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I am mad keen on Noble Endeavour & Don Poli for this.
I have LOADS multiple EW bets With both them at 50s with bet 365. They both Loved their schooling day out in the Beecher. GE is a master and they will be both be primed for April. The handicapper knows the score- Noble endeavour 60 lengths back after over a year out and the HC left him on the same mark! Both go on soft ground which is also a plus. GE knows Tiger roll is up against it off 159.
I will continue backing them all in EW MULTI’s
Ultragold with another encouraging run over 3, 5 today. Looked like he stayed it fine, finishing behind better handicapped rivals. Be interesting to see if he maintains his mark because he’s clearly capable of being competitive off his current mark and between his affinity for the course and his improved stamina he’s clearly one to take very seriously. Will crucially go on any ground, too.
Wakanda now needs to be seriously considered after today’s gutsy win. Has been running well and or winning all the right races over the last 2/3 seasons and I can’t see him being weighted out of it after today. Only real concern is his slightly unconvincing spring record.
Nevertheless he makes my shortlist.
Peter h don’t do it. Not yet.
Trainer had said already in interviews past he’s not one for the National.
Atthepost…I agree with you re the Elliott pair, major plot waiting to unfold. I’m siding with Don Poli here as the Giggs mob were appalled they handicapped Don Poli out of the race. All of a sudden he’s off the track for two years, first run back has a spin over the national fences and ran ok up to a point. Next he’s due to run over hurdles this week to protect his mark before the weights come out. Will be interesting to see how he goes there, and like you say Elliot can pull off a coup. Backed Don Poli at 66/1 before the becher run, and can actually see this going off around 10/1 on the day once it’s realised he retains his ability and weighted to go well. A two year plan by Elliot and Giggs I reckon.
Have to agree, and still have that pair high on the shortlist myself.
Some interesting types in Thyestes tomorrow.
General Principle has been a serious fancy for me all season for this, but haven’t actually parted with any cash. On the verge of adding him.
Also……
Monbeg Notorious
Mr Diablo
Pairofbrowneyes
Up For Revieware all very interesting tomorrow as well with Aintree in mind.
I’ve thought for a long time that, should Minella Rocco turn up for a GN, he’d be extremely interesting. He’s back after a long absence (incl. wind op) tomorrow in the Cotswold. Hope he comes out of that race well enough to be a serious contender for April.
EE wont win the GN this season. Unlikely to run for a start. Then there’s the age. Then there are the inexperienced jumping errors.
Yeah Peter, entries due out this week.
Unusual situation for me this year. Normally a big day for me as I scour the entries for my “book”, and always a mixture of disappointment and excitement.
Only got Missed Approach right now, and just hoping he’s still going for it.
I’d love to see these guys get an entry……
Any Second Now
Edwulf
Impulsive Star
Otago Trail
Pairofbrowneyes
Sharp Response
Vieux Morvanbut for now, the ones I’m keen on are General Principle and Noble Endeavour.
Mike, Not to sound like Potato here, but stats can be broken.
The age stat could be broken by EE if going for this, then as well as jumping the water jump he’ll walk on it too. If Potato’s right
Of cos he’d already won the GC by then. to emulate the great Golden Miller in the 30’s
You've got to accentuate the positive.
Eliminate the negative.
Latch on to the affirmative.
Don't mess with mister in between.Thanks for that, Bobby. Can start working out the most likely candidates to win.
You've got to accentuate the positive.
Eliminate the negative.
Latch on to the affirmative.
Don't mess with mister in between.Anything missing from the entries?
Otago Trail not there, which is a shame.
*Edit* Oh no, Beware the Bear isn’t listed
. Henderson probably thinks it needs a longer trip.Reading about Sir Alex Ferguson (amongst others) having entered Give Me a Copper, trained by Nicholls.
I looked through the list of familiar names, and this is one of the two horses I have never heard of. Turns out he’s run only twice over fences, both in 2017, unseating at Kelso in a C4 novice, and beating one rated in a two-runner C3 Novice at Kempton. Rated 146 for that, for some reason.
His hurdling career was two wins (C4 maiden at Exeter and C3 NvH at Ayr) in 2016/17 plus one other run, finishing sixth of nine in the Rover Don at Doncaster two years ago this weekend.
How does that lack of experience qualify him for the race, and earn him such an Official Rating?
Similarly, though I have heard of Skipthecuddles, I notice he’s only run in two novice chases (Newbury behind Santini in Dec, Chepstow well-beaten in a C3 later that month) so he’ll have plenty to do to get in. I wonder what race they have in mind as his prep? He’ll have to win it to get in, though rated 139.
The other mystery (no, not Mysteree!!) horse to me is the Pipe entry Van Gogh Du Granit who has run five times in France, last in November. It’s a 10-year-old, so wonder what it did the first seven years of its life!
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