Grand National Blog

Just three days to go until the biggest race of the year – the Grand National! Are you having any last minute rethinks about your Grand National wagers? Is your main ante-post fancy still in the race? Are you happy with the likely ground? What about your Grand National jockey? Where is Paddy Brennan? Is [...]

Hi everyone, I would like to draw a line under any unpleasantness that has been occurring on this blog and would like to ask anyone who can’t post in a friendly manner not to do so. Anyone who we feel is not entering into the spirit of this blog will be banned as will anyone [...]

Less than two weeks to go now to the Grand National 2011 and the picture is starting to become clearer as far as confirmed jockeys are concerned. AP McCoy as dismissed any frankly ludicrous idea of riding anything else other than Don’t Push It. Ruby Walsh has picked The Midnight Club over Niche Market. That [...]

Hi everyone, I’m not convinced that the majority want a dedicated page for the voting for who you think will win the Grand National so I’ll put this page up and if it doesn’t take off I’ll take it down again. There have been a few calls for a dedicated page on some of the [...]

As we have been having updates from Graham Regan, the owner of Niche Market recently I have brought back last year’s thread about the horse in line with a request I saw on one of the main Grand National threads. I’ve also moved most of the pertinent posts to this thread so perhaps all the [...]

AP McCoy raised a few eyebrows recently when he suggested if he felt there was a horse he could ride with a better chance he could desert Don’t Push It but he seems happy to stick with the 2010 Grand National winner now as he has confirmed in the press today that he will be [...]

A total of eight horses have been withdrawn at the latest scratchings stage today for the 2011 Grand National. Paul Nicholls’ team has been reduced by three with Tricky Trickster the highest profile horse to be withdrawn following an injury in the Midlands National last weekend. The full lists of withdrawals are as follows: Deep [...]

Things are starting to hot up in the Grand National 2011. Recent runs for Niche Market, Ballabriggs and Silver By Nature amongst others. Backstage preparing for the Grand National in point to points, State Of Play being kept even fresher than last year and Quinz zooming up the betting charts. Will any of these win [...]

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 [...]