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Ah, Slipper Day! My favourite day on the Sydney calendar, featuring the Ranvet over distance and Chipping Norton at weight-for-age, the babies in the Slipper and the Galaxy handicap over the short trip. The predicted rain is now not predicted, hopefully this week my numbers align with horses that aren’t going to be scratched if/when the heavens open. As for the running tally, I’m…

Ivan Grozny takes the Grade 3 hurdle at Fairyhouse on Irish Grand National day. What did you make of the winner? source

Horseracing tipster Mark ‘The Couch' Winstanley gives his 1-2-3-4 on the Aintree Grand National, which takes place on Saturday April 10. You can watch the Couch every week on racingpost.com source

The fashion stakes are as hotly contested as the racing on Ladies' Day at the 2019 Grand National Festival. RPTV captured a flavour of the fashion and spoke to a few racegoers about their well-chosen outfits. — Subscribe on YouTube: Website: Twitter: & Facebook: Apple Podcasts: SoundCloud: source

The 2018 Grand National Festival gets underway at Aintree on Thursday and it's set to be a cracker with the likes of Gold Cup runner up Might Bite on the comeback trail. Maddy Playle is joined in studio by Paul Kealy while David Jennings and Bet365's Frank Hickey are on the line to preview every race on the card. All prices mentioned can be…

In this Sunday's Racing Post Alastair Down speaks to last weekend's Grand National hero Derek Fox source

Hennessy Gold Cup contenders Triolo D'Alene (winner of the race in 2013) and Vyta Du Roc have a spin round Newbury with Grand National hero Many Clouds. source

David Pipe, who won the Grand National with Comply Or Die in 2008, has four horses among the 81 left in after the latest scratching stage. Of those, he rates Ramses De Teillee and Vieux Lion Rouge as his best chances of winning the 2019 renewal. He spoke to RPTV at his Somerset yard just over two weeks before the start of the Randox…

Join Thom Malone, David Jennings and Brian Sheerin as they preview all the action at the Fairyhouse Easter Festival including the €500,000 Irish Grand National Subscribe on YouTube: Website: Twitter: Facebook: Spotify: Apple Podcasts: SoundCloud: source

Racing Post editor Tom Kerr reflects on a day in which Tiger Roll became the first horse since Red Rum to win back-to-back Grand Nationals, while Up For Review was sadly lost. — Subscribe on YouTube: Website: Twitter: & Facebook: Apple Podcasts: SoundCloud: source

Horseracing experts Nick Watts & Stuart Redding look ahead to Saturday's big race the totesport Midlands Grand National. WATCH more tipping videos on RPTV at www.racingpost.com source

Maddy Playle and Nick Watts preview the Irish Grand National 2019 at Fairyhouse. Here's the racecard: 1 Tout Est Permis J: Sean Flanagan T: Noel Meade 2 Dounikos J: Keith Donoghue T: Gordon Elliott 3 Jury Duty J: Robbie Power T: Gordon Elliott 4 Pairofbrowneyes J: Paul Townend T: W P Mullins 5 Total Recall J: Mr P W Mullins T: W P Mullins…

Aintree Racecourse is situated just outside Liverpool, in the north-west of England. It is most famous for staging the Grand National, the world’s richest and most famous steeplechase. Aintree is owned and run by The Jockey Club, who own 13 other racecourses in the UK. The racecourse comprises two tracks; the Grand National course and the Mildmay course. The Mildmay course uses conventional birch…

The Scottish Grand National is a Grade 3 National Hunt steeplechase in Great Britain which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run at Ayr every April, over a distance of about 4 miles and during its running, there are 27 fences to be jumped. It’s Scotland's equivalent of the Grand National and is held during Ayr's two-day Scottish Grand…

Two-time Grand National-winning jockey Carl Llewellyn explains what it takes from both a horse and a rider to achieve success in the world's greatest horse race. — Subscribe on YouTube: Website: Twitter: & Facebook: Apple Podcasts: SoundCloud: source