The Haggas yard continues to offer the best win to runs record at most tracks in the later months of summer and we have benefitted from those stats at Ripon, Windsor and Sandown in recent weeks.
You clearly can’t get better than a 100% record and that is what the yard has since 2002 sending their 2yo’s to the seaside course in August. They have been just 3 and the 4th goes to post in the 2.30 at Brighton on Friday in the shape of Magic Stone, who can make it 4 from 4.
A small field and drawn in 4 Marquand should be able to set the pace and then quicken as he hits the rising ground in the final 1f.
Two of the four rivals have similar ratings which should enable the price to hold up and i think he may well go off 2nd or 3rd favourite. The yards 2yo’s are still not really in full swing but its silly to ignore those stats , especially with improvement from the 2yo guaranteed.
Recommended Bet 1pt win Magic Stone 2.30 Brighton BoG estimate 9/4
In the 3.30 Another Abbot has a tricky draw in stall 2 as there is a lot of early pace on his inside and from 4 or 5 drawn wide who will cut across to the inside in the first half of the contest.
However, the yard won this race twice in 2023 and 2022 with horses held up off the pace – so Marquand will know what to do,
Another Abbot ran better last time out than it looked at Windsor as he chased a blistering pace set by Novamay. The gelding had previously landed a nice touch at 9/1 for us at Newmarket and he is still on a mark Haggas can exploit.
Since 2005 ( 20 years ) Haggas has sent 26 horses to the track in August 10 have won and 12 of the others have finished in the top 3 with 3 placed 4th and only one way back in 2004 out of the frame. With 11 runners some firms may offer 4 places and it is common sense to back him each way. He is a horse that has drifted in the market so it maybe best to wait for BoG in the morning but he should be 4/1-5/1 4 places.
1pt ew Another Abbot 3.30 Brighton.
In the 6.30 at Newmarket the superbly bred Crown Office is the mount of Ryan Moore but as with all Haggas trained debutants he is watching brief.
No Bet Recommended
The final runner on the day is Mukhatlif in the Haydock 6.50. This horse was thought to be a certainty at Windsor and we had a 3pt bet at 7/4 and he was backed into 4/7.
Then Windsor had a cloud burst and the ground deteriorated to Soft and he drifted markedly on the off back out to Evs.
It was easy to assume that was because of the ground but i didn’t like the way he didn’t finish off the race and his family although top class, has a history of throwing in bad runs. Oisin Murphy rides the possible favourite Respond who has ran to a mark of 80 but Mukhatlif is considered to be a 90+ horse.
It’s race not to bet until the market takes shape in the minutes before the off – so at this stage the 11/8 offered would be- No Bet Recommended
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