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I have for many years questioned the validity of the heavy early market support given to Haggas trained horses. There have been significant price reductions on 4 of the 5 runners at Newbury. Punters are supposedly keeping the faith in the Somerville Lodge team inspite of the stark reality of the yards performance this month…

With fast ground continuing until next week their remains a cautionary approach to betting this weekend with the exception of the already advised More Thunder who has been confirmed as our next 3pt Bet at Deauville on Sunday in the Group 1 Prix Jacques Le Marois. All the main protagonists have been declared including Thesecretadvisor…

Six runners spread across 4 meetings on Friday and although an ease in temperatures is forecast the firm ground persists and it will be tough going for a majority of the Somerville Lodge representatives. The exception will be Matins who races in a match in the 2.03 at Yarmouth he will be in the region…

There have been few horses in recent memory housed at Somerville Lodge that have stirred the emotions quite like More Thunder. Since he was transferred from the retiring Sir Michael Stoute yard as a potential Class 2 10f four-year-old handicapper, it is fair to say his career has been a tempestuous series of highs and…

On Tuesday Guesstimate outran her odds at Lingfield Park finishing 2nd at 8/1 after being available at 11/1 an hour before the off. The deep surface at Lingfield played to her strengths and she gave every indication that upped to 12f or further on a surface with some cut she may well improve enough to…

Since the 1st July a win strike rate of 14.8% for Somerville Lodge, considerably less than half than what normally would be expected, in a nutshell explains why betting for profit on horses from the yard based on historic trends and patterns has become impossible this summer. 39 have been sent off as the market…

With the increase in the number of older horses kept in training the least expected outcome from this season was a sharp decline in the winners sent out from Somerville Lodge. The stark reality is that at this point of the season in 2025 the 100th winner had just been posted – in the current…

There is no hiding from the fact that the Somerville Lodge record since July has to go down as the worse in recent memory. Most of the horses are not running to peak levels. It is highlighted by the comparison of the older handicappers that have a record of 1-16 from the 01 July this…

Saturday started off in a manner that sums up the Somerville Lodge season so far.Tenability smashed in the market from 3/1 to 6/4 was held up at the back of the field off a very slow pace in the Group 3 at Deauville and although running his usual courageous race couldn’t peg back the 18/1…

The summer of 2026 will go down as being hot for many reasons; the form of the Somerville Lodge team is certainly not one of them. Somerville Lodge runners invariably attract significant support; therefore, a review of those sent off as market leaders provides an accurate guide to the stable’s form. Throughout June, July, and…