Grand National

[TheReverand]

Big Fella thanks 18/1 and Or Noir De Somoza 50/1 e/w for me

An exhilarating 10 minutes of sporting entertainment, awesome

[PaulE]

Silver by nature for me, Vic Venturi and Chief Dan George for the better half... all each way as paddy power are doing top 5 for the national.

[Stagger]

Mrs Stagger had 1st & 2nd
Stagger & Son had 3rd.

William Hills have lost money to us this year

[southernsoftie]

Mrs Stagger had 1st & 2nd
Stagger & Son had 3rd.

William Hills have lost money to us this year

Who won?

[Alf]

Mine didn't do too well

[Marvin]

But did you see the ad that was on before it?

http://s265.photobucket.com/albums/i..._Race_90-1.mp4

One or two forumites in there.

[Flopsy]

Call me a party pooper but I know of no other sport where two of the participants can be fatally injured and yet there is barely a word said about it, except for the fact that it caused disruption for the first time ever as two of the jumps couldn't be jumped second time round.

I've always found horse racing to be quite barbaric in that respect. The horses are the real athletes in the race and yet their deaths during the race goes unnoticed

[thebarlickbarons]

well said there.
about time someone said this

[Alf]

Call me a party pooper but I know of no other sport where two of the participants can be fatally injured and yet there is barely a word said about it, except for the fact that it caused disruption for the first time ever as two of the jumps couldn't be jumped second time round.

I've always found horse racing to be quite barbaric in that respect. The horses are the real athletes in the race and yet their deaths during the race goes unnoticed

I still remember Alverton who won the Arkle Challenge Tropy in 1978 and the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1979 (beating two great horses Tied Cottage and Aldaniti) and broke his neck at Bechers Brook in 1979. I couldn't understand why the owner would enter such a great horse in the lottery that is the National

[Witton Park]

I think the problem of how to handle it is one I would rather not have as you are highly unlikely to handle it in a way that is satisfactory - and however you handle it the anti race lobby will jump on it as they have done in this case (not suggesting you guys commenting here are anti the race, but certainly some of the quoted
people on the news last night were)
It was more low key this time than before. I'm no sympathiser for the BBC but I think it's extremely difficult to get right.

I remember being sat there watching the Senna crash - I was crying as I knew he'd passed away, but you could see that the organisers didn't really know what to do.

Sport is riddled with fatalities, whether humans on their own, or such as horse racing. True sports challenge in such a way that it is inevitable from time to time.

I actually think the Grand National is a super event, but I also think that in an effort to make it safer, they have made it more dangerous. Speed is what kills and most of the fastest times have occurred during the modern era when the fences have been modified to be less dangerous to man and beast.