2011 Grand National

Saturday 9 April 2011 - 1st Ballabriggs, 2nd Oscar Time, 3rd Don't Push It, 4th State Of Play

[@waqarkhan25]

this turned out to be the BBC's penultimate Televised The Grand National

[@waqarkhan25]

since you told me it was sunset & vine camera angle the second time around Valentine you could not see the winner Ballabriggs even when the BBC rerun analyzing what happen to your horses they still didn't show the show that fence from the road car camera

[@youssefeltawab2705]

Grey horse jockey try to other horse congratulate win grand national

[@theracingdemon3141]

Ballabriggs's stablelad got in the way of the jockey trying to congratulate Maguire.

[@youssefeltawab2705]

@@theracingdemon3141 every horse race congratulations win grand national it is other jockey said well done to maguier

[@susc04]

This was the last National, it was an ugly 1st 6 fences but the reward was a 4 mile hurdle race,

[@theracingdemon3141]

I thought they left the complete levelling of Bechers to after the 2012 running.

[@susc04]

@@theracingdemon3141 yeah your right but i always think of this one as the beginning of the end of the true National

[@leroyjoseph6896]

Fences got changed after this race

[@theracingdemon3141]

I think they got changed after the 2012 race... because of the deaths of Synchronized and According To Pete.

[@TheMeepUsesTheDefiniteArticle]

I remember thinking this National was a little uneventful at the time...how things change...imagine saying to someone in 2011 that there'd be 4 jockeys on the deck in the "world's greatest horse race". What a sorry state of affairs we're in. The protestors aren't happy (they want the race to stop), the majority of fairweather fans are now indifferent (most people don't care about the actual stories of the horses/trainers/jockeys, they just watch for the carnage), and the real racing fans are also left feeling like their one shining star that brought the nation together is all but dead. Horrible world we live in. Nobody being happy is the woke way to keep us all in line

[@theracingdemon3141]

I was reading through comments on the Racing Forum. Much of the spectating public seems to have accepted the nature of the race now...I think they are the kinds of new racing folk that the BHA had encouraged in thru years of marketing. Its a group that the old Jockey Club would not have bothered reaching out to. But this new group is indifferent to the original point of steeplechasing: to test horsemanship and jumping. So, this group may well enjoy their day out and win some money perhaps but, as you say, they may not follow the trainers, jockeys and are not interested in the stories. If we get another horse that wins the GN three times, he won't be celebrated nearly as much as Red Rum, and we know that Red Rum's accomplishment was over a much tougher course.