Obviously I'm a firm believer that an algorithm can work well in the Grand National - albeit no model is a crystal ball.
I won't be betting on how ITV's calls it (and certainly won't be tweaking my model as a result) but, for what it's worth and with the ground presumably drying up to be Good to Soft, these would have been my model's ratings and my 6 e/w bets:
Obviously I'm a firm believer that an algorithm can work well in the Grand National - albeit no model is a crystal ball.
I won't be betting on how ITV's calls it (and certainly won't be tweaking my model as a result) but, for what it's worth and with the ground presumably drying up to be Good to Soft, these would have been my model's ratings and my 6 e/w bets:
Winning Calibre (equal rating):
Elegant Escape
Magic Of Light
Kimberlite Candy
Strong Place Potential (equal rating):
Anibale Fly
Yala Enki
Ramses De Teillee
Next Best (equal rating):
Ballyoptic
Any Second Now
Enjoy the "race" folks.
All profits going to the NHS mate.
Indeed and since posting that I've backed all of my top 6 e/w. Any winnings, I'll be donating to charity. Good luck all.
Grand National Facts 1970-1989 12 horses die 1990-2010 17 horses die...this is the period fences are made smaller and the width of the ditches reduced 2011-2019 3 horses die....this is when 90 yards are reduced on the run to the first fence,jockeys can’t remount and run off areas around every fence are introduced so loose horses have somewhere to go. In my opinion all the the do Gooders achieved by making the fences smaller is make the race more unsafe and resulted in more horse deaths.Ive spoken too many trainers and jockeys and they say it’s the speed that causes more problems and the reduction in size of the fences caused more speed hence rise in deaths.
As for today’s virtual race I would have no interest in it whatsoever if it wasn’t for the money going to the wonderful NHS so because of that I will be placing £80 on the following horses with any winnings going to the NHS too. Kimberlite Candy Any Second Now Burrows Saint Ballyoptic
Obviously I'm a firm believer that an algorithm can work well in the Grand National - albeit no model is a crystal ball.
I won't be betting on how ITV's calls it (and certainly won't be tweaking my model as a result) but, for what it's worth and with the ground presumably drying up to be Good to Soft, these would have been my model's ratings and my 6 e/w bets:
Winning Calibre (equal rating):
Elegant Escape
Magic Of Light
Kimberlite Candy
Strong Place Potential (equal rating):
Anibale Fly
Yala Enki
Ramses De Teillee
Next Best (equal rating):
Ballyoptic
Any Second Now
Enjoy the "race" folks.
All profits going to the NHS mate.
Indeed and since posting that I've backed all of my top 6 e/w. Any winnings, I'll be donating to charity. Good luck all.
Good man.
My kids are all over it. They can't wait to give their winnings to the doctor's and nurses should they win. It's hard enough to fill the day so this will help. Another small mercy in these difficult times.
We do a family sweepstake every year and this morning continued the tradition via WhatsApp Video. Was great fun and ten of us aged from 9 to 95 now have our allocated four horses.
Looking forward to it this afternoon (even if the 9yr old conducting the draw managed to pull Tiger Roll our for himself!)
Me thinks the bookies with their NHS charity links encouraging interest in this have generated an income future for the next couple of months. Expect this to be rolled out now.
Me thinks the bookies with their NHS charity links encouraging interest in this have generated an income future for the next couple of months. Expect this to be rolled out now.
Virtual racing (or cartoon racing as I call it) has been part of their product for getting on 20 years, and we're taking a fair bit on it right now as well!
All that time ago I remember being given a briefing on it as it was being developed, and remember laughing out loud! I recall saying that we'll never take a penny on that. How wrong was I?
Me thinks the bookies with their NHS charity links encouraging interest in this have generated an income future for the next couple of months. Expect this to be rolled out now.
Virtual racing (or cartoon racing as I call it) has been part of their product for getting on 20 years, and we're taking a fair bit on it right now as well!
All that time ago I remember being given a briefing on it as it was being developed, and remember laughing out loud! I recall saying that we'll never take a penny on that. How wrong was I?
Mug punters will always be mug punters.
Thought the virtual race was awful, but I hope that it made bundles for the good causes. I don't know who does the programming but so many horses were shown running in a completely alien way it was ridiculous. The only surprise was that Woody from Toy Story, riding Bullseye, didn't finish strongly to win the race on the line!
I thought it was quite good, and it’ll get better every year I imagine. Half our street took part in a WhatApp group sweepstake. Something to pass the time :-)
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Gone for Burrows Saint win only
Alpha Obeaux e/w
Saint Xavier e/w
As its virtual I haven't really followed much , half looked at jockey/trainer, form but going with the gut.
Any winnings, I'll be donating to charity.
Good luck all.
1970-1989 12 horses die
1990-2010 17 horses die...this is the period fences are made smaller and the width of the ditches reduced
2011-2019 3 horses die....this is when 90 yards are reduced on the run to the first fence,jockeys can’t remount and run off areas around every fence are introduced so loose horses have somewhere to go.
In my opinion all the the do Gooders achieved by making the fences smaller is make the race more unsafe and resulted in more horse deaths.Ive spoken too many trainers and jockeys and they say it’s the speed that causes more problems and the reduction in size of the fences caused more speed hence rise in deaths.
Kimberlite Candy
Any Second Now
Burrows Saint
Ballyoptic
My kids are all over it. They can't wait to give their winnings to the doctor's and nurses should they win.
It's hard enough to fill the day so this will help.
Another small mercy in these difficult times.
Good luck all.
Looking forward to it this afternoon (even if the 9yr old conducting the draw managed to pull Tiger Roll our for himself!)
2nd Walk in the Mill
3rd Any Second Now
4th Tiger Roll
5th Burrows Saint
F*** you Peanuts :-)
Me thinks the bookies with their NHS charity links encouraging interest in this have generated an income future for the next couple of months. Expect this to be rolled out now.
Oh well. Back to the drawing board
I think that runner may be disqualified for failing to weigh-in.
Thought the virtual race was awful, but I hope that it made bundles for the good causes.
I don't know who does the programming but so many horses were shown running in a completely alien way it was ridiculous. The only surprise was that Woody from Toy Story, riding Bullseye, didn't finish strongly to win the race on the line!
excellent stuff
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/52175385