Grand National Blog

Please add your current thoughts on trends, tips, gossip etc for the Grand National 2011 to this page. Don’t forget to keep adding to the other threads that have been set up as well as its good to have diversity on our pages as that’s what keeps new people coming in. As previously stated we [...]

Hi everyone, I’ll open up a new general Grand National thread this evening – so in the meantime can you have a look at this and let us know your thoughts. We’ve all had a while to look at the Grand National weights and so I’d like a few ideas of an outsider to look [...]

The weights for the Grand National 2011 have been revealed and you can see the updated list of runners with weights on Grand National Guide. The bookmakers have been quick to react to the weights and it looks as if punters believe that Donald McCain’s Ballabriggs has been handed a decent chance by the handicapper [...]

We have resisted the temptation to start threads about other major racing areas in previous years but as our recent experiments with the Flat classics and general racing have gone so well it seems only right that we start up a Cheltenham Festival thread. Initially I’m inclined to leave the thread as a general Cheltenham [...]

Hi everyone, I see that some of you are having concerns about finding the relevant thread for your Grand National 2011 tips due to the number of other threads we are currently running. Can I just clarify the situation regarding this – Firstly, we have to attempt to continue to grow the Grand National Blog [...]

Yesterday saw the first entry stage for Grand National 2011 and 102 horses were entered with a view to running at Aintree on the 9th April. The number one training years in England and Ireland have declared their intent to have multipe runners in the Grand National 2011 with Paul Nicholls entering ten runners and [...]

Hi everyone, Please add all your thoughts on the Grand National 2011 on this page from today. I will add a new page on the day of the publication of the weights (if we don’t fill this one up in the meantime!) Ballabriggs further enhanced his claims yesterday with another win in a Novice Hurdle [...]

It’s been a week of disappointments for ante-post Grand National punters with the news today that the David Pipe trained The Package will miss the Grand National 2011. This announcement follows hot on the heels of yesterday’s news that 2010 Grand National runner-up Black Apalachi is also out of this year’s Grand National. The Package [...]