[theo_luddite]

Heading into the final day of the Ladies Ice Marbles Championship ....



jjamez, ritchie and SHEP are still in with a shout.

The Ladies Six Nations Egg Chasing also kicks off today with the Motor Brummy, Brum, Brum guys in China this weekend.

[theo_luddite]

In the Womens's Curling, China beat the hosts in the Bronze Medal game but Canada rolled over the Swiss 7-3, coming back from an early 1-2 deficit, to take home the Gold Medal and the points for jjamez and SHEP.



jjamez has roared off to a brillant 4 points, taking a healthy lead before many of us have even blinked.



No brakes Norris finished behind his team mate in the breakfast time F1 in China with Crash Verstappen 2 places further back. Some bizarre post race disqualifications, including both the Prancing Horses, promoted some drivers into points they discovered they'd won, likely after a shower and post-race shandy during their team debriefs.

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France, Scotland and England won the opening Ladies Egg Chasing Championship games.

[theo_luddite]

There were originally 90 runners declared for The Grand National, obviously that was never going to happen.

Some newspapers (with almost impossible to navigate websites and nearly all owned by Retch) are saying the starting 34 have been declared.

Link to easier to read website showing silks/colours for each horse. https://www.grand-national-guide.co.uk/g...unners.php
There's still nearly 40 on this list so as the final list of runners and riders isn't officially declared until Thursday, 3rd April, before the race on Saturday 5th at 4pm, it's likely why there's still a few "spares" on this list.

[Amelia Chaffinch]

Boo. Ban it.

[theo_luddite]

In addition to the link above, the BBC "Pin Stickers Guide" is attached with the declared 34.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing...5xz39r05yo

Changes permitted up to 4pm Saturday.

Pedigree Chum By Sunday: 20-1.

[theo_luddite]

Boo. Ban it.

Folk die running marathons, I guess we should ban those too.
It is better to run a sport that is regulated, and argue about the regulations, than to try and ban a sport so it becomes unregulated, so you can't argue about the regulations, because that sport will still happen as long as folk want to participate in it.

[Amelia Chaffinch]

There's always one who tells me I'm wrong. You can enjoy watching people make horses break their necks if you want. It's all just jolly hockey sticks, isn't it.
Twisted.

[theo_luddite]

I never said I enjoy watching it. I'm normally watching a Town match for a start. It's part of the sporting calendar and its one of hundreds of similar events that happen all over the country all year that result in no fatalities what so ever. I'd like to think this will be the same this week at Aintree. This is the hardest event they participate in. Do you really think folk invest £'000s in a loved animal to see it die in front of them?

[theo_luddite]

Many, many years ago, when I were knee high to a grasshopper, somewhere along the previous days we'd (me and my bros) seen some wierd looking pickles in a jar in a local shop (supermarkets were yet to be invented) and we called them alligators eggs. Likely they were gherkins. Any road, my mum and my gran had our dad put a few pence (it wouldn't have been pounds back then) each way on Red Alligator and it won. Likely it paid for Sunday lunch that weekend, which was always Yorkshires with the roast and afters that were Yorkshires and Golden Syrup. There isn't a better dessert on this earth. If you've never tried it - demand it this weekend.

I looked it up - 1968

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Chaffers if you want to push this hard enough, a few football players have had incidents in recent years where they could have died on the pitch. More than a few supporters have had incidents where they could have died in the stands. Do we ban football as a result? Or just a horse race you don't agree with?

[theo_luddite]

The winners silks in the Aintree Donkey Derby appear to be black and amber/orange to me, though I wouldn't argue at dark chocolate either. Nobody had either colour anyway, so blanks all round. Snoots was closest with Black and Yellow.



In the mens Curling World Championships, hosts Canada, despite winning 11 of 12 games in the Round Robin games, came unstuck 7-4 against Scotland in the semi, who scraped through to the play--off with an 8-4 record for 5th place. Canada now play China for the bronze medal. Scotland will play Switzerland, who beat China 7-3. The Swiss finished 2nd in the Round Robin with a 9-3 record. That leaves Snoots as the only potential points scorer.