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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.

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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!

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