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The full Grand National meeting from Aintree will be the main foreign meeting for South African punters on Saturday afternoon
The full Grand National meeting from Aintree will be the main foreign meeting for South African punters on Saturday afternoon
McCoy, on the verge of becoming champion jockey for the 20th consecutive year, announced last month he would retire by the end of the jump racing season, which concludes in Britain at Sandown on 25 April
As the countdown to the 2014 Grand National gathers pace, Aidan Coleman can be forgiven for thinking the famous race owes him a good turn.
ROBYN LOUW: I know I covered the Grand National last week, but it was such an interesting race this year that I thought I’d write about it again.
A Cambridge mathematician’s research has led him to believe Seabass is the most likely winner of Saturday’s Grand National.
ROBYN LOUW: The first Saturday in April heralds the annual pilgrimage to Aintree for the race that stops the English Nation
ROBYN LOUW: You can’t rationalise the Grand National and everyone who is involved with horses knows and accepts that it’s a dangerous occupation
LANCE BENSON: Trainer Sean Miller’s remarkable training feat of six winners at Flamingo Park on Monday was a fitting tribute to his late father and mentor
Cheltenham Gold Cup hero Synchronised heads a maximum field of 40, as he bids to become the first horse since Golden Miller in 1934 to win the Gold Cup and Grand National in the same season. He is ridden by the champion jockey Tony McCoy.
Weights for the 2011 John Smith’s Grand National, which takes place at Aintree on Saturday, April 9, were revealed at the meeting’s Official Launch in London today and Don’t Push It, who carried 11st 5lb to victory last year, jointly tops the handicap on 11st 10lb along with Neptune Collonges, winner of last month’s Grade Two Argento Chase at Cheltenham. The John Smith’s Grand National – worth a record £950,000 this year – is the only race in which the British Horseracing Board’s Head of Handicapping, Phil Smith, is able to use his discretion to frame the weights. Ballabriggs remains ante-post favourite.
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
Cape Racing’s ongoing tussle with Mother Nature in what has been a wet July to beat all July’s, produced a fairytale at a sunny, but very chilly, Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Thursday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million