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Aintree Grand National 2025

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SLIPPERGOLDENSLIPPERGOLDEN    8,450 posts
edited April 2025 East Coast Racing
Saturday night. As usual it looks a raffle. Might have to do so homework. 

Racing Post has declared Minella Cocooner a best bet @ $15 from Hewick $13, Stumptown $11 & Perceval Legallois $13
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  • thefalconthefalcon    20,478 posts
    popped over to ch78 last night, slip. wow, what a crowd. how far is it from the smoke?
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  • tonytony    2,436 posts
    Only about 8km from the centrs of Liverpool falc
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  • SLIPPERGOLDENSLIPPERGOLDEN    8,450 posts
    Bigger crowd when I stood at Becher's Brook in 1981. Nobody stands in that back area now probably due to security reasons.

    Photos attached from my day at the Grand National in 1981

    It is remembered for the winning horse Aldaniti, who had recovered from chronic leg problems, and his jockey Bob Champion, who had recovered from cancer. Aldaniti's injuries dated back to 1976, while Champion had been diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1979. However, Aldaniti was nursed back to optimum form ahead of the race, and Champion overcame lengthy hospitalisation and chemotherapy to win the National by a distance of four lengths
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  • spinkingspinking    4,000 posts
    Taken with a Kodac box brownie  Slipper
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  • thefalconthefalcon    20,478 posts
    bet he's seen plenty of brownie boxes..... @-)
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  • jumjum    3,581 posts
    SLIPPERGOLDEN said:

    Bigger crowd when I stood at Becher's Brook in 1981. Nobody stands in that back area now probably due to security reasons.


    Photos attached from my day at the Grand National in 1981

    It is remembered for the winning horse Aldaniti, who had recovered from chronic leg problems, and his jockey Bob Champion, who had recovered from cancer. Aldaniti's injuries dated back to 1976, while Champion had been diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1979. However, Aldaniti was nursed back to optimum form ahead of the race, and Champion overcame lengthy hospitalisation and chemotherapy to win the National by a distance of four lengths
    Great Movie Too. Watched it over and over as a kid
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  • jumjum    3,581 posts
    SLIPPERGOLDEN said:

    Bigger crowd when I stood at Becher's Brook in 1981. Nobody stands in that back area now probably due to security reasons.


    Photos attached from my day at the Grand National in 1981

    It is remembered for the winning horse Aldaniti, who had recovered from chronic leg problems, and his jockey Bob Champion, who had recovered from cancer. Aldaniti's injuries dated back to 1976, while Champion had been diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1979. However, Aldaniti was nursed back to optimum form ahead of the race, and Champion overcame lengthy hospitalisation and chemotherapy to win the National by a distance of four lengths
    Great photos Slip. 
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  • Yankee63Yankee63    41 posts
    I had moved to London and was friends with Aussies and Kiwis and we decided to go to Aintree. Got on a coach trip  all drinking away it was four hours plus.I started crowing about the Grand National and how it made the Melbourne cup look like a picnic race blah blah etc.Off course it was the year of the false start and cancellation boy what i had given them on the coach on the way there i copped a deserved tenfold on the way back down to London,can't even start a bloody horse race etc etc
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