No Dice

Nothing from my three runners with varying degrees of satisfaction from the runs. Nicky Nutjob ran reasonably well – he finished fourth having had a difficult passage.  He looks as if he’ll be better for further, although that won’t be available to him this year.  He’s entered in the sales and we’d normally just take what we get, but I’m …

Nicky Bea and Betty

Well enough of all this financial meltdown chit chat and on to the important things in life.  Three runners today – Nicky Nutjob and Bet Noir go at Ponty and Bea Menace goes at Warwick. Nicky is a perfectly decent racehorse but I don’t think he’ll make up into much of a 2 year old.  He’ll run respectably today though …

You ain’t seen nothin yet

I’m slightly off horses at the moment because I’ve been watching the situation in the financial markets and trying to get my head around what is going on.  It hasn’t affected me much to date, at least on the face of it, although there will be plenty of knock on effects.  Some thoughts then from my recent reading; I read …

Longshot

More disappointment on Saturday with Winker running no sort of race.  In many respects it was a run that was too bad to be true – he was being niggled to go the pace almost from the start and we knew our fate before the half way point.  I think the will is still there but he’s not moving like …