Grand National Blog

Its been mentioned on several threads on this blog already that you should simply put a line through all French breds running in the Grand National. Why? Well the argument is that one hasn’t won since 1909.
But I would urge you not to be so hasty. French breds do stay!
Since 1994 French breds [...]

No Beef?
Beef Or Salmon looks set to have his target changed from the Grand National to the Irish alternative at Fairyhouse after connections were disappointed at being allocated the welter burden of 11st 12lb.
Michael Hourigan’s 12 year old would have been asked to shoulder top weight and that did look a very tall order at this stage [...]

Last Saturday saw a large number of Grand National entrants having one of their last runs before the big race in April.
Tear up your Ante-Post tickets?
However, anyone holding an ante -post voucher for most of the horses sighted at the weekend must be wishing they could have a refund as the displays of horses to [...]

Thanks to all of you who have contributed to the GN Weights thread and suggested ideas as to how we can cut the runners down.
Now that there are a few of us on the site I thought it would be nice to try and work together to see if we can form a small field [...]

The announcement of the Grand National weights has seen the usual clamour for value start in earnest but some of the gambles seem a little off beam to me.
Beef Or Salmon? Neither, thanks!
Strangest of all is the news that a couple of firms indicate that there has been money for top weight Beef Or Salmon. [...]

Over rated? Steady on…..
How can I say such a thing?
He won three Grand Nationals and was runner up on two further occasions so Red Rum was undoubtedly a class act around Aintree but does he deserve to be revered almost as a national (no pun intended) treasure?
I know all about the weight carrying performances and [...]

The entries for the Grand National have seen many trainers come out in positive terms with regards to their Aintree ambitions but a couple of the well fancied runners could be giving the big race a swerve.
 Character Building, trained by John Quinn, is as short as 20/1 with some bookmakers but is more likely to [...]