Scottish National

Marble said:
Aye, stays longer than the mother in law, Moloney had the right idea to stick him up with the pace, it just seemed that's where Alvarado wanted to be today, it nearly worked out, beaten by a good one. Pleased for Maurice with the work he puts in to his studies.
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He'd be a double Grand National winner if he had done that for his last two runs at Aintree!!
 
Nice touch DO you don't need many like that in a season to come out on top.

I backed Goodtoknow and Seeyouatmidnight and I reckon I wasn't the only one counting my money 3 out.never even saw yours coming to be honest but he won really well.

I wonder if PN will be tempted to run him again on Saturday if he hasn't secured the Title before then
 
Appreciated, Tanlic.

If you get the chance watch the replay. He pecked a few times and landed on all fours more than once but was never out of his comfort zone just off the leaders all the way round.

I was annoyed at myself for leaving Seeyouatmidnight off the short-list. He had a touch of class over hurdles which I'd forgotten about. In the run-up to the race I kept thinking about why he was certain to run very well (Scottish connections etc, probably trained for this rather than Cheltenham) but was already committed to varying degrees to five in the race with Vicente accounting for nearly half the outlay.

Mr Frisk did the Aintree-Whitbread double and Iris De Balme should have won at Sandown a week after winning here. The penalty wouldn't stop Vicente, I don't think, from a handicapping perspective. He didn't need to be near his rating to win as he did. But I'd always worry about just a week off. It did for Ivan Grozny (although that was a very, very hot race it was in).

Still, the appetite is well and truly whetted :p
 
Ivan Grozny's defeat owed a lot more to the lack of pace than it did to proximity of his previous run.
 
Not so much the pace as the jockey's failure to ride accordingly or the horse's lack of it.

He was three or four lengths behind the eventual winner from the first flight to halfway.

Going down the back straight, Clondaw Warrior, who had been behind him until then, moved in front with IG's rider doing nothing. Turning out of the back and into the straight they seemed to bunch up quite a bit before the leaders kicked on.

IG jumped two out no more than two lengths behind Ch'tibello but was four behind him at the last.

It wasn't the race's lack of pace that beat him; it was the horse's. He was ridden for speed and didn't have it.

But I will concede that the lack of recovery time may not have been an issue.
 
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