Grand National Blog

A remarkable success story, Hello Bud has registered seven successes over fences in a little over fifteen months and this has seen the eleven year old gelding rise sixty pounds in the official ratings and culminated in a victory in a Scottish National. The first three victories in 2008 were recorded under the care of [...]

Notre Pere has been promoted to favourite or joint favourite at this very early ante-post stage by a number of bookmakers following his authoriative performance yesterday in the Punchestown Guinness Gold Cup where he he had a very easy victory considering this was a Grade One race. Cynics may argue that conditions suited him the [...]

Please give us your early views on the 2010 Grand National on this thread or if you have a strong view on a particular horse add the view to the thread for that horse. (If the horse you want to discuss does not have a thread as yet please leave me a note and I [...]

The early Grand National betting has been spiced up with the release of some ‘specials’ to whet the appetite – what are your thoughts on the offers below? Any value amongst these? Stan James. are 11/4 that there is an Irish Trained Winner Blue Square.are 7/1 that Paul Nicholls trains the winner Tote.are 10/1 that [...]

This may seem like an unusual choice for the next horse to put up in our runners to discuss for the Grand National 2010 series but I’m intrigued by Cerium’s surprise performance in last year’s race. Also, I want to open up a debate as to if horses that appear to be running with little [...]

A good race is in prospect at Limerick on Sunday for the Munster National with a few prospective Grand National runners declared in the early card. The names that stand out at the moment include Aggies Lad Badgerlaw Ballycullen Boy Casey Jones Church Island Duers Mansony Parsons Pistol Powerstation Royal County Star Silver Jaro Some [...]