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The brilliant victory of Maltese Cross in the Voltigeur on Day 1 at York has done much to clear away the gloom that has largely hung over Somerville Lodge for much of the summer. There seems little doubt that the…

Hope has returned, maybe dampened and still smoldering. High Degree was allowed to drift to 2.94 on the exchanges -his long overdue second success at least ended the weekend with a payout. The difficulty with backing the William Haggas trained…

There seems very little point to continue to look back over historic trends relating to Somerville Lodge. They have always been one of the foundations that provided successful betting opportunities backing horses trained at Somerville Lodge month in month out.…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…