40 years experience put into a daily diary of the 2025 flat season updated before racing.

Yarmouth has been the venue for many leading Somerville Lodge 2yo’s to learn about racing especially In the Autumn months. The win strike rate in the last 10 years is 50% with 2yo’s running at Yarmouth sent off 1,2,3 in…

The weekend once again added to the roller coaster season where once again ‘expect the unexpected’ was the rule. As Haggas himself inferred it was almost impossible that all the jockeys in the Balmoral Handicap would come across the the…

Division ran far too freely and showed every sign that the one concern of the race coming soon after York unfortunately proved to be the case. The poor run of horses from the yard on the International stage this month…

An extra look at the 4.40  given Somerville Lodge runs two Crown of Oaks and Godwinson.  Both are drawn high if that appears to be favoured in the earlier races or has equal chance don’t dismiss Godwinson whose last couple…

Good ground and a day of intrigue and expectation for Somerville Lodge as the curtain comes down on a roller coaster season. The brilliance of the training methodology has again shone through with horses making phenomenal improvement alongside frustration with…

The Haggas yard have had a fantastic Autumn at Haydock Park and it should get even better on Friday. There seems no reason why both Eternal Force and Kinswoman will not collect in the 15.05 and 16.50 on Friday. The…

There is no escaping the fact that over the last 7 days when faced with a clear choice of Yes or No to back horses from the yards running to improve their ratings for the purpose of the Autumn Horses…

Seven months ago Alobayyah was nominated as one of Tom Marquand’s five to follow with the hope that she would develop into a Group 1 Oaks filly. Now in the middle of October she heads to Newcastle to contest a…

Why does the Haggas yard target Selling races ? I have no idea. The stats leave me in no doubt that they do and added to the yards record at Musselburgh generally and even more so with 2yo’s then Fine…

The way we set out to make a profit leaves missing winners that mostly follow the process, without a bet, with a worse feeling than backing losers. There has really only been one occasion before York on Friday and Saturday…