Second place may well go to the Gold Cup in Cheltenham, which is certainly very popular amongst the Irish and locals. With a lot of the multi-day racing festivals, Ladies Day is quite the party, I'm told.
Errm, Siasl...Mrs P-K politely asks me to ask you what's all this guff about "second place may well go to the Gold Cup in Cheltenham"? As an ex-Cheltenham College for Ladies gel she has exceptionally fond and startlingly vivid memories of bunking over the college walls to continue her education by attending the Cheltenham Gold Cup on many an occasion.
Equally. hordes of innocent race-goers and assorted paddies at the Cheltenham Gold Cup have vivid memories of her majestically upside down, legs waving, Janet Reager knickers akimbo, in the iced champagne barrel in the Moet Chandon hospitality tent at Chelters.
She swears that, by comparison, the boring and staid Grand National is nothing compared to the Cheltenham Gold Cup...the CGC is, and always incontrovertibly has been, Britain's most esteemed and most glorious answer to the Melbourne Cup, especially in the booze swilling stakes for pedigree fillies.