The Real Story Of Moifaa

There is a legend concerning the 1904 Grand National winner, Moifaa. The story is that the horse was shipped over from New Zealand where he had won nine races from thirteen attempts and was among the favourites in the Aintree Grand National…

Tom Scudamore Keeping The Grand National In The Family

For jockey Tom Scudamore – riding in the Grand National is almost a birthright. Tom has an incredible family tradition to live up to, though emulating his father's achievements in the greatest race of all hopefully won't be part of it. That's…

Big Fella ‘Better Than Ever’

Big Fella Thanks is a name that will be familiar with many of the punters looking for a bet in the Grand National 2011. The ten-year-old has run in the four-and-a-half mile marathon event for the past two seasons and has acquitted himself with…

Trickster Fails To Enhance National Credentials

The Paul Nicholls-trained Tricky Trickster did little to encourage his supporters ahead of a second bid for the John Smith's Grand National at Aintree next month when getting only as far as the second fence in the feature Totesport.com Midlands…

Johnson Talks Good Sense

Richard Johnson received a five day ban (March 21-25) for marking his mount Stop The Show in the three-mile handicap chase at Ffos Las on Monday then put forward one or two more than reasonable suggestions as to how the infringement occurred…

Aegean Eyeing Big Handicap Double

There are some 40 horses entered at the five-day stage for Saturday's Paddy Power Imperial Cup Handicap Hurdle at Sandown Park, but it is highly likely that most punters won't be looking much further than the unbeaten Aegean Dawn for their idea…

Kalahari Team Happy With Ryanair Chase Build Up

Middleham-based Ferdy Murphy, a trainer with a particularly good strike rate at the Cheltenham Festival, has expressed himself very happy with the way his Kalahari King is shaping up ahead of his bid to land the Grade 1 Ryanair Chase on the…