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15:55 Cork

Ireland

Irish Stallion Farms EBF Navigation Stakes (Listed)

1m2½f · Flat · Class 1 · Soft · 11 runners · €30,000 · Tuesday, 29 September 2026

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Pundit corner

Racing Post · third-party
Pundit pick: ActionDiffers from our pick

Action carries the highest rating in this twelve-runner Class 1 contest over ten furlongs on soft ground at Cork, narrowly ahead of Shaihaan and with a more meaningful edge over Caught U Sleeping and Summer Is Tomorrow, who round out the main dangers. Shaihaan will press hardest on these figures and could easily prove troublesome on the ground, while Caught U Sleeping and Summer Is Tomorrow are capable of outrunning their ratings if conditions suit, so Action will need to be at her best to hold them off. Confidence is modest here given the competitive nature of the field and the testing surface, but on the evidence available Action remains the one to be with, and the selection is Action.

Editorial from Racing Post analysts via the Racing API — not generated by Racing Alpha. Formbook forecast prices are estimates, not market prices.

Why the model rates this top

Summer Is Tomorrow

J M Sheridan · Joseph Patrick O'Brien · 3yo

Top-rated of 12
score 65.5 · +1.0 clear of next best (64.5)
Scores compare runners within this race only

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

  • Freshness10% weight
    100very strong
    16d since last run (race-fit window)
  • Ratings50% weight
    69strong
    OR 104 — above field median
  • Form20% weight
    64average
    Last 6: 6-9-2-2-1-4
  • Trainer20% weight
    40below average
    Joseph Patrick O'Brien: 11/69 winners last 14d (16%)
MarketBest price 5.70 (Matchbook) · 2nd in the market of 12.

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.

Pace map

inferred from last 6 runs

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

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 — Cork 1m2½f

full course data →

Moderate: middle favoured (IV 1.21).

Low (1–4)
IV 0.79
Mid (5–8)
IV 1.21
High (9–12)
IV 1.04

Today: Summer Is Tomorrow (draw 7) and Magnum Cor (draw 8) get the bias; Back Straight (draw 4) 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. 49 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.HorseFormORAIFairBestAdd to betslip
9
3yo · C · bv
692214
10465.511/2·6.725.7·5.70
Matchbook · -15% vs fair
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3yo · C · b
41
9564.511/1·12.0912·12.00
Betfair Exchange
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6
J: W. J. Lee · T: David Marnane · draw 9
3yo · C · b
282125
9763.27/1·8.067.4·7.40
Matchbook · -8% vs fair
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2
3yo · C · bt
21
8862.925/1·25.5228·28.00
Smarkets · +10% vs fair
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4
J: Ben Coen · T: J. P. Murtagh · draw 1
3yo · C · b
213
9559.412/1·12.7611·11.00
Betfair Exchange · -14% vs fair
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1
J: W. M. Lordan · T: Aidan O'Brien · draw 12
3yo · C · ch
207680
10958.813/2·7.397.4·7.40
Betfair Exchange
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12
J: R. P. Whelan · T: Aidan O'Brien · draw 5
3yo · F · b
2210
8557.540/1·45.6755·55.00
Matchbook · +20% vs fair
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8
3yo · G · ch
14355
10255.55/1·6.045·5.00
Smarkets · -17% vs fair
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7
3yo · G · bp
12540
9854.740/1·38.9540·40.00
Betfair Exchange · +3% vs fair
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10
J: Colin Keane · T: Noel Meade · draw 10
3yo · F · ch
812334
10254.47/1·8.066.8·6.80
Betfair Exchange · -16% vs fair
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11
J: G. F. Carroll · T: Joseph G Murphy · draw 2
3yo · F · bp
17982
9151.528/1·30.8934·34.00
Betfair Exchange · +10% vs fair
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3
J: Andrew Slattery · T: A. Slattery · draw 11
3yo · G · b
96831
8451.440/1·45.6765·65.00
Matchbook · +42% vs fair
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OR = official rating · AI = model score (0–100) · form reads oldest → latest · Fair= the market's own consensus: median price across 19–26 bookmakers per horse with the 34% 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.

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