Grand National Blog

Hi Everyone,

Please use this page for all your chat and tips regarding horseraces and sporting events as we move into the Autumn.

Please, please, please don’t forget though we are a Grand National blog and do remember to start adding some early thoughts on the Grand National 2011.

ALso, if you have any ideas for pages relating to the Grand National or the upcomiing NH Season (Yippee!!!!) then please let me know and we will see what we can do.

Thanks for you support

The Kerry National at Listowel is due to be run on Wednesday 15th September and is likely to contain a number of potential long-term entrants for the Grand National 2011. Last year’s Kerry National was a very competitive affair with Tony Martin’s Northern Alliance eventually running out a one length winner from subsequent Bet365 Gold [...]

Hi Everyone, Please use this thread for all your thoughts on the upcoming York meeting, the USPGA golf or the premiership football – but don’t forget to keep your focus primarily on the Grand National 2011 – we need any thoughts you may have on the type of horse we should be looking for next [...]

So Tony McCoy will finally be free of the questions as to when he is going to win the Grand National? Can he make it two wins in two years? Will Denman really turn up? If he does we could have the bizarre situation of Don’t Push It running in the race the year after [...]

Hi Everyone, I’ve adapted the text below from last year’s analysis of the Galway Plate and I’ll try and move some of the relevant posts from the Market Rasen thread over to this one later today (if the software will let me!): The title here may raise a few eyebrows as the Galway Plate may [...]

This race may not have a huge bearing on the Grand National but with decent National Hunt races a rarity during the Summer I thought it would be a good idea if we turned our thoughts to the jumping game by having a look at this race. These are the previous winners I can find [...]

Hi everyone, Please use this thread for the rest of the Newmarket July meeting, the upcoming Glorious Goodwood meeting and any other big flat race you may want to talk about in the near future.

I’m glad to say that lots of our Grand National contributors are staying with us throughout the summer and so we are opening up this ‘general’ thread to allow you to continue to chat about upcoming flat races not covered by actual posts (as with The Derby) or if you want to discuss other sporting [...]

As our Newmarket and Epsom meeting threads have been such a success it seems only sensible to open up a page for the biggest meeting of the flat calendar, Royal Ascot. The majority of bookmakers are already betting on eight of the races taking place between the Tuesday 15th and Saturday 20th June at Ascot [...]

I’ve adapted an earlier post from 2008 on the Summer National – I hope it gives some help to those of you chomping at the bit (like me) for a bit of decent jump racing… The Summer National at Uttoxeter is an oasis for jumps fans in a sea of flat racing and, more importantly [...]