Grand National Winner
 

Just thought i would do you lot a favour and tell you who will win the big race.

Butlers Cabin to win

State of play Each way to come 2/3

I've gone with Brooklyn brownie -28/1 :D

Irish Invader to win ..... mark my words well - 20-1 ..... I'm going to clean up! :thumb:

Ive gone for Darkness 20/1. But dont listen to me as I know nothing about Horse Racing :lol:

Simon

I've gone for No. 27, my favourite number! :D

When is it on? :Suspicou

Bob, MASSIVE horse racing fan! :D

My £20 gone on L'ami :thumb:

I've cut out the middleman and just bought a tin of pedigree chum.

Kilbeggan blade is my tip! I never win so avoid at all costs!:cry:

I discovered that I had £11 in my Ladbrokes account online so I bet it all on two nags and one old donkey :thumb:

I had a fiver @ 9/1 on Butler's Cabin because I know some people called Butler who have a boat and cabin is a boaty term :lol1:

I had a fiver @ 12/1 on Comply or Die because it fits in with what I do at work :king:

Then with my last Quid I chucked it on Cerium because the odds were 500/1 :lol1:

I'm expecting to win nothing :thumb:

If you look carefully behind the racecourse at Canal Turn as they go past and on a bit you can see loads of people standing on the roofs of their narrowboats moored up on the Leeds & Liverpool canal for a free view :king:

FFS - 2 false starts - I have £10 to win on Silver Birch (and a few others) Silver Birch is screwed as it's already run half the friggin' race :(

Anyone else here think ScoobyChick should be renamed to CanalChick? ;)

Horses are rubbish, at least with motor racing the cars don't start until the driver makes it :D

I'm going to call you Geeky_Burns :p :D

Full list of bets
Reveillez £5 win @ 150/1 - Fallen
Comply or Die £2.50 e/w @ 14/1 2nd
State of Play £2.50 e/w @ 12/1 4th
Darkness £5.00 e/w @ 20/1 - nowhere
Silver Birch £5.00 e/w @50/1 - Fallen
Cornish Sett £5.00 e/w @ 25/1 - nowhere
Snowy Morning £5.00 e/w @ 28/1 - nowhere
Black Apalachi £10 e/w @ 14/1 - Fallen

Fookin' waste of money - Ahh well...

I didn't know you were running :p

Mine just fell :cry:

Karma ;) :p

Horse racing is rubbish, put them all on wheels and it would be WAY more interesting :king:

Well that's me £11 poorer :lol1: But at least all of mine finished :smug:

who won?

Mon Mare or somesuch at 100/1

Of course - the wife is now saying that is the horse she would have bet on!!!:brickwall

I told the other half to put £20 on My Will each way!! she only went and put it to bloody win

More like "Boats on fire"

Les :)

I had some dosh on Irish Invader .... :(

And a punt on Hear the Echo .... which was 3rd for most of the race, first at one point, and then collapsed on the home straight - I think it was shot :(

I wonder what the death toll is this year.
Has there ever been a Grand national where there were no horse deaths, either during the race, or by having to get put down afterwards.?
I know many horses die at race meetings every year, but the Grand National is probably the most gruelling race in the world, and even a fit healthy horse is struggling to finish.
We can't begin to imagine the stress and suffering those horses have to endure.

300 Horses die in Horse Races in the UK each year ... that's quite a toll ...

Yep you won on the first horse to get to heaven!

Sal.....shame you didn't do an each way be on that 500/1!! You'd have got £125 with most bookies paying out 1/4 the odd on the top 5.

Dave

Perhaps they should introduce a rule whereby if a horse has to be put down after the race, so does the owner and jockey - might make them think twice.

I have nothing against horse racing or eventing etc... per se, but when they start getting these huge jumps like at the GN and so many fallers, I think its time they had a good look at it.

Did you hear what Claire Balding said to the winning jockey "with this win you can get your teeth done " after asking him to smile for the cameras, I would have punched her in the fcuking teeth if it were me she said it too.

Butlers Cabin collapsed after the race but pulled through sadly Hear the Echo was not so lucky, pulled up on the run in only to die from exhaustion