Aintree 2014

[Pidge]

Had Double Seven E/W.

 

Always get caught up in the build-up but then always find the race deeply unpleasant. Some horrible spills today.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Had 4th and 5th too. Should get a 4 figure return.

[Frankenhooker]

I had Battle Group, the stupid nag. Don't even get my money back because the tape was up.

 

Shit at the betting lark.

 

[Red Banjo]

Had Rocky Creek and The Package. 3 out i was convinced a big win was coming.

 

Still e/w on Rocky Creek at 20/1 should see a decent return

[Guest Super Sub]

Get in!

Couldn't really lose you practically bet on the entire field.

[Elite]

Couldn't really lose you practically bet on the entire field.

15 percent of the horses racing is hardly the entire field.

[Pony Princess]

I had Battle Group, the stupid nag. Don't even get my money back because the tape was up.

 

Shit at the betting lark.

 

He has had loads of priors for doing that.  As soon as the jockey was squeezing him at the start, he wasn't going anywhere.

 

I've had fuck all day.  Broke even yesterday on the track. Got 2 more races to go.

 

5.10

Rainbow Peak e/w

Katgary win

 

5.45

Hunters Hoof e/w

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Couldn't really lose you practically bet on the entire field.

It's the National, 2 or 3 were little £1.50 e/w bets. Thankfully, Pineau Du Re was my main bet. I'll take your words into account though as I count my winnings.

[Pidge]

No blankets is the real result.

[Jairzinho]

Had 4th and 5th. Trebled my money.

[Strontium]

No blankets is the real result.

They'll be twiddling their thumbs in the Findus factory tonight.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Well, that Katgary was a load of shite. 

On to the lucky last! 

[Guest Super Sub]

He has had loads of priors for doing that. As soon as the jockey was squeezing him at the start, he wasn't going anywhere.

 

I've had fuck all day. Broke even yesterday on the track. Got 2 more races to go.

 

5.10

Rainbow Peak e/w

Katgary win

 

5.45

Hunters Hoof e/w

Its his party trick, bookies love him for it as he never pays out.

 

If i could have one horse as a friend it would deffo be battle group.

[Rico1304]

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[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Well done Rico, but you backed 3 horses, so it doesn't count, apparently. 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

For Battle Group backers, Paddy Power are saying that they will refund all bets on him as he refused to race. Not sure if other bookies will follow that though.

[Rico1304]

Well done Rico, but you backed 3 horses, so it doesn't count, apparently.

 

Sorry, my fingers betrayed me, it's my mate. He was having a month off the booze - he's now pissed.

[Anubis]

I got my dog to sniff the Echo and Mr Moonshine was his pick

 

 

That's my horse in the work sweep. So it's doomed.

 

Told you.

[Stu Monty]

Because the Grand National, far more than even Cheltenham, is the Racing event that attracts the most non-Horse Racing fans and the occasion in the racing calendar that has everyone talking about which horse they're betting on even if they've never stepped foot in a bookies.

 

The question is why you think all of those pictured, or not pictured but of the same appaling dress sense, are working class?

 

No, that isn't the question at all. It's not even a question that speaks to the point I made. The question is why you have access to those photos at all, why they even exist?

 

Because it's a big occasion? Oh, fair enough, where's the 100 photo spread on the well dressed women in the Mail then? Wouldn't be as much fun as pointing and laughing at the scum that rolls into The National would it?

 

If you can't understand why those photos exist, and how they are used, or if you can and just feel like being contrary, then either way there isn't much in the way of legs left in this conversation for me.

[Teflon Don]

I noted and commented on the usual hand-wringing on Twitter about how cruel and terrible the Grand National is earlier and got a snotty response after pointing out that none of them give a fuck every other day of the year that horse racing takes place.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

I noted and commented on the usual hand-wringing on Twitter about how cruel and terrible the Grand National is earlier and got a snotty response after pointing out that none of them give a fuck every other day of the year that horse racing takes place.

I've been having a similar discussion on Facebook. With people who I've seen munching on burgers, and wearing leather shoes/belts etc. They don't care about animal welfare then though. As you say, the National is an easy target, despite (I think) no horses dying at the festival, compared to the 4 who died at Cheltenham. Yet there's no calls to ban the Gold Cup.

 

My picking the winner aside, I thought that was a great National today.

[Fowlers God]

Sorry, my fingers betrayed me, it's my mate. He was having a month off the booze - he's now pissed.

Hope you didn't join him, you've got a long run to do today!

[Kevin D]

 

 

There is a photo of her doing the splits, that is burned into my consciousness.

[Sugar Ape]

There is a photo of her doing the splits, that is burned into my consciousness.

 

Yes, it's in here isn't it?

 

[moof]

Don't one of you work with her?