Hi all.

First up a show of hands for who is available for comms this week/end.

A second showing of hands needed for who wants to participate in a group calling of the Grand National?

As mentioned in another thread, the GN will be - (fences) 30 divided by X callers = ?
Stop your call approx. half way between your last fence and the first fence for the next caller and jot down the time you stop your call.
Then email your audio and stop time to Gray
This should be Ben Hur HUGE........or bigger than biggest thing you can think of

I'll be free to do calls this weekend. I'll do Day 2 &3 flat (unless someone wants to jump in and do some calls those days... If so, then I want to call Lingfield, but the others would be free to pick from).

And I'll be participating in the GN call.


Hopefully I'll have some more runaway winners this week. All these close finishes don't let me come up with creative calls for the finish.

Yep those close finishes are hard to call lol
2 and 3 of the flat should be cool.

I'll do 5 NH races on Wed and the National. You can pick which ones.

Nick - Can you please do the last five races on the Wednesday.
Thanks

Keep watching this thread for GN Comms updates.

I will be running the national has it falls in my races so I will call 1st has I will have the Video already will see how long its is so if its over 10mins which going by Paul Morse Chase at Cheltenham it will be I will do it to close to the 2min has possible I will then right down in this thread what time I stopped say 2min 2seconds then the next com can give a Second Space and Start at 2min 4second

So

1st Caller Gray Time:

Last Caller Doug

so just needs to fill where the other callers want to Call Remember it will be Tuesday races.


Gray

Gray, here's the link from the GN exhibition race earlier in the year for reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nIaznD ... e=youtu.be

From the race start (1.05) and two mins into the race (3.05) pretty much landed you at Foinavon which will give you seven fences.
If it stays at four callers then I propose two callers do seven fences and the other two, eight fences.
If Marty or Steve are available then six fences each or five fences each.

I like the idea of you starting the call, Gray. You will give good insight to the runners backgrounds before the off and set the scene nicely for the rest of us

Maybe turn the volume down on the exhibition race and just get a feel of 40 horse names bouncing around during that first two mins of the race.

Ok the Grand National is 11Mins and 31 seconds long

1st Com Gray 3min 21Seconds I handed over to Nick at that Time.

Gray

Sounds good, Gray.

Do you know what jump that takes you too? Is it Foinavon?

I can do my lot this morning. Am I doing 7 or 8 fences in the middle?

Yep, I've done from the canal turn to after the Chair. Mine cuts out at 06.05 although the next conmentator has about 3 seconds until the water jump lol.

Nick go with 7 fences please.

Ok Thanks Nick.

Mike - You start just before the water jump and down to and including Foinavon - then I'll call from somewhere before the Canal jump to the finish.

Drop a note in here when you have finished your section.

Thanks

Finished through Foinavon.. Time of 8:26.

All to you!