Tuesday 29 May 2012
Tragedy in Aintree
During one of the largest world’s horse racing Grand National held in the region of Mersyside at Aintree near Liverpool, two horses were killed (more on the Grand National here).
This ironic thing was that one of these horses were favorite to win the whole race. His name was 'Synchronised'. Name of the second horse was 'According to Pete. His owner said he would never put any of his horses in The National again. 'According to Pete' was treated as a member of the family, was brought up in a small barn at his family home. No wonder that the owner was devastated so much after the death of his pet.
In general, sources say that about 600 million people worldwide watched the race and saw the tragedy. Animal rights activists almost immediately 'rushed' to the organizers of the event. This is confirmed that over the last 5 years up to 812 horses died on British race courses.
The winner of this year's Grand National 'Neptune Cologne', whose owner had lost before his other favorite horse in 1998 and after the incident, he got a heart attack. The winning horse was almost not reported to the event for security reasons. Nobody knows what the horse feels just before the race, or something wrong with him or not.
The fact is that among the 40 horses that competed in the race, only 15 of them had completed the race and a year ago, 19 horses had got to the finish. These figures show the difficulty of the track and some obstacles. The race this year was to be more secure but it did not bring the desired result.
This ironic thing was that one of these horses were favorite to win the whole race. His name was 'Synchronised'. Name of the second horse was 'According to Pete. His owner said he would never put any of his horses in The National again. 'According to Pete' was treated as a member of the family, was brought up in a small barn at his family home. No wonder that the owner was devastated so much after the death of his pet.
In general, sources say that about 600 million people worldwide watched the race and saw the tragedy. Animal rights activists almost immediately 'rushed' to the organizers of the event. This is confirmed that over the last 5 years up to 812 horses died on British race courses.
The winner of this year's Grand National 'Neptune Cologne', whose owner had lost before his other favorite horse in 1998 and after the incident, he got a heart attack. The winning horse was almost not reported to the event for security reasons. Nobody knows what the horse feels just before the race, or something wrong with him or not.
The fact is that among the 40 horses that competed in the race, only 15 of them had completed the race and a year ago, 19 horses had got to the finish. These figures show the difficulty of the track and some obstacles. The race this year was to be more secure but it did not bring the desired result.
Saturday 14 April 2012
Grand National 2012
Grand National is a term known to every bettor, punter and tipster in the world. Why is that? This is because that is a famous horse racing and it is being held at Aintree near Liverpool in the United Kingdom since 1839. Quite impressive, huh? A hundred years before the World War II.
The horse racing was cancelled just one time in the history, during the World War II. Even in the World War 1 the event was just moved to the other place for couple of years but never cancelled. Add to that, once in the nineties, the contest was made void. And that’s it. Through these all years jockeys and their horses were making history by taking part in races year by year.
A lot of changes to the track have been made this year, not to mention about the fences which became more tricky to overcome.
Richard Dunwoody, three-time champion of The National says these changes will make it worse for the jockeys and horses as the hunt can become unrecognisable. The previous Grand National champion set up his own sports betting website.
When asked about his verdict who’s gonna win, Dunwoody points out two horses: Giles Cross and Junior. According to him these two will come up 1st and 2nd followed by Shakalakaboomboom and The Midnight Club. The reason he likes Giles Cross is that this 10-years old horse is good at running on the soft and wet ground and the weather prediction for the Merseyside is only one: rain.
Richard’s website works as bookmaker site and by register there he even gives a 50 pounds of bookmakers bonus if at least 2 out of 4 horses he picked to win, won’t be placed.
Now let’s focus on what I like the most which are underdogs. Most of the horses in the hunt are actually underdogs and some of them have funny names. Hello Bud is estimated to win at the odds of 66 to 1. He’s got some experience jumping over these fences though but he’s 14-years old and that is why the price on him is quite high. Next one is Shakalakaboomboom :). What a name for a horse! His odds are 18 to 1.
When it comes to horse racing we need to point the straight winner or a horse that will be placed 1-3, 1-4 or even 1-5 as some bookmakers offer. This is what it is and we have to get used to it. I can only wish that I could bet on spread sports betting in that case.
The horse racing was cancelled just one time in the history, during the World War II. Even in the World War 1 the event was just moved to the other place for couple of years but never cancelled. Add to that, once in the nineties, the contest was made void. And that’s it. Through these all years jockeys and their horses were making history by taking part in races year by year.
A lot of changes to the track have been made this year, not to mention about the fences which became more tricky to overcome.
Richard Dunwoody, three-time champion of The National says these changes will make it worse for the jockeys and horses as the hunt can become unrecognisable. The previous Grand National champion set up his own sports betting website.
When asked about his verdict who’s gonna win, Dunwoody points out two horses: Giles Cross and Junior. According to him these two will come up 1st and 2nd followed by Shakalakaboomboom and The Midnight Club. The reason he likes Giles Cross is that this 10-years old horse is good at running on the soft and wet ground and the weather prediction for the Merseyside is only one: rain.
Richard’s website works as bookmaker site and by register there he even gives a 50 pounds of bookmakers bonus if at least 2 out of 4 horses he picked to win, won’t be placed.
Now let’s focus on what I like the most which are underdogs. Most of the horses in the hunt are actually underdogs and some of them have funny names. Hello Bud is estimated to win at the odds of 66 to 1. He’s got some experience jumping over these fences though but he’s 14-years old and that is why the price on him is quite high. Next one is Shakalakaboomboom :). What a name for a horse! His odds are 18 to 1.
When it comes to horse racing we need to point the straight winner or a horse that will be placed 1-3, 1-4 or even 1-5 as some bookmakers offer. This is what it is and we have to get used to it. I can only wish that I could bet on spread sports betting in that case.
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