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51 years old , twice married, one son. Cambridge Graduate , Icelandic fisherman, failed management consultant. Rugby player, oarsman and double bassist.
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Category Archives: cheltenham festival
Cheltenham day three – Tap’s top tips
Looking back is seldom a good idea and anyone following yesterday’s top tips may be forgiven avoiding my predictions for day three! 13:30 Novices’ Chase 2m 4f £100,000 Texas Jack 14:05 Final (Handicap Hurdle) 3m £80,000 Shut the front … Continue reading
Cheltenham day two – Tap’s top tips!
Tap’s top tips for Tuesday are to be found in this alluring video recorded in our Rissington Studio as dawn broke on a fab Gloucestershire morning. Yesterday under promised and over-delivered. When Cornelius Lycett claimed that 95% of the course was … Continue reading
Cheltenham tips – day one
At time of writing the bookies have the meeting 4-6 on to go ahead but I’m staring at a blizzard out the window here in Rissington – but 10 miles from the course. Our party divides into two ….those who will … Continue reading
Britain’s Premier Equine Investment Conference
Thoughts turn to Cheltenham. The Pension Play Pen will decamp there after work this evening . Continue reading
Frankel you wonderhorse!
I wrote my first post on Frankel towards the start of his career and I’m posting this on his last - well as a racehorse – what happens next is hopefully just as fun! Here’s another great video that pins together a … Continue reading
The day the world turned orange – Grand National 2012
The Grand National of 2012 will be remembered for good and bad. Detractors will point to the shocking deaths of According to Pete and Synchronised, the shambles of Sychonised’s final minutes played out in the most desperate fashion. Others will remember it … Continue reading
Cheltenham 2012 – Hope For The Future
I’ve spent the past week in the company of 250,000 people whose idea of an investment decision was whether to bet each way or on the nose. The Pension Play Pen assiduously avoided the hospitality pavilions that stretched down the winning straight. … Continue reading
Posted in cheltenham festival, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Bookmaker, Britain, cheltenham festival, Financial transaction, Gambling, Guinness, Hurricane Fly, Investment, Ireland, pension, Tote
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Building an online community
The Kings Men I am sitting on a misty Cotswold hill in utter tranquility. Only the pad of the keys breaks the silence. The morning is still and there is a prospect of a beautiful day. I am alone. … Continue reading
Posted in cheltenham festival, customer service, Facebook, Henry Tapper blog, Horse racing, pension playpen, Pension Rocks III, pensions, social media, twitter
Tagged cheltenham festival, Chipping Norton, Little Rollright, Online community, Pension Play Pen, Piers Plowman, Rollright Stones, William Langland
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Now for Cheltenham.
Cheltenham‘s the start of spring- not the place or the racecourse or the horses but the decamping to the Cotswolds for a week of full throttle fun. The house gets cleaned out as binoculars and trilbies are hunted down, the car is … Continue reading
Posted in cheltenham festival, Horse racing, pension playpen
Tagged Cheltenham, cotswolds, Cottage Rake, Dawn Run, Desert Orchid, Golden Miller, Kauto Star, Paul Nicholls
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Do we need guarantees on the pensions we get? Pension Play Pen lunch – Feb 6th
There was a peculiar diversity of participants in this month’s pension lunch which led to an extraordinary debate and the closest of votes. Our lunch group split into three groups 1. Those who followed a broadly paternalistic line (Stav, Bill,Mike … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, Bankers, cheltenham festival, corporate governance, pension playpen, Pension Rocks III, pensions, Retirement, social media, The Racket of the Lambs
Tagged cheltenham festival, first timers, Glanbia, greek hero, London, miss lindsey, pension, Peter, Peter Shellswell, peter weiner, Philoctetes, Playpen, true hero
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