The time has come...

So the time has come has it? According to our Prime Minister it has. Funny how the 'worst' kept secret in politics was made official and we are now headed toward a general election. Announced on a day when the weather really felt like it changed for the better...

Does Gordon quietly think that it's time to get rid of this 'shower'?

So the time has come for what exactly? Four weeks of campaigning and what will it all come to? Whoever gets elected will have a hell of a job sorting out the mess Gordon as managed...

Whoever is elected, there is one thing I'm betting on... it's gonna be tough folks! And personally I think it needs to be.

The problems have been identified, (the list is endless). Now someone needs to find the solutions. That's what this election will be about. More so than in any election I have seen before... so you 'pays your money and takes your chance'.

Which brings me onto other things... 'The Greatest Horse Race of the Year' takes place on Saturday... The Grand National. I disagree with this often quoted 'fact' but that's by the by...

Of the forty runners that will go to post, I have strong fancies for a few. (To be refined further over the next few days...), they are as follows...

Mon Mome - last years winner. Ran a cracker at Cheltenham but worried about the weight but records are there to be broken, right?

King John's Castle - second two years ago but partnered with a jockey who has already tasted victory in the race. The horse needs to produce the form of two years ago but wouldn't shock me if it did...

Character Building - won the Kim Muir in 2009 at the Festival. Top trainer. Top horse. And there is always a story that comes out of the national and this could just be it. Character Building has new owners and only a few days before the race. These same owners bought a horse previously to run in the race; in 1992, an election year. That time three days before the race. The horse was called Party Politics and it won...

With the election being announced today and their previous winner being called Party Politics... a fancied runner (of mine) being owned by the same people who have once again bought it just prior to the 'greatest' race of the year. Could the stars be aligning? (This would also be the first grey to win for fifty years and the first ridden by a woman).

Like I mentioned earlier... this race always throws up a story and Character Building could be it. I hope so... maybe the runners in the race mentioned at the start of this blog will note the name. Character 'Building' not Charcter 'Destroying'... play fair, be nice and sort this mess out.