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Hi everyone,

Please add all your non Grand National related tips and trends etc for May to this page

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The dust has settled on Neptune Collonges’ amazing victory in the 2012 Grand National so its time to start airing our early thoughts for Grand National 2013. Paul Nicholls’ gallant grey will not be back to defend his title as he has been retired but a number of the placed horses look likely to return [...]

Hi Everyone With all the problems we have had with the blog recently and with the growth in discussion and number of regulars being way more than we originally planned we have decided to start a forum to allow you to interact more easily and also start your own topics I’ve made an attempt to [...]

Please use this page to continue your discussion on the Scottish Grand National Previous Winners A good place to start is to look at the basic details of the last ten previous winners: Scottish National Winners/Age/Weight/SP/Official Rating 2011 Beshabar 9-10-4 15/2 146 2010 Merigo 9-10-0 18/1 127 2009 Hello Bud 11-10-9 12/1 133 2008 Iris [...]

Hi everyone, Please use this page to discuss general racing, including the upcoming meetings at Ayr, Sandown and Punchestown. I will set up a designated Scottish National thread in the next few minutes

Please add all your thoughts on this year’s Grand National to this page. We will open up a thread for the 2013 Grand National within the next fortnight. I will open a specific Scottish National thread later on today

A big thank you once again to all our contributors for an excellent year of analysis of the Grand National. From the stalwarts who are still here in May or June to all our new friends who have found us for the first time in the last few days we really do appreciate all your [...]

The 2012 Grand National moves ever closer with the announcement of the 48 hours declarations and the somewhat surprising withdrawls of Welsh National winner Le Beau Bai and double Topham Chase victor Always Waining. This leaves the way clear for veteran Hello Bud and Brian Ellison’s Neptune Equester to make the top forty declarations that [...]

The six-day acceptors for the 2012 Grand National have been announced with forty-eight horses standing their ground. The following horses were taken out at the six day stage: Midnight Chase, Burton Port, Quel Esprit, Roberto Goldback, Apt Approach, Psycho, Pearlysteps, Prince de Beauchene, Roulez Cool, The Package and Another Palm. Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Synchronised [...]