If you want to view last years discussion on the subject click here (http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=243) - progress on the developments around the ground can be viewed here (http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=2372).

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This years event will take place between the 12-14th April 2007.

The Grand National is the most valuable National Hunt handicap horse race in the United Kingdom. It is the biggest betting race in the United Kingdom, and is popular amongst many people who do not normally watch or bet on horse racing at other times of the year.

Should have a few animal rights people joining soon :rolleyes:

Neigh!

It's all horse play to me :034:

Nowt to get long in the face about.

THE Grand National will pump a record £10m into Merseyside’s economy next month. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/liverpooldailypost/news/regionalnews/tm_headline=cash-records-set-to-fall-as-visitors-flock-to-national%26method=full%26objectid=18817406%26sitei d=50061-name_page.html)

The whole thing seems to revolve around pretty girls in large hats these days.

Its well and truly here peeps; Are they marketing it as a WAGs event? Seems that way on the news and in the papers.....

Bets taken so far include the colour of Coleen's hat, how many horses will die and if it will rain. 1976 saw only 6000 attend. John McCririck once said Liverpool people didn't deserve the race.

With the 2 new grandstands officially opened yesterday, there were in excess of 30,000 racegoers, 50,000 expected today and over 70,000 tomorrow. Everyone living in Melling Road gets a free ticket for the inconvenience on race weekend and after the good people of the area took in all those strangers on the bomb hoax day, a super spread was laid out as a thank you a few weeks later by the race organisers. Source. Radio Merseyside throughout yesterday.

ps. I've got two donkeys in the works sweep. Simon and (no, not Garfunkel) but Slim Pickings.

The good news is - they are running today to give them a head start.

I wonder if anyone will see Tom Slemen's 'ghost rider' :eek: :rolleyes:

I've no time for the new stand seeing as they took part of the racing circuit to build it...mind you it will be packed in Matthew Street tonight with ladies in their sunday best! :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

So its still a race with horses then and fellas go too? I'm shocked :eek:

Shame that the way the media represent it is with images such as:

http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/article/11857443.jpeg

http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/article/11857582.jpeg

and here's another thing, whenever the sun comes out and its gonna be warm do we get pics like this:

http://static.sky.com/images/pictures/1522741.gif

http://static.sky.com/images/pictures/1522741.gif

Kev, is that a pic of 2 of the Gormley chaps?

I only live 5 mins away,and when i went shopping this morning,the girls are out in force, :handclap: i must say,they looked very elegant-all the hats and heels............wish it was me , I'm jealous......Lol
Jacky:)

Kev, is that a pic of 2 of the Gormley chaps?

Yes there's two less on the beach now they've ran off together, they might even have a baby gormley :PDT_Xtremez_42:

I'm jealous......Lol
Jacky:)

Yes, me too - I wanted the hats and heels. :PDT10

The whole thing seems to revolve around pretty girls in large hats these days.

I think it should be large girls in pretty hats then I could go ^_^''

Why Isn't horse racing popular until the Grand Nationals on?

The people who organize the National and Skinny Jockies need snakes to eat their faces for what happens to the horses.

Their must be a summoning spell somewhere to summon snakes.

I'd prefer to summon cats though, I'm a cat person.

My white cat Astrid If she was the size of a tiger would eat their faces.

Okay.. this race isn't taking place in a regular arena (I am assuming, by reading these posts?)

I love a good race.. but, if this is a no-bards .. run the horses to bits race..:disgust: then... Shameful to the overwealthy participants..

I would like to learn more about it.. Is there a link to it..??? ta

If all the ladies are running around the city in Pretty Hats, etc.. .... then, maybe you can place a bet on the prettiest hat... ha ha ha...:unibrow:

They were running bets of the colour of Colleens hat yesterday, then she turns up with no hat at all.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/images/2007/04/13/014_353x470.jpg (http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/images/2007/04/13/014_353x470.jpg)

I hope the lucky pin I stuck in the echo will work today. The horse I backed last year was last seen pulling a milk float down Kensington (I think Ernie was driving it.)

Trigger ! that's what it was called .

All eyes on Liverpool and our special year!

Just been watching Saturday Kitchen and they did a small feature from Liverpool about wines and mentioned our 800th birthday!

Okay.. this race isn't taking place in a regular arena (I am assuming, by reading these posts?)

I would like to learn more about it.. Is there a link to it..??? ta


It takes place at Aintree Racecourse.

http://www.grand-national-world.co.uk/gnw/the_race/history.html

They were running bets of the colour of Colleens hat yesterday, then she turns up with no hat at all.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/images/2007/04/13/014_353x470.jpg (http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/images/2007/04/13/014_353x470.jpg)

Whats the big deal with women and hats In the Grand National?

Why do people dress up fancy to only watch a few horse races?

Silver Birch won,another victory for the Irish,there wasn't much in it though.

It takes place at Aintree Racecourse.

http://www.grand-national-world.co.uk/gnw/the_race/history.html

Thanks for that informative literature.. It all comes clearer now... ta ra...:PDT11

Slim Pickings as I mentioned earlier in the thread - so I got third in the sweep in work - £25 for a two quid bet, not bad.

LIVERPOOL was the big winner during this year’s Grand National at Aintree, earning more than £17m for the local economy. Read (http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2007/09/03/liverpool-biggest-winner-at-the-grand-national-64375-19725348/)