Aintree Competition

[Nathan Hughes]

Cormack has given me the go ahead to run this years Aintree comp. Simply pick 1 horse per race plus reserves for all races over the three days starting Thursday (tomorrow) plus you can nominated 1 nap per day which will score you double points(win only).

I’ve nicked the points scoring system off Bob Rolf’s 4pp, cheers Bob….

Points will be scored up to 4 places in every race regardless of how many runners.

POINTS SCORING (SP’s)

1/2 or shorter – 1st: 2 pts – 2nd: 1 pt – 3rd: 1 pt – 4th: 0 pts

8/15 to 10/11 – 1st: 4 pts – 2nd: 2 pts – 3rd: 1 pt – 4th: 1 pt

Evens to 2/1 – 1st: 8 pts – 2nd: 4 pts – 3rd: 3 pts – 4th: 2 pt

9/4 to 4/1 – 1st: 14 pts – 2nd: 6 pts – 3rd: 4 pts – 4th: 3 pts

9/2 to 15/2 – 1st: 17 pts – 2nd: 8 pts – 3rd: 6 pts – 4th: 4 pts

8/1 to 11/1- 1st: 22 pts – 2nd: 10 pts – 3rd: 8 pts – 4th: 6 pts

12/1 to 20/1- 1st: 27 pts – 2nd: 14 pts – 3rd: 10 pts – 4th: 8 pts

21/1 to 25/1 – 1st: 32 pts – 2nd: 16 pts – 3rd: 12 pts – 4th: 10 pts

26/1 to 32/1 – 1st: 40 pts – 2nd: 18 pts – 3rd: 14 pts – 4th: 12 pts

33/1 & above – 1st: 50 pts – 2nd: 20 pts – 3rd: 16 pts – 4th: 14 pts

The winner will be the person who scores the most accumulative points over the 3 days.

BANKER/NAP SELECTIONS You can nominate one of your selections as a Banker/Nap each day, if you forget to do so then the first horse you selected will be classed as your Banker/Nap, either from top to bottom or from left to right. If your Banker/Nap wins then your points for that horse will be doubled, but only if it WINS, points will not be doubled if it finishes 2nd, 3rd or 4th. If your selected Banker/Nap is a non-runner then your first horse selected will automatically become your Banker/Nap. If that is a non- runner then your next selected and so on, ie. Horse 1 Horse 2 Horse 3 (BANKER/NAP) Horse 4 1st res 2nd res an so on if for example horse 3 (your Banker/Nap) was a non-runner then horse 1 would automatically become your Banker/Nap (unless a NB has been nominated at the time of posting )

I will make an individual thread for each day’s selections.

Thanks and good luck.

Gaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026

[cormack15]

Racing Post Books have kindly agreed to put up a copy of Chris Pitt’s new book ‘Go Down To The Beaten – Tales of the Grand National’ as first prize for this competition.

Thanks to them, and to Nathan for running the competition.

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Go Down to the Beaten
Tales of the Grand National
By Chris Pitt

For every Grand National winner’s story, there are thirty-nine (it used to be more) others that go untold. Chris Pitt’s Go Down to the Beaten, published by Racing Post Books on 18 March, relates some of the best of these in a fascinating chronicle of the World’s Greatest Horse Race, from the first post-war National in 1946 right up to 2010.

First there are the horses. Chris Pitt recalls both heroic and heart-rending stories of some of the also-rans. Of Wyndburgh, three times runner up; of Elsich, who fell in almost every race he ran (“my son was supposed to ride him but I didn’t want him to get hurt”) and of Ormonde Tudor, who had romped his way through eleven different trainers. We also get new angles on some of the most famous National stories ever: on what might have caused Devon Loch’s infamous run-in collapse and a slow motion from the saddle view of the Foinavon pile-up.

Then there are the humans: Tony Grantham, the first Royal jump jockey, Clive Chapman, who became a household name due to the Hamlet cigar ads and Brod Munro-Wilson, a ‘rogue in brogue’ who liked “to ride like a gentleman, not a monkey up a stick”. Pitt examines the three types of National jockey: those who were there to win, those who were there to get round and those who were there just to take part for the ‘greatest thrill of all’. We get to ride the National course with Lorcan Wyer, talk to ‘AP’ about the existence of chance and meet the jockey who woke up on the morning of the 1973 Red Rum and Crisp National unable to see.

Finally of course there is the race. Its history, the changing of the times, sponsorship, the first televised race, and how in the 1960s the Russians planned to rule the National as well as the world. Pitt takes an in-depth look at the two headline grabbing Nationals, the void National in 1993, ‘the day horseracing hurled a brick through its shop window’; and the 1997 ‘bomb scare’ National that resulted in a Liverpool free-for-all.

More than anything, Go Down to the Beaten offers a unique insight into the last 60 years of racing and is a must for every racing fan.

Go Down to the Beaten is published on 18th March by Racing Post Books, priced £20. Available from http://www.racingpost.books/shop and all good booksellers.

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FORGOT MY NAP, WOOLCOMBE FOLLY! CHEERS

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