No good with Hope Road. Tom thought something was wrong at first, but he’s come away from the race fine and eaten up well. I think he just got bogged down in the ground – he’d run well on heavy on the flat but NH heavy can be a totally different proposition (or so I’m told). Decent racing today at Cheltenham and …
Here’s hoping
I’m slowly settling in to my new home life. The diet isn’t going that well (lost another 1lb) as Jane wants to wait until we move before we go full tilt, but I’ve really stepped up my excercise at the gym. One feature of life at home is the regular visits we get from one of the locals – he …
Ramblers anonymous
A poor post yesterday, I think largely failing to appreciate quite how desperate the ground was at Ascot. The main thing that’s absent from my analysis at the moment is quality research, largely because I don’t have the time to do it. Anyway onward and upward – a day off racing as Wolver didn’t inspire me today and I suspect I …
Short squeeze
I’ve been very busy this week and I’ve had no time for blogging. It’s all a bit odd – I’m not working any more but all of the time I’ve freed up has been filled and more. By the time I’ve fed and dropped of the children (leave at 7:30, hour round trip), been to the gym and walked the …
Time to say au revoir to one of the string
Regular readers may recall Bert posting that I would be making periodic contributions to his blog. I€™m writing now with an update regarding a filly called Etoile Argentee who Bert claimed out of a race at St Cloud as a three year old last May. Sadly, it will be the last update as she is being retired without ever reaching …
Case to be answered
First things first, and the diet’s going ok – 18st3 this morning. I’ve had a headache but nothing worse than that – I still haven’t worked out how I intend to do it, but the one thing I know I must do is break my sugar habit permanently. Thanks all for the encouraging comments. I’m having a fairly quiet patch …
Update
Paul Cole thinks Ollie Fliptrik will run ok but is an unlikely winner. Nick is positive about Ours – he’s fine in himself, he should get through the testing ground and we’re looking for a big run. Nick has two others today which will run ok and although either could win I don’t advise backing them. Mon Michel is in great form …
The GE plan diet
I weighed myself yesterday morning, and only two days into my diet I was down 7lb at 18st3. The gastroenteritis diet really works! Sadly this morning, my stomach having recovered, I was back up to 18st6 – still 4lb down but not the miracle I was looking for. On the subject of weight it was interesting to read the “Insight” piece …
HAPPY NEW YEAR
A new year dawns, and it’s going to be a very different one for me away from Betfair for the first time in over eight years. I’m struggling to find things to do at the moment, which is very different from having loads to do but not doing it. One thing I can do is concentrate on my new years resolution …
Ching ching
Phew. I decided that having not backed Shepherd’s Warning last time I’d have a proper go at her this time. She got home and she wasn’t claimed – a win double. The RP marked the run at 65, 3lb below her last run, commenting that she was “not exactly progressive”. Richard Kingscote told us that she was flicked in the …