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It is no good hiding from the fact that weakness in the market surrounding a William Haggas horse is rarely a good sign . Occasionally an early morning drift occurs followed by strong support but that is usually when the…

William Haggas sends out a big squad on Saturday but presents punters with a real poser at Goodwood running both Al Aasy and Opportunity in the Group 3 Glorious Stakes at 2.25. Al Aasy is bidding for a hat-trick of…

The retention policy for keeping more older horses ( 4yo+) in training at Somerville Lodge this season shows a slight drop in overall strike rate, it is delivering superior quality where it matters most in Class 1 races (Listed and…

Goodwood Day 1 and 2 has been exactly what was ordered. Lake Forest landing our biggest bet of the summer in the Lennox and Tom Marquand back on track getting the better of Oisin Murphy in a thrilling finish aboard…

Lake Forest won, but not as expected on Tuesday in the Lennox Stakes. Even though there appeared to be a conspiracy formed by Keane, Mcdonald, Lee and Shoemark to ride their horses not to best effect by setting slow fractionals,…

The incredulous victory of Almeraq at 28/1 in a fast ground Jubilee at Ascot and the gap that opened like the Red Sea in the final 100yds at Longchamp for Maltese Cross has provided Somerville Lodge with two incredible Group…

It maybe still early to state that the Somerville Lodge plan to retain additional older horses in training this year has backfired but the numbers and win strike rate do not at present read especially well. From 119 runners aged…

June and July have proven to be generally well below the high standards set by Somerville Lodge. Thankfully, resulting in only minor losses in our profit and loss account due to a massive cut back in the number of bets…

A couple of weeks ago we slightly ignored the Somerville Lodge historic trends across the Super Saturday weekend which suggested that possibly 5 winners from the 25 runners was the maximum expected. It turned out only 2 were recorded which…

With just over a week to go the Haggas yard is likely to set a record low for the month of July… The basis for a sole focus on Somerville Lodge for my betting purposes is because of the transparency…