Today is Wednesday August 26, and yesterday's NAP delivered once again. Beorma won at Stratford, extending an extraordinary unbeaten run to eight straight victories. The case going into the race was built on class rather than value — a mare rated on merit at 114 off the back of six consecutive wins, backed by Dan Skelton's yard firing at 26% over the previous fortnight, with Harry Skelton booked to ride. At 1/2, the price left little room for return, and that was said plainly at the time: this was a NAP built on reliability, not a bargain.
The layoff and the weight were the two genuine question marks going in — 67 days off and 160lb to carry on her return. Neither mattered. A mare in this kind of form, from a yard sending out winners regularly, took both in her stride, and the market's confidence was entirely justified.
It is worth putting this run in context. Beorma's sequence began at the end of May off a modest official mark, and she has since risen more than 30 points in the ratings while alternating between hurdles and fences. Eight wins without defeat is a serious achievement in any code, and it is exactly the kind of story that data-led selection is built to catch early — a horse the ratings hadn't caught up with yet.
Today's selection is built using the same process regardless of yesterday's result: trainer form over the last 14 days rather than the season average, the gap between Racing Post Rating and official rating, going suitability, and course and distance form specifically. The NAP is published at 11am, before the market moves, with the full reasoning behind it visible alongside the pick.
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