The Grand National

I have been to the Grand National for the last two years. It is held in Aintree, just outside Liverpool on Aintree racecourse which is one of the worlds most famous racetracks. The grand national is the most watched horse race every year in the UK and as a result is the bookmakers busiest time of the year. It is run over three days with the main event shown on the Saturday afternoon of the race weekend. The Grand National is normally on in mid April. The race is run over two circuits of the racetrack, which is triangular in shape and on which there are sixteen fences. On the second circuit two of the fences are missed out. The most famous horse to win the ...  Read the complete review

The Grand National is probarbly one of the most famous horse races in the world and takes place at Aintree Race Course, in Liverpool, England, every year around April time. The race brings people and the press from all over the world and when concorde was still spanning the skies, it brought people to the city to spend their hard earned money on what is a very prestigious race. The world always seems to descend on Liverpool over this 3 day meet, which always culminates to the big Grand National Steeplechase on the Saturday. It can often be seen as a cruel race as horse and rider bid to race around a gruelling track full of difficult and often fatal jumps ...  Read the complete review

The John Smith's Grand National is the most prestigious horse race in the United Kingdom, which is run annually at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, usually on the first Saturday in April. With almost 600 million viewers from 140 Countries, and close on 70,000 people actually attending Aintree Racecourse itself to view this fascinating spectacle at first hand, for just this one day, Liverpool, the jockeys and the horses become the central attention and focus of the world. Run over a distance of 4 miles and 865 yards, with 30 demanding and gruelling fences ahead of them, the horses must have stamina in abundance, and be able to negotiate the fences ...  Read the complete review

The grand national is one of the biggest and best horse races in the calendar, and its also one of the trickiest to pick a winner. This is because its quite a tough course for the horses to race, there are a lot a lot of horses that race it too, I think its around 30 horses, and that's why its also a hard race to pick the winner as it really could be any of them as there's 30 fences to jump in total, and about half of the horses don't actually make it too the end, and there are usually a lot of fatalities in the race (in terms of horses). Last year the winner was comply or die, which was one of the favourites to win, I had only placed a £2 bet on it and so I ...  Read the complete review

The Grand National is one of the most famous horse racing races in the world and probably the race which attracts the most interest at the bookies too. It is a grade 3 handicap chase in which horses have to jump a great number of fences, thirty in total. The better horses are more handicapped than the lesser ones by the adding of weight to slow them down somewhat; virtually any of the horses has a shot of winning and some of them are priced hugely, meaning there is the potential to win a lot of money. It is currently open to horses aged six years and above. Last year's winner was Comply or Die ridden by Timmy Murphy and trained by David Pipe. It was not a ...  Read the complete review