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2025 Grand National
The 2025 Grand National (officially known as the Randox Health, Randox 2025 Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 177th annual running of the Grand National horse race. It took place on Saturday 5 April 2025, at Aintree Racecourse, Aintree near Liverpool, England. The winner was Nick Rockett, trained by Willie Mullins and ridden by his son, amateur jockey Patrick Mullins (jockey), Patrick Mullins. The death of Celebre d'Allen two days after the race, following his collapse after the last fence and subsequent lung infection, led to widespread public concern, as well as criticism of racing and the British Horseracing Authority from animal rights groups. The race The 2025 Grand National took place on Saturday 5 April 2025, at Aintree Racecourse, Aintree near Liverpool, England. There were an initial 90 entries in January 2025, with 34 runners (the maximum field size) confirmed on 3 April. Eighteen of the runners were trained in Ireland, including six from the yard of tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand National
The Grand National is a National Hunt horse race held annually at Aintree Racecourse in Aintree, Merseyside, England. First run in 1839, it is a handicap steeplechase over an official distance of about , with horses jumping 30 fences over two laps.'' British Racing and Racecourses'' () by Marion Rose Halpenny – Page 167 It is the most valuable jump race in Europe, with a prize fund of £1 million in 2017. An event that is prominent in British culture, the race is popular amongst many people who do not normally watch or bet on horse racing at other times of the year. The course over which the race is run features much larger fences than those found on conventional National Hunt tracks. Many of these fences, particularly Becher's Brook, The Chair and the Canal Turn, have become famous in their own right and, combined with the distance of the event, create what has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachael Blackmore
Rachael Blackmore (born 11 July 1989) is an Irish former National Hunt jockey. In 2021, she became the first female jockey to win the Grand National in the 182-year history of the race. She also became the first woman to be leading jockey at the Cheltenham Festival with six victories, including the Champion Hurdle, in 2021. The following year she became the first female jockey to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup. She announced her immediate retirement on 12 May 2025, having won 575 races as a professional jockey. Blackmore's achievements saw her named the 2021 RTÉ Sports Person of the Year and the 2021 BBC World Sport Star of the Year. Early life The daughter of a teacher and a farmer (Eimir and Charles), Blackmore grew up on a dairy farm in Killenaule, County Tipperary, Ireland, and first started riding ponies at just two years of age. Growing up she took part in pony club meetings, hunting, eventing and pony racing. She gained a degree in equine science at the University of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free-to-air
Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscription, other ongoing cost, or one-off fee (e.g., pay-per-view). In the traditional sense, this is carried on terrestrial radio signals and received with an antenna. FTA also refers to channels and broadcasters providing content for which no subscription is expected, even though they may be delivered to the viewer/listener by another carrier for which a subscription is required, e.g., cable television, the Internet, or satellite. These carriers may be mandated (or OPT) in some geographies to deliver FTA channels even if a premium subscription is not present (providing the necessary equipment is still available), especially where FTA channels are expected to be used for emergency broadcasts, similar to the mandatory emergency phone num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ofcom Code On Sports And Other Listed And Designated Events
The Ofcom Code on Sports and Other Listed & Designated Events is a series of regulations issued originally by the Independent Television Commission (ITC) then by Ofcom when the latter assumed most of the ITC's responsibilities in 2003, which is designed to protect the availability of coverage of major sporting occasions on free-to-air terrestrial television in the United Kingdom. In 1991, the Home Secretary, Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking, Kenneth Baker, devised a list of events not permitted to be broadcast solely on pay television services. The practice was placed on a statutory footing by the Broadcasting Act 1996, which required the ITC to create a permanent list of such events, dubbed the "crown jewels of sport". In 1997, the initial list was drawn up, and was revised in 1999, where the code was divided into two categories, A and B. The code was further amended in 2000 to give the ITC responsibility over UK-based broadcasters wanting to transmit listed events in other co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV (TV Channel)
ITV1 (formerly known as ITV) is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the British media company ITV plc. It provides the ITV (TV network), Channel 3 public broadcast service across all of the United Kingdom except for the central and northern areas of Scotland where STV (TV channel), STV provides the service. ITV1 as a consistent national channel (with dedicated slots for regional news and other regional programmes) evolved out of the old ITV (TV network), ITV network – a federation of separately owned regional companies which had significantly different local schedules and branding. During the 1990s, the differences between the schedules in each region gradually reduced – partly through the consolidation of ownership and partly through the standardisation in the volume and scheduling of regional programmes. In 2002, a major change of appearance occurred when all ITV regions in En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jody McGarvey
Jody McGarvey (born 14 November 1990) is a retired Irish jockey who competed in National Hunt racing. McGarvey rode the winners of 173 races in a career which began in 2012 and ended with his retirement after riding at Punchestown on 1 May 2025. He was particularly associated with horses owned by J. P. McManus, for whom he rode the winners of three Grade 1 races. Major wins Ireland *Ryanair Novice Chase - (1) Great Field (2017) *Mares Novice Hurdle Championship Final The Honeysuckle Mares Novice Hurdle is a Grade 1 National Hunt hurdle race in Ireland which is open to mares aged four years or older. It is run at Fairyhouse Racecourse over a distance of about 2 miles and ... - (1) Skyace (2021) * Underwriting Exchange Gold Cup Novice Chase - (1) Janidil (2021) * Drinmore Novice Chase - (1) I Am Maximus (2023) References 1990 births Living people Irish jockeys Sportspeople from Coleraine, County Londonderry Jockeys from Northern Ire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nico De Boinville
