What time is the Ward Homes Yorkshire Handicap Stakes?
The Ward Homes Yorkshire Handicap Stakes is off at 15:20 on 30 August 2026 at Beverley (Great Britain).
Ward Homes Yorkshire Handicap Stakes
1m½f · Flat · Class 4 · Heavy · 12 runners · £5,574 · Sunday, 30 August 2026
AI-written, grounded in our data on this race. May be wrong. Verify before staking. Opinion, not advice.
One book stands out from the de-overrounded consensus of 30 bookmakers. A price check, not a tip — the market can be wrong about a horse.
Top-half AI rating in the EW price sweet spot. Each-way splits stake: half on the win, half on the place portion.
Walsingham arrives here on a progressive profile that makes him an appealing each-way proposition over this mile trip on soft ground at Beverley, even if he sits a few pounds beneath the top two in the ratings. Nostrum heads the field on figures and cannot be dismissed lightly, while Hot Cash and On The River represent genuine dangers who will need to be accounted for if Walsingham is to justify preference. The case for him rests squarely on the likelihood that his upward curve has further to run and that he is being caught at the right moment before that improvement is fully reflected in the numbers. Walsingham 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.
Andrew Elliott · K. R. Burke · 9yo
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: 3 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.
No meaningful draw bias at this course and trip.
IV = impact value: 1.00 is neutral, above it a stall band wins more often than its share of runners predicts. 146 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 30 bookmakers per horse with the 28% 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 Ward Homes Yorkshire Handicap Stakes is off at 15:20 on 30 August 2026 at Beverley (Great Britain).
1m½f, Class 4, Flat, 12 runners declared.
Going is reported as Heavy on Turf.
The AI top-rated runner is Tele Red (score 56.3, best price 21.00). Methodology: ratings combine OR, RPR, TS, trainer 14-day form, days since last run and going.
The market favourite is On The River at a best price of 4.70. The Racing Alpha AI top pick is a different horse — Tele Red.
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