The Grand National returns on Saturday and you can follow all the action here in the build up. The Randox Grand National Festival gets underway on Thursday with the showpiece race scheduled for 4pm on Saturday. We will have all the latest news from across all three days of the festival.

1 year ago

The biggest race of the year takes place this weekend. Jockeys & Jackpots, in association with BoyleSports, returns for episode six. And, fittingly, we are going big with the final episode of the season, as we look ahead to the Aintree Grand National, which takes place on Saturday, April 5. Going for gold Dave Orton […]

1 year ago

One of the highlights of the sporting year takes place on Saturday with the 176th running of the Aintree Grand National.

2 years ago

The Grand National didn’t go the way he wanted, but Aintree still gave Davy Russell the ending he long deserved. The 43-year-old from Youghal bowed out at the very top of the game as, in his final, final meeting as a national hunt jockey, he rode two Grade One winners. Fittingly, both Gerri Colombe and […]

3 years ago

The Aintree Grand National was interrupted and subsequently delayed by animal rights protestors on Saturday. Due to go off at 5.15, the white flag wasn’t raised until 5.35 as a small number of protestors slipped through the defence drills arranged by the Liverpool police. The police had been warned, and did plan for such commotion, […]

3 years ago

An animal rights group are reportedly planning to storm Aintree this Saturday, on the day of the most famous event in horse-racing. An undercover investigation by the mail on Sunday revealed the ‘Animal Rebellion’ campaign group’s plans to sabotage the race, which in effect, amount to a group of protesters breaking into the course and […]

3 years ago