Aintree Festival and Grand National Special Offers – Horse Racing Bets

Choose your bookmaker wisely for Grand National bets

Horse Racing Betting

If your bookmaker is not offering non runner-no bet on Saturday’s Randox Health Grand National, my advice would be to go elsewhere.

The going for the start of the Aintree meeting has reverted to soft, good to soft in places after further rain on Merseyside. That could lead to a fresh raft of withdrawals from Saturday’s big race and give fresh hope to connections of those horses formerly thought likely to miss out via the ballot system, which only has room for the top 40 in the handicap at the final 48-hour declaration stage.

There has been a call this week to bring forward the final declarations to five days for the Grand National and thus increase the excitement and give the public more time to study the final field and place their bets. However, with non runner-no bet, there is no danger of losing stakes so the argument from a betting angle doesn’t really hold water.

Betway are offering a free bet the same as your stake if your selection loses on the first race of ITV coverage on any day at Aintree, though only on singles as long as you stake between £2 and £10. Unibet are guaranteeing best odds if you take a price about your selection after 10.00am on the day of the race but that applies in general and not just to Aintree this week.

Elsewhere, 888sport probably have the most attractive offer for new customers. As long as at least £10 is staked and the customer applies ‘Profit Boost Ticket’ to his single or accumulator, the bookmaker will pay treble the odds on the Grand National winner and pay the extra in cash into the account.

No doubt we’ll be getting a multitude of special bets on the big race when the final field is announced on Thursday morning but wagering on winning distances, number of finishers or the fate of lady jockeys Bryony Frost, Katie Walsh and Rachael Blackmore are very much niche markets which are generally undeserving of big stakes.