August 2026 Monthly Results Summary

One Stop Racing monthly results summary for August 2026 — 29 racing days, 3rd–31st August. Every selection scored against the official finishing positions using the same rules as our daily results posts.

Headline Strike Rates

Lay Systems

Best Bets in Detail

Across the month the three headline Best Bets returned 14 winners and 43 placed runs from 80 selections — better than one placed run in every two.

NAP of the Day — 6 winners (22.2%), 59.3% placed

Feature Race — 5 winners (19.2%), 50.0% placed

Little Earner (EW) — 3 winners (11.1%), 51.9% placed

The Little Earner targets bigger prices — and it delivered the month’s three standout-priced winners:

Membership Highlights

Lucky 15 had a strong month — 28 winners and 63 placed runs from 99 selections (28.3% win, 63.6% placed), giving the four-selection multiple bet plenty of coverage across the returns.

ITV Racing was the month’s sharpest shortlist: 21 winners from 64 televised races (32.8%), with 56.3% of picks in the frame — roughly one winner in every three ITV races covered.

Predicted Winners — the engine’s top pick in every single race — landed 265 winners from 952 races (27.8%) with almost 60% placed, a consistent baseline underpinning the whole card.

Systems performed on both sides of the book: the win systems returned 98 winners from 390 runners (25.1%, 58.5% placed), while the lay systems were the standout at 94.6% — 383 winning lays against just 22 that won their race.

Systems Performance by Tier

Every win-system qualifier is graded by where its horse sits on the OSR ratings within its own race: the top-rated qualifier is Gold, the second Silver, the third Bronze, and everything below that Other. The dedicated lay systems are scored separately on the other side of the book.

The tiering does its job. Gold and Silver — the two highest-rated qualifiers in each race — are clearly the strongest, each winning around three runs in every ten (31.8% and 30.2%) and placing 64% and 71% of the time. Below them the strike rate falls away sharply: Bronze won just 10.7% and Other 18.4%, confirming that the higher a qualifier ranks on OSR within its race, the better it performs. Silver was the best of all for place backers at 71.4% in the frame.

On the lay side, the dedicated lay systems produced 383 winning lays from 405 runners — a 94.6% strike rate, with only 22 qualifiers going on to win their race.

OSR Methods — Consensus, 40+ and Possible Lays

Alongside the systems, OSR runs three signature methods that filter each card in a different way. The Consensus Method flags a horse that is outright top of every rating column (OSR, LR, HS and SR) in its race; The 40+ Method takes the clear OSR market leader, rated at least 40 points clear of the next-best runner; and Possible Lays are narrow-margin favourites on OSR (top-rated by five points or fewer), laid to lose.

The Possible Lays method is scored on the lay side of the book:

The 40+ Method was the month’s outstanding signal — when OSR rates a horse 40 or more points clear of the field it won 46.6% of the time (62 from 133) and placed in more than three-quarters of its runs. The Consensus Method, which demands agreement across all four rating columns, won a third of its races (32.9%) and was the sharpest for place backers at 74.7%. On the lay side, Possible Lays returned an 87.0% strike rate — 160 winning lays from 184 runners.

OSR Ratings — Top-Rated Coverage

This view ranks every runner by OSR rating and follows the top 3 in non-handicaps and top 4 in handicaps. It measures both how the individual top-rated picks performed and how often the eventual winner came from within that group. 1,030 settled races across the month.

In two out of every three races the actual winner was one of OSR’s top-rated runners — 66.3% in non-handicaps and 63.8% in the tougher, bigger-field handicaps. Over half of all top-rated picks finished in the frame (53.0%), and roughly one in five won outright.

Biggest-Priced Winners of the Month

Biggest-Priced ITV Winners

The televised card threw up some tasty prices among the winning selections:

Two 10/1 winners at York headed the ITV returns — The Lost King (20 Aug) and Daiquiri Bay (22 Aug) — followed by Woodstock at 17/2 at Ripon.

Biggest-Priced System Winners

The win systems landed their share of bigger-priced winners too:

Crown Board (7/1 at Ascot on 8 Aug) was both a televised and a system winner, while Runninsonofagun matched it at 7/1 at Musselburgh and Galyx went in at 13/2 at Beverley.

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