Timeform Ratings

There's a change to the usual format this week as we focus on the crème de la crème of the two-year-olds, looking forward to some significant clashes in store at Royal Ascot next week. Timeform's highest-rated juvenile heading into Royal Ascot is the unbeaten G3 Marble Hill Stakes hero Great Barrier Reef (No Nay Never), who appears to have everything that you could wish to find in a potential two-year-old winner at this meeting. For a start, Great Barrier Reef is by No Nay Never, the most prolific sire of...

The Timeform rankings return to highlight the top-rated maiden/novice winners in Britain and Ireland from the last fortnight (May 18-31), with the team at Wathnan Racing sitting pretty following impressive victories for two of its expensive breeze-up purchases. 5. SERGEI DIAGHILEV (IRE) Wootton Bassett (GB) - Embellish (Ire), by Galileo (Ire) Timeform performance rating: 90 For the fourth consecutive year, the 6f maiden run at the Curragh on May 23 was won by Aidan O'Brien and Ryan Moore, with odds-on favourite Sergei Diaghilev producing a polished display to follow in...

The Timeform rankings return to highlight the top-rated maiden/novice winners in Britain and Ireland from the last fortnight, with a Richard Hannon-trained colt from York's Dante Festival leading the way.  =3. BARROW BOY (IRE) Bayside Boy (Ire) - Illumined (Ire), by Sea The Moon (Ger) Timeform performance rating: 92 Trained by Gavin Cromwell, Barrow Boy was a dominant winner of the near-6f maiden run at Navan on May 16, fully confirming the promise of last month's debut when he chased home Tribeca (Blue Point) over the same course and distance....

Timeform have revealed that the victory of Constitution River in Thursday's Listed Dee Stakes at Chester ranks as one of the very best performances in a classic trial for many a year, with the son of Wootton Bassett earning a rating of 124p. The withdrawal of second favourite Morshdi left Constitution River to go off at odds of 2/9, the sort of price that suggested we wouldn't learn much. However, such fears proved completely wide of the mark as the Ballydoyle runner dismissed his four rivals by seven lengths, with...

The latest rankings are dominated by Amo Racing, with Kia Joorabchian's operation being responsible for three of the five top-rated maiden/novice winners in Britain and Ireland last week. 5. HICKORY LAD (IRE) James Garfield (Ire) - Park Glen (Ire), by Tagula (Ire) Timeform performance rating: 89 Runner-up in the Lily Agnes on the opening day of Chester's May Festival, Hickory Lad was reappearing there just seven days after getting off the mark at Musselburgh on April 29. Facing only two rivals in that 5f novice, he was sent off the...

The pick of last week's maiden/novice winners sported the familiar purple silks of Amo Racing, bringing to an end the Ballydoyle domination of what is always an informative contest at Navan. =4. FINAL APPEAL (IRE) Inns Of Court (Ire) - Olive Branch (Ire), by Arcano (Ire) Timeform performance rating: 82 Following a narrow defeat at Nottingham on April 8, Final Appeal fully confirmed the promise of that debut effort when going one place better in the 5f novice run at Wolverhampton on April 21, making all to win by over...

It's all change at the top of Timeform's two-year-old rankings, with two new winners from last week finding a place in the top three, including the first 'TDN Rising Star' in this division of 2026. 5. BLESSED VOYAGER (IRE) Bayside Boy (Ire) - Elysium (Ire), by Belardo (Ire) Timeform performance rating: 81 The G1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes hero Bayside Boy was represented by his first winner when Blessed Voyager edged to victory in the 5f maiden run at Newbury on April 17. Described by Timeform as "one of the...

The pick of the maiden/novice winners last week came in unlikely surroundings at Thirsk, with a colt trained by Kevin Ryan taking top billing ahead of a Ballydoyle blueblood. 5. ROTELLE (GB) Showcasing (GB) - The Wagon Wheel (Ire), by Acclamation (GB) Timeform performance rating: 79 There was a blanket finish to the 5f novice run at Nottingham on April 8, with the Charlie Fellowes-trained Rotelle staying on best of all to get the verdict by a neck. In truth, it's unlikely to prove the strongest form, but there was...

Consider this new series your one-stop shop to catch up with the best of the two-year-old action in Britain and Ireland, every week between now and the end of the turf season. Using performance ratings kindly provided by my old muckers at Timeform, we'll be ranking the five maiden/novice winners from the previous week's racing who most impressed the form experts, identifying horses early on in their careers with the potential to go on to bigger and better things. In this first instalment, we'll summarise the early frontrunners in this...

The victory of Daryz (Sea The Stars) in the G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at ParisLongchamp has been rated as the best performance in Europe this season by the experts at Timeform. In inflicting a first defeat this season on Minnie Hauk (Frankel), with the pair well clear of the remainder, Daryz achieved a Timeform rating of 131 (from 122p), passing the benchmark of 130 for top-class form. Timeform's European rankings had previously been headed by Ombudsman (Night Of Thunder) and Field Of Gold (Kingman) on 130. Hong Kong...

Thursday's G2 Dante Stakes hero Pride Of Arras (New Bay) has improved to a Timeform rating of 119p after his performance at York. The rating is the highest given to any of the winners of the middle-distance Classic trials this spring. Topping all 3-year-olds via rankings is G1 2000 Guineas hero Ruling Court (Justify) at 123. G3 Acomb Stakes victor and Dante favourite The Lion In Winter (Sea The Stars) is third at 118+. Leopardstown's G3 Derby Trial Stakes winner Delacroix (Dubawi) and G1 Futurity Trophy Stakes scorer Hotazhell (Too...

Group 1 winner Al Riffa (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), a two-time winner at the highest level, leads the 16-strong G1 Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe field by Timeform ratings at 125, the company announced on Friday. Trained by Joseph O'Brien, the 4-year-old is rated four pounds inferior to Calandagan (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}), who finished second to Al Riffa's third behind City Of Troy in the G1 Eclipse earlier this season. Another rated higher is Goliath (Ger) (Adlerflug {Ger}), who is two pounds above the G1 National Stakes and G1...