Grand National Blog

Please add your thoughts and general tips for the rest of November.

The Becher Chase takes place on Sunday and we can look foward to a great race if most of the initial declarations keep their places in the race. Some of the notable entries include: Notre Pere Dream Alliance Tricky Trickster Gullible Gordon Maljimar In Compliance Meanus Dandy The Last Derby Merigo Fabalu Hello Bud Irish [...]

Totesport have announced a new £250,000 bonus scheme for the Grand National 2011 where any horse who wins the Totesport Classic Chase at Warwick in January, the totesport .com Grand National Trial at Haydock in Fenruary and the Grand Nationall itself will see connections picking up a cool quarter of a million pounds bonus! This [...]

The Hennessy Gold Cup is due to be run at Newbury on Saturday 27th November. Winners from the past include such greats as Mill House, Arkle (twice) Bregawn and Burrough Hill Lad. The last ten years have seen three wins for Paul Nicholls (Strong Flow and Denman twice), two wins for the Pipe yard (Celestial [...]

Please add all your thoughts, trends and tips ideas for any races not covered in the individual links on this page.

The Paddy Power Gold Cup takes place this year at Cheltenham on Saturday 13th November. The race has been sponsored by a number of companies over the years but is most fondly remembered (by those of us of a certain age!) as being The Mackeson from 1960 to 1995. Famous winners of this great race [...]