Grand National

[Timbo]

Ballabriggs wins.

Poor spectacle, dodging dead horses all the way round.

 

[Art Vs Science]

I backed as per the other thread i posted on this morning.....first ever national win

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

My first National win too :-D

 

[Colossal Squid]

That's my third ever National winner.

Good work Briggsy

 

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

I won ! I think that is the 4th remember west tip and party politics, I think I also had little minnehoma?

 

[Simster]

I won also.

 

[deakers]

Poor spectacle, dodging dead horses all the way round.[/QUOTE]

Daft comment. 2 fatalities were absolutely horrendous but silly comments like that just adds fuel to the anti's fire.

 

[Timbo]

Poor spectacle, dodging dead horses all the way round.

Daft comment. 2 fatalities were absolutely horrendous but silly comments like that just adds fuel to the anti's fire.[/QUOTE]

Whats daft or silly about it? 2 jumps missed out thanks to dead horses laying in the way. I'm in no way anti horse racing, had a few bets on myself but i find the national all in poor taste. Too much for half the horses running, and then watching all the toffee nosed twats at the end running around trying to get themselves on the telly, conveniently ignoring the deaths.

Don't think my one line on NSC is going to get used in much of the anti's propaganda.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

2 jumps missed out thanks to dead horses laying in the way

You would think in this day and age screens could have been quickly erected near the fences to block out the view of a couple of fellas using chainsaws to ensure the fence could be used on the next circuit.

 

[Marc1901]

My 2nd National win!

 

[cannedheat]

and then watching all the toffee nosed twats at the end running around trying to get themselves on the telly,

who were these toffee nosed twats.

 

[BIRCHYBOY27]

My fifth win in 6 years!

£215 thank you very much!!

 

[Normal Rob]

Poor spectacle, dodging dead horses all the way round.

Daft comment. 2 fatalities were absolutely horrendous but silly comments like that just adds fuel to the anti's fire.[/QUOTE]

Sorry but I've been a betting man and a horse racing fan for 20 years + now and i think that it's time that the National was put to history. It's a bad race, a donkey derby if you will, that results in the deaths of noble horses so that the bookies can line their pockets with the money of the ignorant. Seeing the remaining field run past the covered corpse of the first fallen horse, and the vets putting the gun to the second horse, just brought it home to me. I think that the national should go. I don't think it will, but from today it will be a different race. And, as much as that surprises me given my previous feelings, I think that that will be for the good of racing.