Duffle Coat (who unseated his rider at the third) was the first to exit the race, an echo of the 1977 National, in which another horse called Duffle Coat led to the first fence and immediately fell.

Behind Nick Rockett there were 16 finishers, three fallers – Broadway Boy, Kandoo Kid and Perceval Legallois – Appreciate It was brought down, Duffle Coat unseated, and the rest were pulled up.

The 2025 Grand National is the talk of the horse racing world as punters return to Aintree this weekend. This is widely considered the best jumps race in the world, watched by millions globally as ...

AINTREE – It was Mullins, Mullins all the way in the Grand National as Nick Rockett, ridden by trainer Willie’s son Patrick, outlasted his stablemates I Am Maximus and Grangeclare West.

What is the Grand National? It is a National Hunt horse race that was first run in 1839. This handicap steeplechase sees horses having to jump a challenging series of fences, during a long race of ...

The three-day Randox Grand National festival started on Thursday and will go on till Saturday, when the Grand National 2025 race will take place at Aintree. The 34-horse line-up for the mega event has ...

The full line-up of runners and riders for the 2025 Grand National has been confirmed. The field has been whittled down over the last few weeks, with six horses pulled from contention on Monday.

There will again be a maximum of 34 runners going to post this Saturday and Gordon Elliott's Duffle Coat is at the moment the 34th on the list for the world's greatest steeplechase. Duffle Coat ...

The Grand National is scheduled for Saturday, April 5, with a confirmed line-up of 34 horses ready to compete at Aintree. The jockeys will be announced in due course. In a change from previous ...