Grand National Sweepstake 2008 - Page 5

buttonsmum · 01-04-2008, 20:26

Entwisi will have 36 please

shillelagh · 01-04-2008, 20:26

too late blackburn raver

slinky · 01-04-2008, 20:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by BLACKBURN RAVER

10 for me please if i may, after the great simon garner !!!

Buttonsmum is on 10

BLACKBURN RAVER · 01-04-2008, 20:35

see my edit on previous post

katex · 01-04-2008, 20:37

Just to say .. "Good game, Good game"

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shillelagh · 01-04-2008, 20:44

why did my speedy fingers ask about the national?

Anyway FOUR numbers left 26, 32, 34, 35.

(Check em len please just to make sure theyre right)

Some wacky bets for you from the national website:

Over the years there have been many bizarre bets on the Grand National - some winners and some losers. Here are some of our favourites:

Bingo club tycoon, Mike Fuller, who owned 2003 Grand National winner Monty's Pass, won nearly £1 million on the race. His biggest bet was £10,000 at 50/1 which earned him £500,000. So when Barry Geraghty crossed the line, Fuller landed the biggest gamble in the race's long history.

Amateur rider and optimist Peter Walker, from Blackpool, bet £10 at 1000/1 with William Hill in 1993 when he was 54 that one day he would become the oldest man ever to ride in the National.

Judy Higby from St Albans, Herts, tried to bet that the 1993 Grand National would not be run after she had a premonition. Her bookie said he'd do her a favour by not taking her money because it couldn't happen. The race was cancelled after a false-start fiasco!

Terry Ramsden staked over £100,000 on his own horse, Mr Snugfit, in 1986 and stood to win over £1 million. With three fences left Mr Snugfit, the 13-2 favourite, had most of the 20 runners in front of him but jockey Phil Tuck galvanised him so well that he passed all but three and finished in fourth place to give his owner a small profit from his each-way bets.

Headmaster Peter Rogers collected £6,000 in 1983 after betting the parents of children at his St Michael's Junior School in Kirby that he could complete the Grand National course - without a horse. He did it in 40 minutes - and donated his winnings to school funds.

In 1971, Lord Poulett, owner of The Lamb, had a dream in which his horse won the National, ridden by jockey Tommy Pickernell - so he hired Pickernell. The Lamb started 11/2 second favourite - and duly won!