Nicolai "Nico" W. Chastel de Boinville (born 14 August 1989) is an English horse racing jockey who competes in National Hunt racing. De Boinville has ridden more Grade One winners than any British jumps jockey currently active. Early life He is the son of an insurance broker, de Boinville was educated at Bradfield College from 2002 to 2007, a public school in the village of Bradfield in Berkshire, followed by the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He had initially intended to study Politics at Newcastle, but he left during his first year, in order to pursue a career in horse racing. Career De Boinville started his racing career as a stable lad at Nicky Henderson's Seven Barrows stables. After being a professional jockey for just over a year, de Boinville won the 2015 Cheltenham Gold Cup riding Coneygree for trainer Mark Bradstock. Since then, de Boinville has partnered horses such as Altior, Shishkin, Sprinter Sacre and Might Bite to his total 15 victories at the Chelt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JJ Slevin
James Joseph Slevin (born July 1992) is an Irish National Hunt jockey, who has ridden multiple Grade 1 winners and two Irish Grand National winners. In January 2025 he was appointed retained rider to owners Simon Munir and Isaac Souede. Background Slevin comes from a racing background. His father, Shay Slevin, is a trainer and his mother, Elizabeth, is the sister of trainer Aidan O'Brien. Slevin grew up in Kiltrea, near Enniscorthy in County Wexford. He obtained a degree in journalism from Griffith College Dublin, while his brother Mark trained as a vet. Career as a jockey Slevin rode for several years as an amateur jockey. He rode 34 winners in point-to-points, the first of them being Herecomestherain, trained by his father Shay, at Ballydarragh on 14 November 2010. His first winner under rules was Chapel Garden, trained by John Clifford, in a National Hunt flat race at Thurles on 22 December 2013. His eleven wins as an amateur included a Grade 3 win on Moylisha Tim in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Skelton
Harry Skelton (born 20 September 1989) is a British jockey who competes in National Hunt racing. Skelton was the 2020–2021 British Champion Jump Jockey. Career Skelton started his racing career with Richard Hannon on the flat, before switching to jump racing and joined his brother, Dan, who was assistant trainer to Paul Nicholls in Somerset. In 2009, he became the youngest winner of the Irish Grand National on Niche Market trained by Bob Buckler. In 2011, he won his first Grade 2 race with Celestial Halo in the National Spirit Hurdle at Fontwell Park. In 2013, Skelton joined his brother who had set up Dan Skelton Racing in Warwickshire as the new yard's lead jockey. Skelton has won a number of Grade 1 races including four at the Cheltenham Festival. In 2021, he was crowned British champion jump Jockey for the first time, riding 152 winners in the season. In the same year, Skelton was awarded "Jump Jockey of the Year" at the Lester Awards. Personal life Skelton is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Donoghue
Keith Donoghue (born 15 September 1990) is an Irish jockey who competes in National Hunt racing. He has had multiple successes at Grade level and holds the record of five wins in the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase at the Cheltenham Festival. After a long association with trainer Gordon Elliott, he decided to switch to riding freelance and has had notable victories for trainer Gavin Cromwell. Background Donoghue grew up in Dunshaughlin, County Meath, in a family with racing connections. His maternal great uncle, Andy Lynch, was a trainer and his grandfather worked at Fairyhouse Racecourse and took the young Donoghue to watch races there. Donoghue went hunting with his mother and took part in pony racing, riding over 150 winners. He left school at fifteen to work at the yard of Gordon Elliott. Racing career Donoghue was sixteen when he rode his first winner, Nino Cochise for Elliott at Listowel on 13 September 2009. Standing at about six feet tall with a sturdy frame, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Deutsch
Charlie Deutsch is a multiple Grade I winning British National Hunt jockey. In 2018, he was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment for dangerous driving. Racing career Deutsch began his racing career with Charlie Longsdon in 2013 before moving across to Venetia Williams in Herefordshire. He fell in his first ride for Williams. Deutsch won the Grade 3 Betfair Handicap Chase at Cheltenham with Aachen in 2015. He would win the race again in 2021 with Commodore making him joint leading jockey in the race. In 2016, Deutsch won the Lanzarote Hurdle at Kempton Park with Yala Enki. The jockey stated it as his biggest win at the time. Deutsch was arrested in 2018 for drink driving. At this point of his career, he had won 88 races. His first ride after release from prison was Rogue Dancer at Huntingdon Racecourse on 16 October 2018. He finished 2nd. At the 2019 Cheltenham Festival, Deutsch nearly won his first Festival race in the Ryanair Chase with Aso, finishing second to Fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Cobden
Harry Cobden (born 5 November 1998) is a British jockey who competes in National Hunt racing. He was British Champion Conditional Jockey in 2015/16 and went on to ride as first jockey to trainer Paul Nicholls. By the end of the 2023/24 season he had won 24 Grade 1 races. He was British jump racing Champion Jockey in 2023/24. Background Cobden was born on 5 November 1998, the youngest of the two sons of Somerset farmers Sarah and Will Cobden, who also ran an abattoir. He learnt to ride as a small child and later took part in pony racing. In school holidays he worked in the yard of trainer Ron Hodges. A boarder at Sexey's School, he left without taking any GCSEs and went to work with local trainer Anthony Honeyball. Cobden won the men's novice point-to-point title in the 2014/15 season and won his first race under rules on 33/1 outsider El Mondo in a hunter chase at Leicester on 6 March 2015. Career At the beginning of the 2015/16 season, Cobden became conditional jockey to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
