Today was the Grand National. A race I both love and hate. It's fantastic to see all the horses at their best and racing but really awful when they fall, hurt themselves or as horrid as it can get never make it back to the stables. The horses definatly look like they are enjoying it all. The winner today was a horse called Neptune Collonges!!! One that obviously I didn't bet on!! The horse I bet on for Benjamin, called Sea bass, came in third - but again I did not bet 'each way' so no money for us.
There was sadness though as two horse had to be put down on the course! One of them was 'according to Pete' which was really sad. Tamsyn said that now dad has his own race horse on his cloud with him :-)
Daisy's horse who was leading right up until the last fence was beaten and I don't think we had a single winner in the family this year. They have decided to investigate whether another race should be held next year due to two horses dying this year and two last year and many before that so we shall see........! it's the Marathon next week, so another day of watching others run whilst I think 'I should be doing that!!!!' but it's raing so i'll stay here on the sofa hehe
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