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The stats for Somerville Lodge at the Newcastle Northumberland Plate meeting provide highly creditable reasons for following the Haggas runners entered across the 3 day fixture. As with most of the big meetings, 2026 sees an increased interest by Haggas…

We correctly assessed the limited prospects of Creative Queen at Newbury on Tuesday when she was put in as 5/2 market leader. The dramatic drift out to 11/2 on the off was more reflective of her chances but she never…

The Newbury card on Tuesday appears to be going ahead despite the hot weather warning and provides William Haggas followers with an opportunity to back a well bred expensive Wathnan purchase in a Class 5 handicap off a mark of…

Royal Ascot 2026. The build-up to the meeting generated a greater sense of anticipation than usual. Bookmakers applied the ‘Haggas tax’ early, while Racing Post Pricewise tipster Tom Segal advised punters behind the paywall to snap up the 66/1 on offer for…

Had you offered William Haggas at the start of the day Almeraq as the winner of the Group 1 Jubilee Stakes at 28/1 would be his only success from 13 runners he would have snapped your hand off even though…

The Haggas horses continued to run to peak form on Friday. Division ran a great race finishing 3rd in the Commonwealth Cup, thankfully with a view to Saturday, partially dispelling the high draw bias. His habit of being slowly away…

Thursday was a very good day with our only bet Earth Shot landing the Ribblesdale and our suspicion that Morshdi had gone backwards was unfortunately for connections correct. Hopefully some of you followed the tip I passed on for Moonfall…

Buoyed by the first win of the meeting on Wednesday, Thursday will be the quietest day at Ascot this week for the Haggas team with only two runners declared. In the Ribblesdale Stakes at 4.20 Earth Shot faces 11 rivals…

Day 4 of Ascot and it is true to say the results for most of the first couple of days had been hard to take for Somerville Lodge followers. Scoville ran a huge race in the Hunt Cup and led…

Day 1 Summary Although More Thunder ran well its worth a comment that his conqueror Ten Bob Tony the surprise winner was beaten 17L by Lake Forest at Haydock. Clearly there is minimal relevance to the form of the Queen…