Good Afternoon

This Saturday would have seen country wide interest in the Grand National which obviously has been cancelled.
However ITV will be showing a computer generated “virtual” Grand National, on Saturday at the same time as the race would have been. (5-15 I think)
Bookmakers are taking bets and reportedly donating profits to the NHS.
The “virtual” race has been shown on a Friday night prior to the race for the last couple of years, it is very life like!
Will it grab the same kind of interest?
Will you bet on it?

Ladbrokes limiting to tenner a horse.
I had a bet on Tiger Roll in the real thing, placed immediately after last years race, that has been refunded. I don’t now think he will do it, in a virtual race, after his Cheltenham run.
My choice is Irish National winner Burrows Saint. (12/1)

What’s your thinking on all this?

Phil in Northampton

How have you made ur choice Phil? I don't usually bet on horses but sometimes I do on the National. Is it based on form, sp, colours or in ur case because ur from Northampton, as in the Saints? Lol

Hi Elmo

It’s just an instinct, from a general interest and awareness of the sport, an accumulation of knowledge through listening to radio interviews and opinions of racing people.
Being a computer generated event I expect less “unpredictability “ than in the real live event.
Not sure a big priced winner will be the outcome but who knows!

Phil in Northampton

What was the result ?
Did Norm win a fortune?

Good Morning!

Finishing positions

1. Potters Corner 18-1
2. Walk In The Mill 16-1
3. Any Second Now 10-1
4. Tiger Roll 5-1
5. Burrows Saint 12-1
6. Pleasant Company 28-1
7. Ballyoptic 25-1
8. Kimberlite Candy 16-1
9. Top Ville Ben 45-1
10. Vintage Clouds 33-1
11. Peregrine Run 66-1
12. The Storyteller 40-1
13. Talkischeap 25-1
14. Dounikos 50-1
15. Kildisart 50-1
16. Alpha Des Obeaux 25-1
17. Beware The Bear 33-1
18. Anibale Fly 20-1
19. Death Duty 50-1

Fell at 1st Tout Est Permis 80-1
Fell at 3rd Shattered Love 66-1
Unseated at 3rd Valtor 66-1
Refused at 3rd Warriors Tale 80-1
Refused at 10th Jett 50-1
Refused at 10th Ok Corral 25-1
Fell at 11th Lakeview Lad 50-1
Fell at 11th Crievehill 66-1
Fell at 14th Total Recall 40-1
Refused at 14th Elegant Escape 20-1
Unseated at 14th Double Shuffle 100-1
Unseated at 15th Saint Xavier 66-1
Refused at 17th Definitly Red 14-1
Fell at 19th Acapella Bourgeois 33-1
Fell at 20th Ramses De Teillee 66-1
Fell at 26th Bristol De Mai 20-1
Refused at 26th Sub Lieutenant 33-1
Refused at 27th Jury Duty 40-1
Unseated at 27th Yala Enki 28-1
Fell at 27th Magic Of Light 18-1
Fell at 29th Aso 66-1

There you go!

I lost... but money lost going to NHS so no harm done!

Real or pretend horses... I’m rubbish!

Phil in Northampton

Mine fell, the wife's finished 3rd but one of my daughters (a huge Harry Potter fan) got the winner.

More importantly - did all the horses survive?

Madhatter wrote:What was the result ?
Did Norm win a fortune?

Norm didn't indulge.......Bookie 2 miles away...not essential walkes!
Further to that I don't watch TV anymore,. Just too easy to sit and gawp at a screen.....As an ex stoodent at the Art College I do various creative things and fartarse around in my garden doing odd things with trees and shrubs (so to speak)