What time is the Sky Bet Dav Reid Finale Handicap Stakes (Heritage Handicap) (GBBPlus Race)?
The Sky Bet Dav Reid Finale Handicap Stakes (Heritage Handicap) (GBBPlus Race) is off at 17:20 on 22 August 2026 at York (Great Britain).
Sky Bet Dav Reid Finale Handicap Stakes (Heritage Handicap) (GBBPlus Race)
1m2½f · Flat · Class 2 · Good To Soft · 21 runners · £51,540 · Saturday, 22 August 2026
AI-written, grounded in our data on this race. May be wrong. Verify before staking. Opinion, not advice.
Drawn 5, inside the favoured low third at this course and trip.
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.
Erzindjan heads this competitive 21-runner York mile-and-a-quarter field on good-to-soft ground, sitting narrowly ahead of Thunder Run and Bourbon Blues on our assessments, and on a sound surface over a trip that should suit, there is a reasonable case for him to deliver. Thunder Run, just a couple of pounds below, represents the most obvious threat, while Bourbon Blues and Raammee will also need to be accounted for in a deep Class 2 heat where the margins at the top of the ratings are slim and the race is genuinely open. Confidence is tempered by the size of the field and the closeness of the form, but the edge in the ratings, however narrow, points in one direction. Erzindjan 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.
Ray Dawson · Roger Varian · 4yo
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: Lone front-runner — could dictate from the front if unchallenged.
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: Raammee (draw 5) and Quai De Bethune (draw 7) get the bias; Al Aali (draw 9) 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. 83 qualifying races at this course and trip, 3-year window.
OR = official rating · AI = model score (0–100) · form reads oldest → latest
The Sky Bet Dav Reid Finale Handicap Stakes (Heritage Handicap) (GBBPlus Race) is off at 17:20 on 22 August 2026 at York (Great Britain).
1m2½f, Class 2, Flat, 21 runners declared.
Going is reported as Good To Soft on Turf.
The AI top-rated runner is Raammee (score 74.5, best price 4.70). Methodology: ratings combine OR, RPR, TS, trainer 14-day form, days since last run and going.
The market favourite is Raammee at a best price of 4.70.
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