National Fever

[Ken4155]

Once again it's that time of the year when those nervous once-a-year punters descend upon the bookies with that rabbit-in-the-headlights look in their eyes, asking regular punters how to write their betting slips. And, once again, i find myself up to my eyeballs in stats and facts and figures and maybes and maybe-nots. Although i have not yet decided which unfortunate beast will carry my main hopes (though i am leaning toward Goonyella @ 20/1 - especially if Liverpool gets any heavy rain between now and tea-time tomorrow) but i will pass on one little piece of info that may (or may not) prove profitable. And that is, amazingly, jockey Paul Maloney has been placed on each and every one of his last 7 Grand National rides - 4th, 3rd, 4th, 4th, 2nd, 4th, 4th. Tomorrow he rides Buywise, a 50/1 outsider which ticks a few of the trends boxes for this race. I don't expect it to win but there are a few firms paying 6 places so it must be worth a small(ish) punt that Maloney can continue his remarkable run. Be lucky.

[Togo]

Wicked sense of humour shown there baths.

[Bathsheba]

Thanks Togo ;)
I love that site :)

Baths
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[woofgang]

Thank you baths, gonna share that.....I know what is in my dog’s food and its fish :)

[Ken4155]

Superb racing and i managed to get a couple placed, though for a few furlongs i did believe that the well handicapped The Last Samurai was going to do the biz for me. But, sure enough, along comes one of those 'stat-busters' and wins it's FIRST EVER chase. Such is life and the best result, of course, is that all horses returned safe and sound to the unsaddling enclosure.

[Togo]

The best result Ken........except for the hand wringers, and weepy Disney land believers. They will have to wait a whole year, before having a chance to be po faced and sanctimonious again.

[Prudie]

That's unnecessarily unpleasant Togo, I'm glad everyone got back OK but there's no point in denying that horses often die running the National. Just because the death of racehorses upsets me doesn't mean I live in Disneyland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_equine_fatalities_in_the_Grand_National

[Togo]

Then start a thread Prudie. Instead of ambushing someone else's. Or are you afraid you won't get the attention you seek.

[Prudie]

Are you pulling my plonker? Won't get the attention?? If I wanted attention I'd post a lot more threads and suck up to the right people. If you do a search on National threads over the years on AB this issue of horse deaths always comes up. I didn't say ban the race, I wasn't rude, I didn't ambush the thread. You are the one that's been rude and unpleasant and I'm surprised, I had you down as a fun guy.

[Togo]

Oh I can be fun. But I reserve the right to object when a perfectly innocent thread has to be twisted, to meet the self righteous needs of a few.