Grand National Blog

A few surprise withdrawals at the latest stage with the likes of Air Force One, Gwanako and Cane Brake coming out which must have seen a couple of ante-post wagers heading for the waste paper basket.
Here is the full list of withdrawals:
AIR FORCE ONE (GER), CANE BRAKE (IRE), GWANAKO (FR), ABBEYBRANEY (IRE), ENDLESS POWER (IRE), [...]

The Racing Post Chase has become a traditional race in which Grand National hopefuls continue their Aintree preparation and 2009 certainly looks to be continuing that tradition with no less than eleven Grand National entries contesting from the twenty strong field at Kempton today.
Included amongst them is one of the current favourites for the National [...]

2007 Scottish National and Betfred Gold Cup winner Hot Weld returns to the racecourse today after a near two year absence.
Ferdy Murphy is preparing the ten year old for an attempt at the Grand National in April and his supporters will be keen to see how he gets on today.
Hot Weld has usually needed quite [...]

Hi everyone,
Further to my post on the Grand National Ante Post thread I would be grateful if you all would start adding your Grand National Tips for 2009 to this thread now instead.
The other thread is just becoming too big! When it reaches that size it become difficult to manage and could be offputting for [...]

Thank you to everyone who took part in our guess the weights competition which turned out to be a lot harder than we anticipated. The correct result looked liked this:
Hear The Echo = 10-11
Butlers Cabin = 10-05
Comply Or Die = 10-12
Himalayan Trail = 9-12
War Of Attrition = 11-01
Tiebreaker: Number of horses entered at Tuesday 10th [...]

The current favourite for the 2009 Grand National, Denman, has been quoted as a non-runner in the race by his connections.
Trainer Paul Nicholls announced to the press that he wants to try and get Denman right to defend the Cheltenham Gold Cup and that should be the main focus of the horse’s training programme after [...]

*******DENMAN UPDATE***********
In light of the withdrawl of Denman we will allow an additional entry from those who have already made their selections. The latest entry will override the previous and will be the final, counting entry. If you choose not to update your entry then the exisiting figures will be used.  NO FURTHER CHANGES WILL BE PERMITTED.
The [...]