YOU know that William Haggas loves to have winners at York, especially at the Ebor meeting, but that doesn’t mean that he always will. Just like, when a football team needs to win to avoid relegation, it doesn’t necessarily follow that they will.

Last week, however, Haggas’ team was on fire.

He had two runners on the first day of the meeting, Recorder and Storm The Stars, and they won the Acomb Stakes and the Great Voltigeur Stakes respectively. He had three runners on the second day, and two of them won.

Unsurprisingly, he couldn’t maintain the same strike rate through the week, but he had several horses run well in defeat, including Hathal and Mutakkayef and Raucous, and Ajaya ran out an impressive winner of the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes.

It has been a fine season so far for Haggas, with top class performers like Adaay and Storm The Stars and Besharah and Muthmir and Recorder and Tasleet in his ranks. And there is qualtity there as well as quantity. Some 74 wins so far, and he is on track to surpass last season’s best ever 113.