L’unique
First Lieutenant
Countrywide Flame
Cottage Oak
Astracad
Captain Conan
Many Clouds

Wide open today, as usual.

Where’s Dodge and Katarino?

sorry chaps, forgot about this. Well done CR for L’unique.

Tomorrow:
My Tent or Yours

Sea of Thunder (ground is everything with this one)

Sprinter Sacre (nothing has got it off the bit yet, he could be so far clear at 2 miles he could walk the rest)

Little Josh

At Fishers Cross

Barbatos

Our Pollyanna

Sorry guys , my internet time is very limited these days.

Deffo a decent chance of a short priced favs yankee friday but like has been already said ground is key and the windchill up here is still freezing 😮

2.00 My Tent Or Yours
2.30 Dynaste
3.05 Sprinter Sacre
4.15 At Fishers Cross

Cue card could easily give Sprinter Sacre its toughest race yet.

Seabass for the National saturday .

L’unique had obviously been readied for the race but still did it nicely.

First Lieutenant’s team must have been wishing they’d gone for the Gold Cup, I think he’d have been really close.

Only value in handicaps tomorrow, although there’s always the chance one or two “good things” have left their form in a hard race at Cheltenham.

My Tent Or Yours

Sea of Thunder – as stated above, waited for better ground

Sprinter Sacre

Gullible Gordon

Road To Riches

Minella Forfitness

The Pirate’s Queen

Nice to see the regulars back!

NB Just to add that it’s pathetic that the BBC (now they’ve lost the TV rights) and the other usual suspects are making a big fuss about Battlefront dying of a heart attack after being pulled up.
Perhaps it was going bald?

I thought same about BBC CR. There is such a lack of knowledge about the keeping horses in general, didn’t see them producing injury stats for showjumpers and 3 day eventers at Greenwich during Olympics.

My mate lost his best horse in a freak accident on the gallops, she carted the rider, ran through a wooden railed fence and she got spiked on an upright. Complete freak but they are delicate creatures, another aquaintance lost one just through getting cast in box and lashing out. It happens, deal with it.

I don’t think FL would have beaten Bobs Worth CR, watched the race a few times and he’s a Silver Buck, just does enough (won going away). Hell of a record now at Cheltenham. The Irish crop are good but they have a habit of finishing together in a heap and you know what that means……………………………..

You’re probably right, although I didn’t say “win” just “close”.

Re; Silver Buck
I was there when he beat Bregawn following a superb display of jumping fence-to-fence under Rabbit and kept on finding enough up the hill.
Tragically, his was another none-racing related death. He was so highly-strung that one day he just took-off and smashed himself into a wall in Dickinsons yard. I’m sure the animal-libbers have an answer to this sort of event but I’m damn sure I don’t.

Bradley……………………….. he f**king knew as well and still did it. Mrs. D cottoned on about him in the end. 😉

Absolute artist in the saddle though Brad.

Dermot Browne was worse IMO.

Thank goodness it’s “ladies” day today, which should hopefully be a bit easier on the eye than yesterday’s

“lady wrestler and rugby forwards” day:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2303866/Aintree-2013-Tights-short-supply-Liverpool-As-snow-sweeps-brrrrave-ladies-Aintree.html

It’s not right allowing the horses to become upset by sights such as those.

They do pick and choose with the pics though, I’ve been to Aintree and there are hordes of absolutely stunning women. York and Chester are also good.

Sprinter Sacre: Discuss 😮 😮 😮 Is anything ever going to get him off the bit?…………

Just hacked around against the best over the distance – stunning.

Makes you wonder over what distances he can be effective.
No substitute for cruising speed.

just back from working at aintree today.absolutely freezing but seeing BJ stood up in the saddle looking around for non existent dangers as he came past the pitch at the 1/2 furlong pole soon warmed me up.i,ve seen the superstar in the flesh lol 🙂 🙂 🙂

@loda wrote:

just back from working at aintree today.absolutely freezing but seeing BJ stood up in the saddle looking around for non existent dangers as he came past the pitch at the 1/2 furlong pole soon warmed me up.i,ve seen the superstar in the flesh lol 🙂 🙂 🙂

“BJ”?

What were you thinking of?

@Katarino wrote:

They do pick and choose with the pics though, I’ve been to Aintree and there are hordes of absolutely stunning women. York and Chester are also good.

You went on your own?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2304410/Ladies-Day-Aintree-2013-pictures-Now-thats-fancy-dress.html

A braver man than I.

lol rob.errr bj geraghty 😮 😮

I knew really.

Just looked funny in text.

Saturday’s card no easier.

Eduard

Baily Green

Smad Place

Opening Batsman

Cappa Bleu Tatenen E/W

Kian’s Delight

Pure Science

BBC celebrating another fatality.

Like it only happens here.

Love to have a “quiet word” with one of these winkers.

BBC make me sick, should be renamed Guardian TV.

Saturday:

Up and Go
Sire de Grugy
Solwhit (been crying out for these trips for years)
Loch Ba (give it another chance)
Imperial Commander/Chiicago Grey
Paintball (back to a winnable mark)
Sgt Reckless

Have to agree with comments about the Beebs reporting of this years meeting and todays Grand National as being totally pathetic and slanted obviously due to them losing the TV rights to the now excellent channel 4 production. I was fuming last night with there agenda after little josh got fateley injured …… FFS RACE HORSES GET KILLED NEARLY EVERY DAY ….. wankers !

Anyway …….. all positive today 😉 😎 🙂 weather wise it is the mildest day in fucking ages up here ……. its glorious 😮

Fabulous days racing ahead …… be great to see Grands Crus come back to his best form after recent setbacks , massive massive story if Seabass wins the National and everything is back in gutsy , classy Overturns favour.

1.45 Dodging Bullets
2.15 Overturn
2.50 Grands Crus
3.25 Loch Ba (should win if the jockey doesnt jump off like at cheltenham :rolleyes: )
4.15 Seabass
5.10 Cry Of Freedom
5.45 Vago Collonges

Enjoy today , it promises to be spectactular ! 😎

£5 free bet

http://wwwm.betbutler.co.uk/mail/

My wife got first and third, she had them on £1 EW and got £ 87 back. RESULT OR WHAT !!!

Tesco are right p*$$*D off though, they put all their money on ” beeches” for a carnage, now they have to use proper meat for their beefburgers 😉

Winner was actually backable if you’d looked hard enough. Usually comes to best in spring, running off a 6lb lower mark than when beaten in last year’s Scottish National by the course specialist Merigo. Lesson learnt, look properly at everything in race.