conditions should suit, and while the margin over the chasing group is slender, Wild Mandate's edge at the top of the ratings gives a foothold in a tricky puzzle. Phoenix Arizona and the closely matched pair of Firstupbestdressed and Sekakarma are respected, and punters should be aware that the selection's advantage is a fine one in a big field. Wild Mandate is our selection.
Editorial from Racing Post analysts via the Racing API — not generated by Racing Alpha. Formbook forecast prices are estimates, not market prices.
Keith Donoghue · Gavin Cromwell · 5yo
The Racing Alpha rating combines four signals. Below is the breakdown — components driving this pick first.
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.
Shape: No confirmed front-runner — likely a slow start, race may turn into a sprint.
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.
OR = official rating · AI = model score (0–100) · form reads oldest → latest · Fair= the market's own consensus: median price across 27–29 bookmakers per horse with the 48% 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 McDermott Farm Machinery Handicap Hurdle is off at 18:48 on 19 August 2026 at Sligo (Ireland).
2m4½f, Hurdle, 16 runners declared.
Going is reported as Good on Turf.
The AI top-rated runner is Laska Du Breuil (score 61.2, best price 8.60). Methodology: ratings combine OR, RPR, TS, trainer 14-day form, days since last run and going.
The market favourite is Phoenix Arizona at a best price of 4.70. The Racing Alpha AI top pick is a different horse — Laska Du Breuil.
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