Unfortunate loss-of-rider for Black Apalachi. This is a horse who does well over Aintree fences and he looked great until his rider went through the windscreen. Silver Birch looked good too.
I love when so many come down to the last with a chance to win.
It’s so nice see Venetia Williams win this one – and with a first-time jockey and a one-horse owner.
The breeding quirk with the rules (not a full TB) is interesting
From The Daily Racing Form , Apr 4, 2009
The 12-length victory of the 9-year-old, trained by Venetia Williams, was engineered by Liam Treadwell in his first Grand National ride and illustrated the extraordinary dominance that French-bred horses have assumed in British jump racing.
Mon Mome, French for “My Kid,” is a son of Passing Sale, a three-time group race winner on the flat in France and Italy. The winner of the 166th Grand National, he was bred in France by Alexandre Deschere and began his career on May 2, 2004, at Pontivy in Brittany in a 1 5/8-mile flat race for AQPS horses.
AQPS is the French acronym for “other than Thoroughbred,” a stout-hearted, mostly Thoroughbred breed derived from non-Thoroughbred French-bred mares that has helped French-breds, whether AQPS or entirely Thoroughbred, take control of the British jumping world. AQPS horses are allowed to run in jump races in France and England, and the Cheltenham Gold Cup winner The Fellow was among the breed’s most notable runners.
I take it these “non-thoroughbred French-bred mares” are Selle Francais (as opposed to, oh, say, Percherons. :lol:) Don’t even Selle Francais descend from Anglo-Arabs (the emphasis here being on Anglo) ?
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I take it these “non-thoroughbred French-bred mares” are Selle Francais (as opposed to, oh, say, Percherons. :lol:) Don’t even Selle Francais descend from Anglo-Arabs (the emphasis here being on Anglo) ?[/QUOTE]
AQPS are mostly TB, the good ones in excess of 90_95%, as are the Irish bred WNTR horses. out of non-GSB mares.
Thank you – that was exactly what I was surmising.
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Thank you – that was exactly what I was surmising.[/QUOTE]
Good luck trying to enter one at Suffolk Downs though.
The BBC has said they’re sorry about the rude comment regards the winning jock’s teeth although it doesn’t seem that direct of an apology …
“The BBC and Clare apologise for any offence caused. Clare has also apologised directly to Liam Treadwell.”
Treadwell told the Daily Mail newspaper he had received a text message apology from the presenter on Saturday.
“Of course it was the wrong thing for her to say, and under normal circumstances I might have said something back, but yesterday wasn’t a normal day,” he told the paper.
[Link fixed]
Link doesn’t seem to be working?
Why bless your heart, but you’ve got it backwards…
…good luck to me trying to retire one from Suffolk Downs. 
:lol:
(As an aside, I’ll bet a lot of folks don’t know Suffolk has had hurdle races as recently as the late 90’s.)
Sorry about that - I fixed the bad link … no more references to data lines from Korea to the US … risks of doing work at the same time as posting 
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