Bert’s Horseracing Blog

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 …

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 …

It was a busy weekend. Saturday was our big fireworks night - living on a farm with a lot of building work going on we are an obvious choice to host and we do it every year. We’d been building up the bonfire for a while now, and it was fully 12 feet high built mostly of used …

Annoying on Wednesday as Cheddar George burst a blood vessel in his run and finished with blood pouring from his nose. He was held up pretty much in last place when Holland asked him for his effort in the straight. He was making rapid headway when he came to a sudden halt - I had guessed what had …

A disappointing weekend with Whey Sauce well beaten in her attempt to get black type. Her work at home suggests she’s better than that, but there’s no hurry with her - she’ll be a different proposition next year. A shame nevertheless. Western Eyes ran a moderate race at Wolverhampton finishing fifth at 33-1. She may yet …

Sunday Bess lost out in her maiden by a nostril. It was annoying as I’d had a bet, but I was hoist by my own petard. I have a policy with 2yos that I don’t like them hit on their first run - Richard gave Bess one small crack of the whip but didn’t want to hit her …

I was woken up early this morning by a lot of excited hollering. It transpired that after a week of waiting Eddie’s front tooth had finally come out - he had put it under his pillow in the middle of the night but the tooth fairy hadn’t come. Jane explained that the tooth fairy comes around quite early …

Things are looking up. Whey Sauce ran an excellent race on Friday, finishing well beaten in fourth but comfortably ahead of the rest of the field and showing the ability in the race that she had shown on the gallops. She got to the front too soon - Jack had hoped to keep her covered up but she …

The sales have been disappointing to date. The one yearling I put up to sell, my Byron out of Veiled Beauty, did not make her reserve and I got her back. I got a few people to look at her - one of her feet turns in a little, and this was the main objection, but also she …

A long week. Leaving aside the fact that Betfair is finally floating after a ten year slog I’ve had plenty of horse action going on.

On Monday Jane and I went to Normans Court stud where they were having a stallion parade. Winker was on show - it was nice to see him and I couldn’t believe how he …