Better Together (4 Yo) | Trainer: NICK GIFFORD
Posted in Berts Horses, Better Together, Ours on May 24th, 2008 21 Comments »
The Irish Guineas comes around, and Winker is still on the sidelines. I’d love him to be taking them on, but he’ll have to wait a little longer. On paper it’s a rematch between New Approach and HenrytheNavigator, but the Irish Guineas doesn’t always follow the script.
Last year the winners of the English Guineas, Cockney Rebel [...]
Posted in Berts Horses, Better Together, Big Paddy, Bouguereau, Effingham, Furtive Glance, Horse Racing, Lord Snooty, Mon Michel, Ours, Shawhill, Theophrastus, Winker Watson on Apr 10th, 2008 631 Comments »
It’s a big time of year as an owner, and there are highs and lows. Aintree was ultimately a real mix, and there was a lot of good and bad on Saturday. I didn’t go up as I was at AFC Wimbledon for a match that my wider family were sponsoring in memory of my great uncle, who [...]
Posted in Berts Horses, Better Together, Big Paddy, Bouguereau on Mar 21st, 2008 626 Comments »
A busy day yesterday. I’m still trying to name my 2yos after my last name (Ming Ming, apparently too like minger) was rebuffed last time.  I decided I liked “Killer Queen” for my Kyllachy and I called Pete - he liked it. I also told Tom Dascombe that I wanted to call my One Cool Cat colt [...]
Posted in Berts Horses, Better Together, Mon Michel, Ours on Dec 21st, 2007 10 Comments »
Day 2 of life outside of Betfair, and already bored and depressed - after years of being institutionalised within Betfair I feel lost and alone, like Brooks in the Shawshank Redemption. I’m contemplating carving my name on a rafter in my office and hanging myself with my Betfair tie. Goodbye cruel world.
But there’s no great rush as [...]
Posted in Berts Horses, Better Together, Horse Racing on Nov 14th, 2007 3 Comments »
Bert has been tied up with work and I was remiss in failing to flag up his runner at Kempton yesterday. However, since Better Together was tailed off and pulled up 2 out, this was perhaps no bad thing. Whilst expectations were limited in a decent race, it was undeniably a disappointing run. I wouldn’t [...]
Posted in Berts Horses, Better Together, Big Paddy, Horse Racing, Ours, Theophrastus on Oct 18th, 2007 301 Comments »
I visited Nick Gifford€™s yard in Findon on Wednesday morning to catch up with news of the four horses owned by the Core Strength syndicate of which Bert forms a third. The horses are all five year old geldings who were selected with a long term perspective and there has been little racecourse action from [...]
Posted in Better Together on Mar 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
(4 Yo) | Trainer: NICK GIFFORD
