Friday Racing Results 16 October 2026: Shoemark and Walker Strike Before Ascot

Matching Friday's winners against the declared runners on Saturday's Ascot racecard gives the short list below. Everything here is who won on Friday and what they ride or run on Saturday; none of it is a selection.

Kieran Shoemark and Ed Walker

Shoemark has three rides at Ascot. He partners Quickthorn for Hughie Morrison in the Long Distance Cup at 1:30pm, then Walker's pair: Ten Bob Tony in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at 3:20pm and Almaqam in the six-runner Champion Stakes at 4:00pm. Ten Bob Tony is a course-and-distance winner with an official rating of 121; Almaqam is rated 124. Walker also runs Torito in the Balmoral Handicap at 4:35pm under James Doyle, and has Arctic Thunder listed as a reserve for that race. Friday's two winners came in a nursery and a three-runner maiden, a long way below Group 1 level, but they were the stable's only two runners on Friday and both won.

Cieren Fallon

Fallon's treble all came at Redcar on good ground, and the three wins came at very different prices. Extragalactic (2/9) won the 1:22pm novice stakes for Haggas by half a length from a 40/1 outsider. Cavan Lady (13/2), trained by S Hanlon, won the 3:04pm nursery by a narrow margin and had been top-rated on the morning's StableBet Ratings. Wodao (22/1), trained by Steph Hollinshead, won the 4:14pm sprint handicap by two and a quarter lengths. At Ascot, Fallon rides three for Haggas: Binhareer in the Sprint (first-time cheekpieces, and back out seven days after the previous run), Needle Match in the QEII and Bullet Point in the Balmoral.

Colin Keane

Keane won the 7:30pm handicap at Dundalk on Ocean's Breath (2/1 favourite) for G M Lyons, then the 8:31pm on Hygge (13/2) for G Elliott by two and three-quarter lengths. His Saturday book is the busiest of the three: Amelia Earhart for Aidan O'Brien in the Long Distance Cup, Kalpana for Andrew Balding in the Fillies & Mares, Hawk Mountain for O'Brien in the QEII and Excellent Believe for Stephen Thorne in the Balmoral.

Others with a Friday winner and a Saturday runner

Oisin Murphy won the opening race at Haydock, the 1:42pm maiden, on Arthurian (2/7) for Andrew Balding by half a length. He has five Ascot rides: Caballo de Mar, Marvelman, Believed, Bay City Roller and Mister Winston, the second and last of those for Balding. Rowan Scott won the 2:17pm handicap at Haydock on Viper for Brian Ellison and rides Poatan for George Scott in the Sprint. K R Burke saddled Urchin to win the 5:37pm staying handicap at Haydock by ten lengths and runs Zeus Olympios in the QEII and Soul Love in the Sprint.

Times below are UK time. Prices are starting prices (SP).

Haydock Park (heavy, eight races)

Several races were won by wide margins on the heavy ground. Urchin (10/3) won the 5:37pm staying handicap over a mile and six furlongs by ten lengths, with the 6/5 favourite Yaa Min last of the five runners. Faith In Florence's seven-length win came in a three-runner race, and Irish Nectar (7/4 favourite) won the 5:09pm sprint handicap for M Herrington and Dylan Hogan by three lengths. The two divisions of the seven-furlong handicap both went to the horse top-rated on the morning's StableBet Ratings: Viper (11/2) for Brian Ellison at 2:17pm and Maximising (11/2) for K P De Foy at 2:52pm. Proof (12/1) won the 14-runner five-furlong handicap at 4:38pm for C Hills and Mark Winn, with the 10/3 favourite Eye Of Dubai tenth. Three of the eight favourites won.

Redcar (good, eight races)

Fallon's treble was the main story, with the 4:51pm handicap close behind. Uncertainty (40/1) won that 18-runner race for S Whitaker and Barry McHugh from stall one, beating the 7/2 favourite Kiss Me My Love by the smallest margin of the day at the course. The horse top-rated that morning, Highfield Viking, finished 16th. Earlier, Unicorn Milkshake (11/2) won the second division of the novice stakes by seven lengths for Ellison and K Stott, with the 4/6 favourite My Girl Dee Mo third. Trapped Goddess (6/4 favourite) won the fillies' novice for H Palmer and David Probert, Sergeant Mayer (9/2) took the 3:39pm sprint for N Tinkler and Faye McManoman, and Sweet Kiss (10/3 favourite) won the closing amateur riders' handicap for T D Easterby and Miss Amy Collier.

