Grand National 2010.....

[Mick Mac]

FROM A FRIEND OF A FRIEND AT THE TOTE - HIS ANNUAL GRAND NATIONAL ANALYSIS - SEE LINK TO HIS OWN WEBSITE AND THIS YEARS TIPS AND ANALYSIS

All,

It?s that time of year again!

Due to popular demand, the annual Grand National Bulletin has been published earlier this year ? and for the first time I?ve gone all high-tech and posted it on-line. This will enable me to let you have further updates right up to the big race on Saturday 10th April.

So you can click on the link below and navigate each section using the menu on the right hand side. There are still 75 horses entered in the race, with the next declaration stage on Monday, so I will update all of the pages including the all important shortlist when the final field is known.

http://grandnational2010.blogspot.com/p/grand-national-facts.html

Happy reading ? and good luck!

JB.

Jason Brautigam

Director of Racecourse Business

[Narnia]

Have you not ticked people off Mick for starting new threads when a suitable one existed already?;-)

[Mick Mac]

This is the 2010 version Declan.

Quids 2009 version is history.

Anyway - its a valuable bit of analysis - don't want it getting lost in a load of last years roobish.

[????]

I've already done Vic Venturi but he's drifted since then :-S

[woofmarkthedog]

http://www.theitaliantaste.com/italian-cooking/carne/cavallo/ricette-recipe/cav001_img_brasciole_pugliesi.jpg

Horse

Horse meat is used both in the north and in the south of Italy. There are a large variety of recipes from grilled steaks to horse stew and served with polenta, from brasciole to raw meat dressed with lemon juice, salt and olive oil and so on ...

Buon appetito!

6 thin lean horse slices (about 600 g - 1 1/3 lb)

80 g (3 oz) fat, sliced and cut into strips

100 g (3 1/2 oz) semi-firm pecorino cheese

Fresh parsley leaves

Fresh basil leaves

2 garlic cloves, cut into pieces

100 g (3 1/2 oz) onion, finely chopped

250 ml (8 fl oz - 1 C) red wine

300 g (10 1/2 oz) pur?ed tomatoes

2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

Salt

Pepper, if you like

This is the best way to enjoy horses I find, hopefully William Rose will soon be stocking this

Oh don't be shy, it's utterly delicious once you have the taste for it

I love the "steak tatar" version made with raw meat & egg

Yummy....( yes very .....)

Giddy up "Neddy" I'm starving

W**F

[matthew123]

I once had a mixed grill in Luxembourg and wondered what the greasy streaked meat they served up - upon finishing the plate I was then informed it was Horse. Let us stick to the Horse Racing eh Woof!

[woofmarkthedog]

matthew123 Wrote:

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. Let us stick to the Horse Racing eh

> Wolf!

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No accounting for bad preparation..

I love horses , but only when they are cooked properly

As I said ....

Giddy up...

W O O F

( did you see that matthew321 ? it's WOOF, not W o l f BTW )

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I've eaten horse meat in Paris - well what do you expect in Pigalle?

[Narnia]

Pork?

[woofmarkthedog]

When we lived in the Ardennes in Belgium my father once asked the barber

" Coupe mon cheval sil vous plais "

Oh, how we laughed as the barber pointed to the "boucheries chevalines" next door

W**F

[Mick Mac]

The Shortlist

[Mick Mac]

I have done - (on the nose - all 40/1 or more)

Can't buy Time

My Will

Ballyholland

[Kells]

I quite fancy Big Fella Thanks. But don't listen to me, I'm not having much luck at the moment at all....In fact, lay it!

[SteveT]

If you want to bet get a buddy to have all the even numbers,

and you have the odds,

that way you cut out the middle men

and still retain an interest for the first to finish.

[david_carnell]

My picks (fresh from my win at Cheltenham I'm very excited):

Arbor Supreme (to win)

Knowhere

Hello Bud

Whinstone Boy

Eric's Charm (all e/w)

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I fancy Eric's Charm, but I always think e/w is a bit pussy.

I'll put a fiver on to win and split it with you David if miracles happen (now I know where my local bookies is!)

[david_carnell]

Well, goes to show what I know. My big fancy Whinstone Boy, didn't even get a ride.

My new, amended, picks are:

Can't Buy Time - To win @ 33/1

Arbor Supreme - To win @ 12-1

Ollie Magern - E/W @ 100-1

Hello Bud - E/W @ 40/1

Eric's Charm - E/W @ 50/1

[Narnia]

I think 3 horses had to be put down yesterday which is sad. Does Aintree have to be a life or death scenario for so many horses or is it just that we don't hear about the others during the season?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

It is the depressing side of racing. This organisation gruesomely named Race Horse Death Watch, keeps a tally of all fatalities. Death Watch

[Kells]

I think it's a bit of both. There were 4 deaths yesterday, there usually are about that many at the meeting before the National itself. I think you hear about it more because of the fact that it's Aintree, but surely there must be more with huge novice fields at smaller tracks?

Don't know if there are any vets on here, but I don't think that a broken leg necessarily means the end of the line for a horse any more, depends on the type of break etc. I remember pics of Mill Reef in a cast, and Dubai Millenium would have been dead a long time before he was, if he had been any other horse.

Oh, now I'm depressed. I'm going back to bed!

[red devil]

Mon Mome and Comply Or Die to battle it out again this year...

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

If the horse can be bred from, a broken leg is not necessarily a problem. If, however, it is a gelding, the brutal truth is that it's cheaper to destroy the horse than spend a lot of money on a horse that will not do anything more until the day it dies naturally.

Not sure about the morality of that decision. Perhaps a tax on each bet could be siphoned off to care for such horses but racing is a business and most business men are not that sentimental.

[Kells]

I completely agree PGC. Had Mill Reef been a gelding....

And Sheikh Mohammad isn't short of a few pennies, so Dubai Millenium was lucky.

I don't know who I fancy anymore....I'm going to start laying them all!

[????]

I've added Tricky Trickster to my small wager on Vic Venturi

[Narnia]

What's the best e/w bet anyone?