10mm at Aintree yesterday, lashing it down today-----

Maybe can’t 50/60 mile an hour wind save the going

Doesn't it dry quickly though or am I thinking of somewhere else? If it happened to be a nice day Saturday wouldn't it start to change the going quickly again?

Just put the bins out, good job plenty of bottles and tins in or it would have been down the road.

Rain coming sideways with it.

Usually MJK, but water table is very high here at present so rain has nowhere to go, a lot of surface water lying on the fields about us.

coc said on sunday might be gd tp sft by saturday,they lie for 6 days and then reality strikes, just comfort yourself with the fact their not pilots,open heart surgeons,train drivers etc etc,deluding themselves in the face of the facts everyone else can see 24/7

puts my 3rd selection in the box delta work ew

Must be more heavy than soft at the moment and with the forecast, surely it can't be anything else other than heavy, come Saturday.

I would say the last thing they want is a drying wind, would turn the ground tacky. At least when it's wet they have more chance of going through it.

Dry from tomorrow evening, they will be watering Friday night

dreary simon holt fancies kitty,s light for GN and says with so few uk runners IT WOULD BE A TRAVESTY FOR THE RACE,then says williams has ran him 3 X over hurdles to protect his mark ,
protect it that much hi might not get in maybe laid back christian didnt no they,d reduced field to 34 this yr ,
on a personal note wouldnt touch it with counrtfiet to jump around aintree

Flood Alerts out for several rivers in Lancashire now. Very high spring tides tonight wont help.

Hopefully Aintree will miss the brunt of hit.

Galia Des Litaux wont mind and has good form over 4 and a half in heavy.

Just had a bit of 33/1 while it is left.

it or the hit.

Live around 4 miles from track , current weather is atrocious   

Just walked into thirsk puddles around 2 inches deep entering the turnstiles can’t believe it’s on

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corach rambler, panda,s boya and delt work
rory, henley, matsu,alberg

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Gor ew double
10 places golf
6 places national

not a multiple man fattie how many lines is 8 selections if done ew and can you do.is it worth ew side as it,ll be settled win/win, place to place  ew, ? , shamr really 12 availble with obviously reduced prices on golf with pleny including slybet who are also doing 6 NRNB on GN,there probably be better after dec time on places but you,ll have needed to have bet on by about that time, so 6 and 12 looks best to me

Apr 9, 2024 -- 10:59AM, mrcombustible wrote:

Dry from tomorrow evening, they will be watering Friday night

What time does low sun kick in?

5 mins after the false start

bookies paying first 6 home . might not get 6 finishers in this ground . remember , no remounting this year !

National - HEAVY, Soft in places (GoingStick: Chase 2.8; Hurdle; 3.1; National 2.9)

Is it still raining?

Apr 9, 2024 -- 9:24AM, FATTIEWHITEYSLOVEADRINK wrote:

Maybe can’t 50/60 mile an hour wind save the going

no chance of being anything other than soft or worse

she was watering queen @ warwick, huntingdon, carlisle, everywhere she's been she has put sh1tloads on in dry periods & her gaffs do not dry out

wow . i can't recall seeing a set of going stick figures as low as that . they need some luck with the weather now .

Started raining at 9am and stopped at 2pm where I am (16 miles away).

Going stick 2.7 on National course.

Good chance of another 3 or 4 hours of rain tonight.

Bring your wellies.

Apr 10, 2024 -- 1:24PM, windsor knot wrote:

wow . i can't recall seeing a set of going stick figures as low as that . they need some luck with the weather now .

'Twas just 2.4 on the stick when Red marauder won, apparently [4 finishers]
Ben Nevis won it on very heavy going in which only 4 finished that race.

What was the official going anyone?

That Didnt look Soft to me

I said it earlier in the week when people were talking about hardly any finishers due to the 'heavy' ground. It dries out quickly, as proved today.

Apr 13, 2024 -- 4:24PM, casemoney wrote:

That Didnt look Soft to me

its caught out all the mugs this week case
those who expected soup & those who thought it dry out to normal ground conditions for this meeting
both wrong

it has been (drying) predominately soft ground on times all 3 days, exception being the mildmay chase track g/s today

dry weather top surface looks like good ground
go a few inches under there's plenty of moisture in the profile still as befits a wet winter & spring

amazing difference from my post on 10/4. .glad in a way . but the fences can be hurdled. did not see valentines, beechers , canal turn any more than slightly different obstacles .