Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Horses And Dreams of Galveston

Cheltenham starts in about fourteen hours not that I'm counting or anything. The only tip I got so far is for Kempes in the first at half one or so. Cousin Vinny the favourite is reported not to be 100% so a few shekels will be invested in the ex flat horse who should have plenty toe for the normally helter skelter opener. Also the fact that the horse is named after a footballer helps even though same footballer deprived the poor Dutch in the '78 World Cup Final. The song for Cheltenham will be Wichita Lineman (or was it Rhinestone Cowboy, I always get the two horses mixed up) as Glenn Campbell was reported to be flown over by two millionaires as a horse with the same name as the song was running in the Bumper (National Hunt flat race). A week of cigarette butts and the hope that no one takes my thumbs stretches out ahead of me!


Just for the heck of it, i might as well post Galveston too, cracking anti-war tune.



8 comments:

Sleepy said...

Right, legging it to the Turf Accountant now!

Neil said...

I get the awful feeling that the tip is going to come back to haunt me!

Sleepy said...

9/1 at Ladbrookes!

Sleepy said...

Had Go Native!
It's a term my Grandfather used a lot!
Hardly a scientific method but it works for me.

Neil said...

And there I was with a ruler and measuring tape along with a calculator studying form and trends... Science sucks! Right from now on I'm only going to back horses with cool names

Sleepy said...

It's the only way to go!

Neil said...

Wichita Lineman just won!!!! Never backed it even after mentioning it in the post. I HATE irony

Neil said...

So thats what irony looked liked!!