Following our ante-post tips on One For Arthur and Raz De Maree, we have one more selection to complete our Grand National 2017 portfolio. As the sun continues to beat down on Aintree, one horse who looks set to relish this weather and the going is the newly-acquired Trevor Hemmings…
1pt win La Bague Au Roi @25/1, 14:25 Aintree, Saturday
I give the only mare in the race, LA BAGUE AU ROI, a better chance in the Grade 1 two-miles-four novice’ hurdle than the 25/1 she’s quoted suggests. She was no match for Let’s Dance in the mares’ novices’ hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival but was returning from a 110-day break…
1pt win Politologue @11/2, 15:00 Aintree, Saturday
Charbel looks a very short price to win the big two-mile novices’ chase on Aintree’s Grand National card, and I’m keen to take him on. He fell a couple out when attempting to beat the brilliant Altior in the Arkle, and such jumping errors are reason enough to doubt the…
1pt win Fox Norton @4/1, 0.5pt each-way Josses Hill @14/1, 15:25 Aintree, Friday
Tea For Two and Lizzie Kelly continued our strong form by following up Vivlos’s 25/1 win at Meydan with an 18/1 success in the Grade 1 Bowl on the opening day of Aintree’s Grand National meeting. There’s plenty of Grade 1 action on Friday’s card with the Melling Chase over…
1pt win Moon Racer @4/1, 14:20 Aintree, Friday
The first Grade 1 on Friday’s Aintree card sees the Supreme Novices’ third River Wylde lead a market of nine. Two miles is the trip and it’s good ground, whereas the times were slow on the opening day of Cheltenham this year, suggesting River Wylde will get improved conditions. That may…
0.5pt win Tea For Two @18/1, 14:50 Aintree, Thursday
Round two of the spring festivals starts today with Aintree hosting four Grade 1 races at its Grand National meeting. The feature race is the Bowl, a three-mile Grade 1 chase with practically no resemblance to its Cheltenham Festival equivalent the Gold Cup. That’s because the ground is typically quicker…
2017 Grand National Ante-Post Tips: 0.75pts EW One For Arthur @14/1, 0.5pt EW Raz De Maree @33/1, 17:15 Saturday, Aintree
The race that captures a nation. The 2017 Grand National takes place on Saturday afternoon at Aintree, and we have two ante-post tips before the final declarations are released on Thursday and prior to any shortening in the odds as we approach post-time. The complexion of the race has changed in…
0.75pts each-way Donncha @9/1, 0.5pt each-way Top Notch Tonto @12/1, 15:35 Saturday, Doncaster
It’s April, the weather has turned, spring is upon us. That means the return of the flat turf-racing season, and we are delighted it’s back. Doncaster is host to one of the season opening cards, with the feature race, the Lincoln Handicap Mile. Yuften looks set to go off a…
0.5pt each-way Vivlos @25/1, 15:30 Meydan, Saturday
The Dubai Turf (15:30, Meydan) looks a hot renewal this year with plenty of Group One winners having a crack, yet the favourite Zarak is not one of them and has his place in the market because of regal breeding and potential. Perhaps that’s a little unfair, as he twice…
2pts win Postponed @5/2, 16:05 Meydan, Saturday
The jump racing season has crescendoed with Cheltenham Festival a thing of the past and Aintree’s Grand National meeting fast approaching, but the first major flat racing card of the year takes centre stage this Saturday over in Dubai, where the massive riches of World Cup night are up for grabs. Whilst…