Author: Russ

It’s been a frustrating period for the Haggas yard since the victory of Merchant . It was summed up yesterday by our first bet of the week on Cairdeas. Normally a hold up horse he burst out of the stalls and charged through the first 2f losing any chance of victory . Friday and Saturday…

.  Thursday’s action sees a plethora of unraced William Haggas based horses making their racecourse debuts.  As you all know it will be wait, watch and note for the future on all of them irrespective of any market support .  The horse’s concerned are :  Sing the Blues 3.02 Yarmouth  Perfect Ruler 3.10 Haydock Concert…

There are two entries for the yard on Wednesday – First up is First Principle in the 2.33 Thirsk, who got loose before his intended first run of the season at Newmarket. Not ideal, but hopefully the experience has taken the edge off him and he really should win this en route to better things.…

The Haggas team had one winner and three seconds from their 6 runners on Monday. Our decision to wait for later in the week was correct. Any of you following the analyses were rewarded with 2 horses that beat the Haggas handicappers with Grand Karat backed from 10/1 into 7/2 beating the heavily backed Elmonjed…

The Haggas team are in excellent form and running to expectations and when not, for predictable reasons ( Lake Forest ). The first week in July will be fairly quiet in the build up to Eclipse weekend and then The Newmarket July meeting and the Magnet Cup card at York next week. However there are…

Another month of profit , huge market movers but ultimately the bit of luck you need to make big profits wasn’t with us but the wheel of fortune is always moving and i am sure it will move in our favour in July From the 49 bets there were only 3 or 4 that i…

The 2.45 Windsor Head Scratcher. I did say there would be fun and games in this race and they have begun. The Gosden trained initial favourite Antrim is a non runner and Tenability and Magic Star both trained by William Haggas were heavily cut in the markets to a point where both were jt even…

Saturdays recently have been agonising apart from Kisskodi a couple of weeks back getting the race in the Stewards room , we have had Term of Endearment, Regalian and then last week at Ascot More Thunder, denied victory by the narrowest of margins, and Archivist our bet of the week at Royal Ascot balloted out…

I will deal with a couple of the Saturday early price markets on the TV races at York on Saturday before moving onto Friday. Bookmakers basically are scared silly of William Haggas when he sends improving classy runners to the Knavesmire but they have waved the white flag early on Saturday, pricing up Archivist at…

Our latest bet on Wednesday was smashed in the market as usual but unfortunately Kodi Lion ran more like Kodi Dog putting his head in the air as soon as pressure was applied. He is a horse to forget. With 15 meetings over the next three days plus the 3 day Irish Derby meeting at…