Yesterday was fun but exhausting, I got up to check the horses at 3.30 a.m before heading to Heathrow for the 6.30 a.m flight to Dublin. I am obsessed with time and hate being late. Parking cars and things always takes longer than one imagines, security checks now in airports takes forever. I've no idea how many people go through Heathrow on a daily basis but whenever I go through 2 channels are open and I always get stuck behind the family with 3 pushchairs,12 kids and the parents who are too fat to get their belts off! I got back last night at 11.30 p.m and have felt the affects of a 20 hour day all day today.
Anyway it was a successful trip and I bought 1 horse, Lot 106 by Network for 20,000 Euro. He was lead out unsold the previous day, the vendors were possibly looking for too much money in the ring! He is to split between some mates and I will retain a share. Network is a serious sire, if our lad is any good he should show a tidy profit next spring when he will hopefully be sold on. Another Network horse topped the sale and I think Alan Potts paid 130,000 Euro for one at the Derby Sale in June. I was under bidder on a Scorpion who was bought by Nina Carberry, she was standing with Timmy Hide who I guess will be involved with the horse. I also left a bid for a Hernando horse who sold for 20,000 Euro to Bobby O'Ryan and the Costello's were under bidders. I seem to want the same horses as many shrewd people, although it is frustrating it is reassuring to know that well respected people are on the same horses.
Once the horses were all finished up this morning Sophie and I set about the garden for a few hours. We have had some fruit trees lying across the lawn for too long. They were blown over in the high winds and I have stared to take the chainsaw to them. Tomorrow I will finish off the garden and hope to have a snooze at some point!
