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I'm sure everyone has their favourites for this years big event

Here's Mine

The Package (Graeme Lee)
King Johns Castle (Payl Carberry)
Don't Push It (Tony McCoy)

Mulling over whether to do Black Apalachi ridden by Denis O'Reagan as well

Creosote - Its great over fences
Soldering Iron - Its a hot tip
Blowjob - Nothing can beat it

I'm going for 1 horse dying because of injuries and 2 from exhaustion

i'm suprised you didn't go for Dusty Carpet? Never been beaten

Mr Pointment and Abbeybraney have been withdrawn.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/8611001.stm

pure lottery race.i wont be betting on it

Mon Mome for me this year

Itchy Fanny - If it's not scratched

I usually have a punt - it's tradition eh.

However, it is a bit wierd that this is, for many people, the one race they bet on, yet it's the biggest lottery out of all of them.

I've drawn Character Building in the sweepstake. Any good?

I saw a really cute story about a horse called Dream alliance on GMTV so Ive betted on it!

come on black Apalachi, got it in the sweepsteak

Has been plagued with injuries but trainers still maintain he's a good horse. I think had Jamie Codd been riding him tomorrow he would stand a good chance but having said that Nina Carberry who will be riding Character Building tomorrow is a good upcoming female jockey so could still do well

Local horse good outside bet - Palypso De Creek

Got that one outright and e/w.

I picked 9 others but just put on silly 50p each way type bets as the horses I pick normally don't even make it to the finish!

Vic Venturi and Hello Bud for me...lookin at the racecard and it looks even more of a lottery this year!

(Different subject......looking forward to your posts in the summer re transfers - your stuff actually happened so I believe you. Still got the same contacts?)

Paddy Power said as much on Talk Sport today.

Comply Or Die

Is that a horse? Or an order?

Is it a deer?

Had £10 E/W on it last year - good times.

Have gone for Mon Mone and The Package to win.

E/w bets on Comply or Die, Flintoff and Royal Rosa.

Drew The Package and Joe Lively in the office sweepstake.

I've gone e/w on King Johns Castle. I'll be happy if my football accumulator comes in though.

ive got the the Package and Flintoff.

I just stuck picked any old name.

Snowy Morning £2 win
Big Fella Thanks £2 win
Tricky Trickster £1 E/W
Beat The Boys £1 E/W

Comply or Die 2.50 E/w

Beat the boys 2.50 E/w

Mon Mome and Big Fella Thanks - £5win each
State of play - £2 e/w
Cant buy time -£2 e/w
Black Apalchi - £1 win

I see Ruby Walsh is out of the National due to a fall (Horse still running though with stand in rider)

Drew Black Apalachi in the office sweepstake and have stuck a cheeky pound on State of Play...

BallyHolland
Big Fella Thanks
Dream Alliance
Irish Raptor
Tricky Trickster

All £5 wins.

Had a Cheeky £1 e/w on the one that one 8)

Tidy

coral and a couple of bookies are refunding king john castle stakes. all except william hill who i bet with. stingey bastards

Go down there and give em turrets of abuse!....liked the look on the trainers face as the horse just stood there refusing to budge...brilliant.

i should have done a screenshot of my online instant chat with their customer services. basically said are willhill following the trend of all the other bookmakers by refunding and she say no we have different betting rules so i put tighter more pockets more like? her only come back was can i help you with anything else. biatch. o well it was only a couple of quid as someone said it is a lottery race and should not be staked heavy

what happend in this?

the horse refused to race. or did you mean the grand national in general??!

the result and the stuff mentioned on here.

I finished a bit above break even with an each way on wassit who came second.

£12 bet, £12 lost. Another stellar betting performance from yours truly.

i'll look elsewhere then for the result.cunts.

Tony McCoy's mount won, I've forgotten the name of it already...Black Alapachi second.

ritely so lazy fuck.

plenty of folk should have done ok had they gone e/w today then.
you useless cunts didn't help but the bbc did.
gotta get some value for my licence fee i suppose

 :cry: been backin ap mccoy for years in national swerved him today -what happened......? - fuckin pissed off with that - icing on the cake we lost aswell - not been a good day !

i've watched this race on the highlights and have concluded that it's fucking cruel on the horses.
never really noticed before, but that was fucking extreme pressure on those nags.
did any die today?

Not according to whoever it was I asked just after I got out of work. Don't know if that's changed though.

i like a bet on the horses, but it just made me think is it worth it?
i wont bet on the dogs as they get treated awfully,but i'm starting to think the horses dont get it much better.

The gruelling course resulted in 10 falls and another horse was brought down, but there were no fatalities. 

n all, 14 horses finished and 25 either fell, lost their riders or were pulled up. One horse refused to start.

this is why I gamble on footie but never horses.

A bloke near me at Col U today got a call when the race finished, he'd won and went mental, jumping around like we'd been promoted, we were 2 down at the time......

Unless I owed a few quid to "Mad Frankie McChainsaw-Your-Bollocks-Off", nothing would've got me jumping around like a twat like that. I'd driven 130-odd miles and it's all about STFC......

Maybe it's just me.