Grand National

[david_carnell]

Anyone going? Any tips? ???? & Spadetownboy I seem to remember you doing quite well in the Gold Cup races.

I've got a fiver on Mon Mome to win so far but might be tempted on another flutter if someone can convince me.

[Jah Lush]

Save your money the Grand National is a bit of a lottery.

[char1ie]

I've made some bets at Betfair and got huge odds versus traditional bookies.

Charlie

[david_carnell]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Save your money the Grand National is a bit of a

> lottery.

Aye but its a bit more fun than watching balls drop into a machine and you have a better chance of winning!

[SteveT]

It makes the race more interesting if you have a bet on a gee gee.

[giggirl]

I haven't watched this race ever since they had that big pile up of horses a few yars back and ended up putting so many of them down. It was horrible.

[SteveT]

Yeah, but whotcha gonna do.

[spadetownboy]

slim picking to win, best each way bets are mckelvey,snowy morning, and butlers cabin...mccoy will do it one day.

?2.50 e.w. on 4 horses costs ?20 and as steve t points out its keeps the interest going and is a fair bit of craic ,and you never know you might just pick the winner.

[KalamityKel]

So... anyone win anything? *being nosey* :))

[TillieTrotter]

My eleven year old son won ?30! Start of something good or possibly bad.

[KalamityKel]

I hope you are going to escort him to the bank to pay it in to his savings account :))

[TillieTrotter]

Nope, I'm taking him down the pub so he can get a round in!! If he's turned into a gambler I may aswell teach him a few other vices::o

[????]

I had a disaster....but that's the National. A great event, poor for gambling.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Took my friend to the bookies yesterday - she'd never bet before. Of my two, one fell, one finished about 7th. Hers won! Sodding beginners luck.

[????]

I love the bookies on Grand National day packed with amatuers looking a bit lost and guilty and generally getting in the way and looking like they don't know what they're doing....a bit like a night in the West End in the run up to Christmas

[woodie]

i just read 174'th horse death at that.

[Keef]

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> I love the bookies on Grand National day packed with amatuers looking a bit lost and guilty and generally getting in the way and looking like they don't know what they're doing....a bit like a night in the West End in the run up to Christmas

The busiest days work I have ever done in my life was working in Coral Racing on Grand National day in Liverpool. Up there EVERONE has a flutter, it was manic. You'd get old fellas coming in and slipping you a torn out piece of paper with their bet on, as they adn't realised that it was actually legal now.

We used to generally bundle up money and put every few hundred in the safe. That day I ha a box under the counter by my feet with thousands and thousands of pounds in it!

I don't bet regularly, but I like the feeling of the National. Yesterday however I slept right through it!

[Ladygooner]

Comply or Die looks like a good bet!

[spadetownboy]

its a donkey dont go near it