Category: National Hunt Racing

The going at Aintree is now Good to Soft, Good in places across all three courses (Mildmay, Hurdle and Grand National) ahead of this week’s Randox Grand National Festival, which gets underway on Thursday.   Watering began at Aintree last week and yesterday saw five millimetres of irrigation applied to Mildmay and Hurdle courses and six millimetres […]

Dan Skelton plans to send a strong team to Aintree for this week’s Randox Grand National Festival, but will be keeping a handful of his stars fresh for Sandown Park’s bet365 Jump Finale at the end of April. The yard has been in fine form, sending out a total of six winners at Stratford and […]

Next Monday, 12th April, we will be releasing entries for all 12 Grade 1 races at the 2021 Punchestown Festival and indications are they are shaping up to be pretty special indeed. We appreciate that this will be a lot of content in one release but given the fixtures and other big race action this […]

Bryony Frost is confident Yala Enki can prove equally effective on a quicker surface when attempting to help her become the first female rider to win the Randox Grand National at Aintree on Saturday (10th April). Having become the first female jockey to win the Ladbrokes King George VI Chase aboard the Paul Nicholls-trained Frodon […]

Today was the five-day confirmation stage for the Randox Grand National, staged at Aintree on Saturday (10th April). A total of 68 horses remain engaged – please see full list below. The final declaration stage for the world’s greatest steeplechase is at 10.00am on Thursday (8th April). The maximum field size is 40 runners plus […]

ENTRIES FOR ALL RACES ON DAY THREE OF THE RANDOX GRAND NATIONAL FESTIVAL – RANDOX GRAND NATIONAL DAY, SATURDAY 10TH APRIL 1:45pm Eft Systems Handicap Hurdle (Grade 3) 3m 149y Ashington 6 Brian Ellison Mr T. Alderson Sean Quinlan Ashtown Lad (IRE) 7 Dan Skelton Darren & Annaley Yates Ask Dillon (IRE) 8 Fergal O’Brien […]

Potters Corner remains on course for Randox Grand National after he is ruled out of tomorrow’s Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase A disappointed Christian Williams has confirmed that Potters Corner remains on course for next month’s Randox Grand National, despite having to scratch his stable star from tomorrow’s Glenfarcas Cross Country Chase at The Festival™ supporting […]

Willie Mullins will lead the Irish challenge travelling to the Cotswolds next week but in the meantime, the champion trainer will field a strong team as he attempts to land the final big prize before the Cheltenham Festival, the BARONERACING.COM Leinster National. With three of the 16 runners in the €80,000 feature, Mullins will be hoping to […]

Only minutes after Willie Mullins announced Energumene will miss the festival, Thyme Hill is now out of the StayersHurdle at Cheltenham next Thursday. Phillip Hobbs confirmed Thyme Hill will miss the Cheltenham Festival after suffering a minor injury, its a big plus for the chances of Ballinasloe horse Flooring Porter who will now be single […]

This will be the last Cheltenham Festival for trainer Colin Tizzard and he believes The Big Breakaway could be his best chance of a winner at Prestbury Park. Speaking at Wincanton today, The Dorset trainer all but confirmed that the Festival™ supporting WellChild next week is likely to be his last as a licenced handler, […]