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Grand National 2021: When it starts, how to watch and who could win? (PA) The Grand National Festival 2021 is under way with the nation's favourite horse race of the year set to take place on Saturday afternoon.  Here’s a rundown of everything you need to know about the Grand National. When is the Grand National 2021? Will spectators be allowed in? In 2021, the Grand National Festival will take place between Thursday 8 April and Saturday 10 April, with the national race scheduled for the final day on 10 April at 5.15pm. Organisers had considered, and spoken to s...

Grand National 2021: When it starts, how to watch and who could win? (PA) The Grand National Festival 2021 is under way with the nation's favourite horse race of the year set to take place on Saturday afternoon.  Here’s a rundown of everything you need to know about the Grand National. When is the Grand National 2021? Will spectators be allowed in? In 2021, the Grand National Festival will take place between Thursday 8 April and Saturday 10 April, with the national race scheduled for the final day on 10 April at 5.15pm. Organisers had considered, and spoken to s...

Classiest Grand National field of all time ready for a fast and furious show By Andy Stephens@StevoGG Fri 9 Apr 2021 Forty horses. Forty jockeys. Thirty fences dressed in spruce. The Randox Grand National is always one of the great spectacles of the sporting year and the world’s most famous race will be watched by an estimated a global audience of 600 million on Saturday. Casual viewers turning in for their once-a-year fix might not notice, but modifications mean the showpiece is not the contest it once was. The fences are less fearsome than in days of old and the race distance has been sho...

UPDATED 7:12PM, APR 1 2021 Jonjo O'Neill believes he has the horse to beat in Cloth Cap for next week's Randox Grand National but thinks his odds of around 7-2 are absurd in a race that is so famous for shocks and surprises. O'Neill knows all too well how bad luck can play out in Aintree's iconic steeplechase. In his riding days he competed in the race eight times and never finished, including in 1973 when he rode Ginger McCain's first string, Glenkiln, in a race famously won by stablemate and subsequent three-time winner Red Rum. He had more luck as a trainer, winning the race in 20...

Cheltenham Festival 2021: A meeting like no other starts on Tuesday By Frank KeoghBBC Sport at Cheltenham Last updated on The four-day Cheltenham Festival starts on Tuesday behind closed doors Cheltenham Festival 2021 Main race: 15:05 Coverage: Commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, feature races Radio 5 live. Racecards, live text, results & reports on the BBC Sport website and app. A town normally in carnival mode is eerily quiet. Where banners and marquees should herald the boisterous crowds to come, there is calm. For four days in March, the Cheltenham Festival usually welcomes t...