Alright ladies, who you backing, I just flushed £45 away no doubt   (though I backed the winner last year from my uncles tips)

Some random 'big odds outsiders' £5 e/w

Becauseicouldntsee 25/1
Majestic Concorde 33/1
Or Noir De Somoza 50/1


My uncles tips £2.50 e/w

State of Play 25/1
Ballabriggs 14/1
Niche Market 18/1

Who's Grant?

I got 4 sh*t horses in the sweepstake at work.

Quote from: XEntity on April 07, 2011, 20:43:55 PM
Who's Grant?

FIVAH EACH WAY GUV

Never put any money down myself before, can i sling some dorrar onto your tips online?

If you're going to do just one bet, I'd consider going into a bricks and mortar bookie tbh, otherwise you fall into the trap of

PLACE £50 IN BETS AND WE WILL GIVE YOU £200 FREE *†


* if you bet on a specific event that is to our advantage, such as the grant national
† if you then bet your winnings and original stake 5000 times over

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With that said, none of my top 3 are 'tips' per se, just random punts after reading a bit about the horse, the bottom 3 are from my uncle who to be fair does watch a lot of horse racing.

It's a lottery really, and I won't be surprised if none of my 6 finish in the top 5!

I think I will do that then as I'll be in town at the weekend.

i don't really understand this though, looking on William Hill £5 on Ballabriggs @ 14/1 = £75.00 but then there's the option Each Way @ 1/4 1-4 Estimated Returns : 
£97.50 but it costs twice the stake? So what's that about then?

Each way means you are betting on the horse to place 1st-4th. If the horse comes 1st you win more, but 2nd-4th gets your money back and gets you a quarter of the original odds.

I'm pretty sure thats right.. 

Right I thought it must be something like that then. I was going to just like to chip a few quid on each one, maybe a tenner between 3 of them and hope for the best, but actually reading again the each way option seems worth it (and I just realised that's what e/w means in matt5cotts post).

You should be getting 1-5 for a 'place' in the national, so many horses most bookies increase from 4->5

It's not an exact science, just enjoy it 

I'd get 3 mares, put £2 each way on them and spend £12, I tend to shoot for 20/1 shots minimum myself, but I never ignore my uncle

Quote from: Tek_Ed on April 08, 2011, 12:16:34 PM
Each way means you are betting on the horse to place 1st-4th. If the horse comes 1st you win more, but 2nd-4th gets your money back and gets you a quarter of the original odds.

I'm pretty sure thats right.. 

Yes that's right, it's 2 seperate bets basically, as I put above most bookies will be 1-5 for a 'place'' at quarter odds.

If you do get lucky and back the winner then both bets come through, this happened to me last year, think I got just under a ton off a £2.50 e/w (I had £15 in bets on overall)



Anyway I hope some of these nags come through, so that every year it can be know as the Grant National for luck and prosperity reasons, all stemming from a typo 

Quote from: matt5cott on April 08, 2011, 12:49:39 PM
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Anyway I hope some of these nags come through, so that every year it can be know as the Grant National for luck and prosperity reasons, all stemming from a typo 

NOW OFFICIALLY THE GRANT NATIONAL!

1 ballabrigs
2 oscar time
3 don't push it
4 state of play
5 niche market

Well bookie has now payed out, got a return of £82.50, shame I picked my own horses and backed them heavier than my uncles tips

Majestic Concorde was flying up till the 25th, then fell 

Quote from: matt5cott on April 07, 2011, 20:42:22 PM
Alright ladies, who you backing, I just flushed £45 away no doubt (though I backed the winner last year from my uncles tips)

Some random 'big odds outsiders' £5 e/w

Becauseicouldntsee 25/1
Majestic Concorde 33/1
Or Noir De Somoza 50/1


My uncles tips £2.50 e/w

State of Play 25/1
Ballabriggs 14/1
Niche Market 18/1

Cheers for this. £2.50 each way on the six of them for a total stake of £30 and just won £96.15.

Quote from: Quixoticish on April 09, 2011, 17:19:38 PM

Quote from: matt5cott on April 07, 2011, 20:42:22 PM
Alright ladies, who you backing, I just flushed £45 away no doubt (though I backed the winner last year from my uncles tips)

Some random 'big odds outsiders' £5 e/w

Becauseicouldntsee 25/1
Majestic Concorde 33/1
Or Noir De Somoza 50/1



My uncles tips £2.50 e/w

State of Play 25/1
Ballabriggs 14/1
Niche Market 18/1

Cheers for this. £2.50 each way on the six of them for a total stake of £30 and just won £96.15.

CRACK AAT DA BABBLY SAN

I can only apologies for my top 3 picks