With the 2010 Grand National just around the corner a lot of the potential contenders will be getting run outs over the next few weeks as trainers and owners try to decide whether they will enter their charges into the big race. With first declarations expected at the beginning of February there’s going to be [...]
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Born in Galway, Ireland in 1975 Graham Lee astounded everyone, when after years of relative obscurity, he won the 2004 Grand National on Amberleigh House, and then just two weeks later won the 28-runner Scottish Grand National on Grey Abbey. He also rode Amberleigh House in the Grand Nationals of 2005 and 2006 but without [...]
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The last 10 years have seen an explosion of Irish winners at the Aintree Grand National but the history between the two goes back much further than that. In fact it was two Irish fox-hunting gentlemen Edmund Bake and Cornelius O’Callaghan who gave birth to the word ‘steeplechase’ back in 1752! So it only seems [...]
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Timmy Murphy has had a pretty turbulent career by anybody’s standards but it’s not all doom and gloom. And if his metamorphic change over the last few years is anything to go by then it appears a leopard really change it’s spots! Born 20 August 1974 in County Kildare, Ireland, Murphy is most famous for [...]
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Big Fella Thanks is one of those horses that could go either way for the 2010 Grand National. Last year he came 6th so one would think that this year, a bit older and with more experience under his belt that he could go all the way…
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21 horses will officially line up for the start of the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury on Saturday 28th November at 2pm with Denman leading in both the weights and at the bookies. Final declarations were made today reducing the field from 37 potential entrants to just 21 who will compete for the £200,000 winning pot.
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Last week I wrote a post about new kid on the block Palypso De Creek and more or less wrote off his Grand National 2010 chances on a number of bases, least of which was the fact that he’s never even jumped so much as a small hurdle on the UK. Did the Beechers Chase [...]
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The Hennessy Gold Cup is one of the most prestigious races on the UK racing calendar and takes place every November during the Winter Festival at Newbury Racecourse. It was first run on 26 November 1960, beginning the longest unbroken commercial sponsorship in British sport.
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Favourites for the 2010 Grand National will be ten a penny between now and April 10th when the race is run so expect a new hot tip every week until then, especially with the Hennessy Gold Cup coming up next week!
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Hello Bud is a real contender for the 2010 Aintree Grand National and one of the very big hopefuls from the Nigel Twiston-Davies stables but has his performance in the Beechers Chase seriously made a dent in his chances?
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