Irish Grand National 2011

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Paul Nolan is hoping See U Bob will see out the trip in the Ladbrokes Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse on Monday.
The eight-year-old will be going a mile further than he has ever travelled before under rules but the County Wexford trainer is crossing his fingers the gelding's stamina will last out.
"See U Bob takes his chance and we've got to decide about Clan Tara who we've also left in," Nolan told At The Races.
"I wouldn't like to run him with firm in the wording. I've been speaking to Peter Roe (manager) at the track for the last couple of days and he's going to assure everyone of very safe jumping ground.
"We ran him at Punchestown last year on firm ground and he didn't have a cut at his fences on account of the ground. Then he disappointed and fell a couple of times.
"See U Bob was probably a shade unlucky in a Grade Two chase in Navan on his last run where he made a couple of mistakes and just got a bit further back than we wanted him to.
"We didn't run him in Gowran on Sunday as the chase track was a bit rough on the take-off and landing side of the fences.
"He takes his chance in the National. We are going into different territory regards the trip but hopefully he'll stay and give a good account of himself."
Jonjo O'Neill's Synchronised tops the 51 possibles following the latest acceptance stage.
Owned by JP McManus, Synchronised is one of nine English entries in the 140th running of the highlight of the three-day Easter Festival at the County Meath venue.

See U Bob is 16 to 1 at PP at the moment might try an e/w bet

Nulty

Caim Hill is one that appeals although he's run just over a week ago and afaik the stats say the winner has around 50 days off the track before winning - I could be wrong. I looks to me like Fenton has kept him over hurdles to keep his mark down. G2 novice winner albeit a weak one.

Deal Done and Whatuthink are others at prices.

EDIT:

Stats say you must have run in the last 50 days....opposite of what I said :P

callaway92

Quiscover Fontaine at 20's for me thank you very much!

shy-tall-knight

Connections of the Last Derby obviously fancy his chances. Bypassed the Bet365 gold cup at sandown yesterday in order to give this a crack. 20/1 each way money. Seems a bit of value in a very open contest.

supremenovice

14:00 on day before and still no final decs?
Im waiting to see if Pomme Tiepy gets in.

Nulty

They've all been declared...Beautiful Sound is 2nd reserve but Pomme Tiepy doesn't have a jockey so BS is probably 1st reserve by default.

Nulty

Backstage is without a jockey too so BS will probably get a run

UrbanSea

Saddlers Storm each way for me. Tony Martin's shrewd.

pullandbang

A little bit off topic, but here's a shot from today at Fairyhouse......:D

Dusty87

Any channels showing this bar rte2 and sky sports at the races?

tan11ie

Organized confusion for me, fingers crossed !!!

naughto

gordon ellitos horse backstage

silvervixen84

I went for Sunnyhillboy and Hughies Grey, very hard to choose!

UrbanSea

Looking forward to it,should be a good race.

silvervixen84

Well done Tan11ie, good choice! Hughies Grey lost his rider, but Sunnyhillboy got third for me, so happy enough with that

sonnky

Who let her out of the kitchen?:D

Coolin325

Any tips on the next few???

bmcc10

20 e/w on organisedconfusion since last sunday clear as day this horse has been held back in his last few outings...get in there.

abouttobebanned

Nothing stinkier than an after timer

convert

Great ride from Nina. Nice to see a family connection winning the race... It always adds something 'extra' to the occasion. Lovely to see the parade-ring so full, too. Some atmosphere, I'd say.

Hoffmans

Pity jockey didn't crash off that horse finished ahead her santagro or sumthin like that..

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Hoffmans wrote: »

Pity jockey didn't crash off that horse finished ahead her santagro or sumthin like that..

Huh?