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Err, they’ve been loading up to 40 into the stalls for the Cambridgeshire for years.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Without wishing to disrespect the Cambridgeshire, it doesn’t really compare to the fraught atmosphere before the start of the National!
Cambridgeshire flat horses want to get on with things; they need to have a lot of enthusiasm to go the pace of a 1m1f flat race.
In the Grand National some will be ok, but half the field will be half asleep. Put them in 40 stalls and by the time everyone is ready… “And they’re off”, well some will be. Some will just stand there in the stalls.
Value Is Everything“Will they be using stalls in the next “Who’s Your Favourite Authoritarian Dictator National”
It might be an unusual experience for them, given that they are used to locking up people instead of being locked up themselves.”
Haha, brilliant Cork All Star!
I was ready to let it go, but VF just had to chip in and set me off again….
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Am quite impressed how Gingertipster and I have both disagreed with the comparison to the Cambridgeshire, even though our own points are completely the opposite of each other!
I’ve always had the view that the National runners tend to get revved up by the atmosphere generated by the crowd and their riders, and doubt there would be much risk of many of them being caught napping at the start.
But it’s still a no to the starting stalls!
Luddites the lot of you!
It’s been an entertaining debate, though, and I’m loving the footage of Jump racing with stalls from overseas.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Am sure you are right about some being more revved up – the ones that want to get on with things and/or dodgy temperaments, Marlingford. Other more laid back individuals will fall asleep in the stalls.
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