Author: GrandNationalpro Staff
Brian Healy takes a runner-by-runner look ahead to today’s Grade One Aintree Bowl, the feature race on the opening day of the Aintree Grand National Festival. The Grade One Aintree Bowl is the feature race of the first day of the 2018 Aintree Grand National Festival, and a classy renewal of this three mile contest will go to post at 2.50pm as the third race on the card at the Liverpool venue. Some top-class performers have won this race down through the years, including Our Vic, dual-winner Silviniaco Conti and Cue Card in recent years, and boasting a first prize…
Brian Healy gives his runner-by-runner verdict on the big-race field for this afternoon’s Aintree Hurdle, one of four Grade One contests on a cracking opening day racecard. The fourth and final Grade One contest of the opening day of the 2018 Aintree Grand National meeting, the Aintree Hurdle goes to post at 3.25pm where a field of nine declared runners go to post to compete over a trip of 2m 4f for a winners’ prize in excess of £140,000. Some top-class winners of this race in recent years feature on the roll-of-honour, including reigning champion and dual-Cheltenham Champion Hurdle winner…
Our expert looks through the full card on day three of the Aintree Festival and provides readers with his tips for every race on Saturday. While there are six other races on Saturday’s card, day three at the Aintree Festival is all about the Grand National. 600 million fans around the world will turn on their television or tune into the radio to find out who will win this years’ renewal of the sports’ most famous race. Our expert has looked through Saturday’s card in full, providing his tips for the Grand National and the six surrounding races. 1:45pm Gaskells…
The final field of runners for the Grand National has been confirmed, with Gold Present’s ommision allowing Road To Riches to make the cut. Nicky Henderson has a poor record in Nationals of any kind, but he’s had Gold Present earmarked for the race for the majority of the season. He hated the soft ground during the Cheltenham Festival – where he was the beaten favourite in the Ultima Handicap Chase – and after it became clear the juicy ground at Aintree wasn’t going to dry out, Henderson has pulled his charge from the race. The first reserve on the…
Charlie McCann, head of BetVictor’s sportsbook looks through the field for this afternoon’s Grand National and provides fans with his essential pinsticker guide.The Randox Health Grand National is the most famous horserace in the world and remains the ultimate test of horse and jockey over 30 fences and a trip over an extended four-and-a-quarter miles. We all have our own way of trying to find the winner of the great race whether it be name, number, jockey, colours but please find below my own observations on the 2018 Grand National. Note BetVictor are already betting 1/5th odds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6…
Our expert looks through the betting ahead of this afternoon’s 2018 Grand National and highlights a 40/1 shot for punters to look out for in Aintree’s seasonal showpiece. Four-and-a-quarter miles of turf will need to be crossed and 30 fearsome obstacles will have to be scaled if one of the 40 entrants want to be crowned Grand National champion in 2018. Punters have been sinking their teeth into the ante-post betting for a number of months now, as courses all over Britain and Ireland have staged important trials races. Our expert has taken a look through the current ante-post betting…
Our expert has put together this star-rating guide for Aintree’s seasonal showpiece. Millions of racing fans, sports enthusiasts and punters from around the world will tune into their television sets on the final day of the Aintree Festival, as a field of 40 staying chasers fight for the right to be crowned 2018 Grand National winner. Some of the sport’s greatest names have claimed victory in this most famous of races and a high quality army of challengers will be battling for the famous trophy in just over a weeks’ time. Our expert has put together this star-rating guide for…
Brian Healy gives his race-by-race selections for the third and final day of the 2018 Grand National Festival, including the world’s most famous steeplechase. The third and final day of the 2018 Aintree Grand National Festival goes to post on Saturday, and the world’s most famous steeplechase dominates the day three racecard which also features a trio of Grade One contests. The nation-stopping contest that is the Grand National features as the penultimate race on the card, and another classic renewal of the famous race awaits punters. 1:45 Gaskells Handicap Hurdle (Grade 3) Cl1 (4yo+) 3m½f RUK 2:25 Betway Mersey…
Our expert looks through all the races being staged on Grand National day at Aintree Festival picks out a strong challenger in a Grade One as his NAP of the day on Saturday 14th April. The nation will come to a standstill on Saturday afternoon, as Aintree hosts the 2018 renewal of the Grand National. Before we reach the world’s most famous handicap, there are several Grade Ones to take in and our expert selects a strong challenger in the first of those as his NAP of the day. 2:25pm Betway Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) Cl1 (4yo+) 2m4f ITV…
Katie Power has attracted a rush of money to become the first ever female jockey to win the Grand National, according to bookmaker Ladbrokes. The Irish jockey will team up with mare Baie Des Iles in the world’s most famous steeplechase this Saturday, and following a flurry of support Ladbrokes has been forced to slash her odds of winning the race from 33/1 to 20s. “Katie Walsh and Baie Des Iles are the ultimate girl power pairing,” Ladbrokes’ Nicola McGeady told Bettingpro.com. “Walsh came so close to winning the Grand National back in 2012, but this year there is a…