Have just read Alastair Down’s 2015 Cheltenham Gold Cup article again in the @RacingPost . OMG! Sheer poetry ! But of course we racing fans would know that. I reckon we have been so lucky to have him … I hope he has written his own obituary ( now that will be some read!) 😂

Very strange ! Oddschecker.com odds on 2:45pm Happy Valley today - horse No4 Giddy Up not included in list of runners by bookies ( do they copy each others odds without checking the field ? Current odds around 8/1

The race will still be promoted as the Greatest Race in the world and many more people will probably now watch. @Ruby_Walsh on @itvracing summed it up perfectly after the event. The world moves on

Race was even more exciting than ever. The majority of people who watched the race on @itvracing and who had a flutter would have loved watching. No one wants to watch a spectacle where some horses are racing around with 3 legs or the jockeys have been flattened like pancakes

For the traditionalists and doom sayers that say The Grand National has become just another race get into the real world. I can honestly say from someone that has watched the GN from the year dot and seen the race live on more occasions than I would like to remember, this years

That is some performance by California Spangle in the Sprint in Dubai … also breaking track record. Remember this is a galloper who just got beat in the HK Derby in 2022. Horse of a lifetime and some training performance by Tony Cruz