Grand National 2019 Aintree

Motivator wrote: »

Potentially a third of the field could be trained by Elliott. Its a piss take. I know they’re entitled to do it but there’s nothing worse than seeing 10 odd horses in maroon and white in a race. Some poor fella with 2 or 3 horses in training could be miss out on his chance at a National because Elliott decides to run a pile of O’Leary’s.

Fcuk Gigginstown

Could never understand why lads are on about the Grand National in February, before cheltenham has even started ffs

Anibale Fly looks tailor made for this. 12/1 currently but think it’ll drift a small bit

piplip87 wrote: »

Tiger Roll will be heard beat if he does go for the national. O'Leary seemed unsure. I think they may lock him up for summer and go for gold next season.

Rathvinden interests me took 33's a few weeks back. Only a tenner down but may lump on in the coming weeks

33’s fantastic price. Would you be lumping on at 12/1 though??

IAMAMORON wrote: »

The fact that he is still a maiden over fences would put me off...……... for starters.

Anyone who still thinks that this horse has a chance in the Grand National needs their head examined.

I am beginning to think that this forum is made up of a load of false usernames which are created by brokers and/or exchange layers. The amount of tripe bandied about that gets horses lauded as having chances is a joke. Presenting Percy favourite for a Gold Cup ….. doesn't even place. Laurina the greatest mare since Dawn Run ….. doesn't even place. Thankfully the jockey eased up on Baupaume after closing up the straight, to let some mugs at least get their stake back on Faugheen …… da Machine.

Now they're on about a maiden chaser having a shout around Aintree, when will this nonsense stop?

To be fair, you have a valid point.

The hype for these horses comes when people hear the trainer, owner or jockey think the horse is in decent form or has potential. Another reason for the unrealistic hype with these horses is lazy journalists and pundits who can’t be arsed to go through a full race in detail so just throw out a name that’s popular. I’ve seen it over the last couple of years with prominent enough names in racing admitting they haven’t even looked at the card but so and so has potential and “they’ll do for me”. Again, people buy in to it and it snowballs from there.

Presenting Percy being favourite was just bizarre and I’ll never be told it was anything else. Not meaning to offend anyone but whoever backed him at 7/2 or 4/1 deserved to lose money. He never had a chance of winning a Gold Cup. He’s a talented horse but come on, a Gold Cup with the prep he had? Kauto Star in his prime wouldn’t have had a chance with his prep.

Laurina again was bizarre. The highest rated horse she had beaten was rated 147 and he ran about 10 lbs below his best the day she beat it. The bookies knew the Mullins thinks she’s good so she was probably less than half the price she should have been. I said it before the festival and I’ll say it again she didn’t even belong in the race to begin with.

I have a general rule for betting and it’s bet with your eyes not with your ears.

Ill risk a few quid on Ultragold at 66/1 as he loves the fences, not sure how far he stays though.