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11.34am:
Aintree Hurdle Preview
Today isn’t all about the Grand National. Oh, who am I kidding, it is, but the Aintree Hurdle should be a cracker. Whether or not it’s because of the 2 for 1 on all vodka’s in Revolution on Thursdays or getting to bury his horse face in the bosom of a sexy lap dancers in X In The City for just £10, but for whatever reason Al Eile seems to love Liverpool. He put up a couple of good showings in the Champion Hurdle, but he really comes alive at Aintree. He lacks the quality of some of the other runners in this really good race, but it’s hard to oppose him because he has won this race three times and won a novices’ race at the course before that. He just loves the place. Hardy Eustace is another horse suited by the course and these days he doesn’t have the speed of the younger horses, but two and a half miles has always been his ideal trip and he’s great each way value at 50/1. If I’m feeling reckless at around 2.49, I’ll have a small bet on Al Eile to win with Hardy to finish second.
11.01am: Jamie Oliver and his wife Jools are celebrating the birth of their third child. Petal Blossom Rainbow joins the already worringly-named Poppy Honey and Daisy Boo. When Daisy Boo is the most normal of your kids’ names, you know they’re odds-on for a rough time at school and in life. In a vaguely related bit of promoting something else, some people who don’t know a great deal about horses and like to pick them because of the name. If that sounds a bit like you, then have a look at our Grand National For Dummies Guide. Don’t worry, there’s no shame in it.
10.51am: Just because it’s on the same page of the newspaper as the James Nesbitt story, it looks like there’s going to be a Ghostbusters 3. I’m dubious - 2 wasn’t exactly amazing.
10.47am: Actor James Nesbitt thinks Tony McCoy will win the Grand National on board Butler’s Cabin.But be careful, this is the same James Nesbitt who saw the script for Woody Allen tripe, Match Point and possibly thought “hmm, this is exactly the kind of romp that will catapult me to Hollywood superstardom.”
Here he is getting a hard time for selling out on those [insert name of a book with pages that are yellow] ads.
10.40am: I told you that this blog would be rambling interspersed with occassional nuggets of useful information and here’s an example. Butler’s Cabin is currently favourite for the Grand National. Possibly because punters reckons Ruby’s lovely new boobs will distract him from the job at hand, My Will has drifted out to 8/1 from 7/1 Fav. There has been money for Rambling Minister and he’s in to 8/1 from 9/1.
10.30am: We will be doing another round of the massively popular brain-teaser quiz, Katchphrase later today and because people got it far too easily last time, it’s super-dooper-mega-tough this time around. If you need to do a bit of preparation and to get in the right mindset, check out the previous editions.
10.27am: For reasons you can probably understand, I somewhat missed the point of that earlier article in the Sun. Shrek and Fiona Wayne and Coleen are having a baby!!
10.15am: Somewhat p!ssing on our parade, Ken Chittock has made the following observation about the previously plugged RDGNQ. Ken writes:
re the microsite quiz
last time I looked (with the aid of a mirror because of middle-age spread) I had 2 legs of my own, still firmly attached therefore if I had another 4 legs off of Kauto Stumpy and 4 legs from Master AbsentMinded then I hope I would have 10 and not 8.
has Paddy had a “Davros” moment and fallen on his sword? [ouch]
Is that so Ken buddy?? 10 legs eh? What if Heather Mills decides to take some time out from spending Paul’s millions do the quiz? What happens then wiseguy? Ho, ho.
Yes, indeed Ken, mathematically you would be correct with 10, but this quiz isn’t so much about logic as what we think the right answer should be, hence capturing the good fortune you need to win the Grand National. Plus, if picking holes in shoddily constructed Grand National games is your thing, then why not check out the Grand National Edition See It, Say It.
10am If you have ever wondered what it would be like to ride in the Grand National, but would prefer not to endure the danger that comes along with that and would rather the feeling be expressed in quiz format, then give our Really Difficult Grand National Quiz a go.
9.57am:Waahey, tits, horse racing etc. It’s fine when I do it.
Ruby brings sexy back as he prepares My Will for the National
Get the full story here: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2360492.ece
9.49am Footy, tits, waaahey, tits, some more footy and a bit more waaahey!!
The Grand National gets the Soccer AM needlessly laddish treatment as Tony McCoy does his annual pre-defeat phone call to Helen and the other lad who didn’t fill the shoes of the previous lad who didn’t fill the shoes of Tim Lovejoy. The one who’s not Helen asks McCoy if given the choice, would he trade winning the Grand National for not winning another race in his career. McCoy says no, but he shouldn’t be too worried - the guy who’s not Helen barely has the power to hold together the Soccerette feature, let alone the power to administer something so destiny-altering.
Tony rides 2nd favourite, Butler’s Cabin in the Grand National.
9.28am: As always, this blog attempts to combine tidbits of useful information with barely coherent ramblings, and to fulfil the demands of the former, the going at Aintree at the moment is good, good to soft in places.
9.04am: I didn’t get out of bed in time to catch the Morning Line, but here’s an educated guess at what happened:
Blah, blah, something slightly sexist from McCririck, blah, blah, hell of a horse, blah, blah, McCririck finds a remotely attractive women to drool over, blah, blah, hell of a horse, tip that doesn’t win, hell of a horse, another tip that doesn’t win, hell of a horse, arty montage featuring music relatively modern band [I'm thinking the Killers, When You Were Young], another hell of horse, a list of tips that won’t win and a stayed tuned for T4 because you haven’t seen every episode of Friends four thousand times yet.
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