When a trainer is winning 39% of their races over a three-month window, you sit up and take notice. M A Wallis has done exactly that, sending out 30 winners from 77 runners — a strike rate that puts most open-race operations to shame. Add in a 13% place rate on top and you're looking at a combined win-and-place conversion of 52%, meaning more than half of every runner from this yard is hitting the frame. Those are exceptional numbers by any measure.
What makes Wallis's form so impressive is the consistency. This isn't a case of a couple of lucky weekends inflating the figures — 77 runners across three months represents a steady stream of entries, and the yard is clearly placing its dogs with precision. Finding races where their runners are competitive rather than just making up the numbers is a skill in itself, and the results speak for themselves.
Today, Wallis sends four runners to Towcester, all over the 500-metre trip, and all in Open Race company. Newinn Deejay runs from trap six in the 19:58 OR2, Proper Heiress takes trap one in the 20:18 OR1, Strike It Skye draws trap two in the 21:18 OR1, and Rackethall Brute lines up from trap four in the 21:38 OR2. Four runners at one venue over one evening suggests the trainer knows this track well and has targeted it deliberately.
With form like this behind the kennel, each of these runners deserves a second look on the card. The raw numbers say that roughly two of these four should be expected to finish in the first two — and on current form, that might even be conservative.