The 2025 Grand National is upon us, with bets being placed on which horses could triumph around Aintree Racecourse on Merseyside. I Am Maximus, last year’s winner, is the favourite to win a second ...

The horses fly, the drinks flow, the millinery is peerless at Britain’s Aintree, host to the Grand National Chase, the four-mile steeplechase that is Britain’s exuberant, old-school rite of spring.

The Grand National meeting reaches a thrilling climax on Saturday with the feature race due off at 4pm and last year’s hero I Am Maximus bidding to defend his crown for trainer Willie Mullins. Last ...

The runners and riders are all set to battle it out over 30 intimidating fences at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool on Saturday for the 177th Grand National, with a purse of $1.2 million up for grabs.

Thousands of racing fans have turned out in the sunshine to cheer on the winner at Aintree’s Grand National. The world-famous steeplechase, held on the final day of the Randox Grand National Festival, ...

Two horses died in the Scottish Grand National on Saturday, again bringing an unwanted spotlight on jump racing. In the week Celebre D’Allen died 48 hours after running in the Aintree Grand National, ...

In 1973, as Red Rum began his inexorable gallop towards immortality, Aintree racecourse was on the brink of being sold by the ...

Derby winner Adam Kirby, a Grand National hero in Niall ‘Slippers’ Madden and a former Cheltenham Festival regular in Denis O’Regan are among the names involved in this year’s Leger Legends race at ...