the only day (during the footy season) i forget totally about footy is nearly here

and for once the weather looks like being nice to us so sav has decided to smarten up a bit for the big day

my new blacky grey suit is packed and ready along with a new jet black shirt and even a black and white tie(missus reckons i look like a gangster )

i looked around on the net to try and find a list of runners i could just copy and paste in this thread but couldnt find one,but i did find a site with all the details of the horses which is quite helpful if ur trying to find the winner(which i do because i'm determined to beat my missus this year she's a jammy bugger in 15 years we been married only twice she's failed to pick the winner )

here's the link-


http://www.grand-national-guide.co.uk/gran...nal-runners.php

and if anybody could post the runners and riders perhaps we could do a sweepstake(i might even get the winner a prize,a grand national mug or something)

theres a sweepstake running on FF if you fancy it put ur name down...schminky da scarf wearing gay boy is doing it

1-savageisgod (not)
2-sajlfc

You don't stop for the Melbourne Cup. At 2 miles long and with no jumps it is probably like a sprint to you guys and the Cox Plate, though worth less and less heralded, is the true championship of Australian horse racing.

Grand National seems like survival of the fit-*test*-('") by contrast. Do any of those horses ever race again?

lots of them race again if you look at the runners some of them run every year.

heres the runners.

1. HEDGEHUNTER (IRE) 11-11-12 Willie Mullins IRE....
2. EUROTREK (IRE) 11-11-08 Paul Nicholls
3. L'AMI (FR) 8-11-08 Francois Doumen FR
4. MONKERHOSTIN (FR) 10-11-06 Philip Hobbs
5. THISTHATANDTOTHER (IRE) 11-11-05 Paul Nicholls
6. BILLYVODDAN (IRE) 8-11-04 Henry Daly
7. NUMBERSIXVALVERDE (IRE) 11-11-03 Martin Brassil IRE
8. IDLE TALK (IRE) 8-11-02 Tom George
9. ROYAL AUCLAIR (FR) 10-11-01 Paul Nicholls
10. CLOUDY BAYS (IRE) 10-11-00 Charles Byrnes IRE
11. KNOWHERE (IRE) 9-10-13 Nigel Twiston-Davies
12. KELAMI (FR) 9-10-12 Francois Doumen FR
13. POINT BARROW (IRE) 9-10-12 Pat Hughes IRE
14. CELTIC SON (FR) 8-10-11 David Pipe
15. SIMON 8-10-11 John Spearing
16. BALLYCASSIDY (IRE) 11-10-09 Peter Bowen
17. CLAN ROYAL (FR) 12-10-09 Jonjo O'Neill
18. GALLANT APPROACH (IRE) 8-10-09 Charles Egerton
19. LIVINGSTONEBRAMBLE (IRE) 11-10-09 Willie Mullins IRE
20. DUN DOIRE (IRE) 8-10-08 Tony Martin IRE
21. KANDJAR D'ALLIER (FR) 9-10-08 Alan King
22. SLIM PICKINGS (IRE) 8-10-08 Tom Taaffe IRE
23. ZABENZ (NZ) 10-10-08 Philip Hobbs
24. BEWLEYS BERRY (IRE) 9-10-07 Howard Johnson
25. LONGSHANKS 10-10-07 Kim Bailey
26. BOTHAR NA (IRE) 8-10-06 Willie Mullins IRE
27. GRAPHIC APPROACH (IRE) 9-10-06 Charles Egerton
28. HOMER WELLS (IRE) 9-10-06 Willie Mullins IRE
29. LIBERTHINE (FR) 8-10-06 Nicky Henderson
30. SILVER BIRCH (IRE) 10-10-06 Gordon Elliott IRE
31. PHILSON RUN (IRE) 11-10-05 Nick Williams
32. PUNTAL (FR) 11-10-05 David Pipe
33. THE OUTLIER (IRE) 9-10-05 Venetia Williams
34. TIKRAM 10-10-05 Alan King
35. MCKELVEY (IRE) 8-10-04 Peter Bowen
36. NAUNTON BROOK 8-10-04 Nigel Twiston-Davies
37. JACK HIGH (IRE) 12-10-03 Ted Walsh IRE
38. SONEVAFUSHI (FR) 9-10-03 Venetia Williams
39. JOES EDGE (IRE) 10-10-02 Ferdy Murphy
40. LE DUC (FR) 8-10-02 Paul Nicholls

i'd say theres ten in there that have run the national before. watch out for clan royal.

For some unknown reason EUROTREK seemed to catch my eye.



And LONGSHANKS for a couple of reasons.

Ah, the Grand National...

..last years bring back some happy memories....




Vicky

funny enough scouser LONGSHANKS is one of the horses i'll be backing

what u mean vic was u there? so was i strange i didnt see u

Ballycassidy on the old first name to catch my eye theory of punting. Put 500 pounds on the place for me, can't afford to bet the win right now.

have a guess who's wife had the 33/1 winner of the national today!!

yeah the git done it again she decides after looking in the racecard she wanted to do silver birch i dunno how she does it
if the line was five yards further i reckon mckevely(one of the horses i backed )would have won
even god was against me on saturday it was bloody boiling hot and yes i wore the BLACK suit and the BLACK shirt
the weather though did have its uses usuallywhen we go to aintree everybody is wearing big coats and scarfs cos its either freezing bloody cold or its raining but this year was amazing i aint never seen so much bare flesh in all my life

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I would've been the same though if I was there