To make the final shortlist, our remaining competitors must now pass 5 tests. Firstly, they must have won over 3m. Secondly they must have won a handicap. Thirdly they must have won a race worth 30K. Fourthly, they must now be racing off a handicap mark within 10lbs of their last winning mark. Lastly, experience counts for a lot in the National, so if your fancy hasn’t run at least 10 times over fences, they will struggle.<\/p>\n
So let’s get rid of horses who haven’t won over 3m: Last Time D’Albain goes here.<\/p>\n
Secondly, we have to rid ourselves horses that haven’t won a handicap as they don’t win Grand Nationals: Quito De La Roque, Wayward Prince, Teafrothree, Burton Port and Hawkes Point. A good chopping of 5 there..<\/p>\n
The next criteria is a big one. Horses must have proven ability in big races. They prove this by winning a race worth 30k or more. Let’s rid ourselves of those who haven’t got the class: Across the Bay, Pineau Du Re, Shakalakaboomboom, Lost Glory and One in a Milan.<\/p>\n
We are now down to the final 6: Colbert Station, Balthazar King, Lion Na Bernai, Monbeg Dude, Chance Du Roy and Raz De Maree. Of these, Colbert Station has still only had 9 chase runs so he has to go, leaving us with 5 to choose from.<\/p>\n
By using the stats, we have whittled the field down to 5 from 40. I’m pretty certain the winner will come from these and on Saturday, I’ll reveal the 3 horses that I shall be backing to win the Grand National 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Shortlist Finalised To make the final shortlist, our remaining competitors must now pass 5 tests. Firstly, they must have won over 3m. Secondly they must have won a handicap. Thirdly they must have won a race worth 30K. Fourthly, they must now be racing off a handicap mark within 10lbs of their last winning mark. Lastly, experience\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortunepalace.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}