backing horses by name

[Pickman's model]

imagine the following line-up:

elfin laughter
trolley dodger
another baileys
shergy
eight sharp
pipers glen
three arch bridge

which horse would you back, and why?

 

[Greebo]

Eight sharp, for a couple of reasons which are extremely personal. I could explain publicly, but then I'd have to kill you.

BTW why do you ask?

 

[Pickman's model]

Greebo just curious. i'd have gone for another baileys, just because the name seemed right.

 

[Greebo]

<snip> i'd have gone for another baileys, just because the name seemed right.

Fair enough - not into cream liqueurs.

 

[marty21]

and Trolley Dodger wins the national!

I can imagine that being said

 

[The Boy]

Pipers Glen. Cos I used to work in a bookies where every single punter would back anything with a vaguely Scottish sounding name.

 

[wiskey]

I'm drawn to Another Baileys , but I'm wondering what happened to the first Baileys

So I'll have Pipers Glen.

 

[Spymaster]

Pipers Glen.

Sounds like a decent single malt.

 

[8ball]

Elfin laughter, owing to the market moves so far on this thread.

 

[hot air baboon]

shergy sounds a bit like Shergar..

( and would possibly taste like it aswell )

 

[JTG]

Diabetic Charlie 3-1 favourite, Two Headed Sex Beast 4-1, and at 20-1 Mrs Boothroyd's Holiday Dancer. All the rest, 50-1 bar. I did have a tip - I was going to tip Union's Lad, but his horsebox was hit by a Volvo on the M3. Terrible mess, apparently he's dead. So bad luck there.

Onion Terror 2-1 favourite, 7-4 Massive Bereavement, 100-30 Trust Me I'm A Stomach. All the rest, 3-1 bar.

 

[Greebo]

JTG Two Headed Sex Beast and Onion Terror please!

 

[JTG]

Zeinab Badawi's Twenty Hotels is my hot tip

 

[Voley]

Hello again, the 6.30 delayed due to a collapsed paddock, but they're sorting that out. Men and women here wandering about like ants on an anthill. Good to see Platitude Queen, a renowned... horse, well known for its sense of humour.

 

[JTG]

And now the football scores:

Division Two
Hull Paragraph 5 Portsmouth Bubblejet 1
Sheffield Hysterical 3 Chunky Norwich 1
Richmond Arithmetic v Nottingham Marjorie - match postponed due to a a bent pitch

 

[hot air baboon]

...is Newmark's Selfie running...?

 

[Voley]

I'd forgotten about 'Chunky Norwich'.

 

[JTG]

Sheffield Bonanza 1 Dynamo Aberdare 4
Manchester Coherent 2 Jill Morell 2
And the match between Taste of Dunfermline and Strathcarnage cannot be stopped

 

[DotCommunist]

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[8115]

I'll have a pound on Trolley Dodger please. Because it's the funniest name.

Why, you getting a horse?

 

[stavros]

I laughed out loud this morning, when one of the tips on the Today programme was called Geography Teacher.

 

[MrSki]

The only time I ever had the winner in the National was Papillon. Only picked it cos I enjoyed the book/film. Tis a lottery anyhow and was about time one of my picks came in.

I don't bet anymore but went more by the jockeys colours or the number of the horse. (Hence why I gave up betting!)

 

[Badgers]

trolley dodger

 

[stavros]

I think it's the first scene of the first episode of Father Ted where Ted is listening to the radio, cheering on a horse called Divorce Referendum.