the scottish national 2011 VFb Pointers

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Vfb Gives a great insight into the Scottish grand national and thought would start putting up some stats as there is no worthwhile racing today.

All you have to know is what what it and have done that for you - Merigo was my selection - well the Vfb really but you need to know the stats and here they are ;-

 Based on the trends from the past 10 years you are looking for a horse:

             Based on the trends from the past 10 years you are looking for a horse:

·         Aged 7 to 10

·         Carrying 10-9 or less

·         officially rated 143 or lower

·         Finished in the first 6 last time and posted their highest RPR

·         Won over 3M+

·         Won a class 3 or better chase worth £15K+

·         Run at least 10 times over fences

·         Run 3 to 6 times this season

·         Course winner (or having first start at Ayr)

·         Had first career start in a bumper or hurdles race

·         Bypassed Cheltenham and Aintree this season

• ·       Winner of the previous season eider (newish trend !)

·         Finished in first 7 in this season’s Hennessy Gold Cup

·         Ran in the Grimthorpe or Somerset National last time

·         Trained by Ferdy Murphy (not so sure of this year’s form for the yard)

·         Priced 12/1 or above

  more later in the week but start looking!

 Bob