Nil Desperandum I LOVE to sing, I love to dance, But, at my age, I've missed my chance.
Situated on the south-west corner of the Curragh Training Grounds, near the army's Curragh Camp, Clifton Lodge covers more than ten acres, including a four-bedroom house, and was home to Crowley's 2005 Irish 1,000 Guineas heroine Saoire, as well as Grade 1 chasers Sackville, Moscow Express and
Nil Desperandum.
A second boat,
Nil Desperandum 111, with four crew, went to help but it also ran aground.
Last year she looked to have her best chance of ending that run, with the ill-fated ante-post favourite
Nil Desperandum.
Nil desperandum: don't despair For we, the voters, do not care; Why, given half a chance, we would Do what they, so blithely, could.
THE prospect of a sixthIrish- trained winner of the John Smith's Grand National in nine years has crept even closer following the demise of ante-post favourite
Nil Desperandum.
Heavily backed Little Brick broke a shoulder at Cheltenham on Tuesday and had to be destroyed and the same fate befell ante-post favourite
Nil Desperandum who fractured a leg early in the Uttoxeter race.
But the race was marred when
Nil Desperandum, favourite for the Aintree spectacular, broke a leg after jumping the eighth fence.
BARON WINDRUSH gave a game staying performance to win the John Smith's Midlands Grand National at Uttoxeter in a race overshadowed by the loss of
Nil Desperandum.
Five horses - Billyvoddan, Crozan, Kill Devil Hill,
Nil Desperandum and Our Vic - were withdrawn at the final declaration stage.
Ante-post favourite
Nil Desperandum heads a total of 106 horses still engaged in the John Smith's Grand National after the first forfeit stage.
JOHN Smith's Grand National favourite
Nil Desperandum is set to have his mettle tested at the highest level when taking on Kauto Star in the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup.