Grand National Blog

I’m glad to say that lots of our Grand National contributors are staying with us throughout the summer and so we are opening up this ‘general’ thread to allow you to continue to chat about upcoming flat races not covered by actual posts (as with The Derby) or if you want to discuss other sporting [...]

As our Newmarket and Epsom meeting threads have been such a success it seems only sensible to open up a page for the biggest meeting of the flat calendar, Royal Ascot. The majority of bookmakers are already betting on eight of the races taking place between the Tuesday 15th and Saturday 20th June at Ascot [...]

I’ve adapted an earlier post from 2008 on the Summer National – I hope it gives some help to those of you chomping at the bit (like me) for a bit of decent jump racing… The Summer National at Uttoxeter is an oasis for jumps fans in a sea of flat racing and, more importantly [...]

I believe we have had similar threads about Denman’s possible participation in the Grand National in the two previous years and in both cases not many of you were convinced that he was ever likely to turn up and so it proved. However, this year it seems that the noises emanating from joint-owner Harry Findlay [...]