Some victims of the credit crunch are creeping into our top performing stocks. Last race it was Centro Properties making good, this week it's Babcock & Brown and Macquarie Bank satellites. Should you be heartened or worried? Good question but not one to worry our racers. After all, they're here for a good time, not a long time and the slow and steady accumulation of wealth has no place in a fantasy shares race.

And what a fine, cracking bunch of newcomers we have this week. DLA Phillips Fox partner Alec Christie presumably has much experience making huge amounts of money in a short time and is already up almost 3 per cent against a market that went the other way. A couple of healthcare hopefuls – Sirtex Medical and the emigrating Unilife Medical Solutions – were his best.

Hot on Alec's heels and rounding out a new-look top three are The Apprentice's Andrew Morello (who also picked Sirtex) and reader John Watson, who had a breakthrough with ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals. Touch footy coach Paul Hickey's pick of Virgin Blue played the appreciating dollar well; he beat the market for the week as well.