Articles...
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
IT is pretty easy to spot David Pipe. At six-foot plus, he certainly stands out in the crowd....
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
OUR VIC provided the trainer-owner team of David Pipe and David Johnson with the perfect tonic ahead of Comply Or Die’s John Smith’s Grand National bid tomorrow with a thrilling narrow victory in the totesport Bowl Chase yesterday....
Apr 3 2008
NICKY RICHARDS’ decision to step up Aintree specialist Monet’s Garden in trip and take on Kauto Star could pay dividends in this afternoon’s totesport Bowl (2.35pm) – the feature on the opening day of the John Smith’s Grand National meeting....
Apr 3 2008
PAUL NICHOLLS is hoping Kauto Star can bounce back in today’s totesport Bowl Chase at Aintree....
Apr 3 2008
LISA WILLIAMSON faces a race against time if she is to have her first runner in the John Smith’s Grand National on Saturday after Cornish Rebel met with a setback....
Apr 2 2008
ACES Four will miss tomorrow’s totesport Bowl on the opening day of the Grand National meeting and will not run again this season....