Big Buck's at Aintree was imperious. I love it how Tom Scudamore is riding for all his worth on Grands Crus and Ruby is sitting motionless adjusting his goggles!! Absolutely brilliant. Whoever got the 3/1 with William Hill about him going unbeaten has done well for themselves.
Oddy: Ah well, thought it might be too good to be true. But I sure don't begrudge what I pay them monthly, well worth every penny for me. Can plug Filmon into TV too (when missus ain't around!). Find Filmon a pretty straightforward outfit actually. Watch a lot of stuff on UK TV apart from the sport. Owls doing well BTW, R's lost to the bluddy Canaries (met my missus in Norfolk, don't ask me what she was doing there).
try TVCATCHUP, has all the terrestrial channels and more on there not sure if it will work in Aussie Land though!
I'm building up a few in a Notebook file on my desktop for easy reference. Each time I see a new one I like I add it in. If you see one you like, just right click on it and copy image URL and save it in a file (see above). Then there are 2 ways of using it: 1. When you want to add the smiley, copy the smiley code from your file (Ctrl + C), place the cursor where you want the smiley, select Insert Image and paste your smiley code in the box provided (Ctrl + V). Preview and you should see the smiley. 2. Once you have done this, if you look at what you are about to post, you will see that your smiley code has had " please log in to view this image " place at the end. If you save this whole string, then you can just copy this into your post each time you want to use the smiley. I store them as in 2 for convenience. Let me know if it doesn't work.
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He's already shortened up to 7/4, after yesterday's steering job at 1/6. Im not worried about the world hurdle, as he will go there in top condition, I do worry slightly about Aintree though, as its very soon after Cheltenham, and at 9 he's not getting any younger, particularly being French bred. I'm still very happy though with the 3/1, I wouldn't want to be laying any more than evens personally
3/1 does seem like a steal. Aintree would appear the obvious sticking point but that said he has possibly been most impressive there. I think this year, where he toyed with Grands Crus, was probably his most impressive performance. Very hard to see him being beaten this year to be honest. I definitely wouldn't lay evens, that's like saying it is equally likely that doesn't go unbeaten which I don't think is a true reflection of his superiority. He is surely more likely to be unbeaten.
It probably was visually his best performance, though I'm not entirely convince Grands Crus was in the same condition for that race, as he was when he gave him a tougher race at Cheltenham. I feel Big Bucks just recovered alot quicker than Grands Crus after there exploits at Cheltenham. That said I suppose that's another positive for Big Bucks, the fact he has proven he can handle both races, 3 weeks apart, on 3 separate occasions already. So far he has proved to be the perfect racehorse, over 3 mile hurdles, he has the biggest engine of any horse I have seen, he goes on any type of ground, and he's incredibly consistent, if he can maintain that form, then there is nothing that can beat him. Fingers crossed
Absolutely agree. He is exceptional in every way. If you were designing the perfect 3m hurdler then he comes pretty close. I think the difference between Cheltenham and Aintree was that Tom Scudamore came late at Cheltenham. This meant that Big Buck's was unable to really convert his true superiority because the pace was weak and nothing was able to even challenge him until Grands Crus came to him at the last. At Aintree Scudamore challenged earlier which took Big Buck's away from the rest of the field, and got to the bottom of Grands Crus, therefore leading to a far more visually impressive performance. Big Buck's is never going to go right away and win by 20 lengths so it takes another horse to come clear of the field with him for him to win impressively. The Cheltenham race could not have been run to suit Big Buck's any less and yet he was still a comfortable winner. If he could win that day against a very good horse in Grands Crus then I cannot see him being beaten any time soon.
Sorry Swan, I thought you wanted the run smiley so I thought I'd show you how to get any smiley. Oh well might be useful to someone. I've taken some of those off.
If you drill straight down from Blighty, you’ll end up somewhere in the Pacific off the coast of New Zealand, so the ex-convicts would be a bit of a swim.
