Grand National Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

2010 sees the 231st running of the Epsom Derby so there should be plenty of trends of us all to get our teeth into for this historic race! Our team of tipsters have been in great form since the Grand National coming up with the winners galore in recent weeks so let’s hope we can [...]

In a response to requests we are going to trial opening up a few threads for certain flat races and/or big flat meetings throughout the summer to allow our loyal contributors a vehicle to discuss their fancies on the level. The first meeting up is the Newmarket Guineas meeting with Saturday’s highlight the 2000 Guineas [...]

Sadly the 09/10 NH Season is drawing to a close and Saturday sees the traditional last big race of the year now called the Bet365 Gold Cup. To those of us of a certain age this race will always be ‘The Whitbread’ irrespective of new sponsors but whoever has been paying the prizemoney it has [...]

I thought it might be a good idea to have a reference page for all the important dates/races that could have a bearing on the Grand National. I’ll put down a few ideas of races that we might want to have on the list and then open it up to you guys for suggestions. I [...]

Apologies for the delay in putting up the thread for The Scottish National 2010 but I wanted to wait until the declarations were released. I see you have been hard at work but please start using this thread for the Scottish National and the new Grand National 2011 thread for your thoughts on next year’s [...]

I would just like to take this opportunity to say a very big thank you to all our contributors who have worked so hard to make this blog so popular – we are very grateful. I think we can safely say this is the most popular place on the inernet for discussion about all things [...]

With just hours to go before the Grand National 2010 Big Fella Thanks‘ position at the head of the Grand National Betting looks like it may be under threat as a continued gamble seems to be taking place on David Pipe’s young chaser, The Package. Both horses are now 10/1 in some places although speedy [...]

Please add all your thoughts and tips for the Grand National 2010 to this thread. The declarations for the Grand National have been released and all the original top forty Grand National Runners stood their ground meaning that well backed horses such as Chief Dan George and Whinstone Boy miss out. The reserves for Saturday’s [...]