18 horses to keep an eye out for during April’s UK Horse Racing
April is the month when the turf Flat season starts to hit full stride and for many punters the fixture that lights the blue touch paper is the Craven meeting at Newmarket in the middle of the month.
Before sampling the breezy delights of Newmarkets Rowley Mile course, however, theres the small matter of the ever-expanding Grand National meeting at Aintree that begins with a cracking card on April 6.
In recent years Aintrees prestigious three-day meeting has begun to rival Cheltenhams somewhat bloated four-day fixture for thrills and spills, and theres little doubt that the highlight of the Merseyside racing calendar offers three days of top-class racing culminating in the running of the worlds most famous race on the final day.
As racecourses go, Cheltenham and Aintree are chalk and cheese: where the former is twisty and undulating with a punishing uphill finish, the latter is long and flat and essentially sharp in nature, and given the two contrasting course configurations it takes a good horse to win a race at the Cheltenham Festival and then do the same at...