I know all the downsides - it's cruel, it isn't a good betting race etc etc - but for those who like a flutter what's your choice this year?
Soll for me, 20/1 at the moment.
Ladbrokes and others are paying 5 places. I think I've exhausted the "free bets when you open an account" options in previous years.
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French. Are there others?
Ah, it's horses. The sport everyone insists would continue even if nobody was allowed to bet on it. Right. I expect the brown one will win.
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Shutthefrontdoor as I always go with McCoy plus Mon Parrain as a 50/1 outsider because the stables are only a few miles up the road from me.
Last edited by: Robin O'Reliant on Sat 11 Apr 15 at 10:59
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Youngest brat is 37 today so she's had a flutter on number 37. We'll see !
I don't bother.
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If non-regular gamblers do fancy a flutter, it's worth checking out the cashback websites for bookies doing good offers (assuming you're sure you'll be able to resist the temptation of getting hooked). Eg. £21 back for a £10 bet:
www.topcashback.co.uk/paddy_power/ ('Sportsbook')
Last edited by: Focusless on Sat 11 Apr 15 at 12:59
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Anyone with an O2 phone contract is already well aware of 'free' inducements to gamble. Not for me, thanks.
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I usually have a mug punt on one or two National runners with promising names or cunning old jockeys, but didn't get round to it this year.
I once had a fiver each way on a likely-looking 100-1 outsider. It won too, but unfortunately it had shed its pilot half-way round the first circuit, so was just cruising along chatting to the other leading horses. Probably suggesting that they do the same.
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... Which begs the question, what do the little men on the horses do, exactly?
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>> Hang on
Until it's time to leap off and try not to be crushed by the falling horse. But especially in the late stages they encourage a flagging horse by digging spurs into its side and applying a small but effective whip to its hindquarters.
Actually those national hunt jockeys are pretty tough hard-bitten looking cats. The naive young rubicund ones make up in muscle what they seem to lack in meanness.
It's a ruthless big-money sport. Valuable, beautiful, highly-strung horses are injured sometimes in the drive to win. Steeplechasing damages their knee joints over time. If they break a major bone they are often shot out of hand.
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National fancies - WillDeBeest
