MY PREDICTION

1st .... JUNIOR

2nd .... TREACLE

3rd .... BALLABRIGGS

4th .... SEABASS

5th .... STATE OF PLAY.

1) Treacle
2) Killyglen
3) According to Pete
4) In Compliance (only because I've pulled the 100/1 shot out in both sweepstakes at work!

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5) Ballabriggs

Ricky Gervais appeared on the BBC radio show broadcast from Aintree, the location of the big horse racing event known as the Grand National this weekend.

When asked about things that offend him, the comedian told the show's host: "Well, you are at Aintree. I don't think that people should make horses jump over things being whipped, and when they injure themselves, they are put down because they are not worth having around because of economic reasons."

Added Gervais: "Basically a beautiful majestic beast that took 2 billion years to evolve has just been slaughtered for fun..."

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in The RACING P=RedOST......


TODAY'S BETS:


=GreenBECAUSEICOULDNTSEE
4:15 Aintree
1pt win at 22-1 with Bet365 or Coral.

=RedRARE BOB
4:15 Aintree
1pt each-way at 50-1 with Ladbrokes.

ADVISED ANTE-POST

=blueTRECLE
4:15 Aintree
1pt win at 33-1

Saturday April 14 2012
Aintree 16:15 - Result
John Smith's Grand National Chase (Grade 3 Handicap)
£975000 added, 7yo plus, 4m 4f, Class 2, 40 ran
Winner £547268 2nd £205822 3rd £102862 4th £51382 5th £25838 6th £12870 7th £6630 8th £3510 9th £1950 10th £975
Going: Good, Good to Soft in places

1 Neptune Collonges (FR) 11-6 D A Jacob P F Nicholls 11 33/1

2 nse Sunnyhillboy (IRE) 10-5 R P Mclernon Jonjo O'Neill 9 16/1

3 5 Seabass (IRE) 10-12 Ms K Walsh T M Walsh 9 8/1 jf
opened 11/1 touched 12/1 £10000-£900 (x2) £5000-£550 (x3)
4 7 Cappa Bleu (IRE) 10-10 t Paul Moloney Evan Williams 10 16/1
opened 14/1
5 2¾ In Compliance (IRE) 10-0 N P Madden D T Hughes 12 100/1

6 2½ BallaBriggs (IRE) 11-9 J M Maguire D McCain Jnr 11 12/1
opened 14/1 touched 16/1 £32000-£2000 Each Way £14000-£1000 Each Way £10000-£700 (x5) £5000-£350 (x11)
7 3¾ Hello Bud (IRE) 10-0 t S Twiston-Davies N A Twiston-Davies 14 33/1
opened 100/1
8 ¾ Tharawaat (IRE) 10-4 t B T O'Connell G Elliott 7 125/1
touched 100/1
9 6 Shakalakaboomboom (IRE) 10-12 B J Geraghty N J Henderson 8 8/1 jf
opened 12/1 £10000-£800 (x2) £10000-£900 £5000-£500 (x16)
10 27 Swing Bill (FR) 10-3 p Conor O'farrell D Pipe 11 100/1

11 22 The Midnight Club (IRE) 10-8 A Tinkler W P Mullins 11 40/1

12 14 Planet of Sound 11-5 t R Johnson P J Hobbs 10 33/1

13 24 Neptune Equester 10-0 Felix De Giles B Ellison 9 100/1

14 14 Calgary Bay (IRE) 11-6 D Elsworth Miss H C Knight 9 33/1

15 10 Midnight Haze 10-0 S Quinlan K C Bailey 10 80/1



Also Ran: Synchronised (IRE), Weird Al (IRE), Alfa Beat (IRE), Black Apalachi (IRE), Deep Purple, Junior, Chicago Grey (IRE), Tatenen (FR), According To Pete, West End Rocker (IRE), On His Own (IRE), Always Right (IRE), Rare Bob (IRE), Mon Mome (FR), Organisedconfusion (IRE), Treacle (IRE), Arbor Supreme (IRE), Killyglen (IRE), Quiscover Fontaine (FR), Becauseicouldntsee (IRE), State of Play, Postmaster, Giles Cross (IRE), Vic Venturi (IRE), Viking Blond (FR)


Tote Win: £47.80 Tote Place: £9.00,£6.40,£2.60,£4.60
Straight Forecast: £448.28 Tricast: £4657.68 Exacta: £737.20 Trifecta: £69606.30
Swingers:1&2:£58.90, 2&3:£61.60, 1&3:£114.80

I had £4 on In compliance at 100/1, to say i'm gutted is an understatement!!!

I had £2 each way on Sea Bass at 20/1 all because i once caught a seabass at Barmouth whilst in a canoe and flicked out the fish with the paddle.

I had a £4 each way bet on it at 150/1 with Paddy Power who paid out for a top 5 finish. Got me £75

How are the people that organise this allowed to get away with this happening and allow something like this to be run in the first place? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/horse-racing/17714060 Nothing but animal cruelty.

How are the people that organise this allowed to get away with this happening and allow something like this to be run in the first place? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/horse-racing/17714060 Nothing but animal cruelty.

A horse breaks/fractures its leg in a race and then is but down (well shot actually)how can that be right ?
Can Photo Finish please explain this.

It's the same with all horses, not just racehorses. If a horse breaks/fractures a leg, it never fully heals. It'd never walk properly again, and certainly nothing faster.

It can also be in agonizing pain for the rest of its life. Believe me thy wouldn't put it down if they didn't have to.

And I understand why MR loves sale sharks so much. He's a animal rights activist lol.

[iCan't answer that one "Prestwich Red"

But like it all sports there is an element of danger.

Hopefully the powers that be will look at ways of improving the race and of course try and make sure these sort of injuries are not fatal ones in the future.[/i

Easy don't run the race, it's sheer animal cruelty, personally I think the owners of the horses that died should be charged with cruelty and prevented from owning any more then maybe this would deter others.

Why is a horse doing something it would naturally do in the wild cruel? You'll notice that when.the horses get un manned they don't just stop the actually carry on running and jumping. If they didn't want to they would stop.

I take it Prestwich Red and Michigan Red are both vegetarians, if not vegans, then?

Not in the slightest but there is a distinct difference between a human being eating meat for nourishment and making an animal take part in a sporting event for your own edification.

Would imagine that racehorses have a better standard of living and are better looked after during their lifetime than non racehorses.

Better standard of living than alot of people.

Throw the lions to the Christians, sport and animals has been around for a few thosand years

That's a pretty disingenuous argument. It's perfectly possible to live a healthy life on a vegetarian or vegan diet. Those of us who eat meat do it because we enjoy it and we think it's fine to kill an animal on that basis, not because we need to.

As has been pointed out, you could quite easily be a vegitarian/vegan and still get full nourishment. Selective principles once more.

By the way, just for record, I eat meat and I like horse racing, so I'm not going at the 'pious' angle on this one. Just the 'you're a bit of a hypocrite' one.

Not at all I'm against making an animal compete in an event that potentially kill it.

A human is predesposed to eat meat, I try my best to buy meat that is ethically produced so don't class myself as a Nazi about this I just think that for the sake of a sport a horse dieing is pretty sad, people would be up in arms if there was a call to permit dog fighting or bear baiting and I see the lack of similarity on the barbarity stakes but the fact that animals stand to be injured is the same end result.

A professional footballer has just, tragically, died. Is football barbaric and cruel?

Obviously not as participating was his choice, the same cant be said for the two horses that died at the weekend.