Newcastle (standard, nine races)

Favourites had a poor day on the all-weather: only Qila (13/8) won, at 5:22pm for Ellison and Harry Russell, which completed the trainer's treble across three courses. Jack Callan rode a double, on Patrol (11/2) for Dylan Cunha at 4:44pm and Nepal (18/1) for I Furtado at 6:17pm, the second from stall one. The other winners came at a range of prices: Farabove The Limit (3/1), Kaleido (15/8) in the seller for D O'Meara, Emerald Harmony (12/1), Cavallo Pazzo (13/2), Clasina (12/1), who beat the 6/5 favourite Lanarra, and Tommie's Angel (14/1) for R Menzies in the 8:16pm finale.

Dundalk (standard, eight races)

Billy Lee rode three winners from six rides: Heart Of You (16/1) for K J Condon in the 6:00pm nursery, where the 3/1 favourite This That finished tenth, Sedro Woolley (11/2) for W McCreery at 6:30pm, and Enchanted Lady (11/2) for A Oliver at 8:00pm. Keane's double came from seven rides. The first two races went to the favourite and top-rated runner: Tyson Fury (9/4) in the apprentice race and Firewalker (15/8) in the maiden. Jazzit (11/2) won the 7:00pm handicap by the smallest margin on the card from Boston Max, the morning's top-rated runner.

Uttoxeter (good, seven races)

Lunar Trix (11/8 favourite) won the opening novices' hurdle by 12 lengths for S Edmunds and Charlie Hammond. Slaney Opera (12/1) won the three-mile handicap chase for J S Wainwright and Jamie Hamilton, with both joint-favourites out of the places. Folie Golith (7/4) beat the 5/4 favourite Getawhisky by seven lengths in a three-runner mares' chase, Seamoon Story (4/1) won the Class 2 handicap hurdle for C E Longsdon, and Bleu D'enfer (11/4) won for D McCain Jnr. In the 4:22pm handicap hurdle, won by Bryson (11/2), the favourite Uhtred Ragnarson refused to race and the top-rated Zenato was pulled up. Passing Chance (14/1) beat the 4/9 favourite Madam Speaker, who was third, in the closing mares' bumper.

The SP favourite, or one of the joint-favourites, won 11 of the 40 races. Only one race had joint-favourites (the 2:02pm chase at Uttoxeter) and neither of them won, so the count is the same however joint-favourites are treated. By meeting, favourites won three at Haydock, three at Redcar, three at Dundalk, one at Newcastle and one at Uttoxeter.

The horse top-rated on the morning's StableBet Ratings also won 11 races, out of the 39 that had ratings; the Uttoxeter bumper had none. In five races two horses shared the top rating, and one of those, Firewalker at Dundalk, won; it is counted as a win here, so the stricter figure is 10. In six races the top-rated horse and the favourite were the same and won. The rating's top pick won five races where it was not the favourite (Viper, Maximising, Kaleido, Cavan Lady and Sergeant Mayer), and the favourite won five where the rating preferred something else. Uttoxeter was the weak spot: none of the six rated jumps races went to the top-rated horse.

Treat all of this as one day's numbers. Thirty-nine races is far too few to say whether a rating is any good, and Friday's split could easily reverse on Saturday. The StableBet Rating's live test is pre-registered and read over a much larger sample, and the running record, wins and losses together, is on the AI race predictor track record. Nothing on this page suggests a way to make money from the ratings or from favourites.

Saturday's card at Ascot has five Group 1 races and the Balmoral Handicap, starting with the Long Distance Cup at 1:30pm. The British Champions Day festival hub has the race-by-race guide, and our British Champions Day tips look at what has won the Champion Stakes and the QEII in past years. The StableBet Ratings for the Ascot card publish on the morning of the meeting.