Articles...
Apr 5 2008
MOMENTUM which started in the Haydock Park winner’s enclosure in January 2006 may reach its conclusion at Aintree this afternoon....
Apr 5 2008
LESS than a week ago Keith Mercer wasn’t sure he would ride in the John Smith’s Grand National. Then 48 hours ago he had two possibilities in Contraband and Joes Edge....
Apr 5 2008
TOM MULLINS won’t predict anything, but he is hoping to add his name to the many Irish family dynasties to have conquered Aintree’s famous race....
Apr 5 2008
JENNY PITMAN is still the only woman to have trained the winner of the Grand National....
Apr 5 2008
FOR 24 years Irish-trained horses failed to win a single John Smith’s Grand National....
Apr 5 2008
FEW races are as much of an emotional roller-coaster as the John Smith’s Grand National. But Venetia Williams could be forgiven for being a little more emotional than most when Mon Mome bids to end her bad luck in the race this afternoon....
Apr 4 2008
Glorious sunshine greeted the visiting thousands as Aintree hosted its famed Ladies’ Day today....
Apr 4 2008
IT IS unclear which of the first two days of the Aintree festival is racing pundit John McCririck’s favourite. Yesterday’s racing, he told the Daily Post, was the highest quality Thursday line-up he could ever remember....
Apr 4 2008
TONY MARTIN is hoping Dun Doire can make the most of his late chance of glory after just managing to make the cut for tomorrow’s John Smith’s Grand National....
Apr 4 2008
FOLLOWING his stunning performance in the Queen Mother Champion Chase it is hard to see anything beating Master Minded in this afternoon’s John Smith’s Melling Chase (3.10pm)....
