Big Paddy (4 Yo) | Trainer: NICK GIFFORD
Posted in Berts Horses, Prince Ary, Big Paddy, Ours on May 14th, 2008 5 Comments »
Jane and I had an excellent day out on Monday when we had a tour of a couple of stud farms in the Newbury area.Â
We dropped the children off early and I gave the dog a quick walk. I’d ordered a driver for the day and we left home at around 9:30 - an hour later we […]
Posted in Berts Horses, Big Paddy, Ours, Kings Head, Effingham on Apr 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
I’ve had jumpers running over the last few days with no luck In truth it’s been a pretty disappointing jumps season - some fairly expensive purchases have run poorly, the only real high point having been Mon Michel winning a few months ago. I’m pretty happy with what I have for the flat this year though […]
Posted in Horse Racing, Berts Horses, Big Paddy, Ours on Apr 23rd, 2008 2 Comments »
Max One Two Three did an important piece of work this morning, and was scoped afterwards. She worked really nicely and scoped clean - we are now bang on for the 1,000. She will have one more piece of work early next week and that will be it. She is a very decent filly with a […]
Posted in Horse Racing, Berts Horses, Furtive Glance, Big Paddy, Better Together, Theophrastus, Ours, Mon Michel, Shawhill, Effingham, Bouguereau, Winker Watson, Lord Snooty on Apr 10th, 2008 6 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, Big Paddy, Better Together, Bouguereau on Mar 21st, 2008 7 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, Big Paddy, Ours on Feb 29th, 2008 6 Comments »
I’ve finally got myself sorted with a reliable internet connection, and I can get back to my blogging. It’s been a busy week.
Last week I finally moved into my farm - 330 acres in the rolling Surrey countryside.  Four woods making 55 acres, one decent sized lake, six ponds and a little brook running through the middle. They […]
Posted in Berts Horses, Big Paddy on Feb 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Not a great day Saturday for the Black family coffers, although I managed a little late damage limitation. The football wasn’t great either with Swindon losing 1-0, but my man at the game was reasonably positive about how we played.
Pete C-H runs two at Lingfield today, both trading at very short prices. As far as […]
Posted in Horse Racing, Berts Horses, Big Paddy, Better Together, Theophrastus, Ours on Oct 18th, 2007 3 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 Big Paddy on Mar 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
(4 Yo) | Trainer: NICK GIFFORD
