Author: Russ

Somerville Lodge, as we predicted last weekend has had very little activity on the track this week and from an initial entry of four, just a single runner heads to post on Friday. Bintsaleh, having her third start is the mount of Tom Marquand in the 10f Novice Stakes the 4.10 at Sandown. She ran…

Whilst they is a natural desire to see Somerville Lodge start to hit its usual win to runner ratio’s, although there are plenty of entries across Thursday and Sunday this week, history and statistics suggest we may have to wait a little longer. There are 23 horses entered and of those 17 are maidens. Lets…

Needle Match may not even line up for the 2000 Guineas in just under two weeks, especially if the ground remains on the fast side of Good. However, as a son of Night Of Thunder out of an American Pharoah mare currently available at 100/1 after his eye-catching debut run in the Greenham, it won’t cost much to take a chance. The…

The various interviews with William Haggas in the last 14 days has relayed a combination of high expectation and frustration in equal measures. The results on the course have mirrored his comments with many of the horses running with great promise but equally very few entering the winners enclosure. Every one connected with the yard…

The drift on King of Earth out to 7/2 was too big to ignore – 1pt Bet win recommended. 3.45 Newbury.

On Friday at Thirsk we highlighted the danger of following supposed gambles on Somerville Lodge trained horses, typified by Scoville who was cut from 7/1 to 2/1 but was reported to be in need of the race beforehand and ran accordingly. There are two further cases already this week. In the Fillies maiden at Newmarket…

The start of the year judged by the bare results and low strike rate suggests all is not going to plan at Somerville Lodge. The topsy turvy performance levels continued over the weekend. There were three very encouraging runs from Bintsaleh, Waheedd and especially Arabian Force at Longchamp (unlucky not to win) but the horse…

Followers will know the key word at Somerville Lodge is patience – with horses in training at the yard given ample time to fulfill potential. The year on year success we achieve following the master trainer is based on folllowing clear patterns that have been developed over 30 years plus, but also being able to…

One of the big advantages of micro following one big yard is the knowledge we have gained to spot big market moves that simply make no sense, given the information available before the race. One obvious example was Scoville at Thirsk on Friday. Highly talented but refusing to settle both in preliminaries and in his…