Grand National Festival Day 2 Tips & Predictions

All the latest news and views from Day 2 of the Grand National Festival.

Horses racing at Ladies Day of the Grand National Festival

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Ladies Day is full of colour, style and fashion as Aintree celebrates individuality and creativity, with all designs and looks in the spotlight.

On the track the action is no less sparkling, with day two on Merseyside headlined by the Grade 1 Melling Chase and the Topham Steeple Chase – the latter run over the Grand National fences.

Betting Tips & Predictions

Get the latest betting tips for every race on Day 2 of the Grand National Festival by clicking the race names below:

1. Pertemps Network Handicap Hurdle (Grade 3)
2. Top Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1)
3. Mildmay Novices’ Steeple Chase (Grade 1)
4. Melling Steeple Chase (Grade 1)
5. Topham Steeple Chase (Grade 3)
6. Sefton Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1)
7. Champion Standard Open NH Flat Race (Grade 2)

Grand National Festival Day 2: Ladies Day Racecard April 8th 2022

Day two at Aintree is brimming with quality and ultra-competitive jumps racing fare, headlined by the Melling Chase. The full Friday programme is below.

TIME RACE DISTANCE PRIZE MONEY
13:45 Pertemps Network Handicap Hurdle (Grade 3) 2m4f £70,000
14:20 Top Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) 2m½f £100,000
14:50 Mildmay Novices’ Steeple Chase (Grade 1) 3m1f £100,000
15:25 Melling Steeple Chase (Grade 1) 2m4f £200,000
16:05 Topham Steeple Chase (Grade 3) 2m5f £120,000
16:40 Sefton Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) 3m½f £100,000
17:15 Champion Standard Open NH Flat Race (Grade 2) 2m1f £45,000

Race 1 – 13:45 Pertemps Network Handicap Hurdle (Grade 3)

A Grade 3 handicap hurdle over two-and-a-half miles launches day two at Aintree. Auroras Encore won this contest in 2008 and would land The National itself five years later for Sue Smith.

YEAR WINNER JOCKEY ODDS
2021 Tronador JW Kennedy 22/1
2019 Rather Be Jerimiah McGrath 10/1
2018 Jester Jet Robbie Dunne 20/1
2019 Three Musketeers Jack Kennedy 8/1

Race 2 – 14:20 Top Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1)

This race became a Grade 1 event as recently as 2016 and can feature horses that have previously run in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham in March.

YEAR WINNER JOCKEY ODDS
2021 Belfast Banter KC Sexton 9/1
2019 Felix Desjy Jack Kennedy 8/1
2018 Lalor Richard Johnson 20/1
2017 Pingshou Robbie Power 10/1

Race 3 – 14:50 Mildmay Novices’ Steeple Chase (Grade 1)

Run over a three-miles-one-furlong distance, the Mildmay Novices’ Chase is a through stamina test for up-and-coming chasers. Might Bite was the most recent Cheltenham Festival winner to land this in 2017.

YEAR WINNER JOCKEY ODDS
2021 Chantry House Nico De Boinville 11/8fav
2019 Lostintranslation Robbie Power 3/1
2018 Terrefort Daryl Jacob 3/1fav
2017 Might Bite Nico de Boinville 8/13fav

Race 4 – 15:25 Melling Steeple Chase (Grade 1)

The Melling Chase is named after the public road that crosses Aintree racecourse. It often attracts horses that have run in the Queen Mother Champion Chase or the Ryanair Chase at the previous month’s Cheltenham Festival and is the feature race on day two.

YEAR WINNER JOCKEY ODDS
2021 Fakir D’Oudairies Mark Walsh 2/1fav
2019 Min Ruby Walsh 2/1
2018 Politologue Sam Twiston-Davies 11/1
2017 Fox Norton Robbie Power 4/1

Race 5 – 16:05 Topham Steeple Chase (Grade 3)

The Topham is a tough jumping test over the National fences and it’s most successful participant was the Peter Bowen-trained Always Waining, winner in three successive years from 2010 onwards.

YEAR WINNER JOCKEY ODDS
2021 Livelovelaugh PW Mullins 15/2
2019 Cadmium Paul Townend 8/1
2018 Ultragold Harry Cobden 14/1
2017 Ultragold Harry Cobden 50/1

Race 6 – 16:40 Sefton Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1)

An out-and-out staying test for the novices, this race is run over a trip of close to three-miles and one-furlong. It is perhaps not quite as daunting as the Albert Bartlett at Cheltenham but, nonetheless, requires a proper stayer to win.

YEAR WINNER JOCKEY ODDS
2021 Ahoy Senor Derek Fox 66/1
2019 Champ Mark Walsh 9/4fav
2018 Santini Nico de Boinville 6/4fav
2017 The World’s End Adrian Heskin 3/1

Race 7 – 17:15 Champion Standard Open NH Flat Race (Grade 2)

Aintree’s Champion Bumper race is more of a speedy affair than the counterpart at Cheltenham. The New One and Lalor are recent winners that returned to taste victory over jumps at this meeting.

YEAR WINNER JOCKEY ODDS
2021 Rowland Ward Charlie Hammond 12/1
2019 McFabulous Harry Cobden 2/1fav
2018 Portrush Ted Gavin Sheehan 25/1
2017 Lalor Richard Johnson 33/1


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