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Horsetalk.co.nz Steeplechasing film puts spotlight on dark side of horse racing Share A film exploring the mental health of jockeys and the “lonelier, darker side” of horse racing will air later this year. The Fall, by British director and writer Nathan Horrocks, has been nominated for Best Short Drama at the London Short Film Festival. It will be screened during the LA Shorts International Film Festival, which ranks among the most prestigious and largest international short film festivals in the world, and has also received an honourable mention in the Independent Shorts Awards...

UPDATED 7:10PM, APR 9 2021 The 2021 Randox Grand National, the world's most famous jumps race, takes place at 5.15pm on Saturday with 40 horses vying for a place in racing legend. Here, we outline five methods you can employ to help you pick the winner . . . Form The easiest place to start is with the form of each runner, but that can be tricky as the Grand National is a handicap race designed, in theory, to allow all runners to set off with a level chance. A horse's form is usually reflected in the official ratings given to each, with that rating determining what weight they will ...

Cloth Cap will be going in as favourite Credit: PA The 2021 Grand National gets underway this afternoon. Here, 1990 winner Marcus Armytage gives his verdict, while you can find the view of our tipster Marlborough and the thoughts of the great and the good from sport below. Good luck! It may not be quite the message the Government has wanted to get across to the public in the last 12 months but, as a degree of normality begins to return, it is time we should all start Takingrisks. A year after the Randox Health Grand National was cancelled by Covid, the 173 rd running will finally take place...

EP: 52 Aintree Grand National Special The Grand National, run over four and a quarter miles always provides tremendous excitement and poignant stories. Once again 40 horses line-up for this year’s renewal. Trainers Tom Lacey and Nick Alexander join us to look ahead to the feature race of the weekend and Oliver Sherwood tells us just what it feels like to train the winner of this great race, having saddled Many Clouds to victory in 2015. City A.M. racing editor Bill Esdaile previews the National, in search of those horses with the best chances of success. Hosted by Chris Bar...

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...