aintree weights

its a load of bs

not interested until 24 hours before even then minimal interest in the long distance brush hurdle

The National may be easier than it was but when you see the so called fences on some park courses it is still pretty fearsome by comparison.

what aspects make them fearsome?

The racing media will cover this anyway; no-one else cares, so what's the point in these PR stunts?

Sageform or anyone for many years I’ve heard the term park course what actually is a park course ?

wonder, many of the fences these days don't reach the top of a horses legs. MRasen today are a bit bigger than most. The Aintree ones are still much higher but they are softer.

Sandown Park, Hurst Park, Kempton Park, Prestbury Park, Fontwell Park. Courses built in a park by a big landowner originally. They are typically easy courses although Cheltenham is the exception. They call the Mildmay course at Aintree a park course but that is a misnomer imo.

there isn't 1 tricky fence on the course now
all drops filled in
height trimmed off a few fences

might surprise you to hear becher's is now 4ft 10in & that's on the 1st circuit before the birch has been knocked off the top

Thanks sageform haydock park use to have stiff fences

I miss the old haydock drop fences

Haydock and Wetherby both used to be a good test.

No idea why the h'capper messes about with the weights these days, nonsense of a race

Also in hell the quality of midweek national hunt was very good at both tracks