Aintree Day 1

[charlie]

Buzzing about Aba - needed that! Millers Bank EW superb too.

[Supermaster]

Foxhunters - a lottery with how they get on with the fences

So guessing:
Cat Tiger/Risk and Roll/Some Man/Tango de Juilley

though older horses (ten plus) have a good record in this race

edit:
1 Cousin Pascal 66/1
2 Latenightpass 11/2
3 Cat Tiger 11/2

Cat Tiger made a bad blunder late on but the winner seemed to jump well throughout. No surprise there was a big price winner here.

[robith]

Foxhunters - a lottery with how they get on with the fences

So guessing:
Cat Tiger/Risk and Roll/Some Man/Tango de Juilley

though older horses (ten plus) have a good record in this race

1 Cousin Pascal 66/1
2 Latenightpass 11/2
3 Cat Tiger 11/2

Cat Tiger made a bad blunder late on but the winner seemed to jump well throughout. No surprise there was a big price winner here.

wow, great call mate

[Supermaster]

Red Rum chase

Usually goes to a lower weighted horse e.g. Joke Dancer/Dostal Phil/Gaelik Coast/Grey Diamond

Edit:
1 Editeur de Gite 9/1
2 Sully D-Oc Aa 12/1
3 Dostal Phil 17/2
4 Frero Banbou 10/1

I can't help notice how French 3 of the 4 names are!

The winner was impressive - given the right conditions they might want to aim higher i.e.graded races

[Supermaster]

wow, great call mate

that's the result not my pre race selections

[robith]

Every year post Aintree I always think "I should leave Aintree alone tbh"
Obviously I'm not going to do that, but I've reigned my stakes in massively, and making a mental break from Cheltenham strategies (don't need to be covering multiple horses in a race, no need for tons of multiples) to treat it like a bit of fun, like a super charged Saturday

Have gone with

Fusil Raffles
No Bet
Clondaw Castle
Song for Someone
Sametegal
Sully Doc
Where's Maud Gone

Doubled Clondaw Castle and Sully Doc for their related form

Might have a crack atr the place pot with Adagio included

the each way part of that double has saved the day

[OverTheLast]

think Elle Est Belle is a right bet at the price.

Really poor ride imo.

[The King Pimm]

The small ‘p’ is for places TKP, no stakes divulged here though I will say Billaway carries more of my money today than any Hunter in my life...

Aah right I see, I thought you were referring to points so backed a few of your selections as a result of the confidence you had in them....that will teach me for trying to be funny and clever

[The King Pimm]

A dismal days betting for me today, hopefully the results today will look a lot better on paper in a years time than do right now but I didn’t expect those winners today apart from Monmiral. I do often struggle at Aintree, not sure if it’s the Cheltenham festival betting hangover or not really respecting the horses that bypass the festival for Aintree. Hopefully Henderson will finally get back to winning ways tomorrow because his form is dire at present

[Istabraq]

Aah right I see, I thought you were referring to points so backed a few of your selections as a result of the confidence you had in them....that will teach me for trying to be funny and clever

Yeah sorry if that misled you, shame the three you followed me with all bombed, the others all did OK...

[FinalFurlong91]

A dismal days betting for me today, hopefully the results today will look a lot better on paper in a years time than do right now but I didn’t expect those winners today apart from Monmiral. I do often struggle at Aintree, not sure if it’s the Cheltenham festival betting hangover or not really respecting the horses that bypass the festival for Aintree. Hopefully Henderson will finally get back to winning ways tomorrow because his form is dire at present

That makes two of us then haha

A small saver on protektorat was my only return

even monmiral winning doesnt make me feel better as it sounds like he's staying over hurdles not going to the arkle

[Exar Essay]

That makes two of us then haha

A small saver on protektorat was my only return

even monmiral winning doesnt make me feel better as it sounds like he's staying over hurdles not going to the arkle

Is there a quote on that? All I’ve heard is Harry Cobden saying he’d like to see him over fences.

[The King Pimm]

That makes two of us then haha

A small saver on protektorat was my only return

even monmiral winning doesnt make me feel better as it sounds like he's staying over hurdles not going to the arkle

Monmiral was cruising today, I really underestimated him, when Harry looked under his legs before pressing the turbo you knew the race was over. It’s a shame Nicholls fears the Cheltenham Festival so much these days but after Monmiral and Clans Des Obeux’s wins today it’s hard to knock him for bypassing Cheltenham

[Istabraq]

Monmiral was cruising today, I really underestimated him, when Harry looked under his legs before pressing the turbo you knew the race was over.

You say that, I was on Monmiral and concerned how close Adagio was and how well he was travelling, I didn’t get the impression the race was done until the runner up make a pigs ear of the last.
Yes the winner scooted away and looked impressive but I just have the view it could have been been a right fight to the line had they both pinged the last...

[FinalFurlong91]

Is there a quote on that? All I’ve heard is Harry Cobden saying he’d like to see him over fences.

"He's just kept on improving and getting stronger as the season has gone on and today I thought was the best he's looked," said Nicholls.

"It's just hard for the novice chasers at five [years old] these days. They don't get much weight allowance in the spring and taking on the older horses in the spring is quite hard.

"If he had another year over hurdles it wouldn't do him any harm and then he could go novice chasing five into six.

"It might be nice to start him in something like the Fighting Fifth on a galloping track and then we'd know where we were going. It's something to think about over the summer."