A bit late now, I should have started this thread last night to ask for some tips but fuck it, how did you lot do this year?

My pre-race tips were 'Shakkalakka Boom Boom' and 'Giles Cross'. I've got a mate called Alan who's a bit weird so we all had a punt on 'Weird Al'. My longshot bet went on 'Swing Bill'.

Didn't win a fucking bean. I was cheering the winner on because I thought it was Swing Bill (my 125/1 longshot punt). I'd heard the commentator say Swing Bill was still in it and I could only see one grey horse. Felt a cunt when I realized it was Neptune Collonges. I didn't have any big stakes on any of them, I lost about £100 in total.

How'd you do?

My Dad had a tenner on the winner. He bought at least 6 "Sun" newspapers for the €5 free bets and added a €5 of his own. I think he had at least four horses backed at the end of the day. Cheating bastard.

I had a tenner each way on 'Junior'. The cunt fell at the second.

A real anti-climax when you are out of it that early!!

Since we're talking about horses

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/04 ... 96797.html

That's infinitely more interesting than the Grand National. I'm not really a gambling man (unless you include banging skanks without protection cos that's the way I rollllllll) but I'd definitely put some money on competitive equine police rape.

I had a fiver each way on cappa bleu and west end rocker won a whole fiver.

It would be better if we were allowed to gamble on how many horses die.

The course is too soft. It should be designed so that only one horse is left at the finish.

In Southampton that's a threesome a scummer a copper and a fence.

I'm pretty sure I got copper and fence but what the fuck is a scummer??

Then again I could be totally off. Fuckin brits.

Haven't been to a horse race in a while though they do have to harness tracks nearby. Now that casinos are legal here one of them is opening up soon with both a track plus slots and tables. Gonna have to give it a go when it does open.

A scummer is a resident of the vile village or Southampton as they like to call it.

Was there some sort of theft of jobs at the docks by residents of Southampton years back that led to this hatred or is that a bollocks rumour and it's all just down to footy?

Urban myth Fred.