Author: Russ

The Haggas yard appears to be focusing on Saturday at Newbury and then forward to York next week. On Thursday and Friday just two horses go to post on these shores and Chorus goes in search of black type at Cork over in Ireland on Thursday. The Group 3 contest at 7.22 has cut up…

Three runners from the Haggas yard on Wednesday including the very highly regarded Pearla who will be a short price to win at the 3rd time of asking in the 6.45 at Kempton. I also strongly fancied Ed Bethell’s A War Eagle in the 7.45, however on Monday the relaid surface baked by hot sun…

By far the best race during the early part of the week is the Class 3 1m1f handicap at Hamilton due off at 7.10 on Tuesday. It features the handicap debut of 2 very promising 3yo’s Noble Horizon from the Wlliiam Haggas yard and Danger Bay from the yard of Edward Bethell. Noble Horizon has…

In the Haydock 3.45 Hardys Hero will improve on his debut runner up placing at Newbury and he may well be an each way price. However, Karl Burke runs a very well bred newcomer and it is not advisable to take on his useful 2y’s on , even on debut and their appears to be…

Scoville is very inexperienced winning 2 races from 2 starts in low grade maidens in this country. On Sunday in the 4.15 at Deauville he is pitched straight into Group 3 company after his brilliant win at Newmarket last month. Unless he thought the 3yo was up to the task Haggas would not be running…

A quiet week so far where, as at 5.00pm Friday we have have hit a 100% strike rate 3 out of 3 with our Haggas bets, the only other two bets from outside yards were beaten but on all five we have easily bettered the SP. On Thursday Hornsea Bay ran really poorly in one…

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…

Our bet Wednesday was backed from 7/2 into 7/4 but there is always a risk on downhill tracks that they go off at a pace more suited to a 5f dash and when Ideal Guest refused to settle off that sort of speed – it was curtains. It will a long drive back to East…

The Horse Watchers team landed a huge gamble when Daniel Tudhope rode a brilliant race on Rhoscolyn to capture the Golden Mile at Goodwood last week. The team look set to strike again, this time in the Racing League with Hornsea Bay at Chepstow, sporting the green colours of Ireland the last race on the…

3 runners from the Haggas yard on Wednesday but firstly my attention was drawn earlier this week when I saw Harriet Bethell had entered a horse at Brighton. It will come as no surprise to followers of my interest in this yard as her win strike rate to runners and record of targeting specific races…