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    Talking of Cover versions:

    Desperado - The Langley Schools Music Project. Recorded in a school gymnasium in Langley, British Columbia, in 1977, but not released until 2001.
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    The 2025 Scottish Grand National (Handicap Chase)

    By my reckoning Willie Mullins still has 11 horses of the 33 remaining in the Scottish Grand National at the five-day entry stage. The maximum field size is 30 so nearly all those wishing to run will do so. It won't be a race for mudlarks unless the ground is like the good to soft at Uttoxeter...
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    The 2025 Grand National

    According to the Racing Post Broadway Boy walked on to the horse ambulance and will return to the stables for further assessment.
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    The 2025 Grand National

    Yes. Chantry House was the final finisher.
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    The 2025 Grand National

    I should really have stuck to my guns and included Nick Rockett instead of Perceval Legallois in the One Only for the National competition, but with a few minutes to go I stuck £1e/w on Nick Rockett and Grangeclare West. I was pleased they didn't finish first and second as I didn't think of...
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    The 2025 Grand National

    All except Meetingofthewaters which I have already backed.
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    Aintree (other races)

    Minella Missile has been declared for the 2:20 race at Aintree on Friday over two and a half miles. Now rated 131 and his price is currently 33/1. Hansard - needs a strong pace apparently - is 20/1.
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    Aintree (other races)

    Dr TJ Eckleburg is one of 14 runners in the Red Rum Handicap Chase. Last year's winner Sans Bruit has been declared, and Matata may run instead in Friday's Melling Chase.
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    What are you watching

    I've watched all three parts of a Star Sports Betting People Interview with author Chris Pitt on YouTube. He said that his book - A Long Time Gone ( on closed racecourses ) took around seven years to write. Another titled Go Down to the Beaten concentrates on the stories of the jockeys who...
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    The 2025 Grand National

    Good point. Many Clouds won in a time under nine minutes which suggests that the going was good rather than the official good ( good to soft in places ). Royale Pagaille has reminded me a lot of Bristol De Mai who was another Haydock specialist in usually heavy ground. He tried the National...
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    The 2025 Longshot Thread

    3:25 Curragh ( 7f maiden ) - Radial Symmetry (33/1) for Jim Bolger and Gabriella Hill (10). Jockey's great-grandmother rode a few winners. A Dream To Share drops down in distance after finishing well over a mile two weeks ago.
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    70s

    I've heard of Tim O'Brien and was fairly sure he appeared on Transatlantic Sessions- recorded in Scotland - which used to be broadcast on Friday evenings on BBC4 over ten years ago. I've got a couple of cds from series 4 and he's not on those, but he features in series 3 from 2007 and series 6...
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    The 2025 Grand National

    https://beva.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20423306 This may link into a report in the Equine Veterinary Journal titled Risk factors for fatality in jump racing Thoroughbreds in GB ( 2010 - 23 ) which was published on 12 December 2024. It concluded that reducing the risk of falling and racing...
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    The Two Mile Chasers

    And even he couldn't win both the Irish National and the Champion Chase ( 2nd to Pearlyman ) let alone do it in the same season like Flyingbolt. The only footage I have seen of Flyingbolt is of him splashing up the hill at Cheltenham to win the Massey Ferguson ( or Mackeson ) and his third...
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    The 2025 Grand National

    Last week I went back through the Grand National winners from 2005 onwards, and noted that both Hedgehunter and I Am Maximus had won the Bobbyjo in their races prior to Aintree which could be a pointer to Nick Rockett this year. In the 19 GNs from 2005, six horses had won their previous race...
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    The 2025 Grand National

    Horantzau d'Airy (66/1) - number 35 on the list of remaining entries- has been sold by the Riccis for 50,000g and has joined Michael Keady in Newmarket from Willie Mullins. A second to Flooring Porter in the Kerry National last September isn't a bad piece of form
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    The Two Mile Chasers

    I found Willie Mullins's chat with Matt Chapman on ITV Racing after the Ryanair Chase and he said that Fact To File would probably be a Gold Cup horse next year. " JP didn't want him to have a real hard race in the Gold Cup this year. Some times that can ruin a horse's career. " Was he thinking...
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