Racetrack Wiseguy

 We landed the nap, at least, here on Saturday. If you do nothing else, it's best to do that. At Plumpton yesterday I led everywhere except where it mattered but, undaunted and with ammunition in the account to go with, this is the time of year to be involved and some of these little midweek meetings are the bread and butter jobs worth looking at.

It was one of Gary Moore's than did me on the line at Plumpton and then he had another winner. He is generally one to keep on the right side of at Plumpton and Fontwell and so we'll be having at look at Givega (Fontwell, 1.12) when Mr. Joe Coral chalks his prices up.

Mr. Henderson sends a few to Worcester and while we will expect Fuji Rocks to improve for his first run, Morning Line (2.40) looks like one we can take an interest in here and 'going forward' and then You Wear It Well (3.45), which was one of the more likely prospects suggested by my very unscientific 'pop music theory' when I had a rare bet at Catterick last time out.

We will have to see how they price them up but 7/4 about each of them, they look like the ingredients of a trixie, one of the Professor's favourite recipes, the three doubles and the treble. These are fairly confident selections but I've been confident before and regretted it so there will be plenty left in the account even if nothing comes of it as long as we don't have an irresponsible plunge in a wildly optimistic hope of 'growth'. One tends to stick with a proven strategy. 

In a fine valedictory essay in the last issue of The Rambler, Dr. Johnson writes,

I have seen the meteors of fashion rise and fall,

while hoping that he has left behind something of worth.

Translating that into horse racing investments, it means one has seen big, noisy gamblers come and go but, having been quieter and more considered about it, one has outlasted them and is still getting by,

A little old fashioned but that's all right.