A Guide To Aintree Racecourse
Aintree Racecourse is one of the most famous racecourses in the world and is located on the A59 at Ormskirk Road, Aintree (Anglo-Saxon for ‘one tree’), in the northern suburbs of Liverpool, just 6 miles from the city centre. The racecourse occupies 250 acres and has two left-handed chasing circuits. The first, the Mildmay Course is rectangular and opened in 1953. It is nearly one and a half miles in length, with sharp turns and steeplechase fences...
Irish Trained Winners at the Grand National
In recent years the Irish have had incredible success at the Aintree Grand national but it's association and links go much deeper than that. In fact it was two Irish fox-hunting gentlemen Edmund Bake and Cornelius O’Callaghan who coined the phrase ‘steeplechase’ back in 1752...
Jockey Tom Queally
Tom Queally has come a long way; and should be proud of himself; after winning the Blue Square Naussau Stakes at Glorious Goodwood, riding Midday for Henry Cecil. Midday had finished second and third behind Sariska in the Investec and Irish Oaks, and Queally wore the colours of the filly’s owner/breeder, Prince Khalid Abdulla...
2007 Grand National Race & Winners Story
It took Silver Birch just 9 minutes 13.60 seconds to complete and win the four and a half mile Aintree Grand National in 2007. The 10-year-old, Gordon Elliott trained horse had been a leading fancy for the 2005 National but a leg injury sustained a month before that year’s Aintree showpiece...
2006 Grand National Race & Winners Story
Irish trained horses really came into their own during the 2000's when they dominated the Grand National races every year and 2006 was no different when Numbersixvalverde became the fifth winner from the Emerald Isle to score in eight runnings...
2005 Grand National Race & Winners Story
in 2005, Hedgehunter’s decisive victory ensured a fourth Irish-trained success in the great chase since 1999. He was a very popular winner and had been well backed ante-post and then again on the day of the race, opening at 9/1 and going off the 7/1 favourite...
