Bought down by On His Own who was having his 7th start over fences. The connections particularly will be distraught. Mullins frequently sends out horses too inexperienced (The Midnight Club last year, Dooneys Gate fatally, Homer Wells pulled up and never the same again)

Made this list as part of my trends analysis, Horse/Number of chase starts/Result. This is the bottom of the table.

Tharawaat 12 Fell
Giles Cross 12 Fell
Always Right 11 Fell
Becauseicouldntsee 11 Fell
Midnight Haze 10 Last
Synchronised 9 Fell
Weird Al 9 Fell
Shakalakaboomboom  9 9th
Junior 8 Fell
Quiscover Fontaine 7 Fell
On His Own 6 Fell
Cappa Bleu 6 4th
Viking Blond 5 Fell

Why did Richie McLernon only use the whip twice on Sunnyhillboy and then put his whip down til he was passed? Extremely poor ride.

I said earlier in the thread, if I had a Group class horse I wouldn't send it to the National. Ridiculous. They need to make the prize money less than G1 races to stop attracting chancers, horses competing must have run over 10 times over fences, won a class 2 chase over 3m minimum and placed in a race with more than 12 runners that season as well as having run at least 3 times. The number of horses needs to be dropped to 30, the start needs to be moved closer to the first as well and raise the minimum age to 9.

Do all of that and Synchronised wouldn't have been able to run, State of Play (who brought down two) wouldn't have run, Weird Al (looking like he wont make it) wouldn't qualify, West End Rocker (fell), On His Own (fell), Always Right (fell), Organisedconfusion (fell), Arbor Supreme (refused), Killyglen (fell), Quiscover (fell), Becauseicouldntsee (fell) etc. etc.

Spot a pattern? The trends are undeniable. These were my predictions: not sure what odds would have been on it...

Woah woah woah

I give seabass all the credit in the world and well done to anyone who made each way money off him!!he ran better than i expected him to but the fact remains i was right about him - he was never going to win that race and i cannot believe neptune collonges was 33/1 with form he had on offer hence why i threw a few quid on him and a couple of orher big prices!!!

I may get shot at for being sexist but one of main things putting me off seabass was the jockey!! Katie walsh is a good jockey and she rides thousand stars great among others but the fact remains that women are at a serious disadvantage against men over that kind of marathon!it is a scientific fact and seabass under ruby or ap, for example, would have gone mighty close!!

... and Synchronised just proves to what I have always thought that NO gold cup winner will ever repeat what Golden Miller did in the 30's, he was exceptional!!!

But they always say the GN favours a 2 and a half mile horse and in reality, Seabass has been this. Great training performance though from Walsh considering Seabass' last race was a win in a 2mile Grade 2!