tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25292190.post7473708641717070117..comments2024-03-24T15:26:37.931+00:00Comments on PG's Tips: Aintree Grand National selectionsGeeDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834633278297488704noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25292190.post-49951353813757479412009-04-04T18:16:00.000+01:002009-04-04T18:16:00.000+01:00A fantastic story with 100/1 outsider Mon Mome win...A fantastic story with 100/1 outsider Mon Mome winning the National; it was jockey Liam Treadwell's first ride in the race. Mon Mome is the joint biggest priced winner - Foinavon was 100/1 when winning in 1967. Here's how the selections fared...<BR/><BR/>Rambling Minster may have been in the form of his life before the race, but he never got into this one; practically the first mention in commentary was when he was pulled up as they started out on the second circuit - a most disappointing effort.<BR/>Butler's Cabin (7/1f) finished seventh; a decent display but the leaders were always going half a stride too fast for him...<BR/>Himalayan Trail got no further than the first fence - what more is there to say?<BR/>Comply Or Die (14/1) put up the best show, finishing second but having no answer to Mon Mome's finishing burst up the run-in; still it was a huge effort carrying 11st 6lbs.<BR/>Knowhere struggled to keep tabs on the leaders and was pulled up around the same point as he departed last year while Cornish Sett (33/1) finished in his own time and was the last to complete in seventeenth.<BR/><BR/>In the People's Race Droitwich jeweller David Griffiths, riding Mith Hill, stole a march on his rivals at the start and never looked back, winning the event by fifteen lengths; Thunder Rock was second.GeeDeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09834633278297488704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25292190.post-48288989900512799902009-04-03T20:43:00.000+01:002009-04-03T20:43:00.000+01:00Three years? Is that all? It seems like a lifetime...Three years? Is that all? It seems like a lifetime of evenings have passed by, allowing me to watch whatever I want on the TV! Keep it up Mr Tips.<BR/><BR/>TLDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com