Grand National 2009

To be fair Clare Balding is pretty much "safe hands." Sure, it was a tad insensitive, but that’s live TV, folks. Not every comment will be a winner. If you say the right thing 95% of the time without any howlers then that’s pretty good.

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Can’t complin myself had 2 of the first 4 and what a great race it was. I was counting my winnings when Comply or Die hit the front thinking that other thing can’t possibly win. Really took off and was a very good winner in the end.

He’s very typical of a Grand National winner: Stuffs Character Building then gets beat when a hot fav in the race won by Notre Pere, runs a couple of moderate races then comes back with a bang for the National.

Not suprised Moehat took 33/1 when he did.That was probably a more realistic price for a horse who looked a good stayer at the start of the season. 100/1 is supposed to be for horse with absolutely no chance soemething you couldn’t say about him after he won a 100,000 punds race against a deceent field at Cheltenham a few months back. Very generous price.

Very hard to dig him out but well done to anyone who latched on to him.

My total profit came to @ £1.25 and that was only because I went to have an ew bet on SoP at 25/1 and accidentally wrote it out for £1 ew instead of my usual 50pence and thought aha it must be fate! No, Mon Mome was certainly not a 100/1 shot and I was surprised when I saw the price today, but it’s good for racing; woman trainer and big priced winner; lots of publicity and next year once a year punters will be happy to have bets on big priced horses..as for me, I’m going to wait till the day of the race and back the first 8 in the betting and save myself 3 months of staring at a computer screen..either that or back the first horse I think of! However, look at that stat of Geralds about 134-142 at entry stage/136-144 on race day…….

Erm. was no one on it apart from me, Irish Stamp and Moehat?

To tell you the truth, I had come to the conclusion ( not for the first time) that I am a wnanker. In addition, whatever, I had given up on horseracing. F or the past few days I had been concentrating on the Fantasy Baseball for the the past few days (season starts tomorrow.)

The really. really funny thing was that that I didn’t realise until after 1 hour the race that i had £177+ from Mon Mome and State Of Play coming placed.

Okay, I was going to start a new thread tomorrow morning ( £20 @ 70, not 65) about what I should do with it, as it is an inbetween sum.

This is really embarrassing. As I’ve said a few times before, I am a small punter. How do I burn a grand?

I was supposed to be going back to University, but I’ve got enough to pay for the 2004-05 season tuition fees, but not for the 2009-10 as well.

Also, I’ve got no reason not to move to Ashford, but I don’t want to.

One suggestion from the pub is that I should double it and go to Thailand.

I reackon I’ve still got chances with the barmaid.

I’m surprised this one hasn’t got a mention post-race, but what an effort from the 7YO Big Fella Thanks.

His first full season as a chaser, making only his tenth start under rules.

I can see this one coming back year after year, touch wood, and he should be all the better for the experience.

He holds entries for both the Scottish National and bet365 and you would expect him to be thereabouts in either, providing Aintree hasn’t taken too much out of him.

Erm, Beau Ranger, me and Moe picked him BEFORE he was out of form. That is why we’re slightly pissed off/ embarrassed now.

True. What put me off about Comply & Die last year was that he had won the Eider!

Changing tack, forget about me and the barmaid.

WTF was Claire Balding thinking to ask poor Liam Treadwell to "show everyone your bad teeth…."….I would have said it were a momentary lapse had she not followed up with,"You can get them fixed now with the money!"
The poor guy just squirmed so uncomfortably. What a [expletive] prat she is sometimes.

Yeh i don’t see why someone would make someone else feel uncomfortable like that.

He should have asked her if her husband liked women with saggy bums and floopy boobs and face like a melted wellington. Whe she replied "No" he should have asked her why he was still with her.

Way out of order "silly woman"

what a fantastic showpiece once again this year!! but first of all, i am very happy, that nothing worse happened to riders and horses, thats the main thing above all..

about the race: yes, a very impressive winner, and a very good ride, tactics-wise! i am sure, we will see much more of him in the future. of the others, comply or die once again ran his heart out. interesting too was cerium, who, after being naturally outclassed in the gold cup, ran a big race to be the fastest horse at the finish. great effort by keith mercer too. my fancy, golden flight form the nicky henderson yard, went through th first hedge, so that was it for me…but hey guys, theres always next year, right?