“When your horse leads the field, inside the first furlong of the National, you think that it is going to win”
So… what do we know about the (Grand) National?
The A to Z of HMHB
The A to Z of HMHB
“When your horse leads the field, inside the first furlong of the National, you think that it is going to win”
So… what do we know about the (Grand) National?
EXXO
One of those bands you stop listening to when everybody’s into them.
‘Slow Show’ – what a song – was my tune in ’07 when suffering from one final bout of unrequited love. Never again.
5 March 2016
dickhead in quicksand
I always seemed to get the Duke of Albuquerque in the office sweepstake – mad Portuguese amateur who would take an early lead, then fall off and break something after a fence or two.
I remember a bookie being interviewed on TV after the Foinavon National. Everyone had put a quid or two on the local horse, and the greedy bugger hadn’t laid any of it off. I’ve never seen anyone standing outside a big house with two large cars in the driveway look quite so miserable.
5 March 2016
this leaden paul
Once described as ‘in Liverpool, but not of it.’ A bad day on which to have to go to work in a call centre in Aintree. The 2013 winner paid for this computer (THAT’S ENOUGH BOASTING – Boasting Ed.). Hardly ever won by grey horses. Once won by Dobbin. May yet be won by his wife.
5 March 2016
BRUMBISCUIT
Horse maiming spectacle run in the name of sport.
5 March 2016
BRUMBISCUIT
Horse maiming spectacle run in the name of sport.
5 March 2016
BRUMBISCUIT
Horse maiming spectacle run in the name of sport.
5 March 2016
Huddersfield’s very own… Steve malkmus
Saying it thrice doesn’t make it less true, you’ll be pleased to hear.
5 March 2016
Russell dean
Agreed Brumbiscuit!
6 March 2016
dickhead in quicksand
I have said it thrice: what I tell you three times is true.
7 March 2016
Huddersfield’s very own… Steve malkmus
Really should be sponsored by Winalot… Or Findus… Or Tesco.
7 March 2016
Old APPLEJACK
Less of the horse maiming these days following fence changes and other improved safety measures.
Going to be run at 5.15 this year, for some reason.
7 March 2016
this leaden paul
Going to be run at 5.15 this year, for some reason not unconnected with the fact that modern life is rubbish. Almost certainly NOT going to make the life of sports sub-eds any easier that Saturday afternoon.
7 March 2016
Bobby SVARC
Quite a few hosses get killed every week at various meetings. Why should Liverpool have all the fun.
7 March 2016
EXXO
When your horse leads the field. Inside the first furlong of the National League, You think that it is going to win …
#NonLeagueDay2016
3 September 2016
EXXO
Forest Green go top.
3 September 2016
Bobby SVARC
Up The Boro’
3 September 2016
Schoon
I’m listening to The National’s High Violet, trying to get into it. I’ve loved Anyone’s Ghost for a long time so I thought I’d really try to like the album, but that singing I don’t know. Anyway then it dawned on me it’s all a bit Coldplay but with even worse singing. So my question is: are The National ok to like, or more of a Paintball’s Coming Home type band and does anyone have an opinion of which bands are acceptable and which PCH? Some are obviously ok e.g. The Fall, others obviously PCH e.g. Sheeran, but what about Morrissey and Chumbawamba?
5 December 2018
parsfan
It’s okay to like whatever you like.
A bonus if you can irk the purists at the same time.
5 December 2018
BOBBY SVARC
GOOD BOY BOBBY 33/1 E/W (6 Places) A decent sensitive outsider
9 April 2022
EXXO
Everyone with a Bet365 account note that up to 11.59 am you get the place part of your e/w bet free. Doesn’t help when it falls in the second furlong though.
9 April 2022
FERENCVáROS FAN
If you want your PBR, and fancy a fun bet at a big price into the bargain, look no further than Freewheelin Dylan. You can still get 50/1, (the @66s have all gone as the penny finally dropped that his Irish Grand National victory last year is not such a shabby piece of form!), and if he can avoid misfortune (a big if in the national, I know) he’s capable of running a big race. GL all.
9 April 2022
dr Desperate
I recommended Freewheelin Dylan to a Bobcat friend last year, forgetting that he was also big into animal rights. Won’t do that again.
We’re on Any Second Now.
9 April 2022
Ferencváros fan
I wouldn’t put anyone off backing Any Second Now. I feel certain that he will place if he stays out of trouble, but I just feel that he might find a couple of the lighter-weighted youngsters too good for him…
9 April 2022
POP-TART
There are other EBRs of course. Commodore (36/1) has won once, twice, or three times a season in 4 of the last 5 seasons.
Fiddler on the Roof (16/1) is well fancied in some quarters and if I were a horseman, I would execute the fallers who up-ended my good rides.
But being a lover of the ancient bardic traditions I’ve got more on Longhouse Poet than anything else.
9 April 2022
dr Desperate
Good advice there, @FF. Shame we couldn’t get on Firstmanintospace.
9 April 2022
POP-TART MARK
Nice profit for the EBR Fiddler on the Roof (& Dylan if you took 7 places), and my Longhouse Poet didn’t let me down for the place money either.
9 April 2022
Ferencváros fan
In commenting that I thought Any Second Now was vulnerable to a well-handicapped youngster, I did not have Noble Yeats on my list. Great race and great story. Pity it was such a good day for the bookies though.
Good effort from Freewheelin Dylan. Hope that, unlike me, those of you who backed him chose one of the bookies who paid for the first 7…
9 April 2022
Chris The Siteowner
Thanks all. I made £1.70 on the race thanks to your tips. Splendid.
9 April 2022