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This Year’s John Smith’s Grand national commences in two weeks and runs from 7th-9th April at Aintree.7th April is Liverpool day. The following day is Ladies Day famous for hats!. The grand finale is on 9th April -the 2011 Grand national steeplechase.

The Grand National is probably one of the largest races in United Kingdom horse racing betting, and definitely one of the most exciting and exhilarating races of the year for fans of the sport. As you might expect, Twitter is awash with people looking for Grand National tickets). There’s no time like now to do your preparation, to work out who you are going to gamble on as well as which free-bets or special offers you will select up when you bet (loads of bookmakers advertise excellent value offers during the Grand National).

check out our Grand National betting guide below to identify possible champions, and give you some interesting Grand National triva at the same time.

SELECTING A WINNER IN THE GRAND NATIONAL

• loads of Runners: With about 40 horses in the race you can surely expect a spectacle. That’s a lot of legs! It’s quite common to see riders falling and horses running without jockeys.
• Long track to navigate: 4.5 miles
• Jumps & Balance: Runners with tendancy of falling are not likely to have confidence and to maintain their balance to have a chance of victory.
• Stamina: This is a long race – so horses with no track record of victories on tracks over 3 miles in distance are more unlikely to win on a 4.5 mile track.
• The race is synonymous with the racehorse “Red Rum”which was trained on the beaches of Southport and went on to win 3 Grand Nationals, capturing the nation’s hearts.
• Each way betting – placing an each way bet on the grand national is an easy way to make profit, as bookmakers pay four places on each way bets as standard
• It is uncommon to find a contender in the race with such short odds that you won’t make a profit with an each way bet, should the horse place 1st-4th.

GRAND NATIONAL FREE BETS

Online betting portals are giving away extra value in the shape of offers and free bets on sporting events such as the Grand National, Wimbledon etc.

Check out the Free bets pages on bet rescue for free bets offers of up to £200 sterling.

The stand-out race of the second day of the Cheltenham Festival is The Queen Mother Champion Chase which historically dates back to 1959 when it was originally called the Champion Chase. At this inaugural event Bunny Cox rode Quita Que to victory. In 1980 it was renamed as The Queen Mother Champion Chase to mark the 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and widow of George VI.

The Queen Mother is also honoured as the patron of the National Hunt Racing and throughout her life, even after her 100th birthday, she continued to attend the Cheltenham festival every year. She even owned and managed several of the national hunt race horses.

The Queen Mother Champion Chase is a Grade One steeple chase which is done over 2 miles at Prestbury Park on the main race course there. The horses who run in this race need to be over 5 years old and during the race they have to jump over 12 fences.

Age has little to do with the betting trends in the Champion Chase and the last five winners have been between 5 and 11 years of age. Generally the favourites for winning have had two wins already in the race and horses ridden by Ruby Walsh or trained by Paul Nicholls have all won three times at The Queen Mother Champion Chase.

You can get the best betting odds for the Cheltenham Festival on betting exchange Betfair. They even give new customers a free bet.

Tennis betting fans won’t be surprised that today Spanish tennis pro Rafael Nadal won the Grand Slam Monday after defeating Novak Djokovic in the 2010 U. S Open men’s singles final.

With this historic victory, Rafael Nadal, became the first person since 1969 to win the French Open, Wimbledon and U. S Open in the same year.

Rafael Nadal is generally thought to be the world’s finest clay-court player ever – having earned an unrivalled 81-match clay court winning streak which ended in 2006, however his domination by winning the Roland Garros French open (the greatest clay-court tournament) for 4 years in a row (2005 to 2008) says it all. Rafa is one of the most popular players for tennis betting fans.

Neither the New York rain, which had seen the final postponed on Sunday and then interrupted for almost two hours on Monday, nor Djokovic could halt the Spaniard’s persistent march to the one title that still eluded him.

In the year 2006, Nadal showed the entire world that he is a strong player, when he played his way to the final of the grass-court Wimbledon Tennis Championship, where he lost to Roger Federer – nevertheless in 2008 he defeated Federer for his first significant success on a non-clay surface. Not one to relax on his laurels, 2009 saw Nadal win the Australian Open and get to the semi’s of the 2009 US Open. 2011 will probably be another epic year for Nadal’s tennis results

.The German Bundesliga It is the #1 football league in terms of regular attendance with usually in excess of forty thousand supporters per league match during the 2009-10 season. The Bundesliga was not formed until 1963 and the shape and organisation of the nation’s football leagues have underwent recurrent variations right up to the present day. The league was actually founded by the German Football Association, but is now operated by the Deutsche Fußball Liga

The German Bundesliga League is a expert association soccer league in Germany. At the top of Germany’s footballing league system, it is the place’s main football competition. 18 clubs fight for the trophy every year, and the league and functions on a technique of promotion and relegation. A total of 50 clubs have competed in the Bundesliga since its inception. Since the 1970s, one team – FC Bayern Munich has dominated the tournament, receiving the title on 21 occasions. Will you be betting on FC Bayern Munich to win the Bundesliga?

Nevertheless, the Bundesliga has seen additional champions with Hamburger and Borussia Mönchengladbach being the most notable ones. The Bundesliga is one of the major nationwide leagues, at this time ranked Third in Europe according to UEFA’s league rank, Football fans can get Bundesliga Betting Odds on the internet.

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