A big day for me tomorrow as I head off to Africa to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. I’ve been training for it for a long time now - working out every morning in the hills and every afternoon in the gym - but it hasn’t been until today that I’ve really felt the butterflies.
I should be confident about making it …
Jan 16th, 2011 by Bert
Time for my annual blog on the investment year in view.
Last year’s investments were pretty mixed. I gave three stock tips: PHRM are down 76%, HYR are down 34% and CCT are up 127%. Gold rallied throughout the year and is now 1370 from 1100 - oil trod water for the first half of the year but …
Jan 2nd, 2011 by Bert
I’ve got a touch of third-itis at the moment with Nemo Spirit and Wolf Slayer both filling the minor place. Nemo I was very happy with - he’ll do better over further on softer ground, and it was probably quite a hot novice. Wolf Slayer was a liottle disappointing - I think she ran into a tartar but …
Just a quick one today as I’m tight for time.
Nemo Spirit goes at Ffos Las - first time over hurdles and with Tim Vaughan now. Tim wasn’t over big on his chances - he said he hasnt shown a huge amount at home. This is probably not a problem - he never showed any talent at home for …
Dec 22nd, 2010 by Bert
I have a runner tonight - Cheddar George goes in the 6:55 at Kempton.
Last time he ran he came with a late run that looked as if it was going to get him there, but he stopped suddenly. As it happened he had burst a blood vessel - not a great sign but the first time he had done …
Dec 6th, 2010 by Bert
Last Thursday was a big night out in town. The evening kicked off well when Wolf Slayer finally broke her duck at Wolverhampton. I’d only realised she was running late on in the day and I was on the tube at the time of the race, but it was nice to see her finish one in front. …
Dec 2nd, 2010 by Bert
I bought a foal on Friday - by Nayef out of a Bahri mare called Patacake Patacake. She’s extremely well related - her three brothers to race all achieved black type and two of them had best Timeform ratings north of 110. Consistency is the thing for me - I think any mare can produce a group performer …
It’s been a busy week.
On Monday I had an early meeting with Simon McGivern, CEO of a company called Ila. I invested in them quite a while back and I hadn’t thought much of it - they had done well. Simon showed me their range of security products. They included a padlock with letter instead of …
Nov 22nd, 2010 by Bert
Another busy weekend behind me - my weekends are far more hectic than my weekdays now. On Saturday Jane was playing a prominent role at the school fair, which she always does - I was left to entertain the boys for the day and there was little time to follow the racing. We had a quiz in the …
Nov 20th, 2010 by Bert
Forgive me father for I have sinned - it’s been two weeks since my last confession… I’m on a diet at the moment and I’m tired all of the time - I’m well behind on emails and too sleepy to blog in the evening. Hopefully there will be longer term benefits. Winding back to Tuesday 9th;
We got …
