Grand National Blog

Following his victory in Saturdays becher chase, ran over 3m2f of the Aintree Grand National course and fences, Mr Pointment shot to the head of the 2008 Grand National betting.Is Mr Pointments 16/1 quote from Bluesq to win the Grand National justified? Can the Becher chase lead us to the 2008 Grand National winner? Discuss!!
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One of the hard luck stories from the 2007 Grand National undoubtedly belonged to the John Spearing trained and Mercy Rimell owned gelding, Simon.
The eight year old had jumped particularly well until coming to grief with only six fences to negotiate. He appeared to have plenty left in reserve at the time of his fall and many people will be [...]

State of Play, 2006 Hennessy winner and runner up in this year’s Charlie Hall Chase,  may have seemed an obvious candidate for the Grand National but he must be considered a very doubtful runner according to a quote from his trainer.
Evan Williams recently stated that “…he owes us nothing and will never run in a Grand [...]

Punters thinking of having an ante post bet on current Grand National joint favourite Hot Weld could be forced to think again after the recent comments of trainer Ferdy Murphy.
 The 8 year old was the star of the stable last season winning the Scottish National and Bet Fred Gold Cup but Murphy has signalled a [...]

Jonjo O’Neill and Tony McCoy have both recently been expressing their delight at the prospect of last year’s Irish Grand National winner Butler’s Cabin tackling the English version of the race.
McCoy was quoted recently as saying: “The Grand National is the one race that still eludes me, but in Butler’s Cabin I reckon, if he [...]