Grand National 2017: Anyone having a bet?

[6Foot2]

 

I ask because looking at the runners I see that there is 'One For Arthur' [Currently listed at 18/1]

 

Link: Grand National 2017 [The Guardian]

 

[Oaktech]

Nope, because gambling is a mugs game...

[Disaster]

Nope, because gambling is a mugs game...

 

 

I might put a quid on. I can just about afford that and it won't turn me in to an addict... I hope.

[JoeBloggs]

Yes! I'll put a few quid on.

 

I pulled out Definitely Red on the work sweep stake!

[6Foot2]

Winner: One For Arthur. Price: 14/1.

 

[6Foot2]

Only occasionally will I place a bet, but I did today.

 

 

[Arthur]

Winner: One For Arthur. Price: 14/1.

I knew I should have had a bet. One for Arthur would have been the horse I would have picked.

[hardtailstar]

I bet on the horses that came 3rd and 5th either way. Won £26. Not bad really

[6Foot2]

Mrs. P had Tiger Roll this year. Another winner!

 

She chose the horse because our son likes Tiger bread.

 

[6Foot2]

Mrs. P had Tiger Roll this year. Another winner!

 

She chose the horse because our son likes Tiger bread.

 

 

Both Mrs P and I had the same horse this year: Vintage Clouds: He fell at the first, and I think he was the first to fall.

 

 

Edit: Winner: Tiger Roll at 4/1 Favourite.

Edited April 6, 2019 by 6Foot2

[mikeprice]

Mrs. P had Tiger Roll this year. Another winner!

 

She chose the horse because our son likes Tiger bread.

 

 

Thats the wonderful thing about the Grand Natioanl around here - people putting bets on who never bet at any other time of the year - and for really sweet reasons

 

My Mum insisted on doing it every year - at the VERY dodgy shack just down the road where only men ever went - except on Grand National day when the place was full off middle aged and older women asking for help in how to do it

 

Strange thing - my Dad grew up on Melling lane (the race course crosses it) - and my wife's in-laws live only a few hundred yards from the same place - in spite of neither me of my wife growing up anywhere near the place (still in civilisation - i.e. plastic and wooly back land) but it all seems to have come back to Aintree

[6Foot2]

This year, 5Foot2 has selected "Duffle Coat" because:

1. When I was younger, I almost always wore a duffle coat.
2. My mum used to favour greys in horse races (much to the annoyance of my dad, who was a keen on placing bets on horse races)

*5Foot2 has no expectation of winning.

 

Edit: She was right; Duffle Coat did not finish (second to fall, I think)

[kennysarmy]

I had £5 E/W on the winner at 25/1 - will be buying some new summer golf shoes with my winnings - this race is the only horse race I bet an E/W stake on, the only other horse races I gamble on are a couple of daily accumulators when the Gold Cup is on in Cheltenham