The top 10 reasons for hating Grand National Day

betfair running slow (NAP)

same help all the locals know im a compulsive gambler lol

tis quite nice to see Betfair make a complete ar$eof themselves by screwing up on BSP though...

every cloud

trying to get a **g greyhound bet on :^0

Ballyhackcharmer 09 Apr 16:19


apart from amateurs, uncles, next door neighbours, people you met on a holiday years ago asking for tips.

and they all facking expect you to know who is going to win, and seem surprised and disappointed when the horse in brought down at the 1st :D

Sun, football, racing, beers, birds. Whats to hate?

The half time scores in Grandstand were late :D

people who say 'i fancy so and so' when they aint got a clue and bet once a year..(still have more winners than me tho)

Very well said Pflaps :D Brilliant

I always end up putting too much on 3 or 4 that I really fancy, then have a last minute panic and fling fivers at a load of others I half like...

But the only one of them that finishes comes 9th.

better luck 2moz, tinjacko!

Somebody who never picked the winner saying "i looked at that one as well" :(

That fecking theme tune from Champions

Betting Shop managers behaving like the child-catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

people asking how to fill a slip in and baldy making people take the price

Overcrowding in the shops.

Tinjakko 09 Apr 17:25
I always end up putting too much on 3 or 4 that I really fancy, then have a last minute panic and fling fivers at a load of others I half like...

But the only one of them that finishes comes 9th.

I do that on a rainy Friday AW meeting in Wolves in January...Welcome to my world ;-)

Once a year punters asking if they can pay the tax ( after you've filled their mark sense slip in) :^0

walking under the members wall at 6pm after being on the track since 9.30 am in constant rain and being the reciever of a thrown pint of beer over my head . i love the place .

Sue Barker interviewing all the professional scousers who now live in Berkshire, Tarby, Cilla, Ricky Tomlinson, footballers, anyone who used to be in Brookside but would'nt live within 200 miles of the place now.

every fecker you know with no interest in racing asking you wot to back

The main thing that fcuks me off is the lack of early prices for what is usually the 2nd or 3rd best hurdle race of the year!!

Please prove me wrong tomorrow.... It's not gonna happen is it :(

The winning horse/trainer/owner jockey will come from some obscure village nobody has heard of, the local pub on sunday will be packed with locals telling stories to sky news about their win.

When working in a bookies, the same jokers asking year after year "How much is betting tax?"

i dont mind the stories afterthe race, but the ones before it are w@nk imo

The idiot down the pub Saturday night who congratulates himself on geting 50p eah way 4th at 100/1, 80 lengths behind the winner, when your £100 win bet has been beaten a neck. Happens EVERY year

I don't hate anything about the national. It's one thing that brings all the generations together. If someone backs a 100/1 winner because it was their mother's name good luck to them. Just accept it for what it is - a great spectacle. Just because you're addicted to gambling don't be annoyed if someone who doesn't know a donkey from their elbow picks the winner

The person who asks you for a tip , you say it is not a betting race and that you dont have a fancy - then they push you for a tip - you give them a 50s shot that runs a blinder and finishes 6th and they text you the moment the race finishes to tell you that you owe them money/your tips are rubbish/that horse was a donkey - which is why whenever anyone asks me for a tip I say the following-

"If I could regularly pick the winner of the national, we would probaby never have met as I would be living on a desert island in the bahamas with my 6 russian brides"

Bit of a tall story that Ad Man

no-one has mentioned the over round from the Scouse bookies?

Clare Balding demanding some hapless jockey to "SHOW ME YOUR TEETH" on live tv.

Putting e/w bets on for relatives on Betfair then explaining they win 0 when their 150/1 poke staggers in 5th.

we're in a minority sport but a couple of times a year it makes headlines - I'm pleased on days like these

1. Broken Necks
2. Broken Legs
3. Broken Backs
4. The twitching of the horse as it takes its last breath
5. Ariel shots of the above on the BBC
6. A re-run of the above showing all the grusome details in slow motion. Usually by the BBC.
7.People who couldn't give a fcuk that the above happens.
8.Owners who enter horses knowing full well it couldn't jump a 3ft bush properly but are quite happy to have it negotiate "Bechers" and "The Chair" in the hope of them hitting the big time.
9.People like John McCririck who bang on and on about the use of the whip in racing but couldn't give a toss about the above.
10.The abuse I will get when people read this.

Have a good day chaps ;)

I actually like people getting involved on this day. Who cares really, people just having a bit of fun.

Dave 1919 i actually agree,its the one meeting i hate,infact im going to a kids party with my kids and having a day off from gambling(well half a day i,ll be at the scottish derby semis tonight).
Its the one race everyone watches and it doesnt reflect our sport 1 little bit and usually afterwards i get my dad saying what chance have you got only mugs bet,and then others saying did you see that poor horse etc etc,the race is an absolute joke and anyone who thinks it promotes our sport is sadly wrong because its just cannon foder for the antis to have a go at the sport.

I detest the grand national... far too much hype. Give me the 2.10 at Lingfield any day of the week! I for 1 will not be tuning in.

the 'well you follow racing why didnt you have the winner' question from some randm aquaintence who never bets puts there pin in and somehow has £100 on the winner

BBC

**s asking which one dettori riding, i like him