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Irish Grand National - Monday 5 April 2021

Run Wild Fred to do a Time To Get Up and miss the Cheltenham festival to win something elsewhere.

RWF and Cloth Cap Double EW @ 75/1 is in the book
 
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Conflated ticks that box too ?

The Big Dog and Court Maid on my shortlist. Not betting yet though.
 
My shortlist is

latest exhibition
run wild fred
longhouse poet
sempo

will see what turns up
 
Would say this will end up a better race than the Grand National itself, well, if it doesn't i'll be disappointed looking at the entries.

I made a case for Court Maid about 2 weeks ago being overs at 25s. Porterstown runaway winner, her rating now is quite high as a consequence but she really did win that well, and with hopefully a bit of spring ground she should go very well again i reckon. It's the plan as well.

There are about 10 horses in the betting i could fancy so i'll see nearer the time. Given we are going to see a fair few novice chasers go this year, it won't be so easy.
 

Big Dog Ground dependent ?
 
Noel Meade:

Among Meade’s team are School Boy Hours and Brace Yourself, but both need plenty of withdrawals to guarantee a run in the maximum field of 30.

“School Boy Hours might not get in, but I always thought the trip would suit,” said Meade.

“Brace Yourself will take his chance, but wouldn’t want the ground too quick. Tout Est Permis hasn’t been running well, but he could go over to Aintree and see if a trip over livens him up. Brace Yourself is a fresh horse, but he’s only a novice.”
 
FinalFurlong91 said:
You get the feeling he wants to run him in the Irish national

If its decent ground thats where I can see him turning up
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He'd be a big player, but something tells me i'd be looking to take him on in it. From this far out it any number of interesting and unexposed novices could be running!
 
Galvin as expected side stepping the Irish National. Comes too soon.

Possible for Scottish version and he's 9/1. Think he'd be a shorty if rocking up there.....
 
Sempo is still available @ 33/1 with Betstars (betting arm of PokerStars) and pretty much single figures everywhere else. 1pt EW for me
 
There's a further forfeit stage on Wednesday. As mentioned elsewhere, no winner has carried more than 11-4 in the last 25 years and only 2 have carried 11st or more. If Tiger Roll doesn't line up, although far from conclusive, the weight stat becomes more significant.
 
archie said:
There's a further forfeit stage on Wednesday. As mentioned elsewhere, no winner has carried more than 11-4 in the last 25 years and only 2 have carried 11st or more. If Tiger Roll doesn't line up, although far from conclusive, the weight stat becomes more significant.
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RDC any chance of running here or was it just a speculative entry? 138 looks attractive wherever she rocks up next regardless of layoff.
 
jack1092 said:
RDC any chance of running here or was it just a speculative entry? 138 looks attractive wherever she rocks up next regardless of layoff.
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Willie is being Willie.

We were told that he didn't want to run her over a marathon trip first time up but then he left her in at the first forfeit stage. It seems to be genuinely 50:50 at the moment.
 
Sempo is a nuts price now

I had him down as a lively outsider to back e/w at a price on the day but that plan is firmly out the window

Hes not the greatest jumper and has only ever raced over 3 miles or further once when well beaten in the bartlett

If latest exhibition, run wild fred, longhouse poet, tiger roll and coko beach etc all line up surely he will drift on the day
 
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