Rathdown Maggy runs at Star Pelaw tonight at 19:24 in an A5 race over 435m, and her composite score of 70 towers over every other dog in the field. The closest rival manages 51, and from there it slides to 42, 41, 34 and a low of 17. Gaps of that size are genuinely unusual — most competitive races sit within 15 to 20 points across the field. Tonight's opposition is not in her class on the ratings.
What backs the numbers up is the recent form. Two wins on the bounce from the same course: an A4 win on June 5 in 25.76 seconds, then an A2 victory on June 12 in 26.23 seconds at a harder grade. Running up into A2 company and still winning is exactly the kind of trajectory the model rewards. She is now stepping back down to A5, which means she has already demonstrated she can handle better rivals than she will face tonight.
Trainer G A Foot sends her out from trap 4, a decent enough draw at Star Pelaw 435m. Earlier in her recent form figures there are a few mid-field finishes, but those have been followed by consistent improvement across the last three or four starts. This is not one good run obscuring a patchy record — the upward movement has been sustained.
For anyone using the dog selector or building a kennel, Rathdown Maggy is the clearest selection of the day on current form and ratings.