Our exclusive racing correspondent Winterborne Longjohns picked six horses for Blog readers to \u00a0back and boost their fortunes in the Grand National on Saturday. Here’s how they fared:<\/p>\n
Out of 39 entrants, 16 finished.<\/p>\n
The last Samuri, which ended up as the 8-1 joint favourite, came 2nd.
\nHolywell fell at the 2nd fence
\nSt Are was in the lead for a period, but faded
\nThe Druid’s Nephew pulled up at the 21st fence.
\nKruzhinin pulled up at the 27th fence
\nMany Clouds finished 16th<\/p>\n
A modest \u00a32.50 each way bet on each horse would have cost \u00a330 and returned \u00a310.<\/p>\n
As the advertisements say, when it stops being fun, STOP.<\/p>\n
But Winterborne will be back with more selections soon – we hope. -ED<\/em><\/p>\n PS Your editor recouped his losses – and more- by successfully betting Winterborne on the name of the celebrity involved in the much-hyped “three in a bed scandal”. Payment is eagerly anticpated.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our exclusive racing correspondent Winterborne Longjohns picked six horses for Blog readers to \u00a0back and boost their fortunes in the Grand National on Saturday. Here’s how they fared: Out of 39 entrants, 16 finished. The last Samuri, which ended up as the 8-1 joint favourite, came 2nd. Holywell fell at the 2nd fence St Are … Continue reading “Winterborne Longjohns in the National – 2nd Place”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-1cs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4621,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions\/4621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}