Market Form Ratings: top-rated winners in 18 races — 17 October 2026
A new way to read the racing market. Market Form is changing how racing fans can interpret market activity, bringing price movement, horse history and trainer evidence together in one accessible rating. The aim is to help you quickly identify the runners whose market deserves a closer look.
We rate every runner in the field on a 0–100 scale. You can compare the whole race, follow the ratings before the off and then check how those ratings performed.
50 is neutral. Higher scores reflect stronger positive market evidence; lower scores reflect weaker or more negative evidence. A rating is a market assessment, not a percentage chance of winning. A neutral horse can still win its race.
How the top ratings performed on Saturday 17 October 2026
The highest rating included the winner in 18 of 39 races with completed top-rated results (46.2%).
In 21 of those races, at least one top-rated runner finished first or second. In 24 races, at least one finished in the first three.
What are we counting? This review covers 39 races with saved ratings. Each completed race counts once in the headline figures, even when several horses share the highest rating. “Top-rated” means highest within its own race; it does not necessarily mean a high score on the 0–100 scale.
There were joint highest ratings in 1 races. Those joint leaders are all included when checking whether the highest rating contained the winner, but each race still counts once. Several horses sharing a rating cannot all win the same race.
We have not included runners jointly top-rated at 50, as 50 is the baseline. Those races are excluded from the top-rated totals, percentages and results by meeting. This excludes 21 races from this review.
Results by meeting
| Meeting | Completed races | Top rating included winner | Top-two finish | Top-three finish | Pending races |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ascot | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Catterick | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Leopardstown | 7 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| Limerick | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Market Rasen | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Newton Abbot | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Southwell (AW) | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Stratford | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| Total | 39 | 18 | 21 | 24 | 0 |
Top-two and top-three columns count races with at least one top-rated runner in those positions. The figures overlap; they are not separate selections.
The ratings behind the top-rated winners
The winning runners that held the highest rating in their race carried saved MF ratings from 54 to 75. Their individual scores appear below, alongside the other recorded race winners.
13 of those winning runners rated 65 or higher before the scheduled off.
How the race winners rated
These are the winners for which a saved pre-off MF rating is available. The final column shows whether each was highest-rated in its race, including joint leaders.
| Race | Winner | MF rating | Highest in race? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:55 Ascot | Night In Vegas | 71 | Highest |
| 14:05 Ascot | Almeraq | 41 | No |
| 16:00 Ascot | Ombudsman | 50 | No |
| 13:00 Catterick | Lion's Den | 40 | No |
| 13:35 Catterick | Inkberrow | 42 | No |
| 14:10 Catterick | Hengest | 72 | Highest |
| 14:45 Catterick | Woodstock | 65 | Highest |
| 17:15 Catterick | Gentle Warrior | 75 | Highest |
| 13:57 Leopardstown | Speckles | 72 | Highest |
| 14:32 Leopardstown | Louis De Foix | 60 | Highest |
| 15:07 Leopardstown | Wall Street | 69 | Highest |
| 15:40 Leopardstown | Snowing | 63 | Highest |
| 16:15 Leopardstown | Capability Brown | 44 | No |
| 16:50 Leopardstown | Accumulation | 43 | No |
| 17:20 Leopardstown | City Of Gold | 70 | Highest |
| 13:10 Limerick | Bunker Buster | 38 | No |
| 13:45 Limerick | Jennyfromtheblock | 63 | Highest |
| 14:20 Limerick | Carried With Love | 54 | Highest |
| 15:30 Limerick | Kome Dans Un Reve | 28 | No |
| 16:05 Limerick | Political Stance | 50 | No |
| 16:40 Limerick | Loi Des Jeux | 50 | No |
| 17:10 Limerick | All Noise | 50 | No |
| 13:15 Market Rasen | Hold The Throw | 45 | No |
| 13:50 Market Rasen | Galway Reel | 45 | No |
| 15:00 Market Rasen | The Egyptian Ginge | 50 | No |
| 15:45 Market Rasen | Saint Polo | 71 | Highest |
| 17:05 Market Rasen | Nostrae De Cougny | 50 | No |
| 14:17 Newton Abbot | Playful Fox | 67 | Highest |
| 14:52 Newton Abbot | Mount Anglesby | 50 | No |
| 16:43 Newton Abbot | Duhallow Storm | 40 | No |
| 17:30 Southwell (AW) | Monsieur Bondy | 61 | Highest |
| 18:30 Southwell (AW) | Fully Stocked | 50 | No |
| 19:00 Southwell (AW) | Pivotal Terms | 50 | No |
| 19:30 Southwell (AW) | Oxbridge | 30 | No |
| 20:00 Southwell (AW) | Fleur de Mer | 66 | Highest |
| 20:30 Southwell (AW) | Thankfully | 41 | No |
| 13:39 Stratford | Katarcice | 50 | No |
| 14:13 Stratford | Senator | 72 | Highest |
| 14:49 Stratford | Watamu | 70 | Highest |
| 15:34 Stratford | Crac de Megaudais | 42 | No |
| 16:55 Stratford | Glance At Me | 60 | No |
| 17:25 Stratford | Ashdown Forest | 74 | Highest |
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This review uses saved ratings from before the scheduled off. We never recalculate a completed race using its result.
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