A quite incredible day in the financial markets today. Massive gains around the world were topped off with an almost unbelievable rise of 936 points on the Dow Jones - a move nearly twice as big as the previous all time high move of 499.
It’s the sort of fillip the financial world needed to get moving [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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I spoke to a friend in the financial markets this morning - he said “these are the days when you keep the papers for posterity”. We’ve had plenty of supposed crashes in the twenty five years he’d been in the city for, but nothing to match the events of recent days.  Lehmans gone, Merrill Lynch and Halifax [...]
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I read the piece on Tom Dascombe in the RP today, and the fact that he has closed his stable for a while. Obviously I’ve known about it for a few days - some of Tom’s horses have been running terribly, and on a number of occasions horses that were expected to go well came stone [...]
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Ugh. My hopes and dreams from Friday lie crushed and broken.
Marine Boy’s run was too bad to be true. He’s a lot better than that - in a sense I’d have been more concerned if he’d been beaten a couple of lengths. He scoped clean after the race and he trotted up fine - we [...]
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I travelled up to Newmarket late on Monday night with Mick and we checked into a hotel. In the morning I went down to watch work with Pete.
Winker was out first lot. He worked extremely well without seeming to extend himself - Pete thought it was there or thereabouts his nicest piece of work this [...]
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A debutante from a new trainer for me today as Bet Noir comes out in the 2:20 at Donny.  She is owned by a syndicate made up of members of the Betfair senior management - I have 1/4 of her. Walter has said from the start that she is a backward type and is unlikely to win [...]
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Posted in Bet Noir on Mar 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
(unnamed) by Kings Best | Trainer: WALTER SWINBURN
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