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Arbor Supreme has been attracting a fair bit of attention here on Grand National Blog and has also sneaked up the ante-post prices for the Grand National 2010 to a best price of 25/1 with Stan James
The Willie Mullins trained gelding is declared in the runners for the Thyestes Chase at Gowran Park so [...]

Would Black Apalachi have won the Grand National had he not fallen at Bechers Brook second time round?
Hi everyone and apologies for the delay in new posts recently but I’ve been away on leave and busy working on some other projects. I thought I’d continue the possible runners for Grand National 2010 thread with the [...]

Please add all your news and views on the chances of Niche Market in the 2010 Grand National on this page.
The Irish National winner has now also run a stormer in the Hennessy – does that make him one of the top choices for the Grand National 2010

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 David [...]

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 best [...]

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 [...]

Given the number of Grand National tips for Rambling Minster on this site last year I think it’s only right that we start up a page for him for Grand National 2010 even if his participation is in some doubt.
Keith Reveley’s eleven year old won twice in 08/09, including the prestigious Blue Square Gold Cup [...]

Character Building has inspired quite a lot of interest in the last couple of Grand Nationals but unfortunately niggling injuries meant the horse has been unable to make the race in either year.
John Quinn’s gelding had attracted plenty of ante post interest in both of those years after finishing third in the Hennessy in 07/08 [...]

As requested sometime ago I’m trialling a few pages where people can add any info, views etc on a particular horse.
I’ll start with the Grand National winner and the Irish Grand National winner to see how it goes and add others in if it seems like people are using the pages. I am looking [...]