I’m not right at the moment - I’ve had a headache for about ten days and I’ve got blood in my nose. Today is the first time in a while that I’ve felt properly human, although the headache is still just hanging in there - it started when I came off the beta-blockers. I need to get this sorted once and for all - I’m going to see a specialist next week.
I was in meetings all day yesterday - I can’t remember them as well as I should and I know I didn’t function well. In the days when I used to play bridge for a living I’d build up my cash when I felt well and blow it when the headaches came - it’s a bit like that now as I am completely irrational and tend to gamble my money away at a rate of knots when I have a headache.
I took my emails this morning - I have a huge list of unanswered emails that I’ll never get around to now. There were a couple about Paul Haigh and his apparent attack on the Racing Post through the Guardian. Haigh, their long time feature writer, called the RP a “cheerleading tip sheet”.
I don’t know Haigh well - I had a good chat with him years ago at York races but our paths haven’t crossed a lot since then. He does have history with BF though, notably in the forum. He made himself known to the forum a long time ago (chatname Zorro) but was soon getting into very aggressive exchanges with other forumites. I don’t remember the details but he turned the air blue one night and we had to ban him - from recollection he was banned on several occasions for language that was pretty choice.
I have to stick up for the RP here. I’ve enjoyed Haigh’s column more than any other in the paper but he seems like a pretty volatile guy and he must have been hard to handle.
Astrodome runs at Newbury today and he has a great chance. I’d prefer the distance to be a little further and the ground a little softer - I’m also concerned that there are no front runners, which may expose us to a faster smaller horse if the pace isn’t there. We may have to make the pace ourselves but we’d prefer not to. Despite all of these concerns I’ll be backing him - he’s a very decent horse and is one to follow.
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Good luck today Bert with Astrodome. The non runner has messed up the e/w bet on Astrodome so I have taken a bit of PP 5/4 in the betting w/o market as it looks between your horse and the Nicholls horse for the place.
You might have banned Haigh as Zorro, but I think you will find he is still around ( occasionally ) under another name. Still not very pleasant.
Haigh does not sound like the type of guy to invite to a Betfair do with drink involved and a good debate going on as i can imagine the galsses flying by the sound of his character.
M