Tikka Masala ran a nice race yesterday finishing fifth in a moderate maiden. She was giving weight to all, she had the worst draw and the ground would have been on the soft side for her – fifth was very decent under the circumstances. She’ll be out again soon and I’d be hopeful of a better result. Last night was …
Hot Horse
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 again, and it’s looking …
Morgans and Goldmans
An incredible and historic day on Wall Street, with the Dow down close to 700 points moments after the open, rallying late to be 300 points up at one point before closing down 128. The trading range for the day was over 1,000 points, which is unprecedented. All things considered it was a pretty good performance, and I sense we’re …
Ugh
More carnage in the markets tonight with the Dow losing 7% of its value in the afternoon session. None of this is reflected in the UK, and currently the FTSE is trading 5% down off market. It’s very grim, and it’s anyone’s guess when it’s going to stop. Many years back (it feels like a lifetime ago) I was a trader …
Quick update
I’ll be brief today as I’ve got no time. Skid Solo goes at Newbury – he’ll run a very good race. It looks a pretty decent race which will take some winning – I think he’s a worthy favourite and he could be worth a bet, but I won’t be lumping on. Tom runs Noverre to Go earlier and he …
Move over darling
The markets are grim this morning – Alistair Darling perhaps predictably has failed to calm the storm. I have a lot of sympathy for his approach – he’s been panned for taking too long to make up his mind but he needed time to assess the situation properly. Almost all of the journalistic comment I’ve read so far has been negative …
No Dice
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 we get, but I’m …
Nicky Bea and Betty
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 run respectably today though …
You ain’t seen nothin yet
I’m slightly off horses at the moment because I’ve been watching the situation in the financial markets and trying to get my head around what is going on. It hasn’t affected me much to date, at least on the face of it, although there will be plenty of knock on effects. Some thoughts then from my recent reading; I read …
Longshot
More disappointment on Saturday with Winker running no sort of race. In many respects it was a run that was too bad to be true – he was being niggled to go the pace almost from the start and we knew our fate before the half way point. I think the will is still there but he’s not moving like …