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The biggest individual race of the entire year, the Grand National, is here!

On Saturday 13th April at 4:00pm, the Grand National will take place, a race loved by the public, whether you are a regular horse racing fan or a once-a-year punter.

Check out all the latest Grand National Free Bets offers, tips and info below, as we guide you through this special, and unique contest.


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Grand National Free Bets

Online bookies love the annual Aintree Grand National betting bash. The big race attracts more bets than any other sporting event on the calendar and creates massive Grand National betting turnover.

Free bets on Grand National day are not available everywhere, but we keep our page up to date, showing you the bookmakers who will be offering bonuses and free bets to their players.


Randox Health Grand National Festival 2024 Schedule

TimeDay One, Thursday April 11 2024Distance
13.45Manifesto Novices’ Steeple Chase2m 4f
14.204YO Juvenile Hurdle2m 1f
14.55Aintree Bowl Chase3m 1f
15.30Aintree Hurdle2m 4f
16.05Foxhunters’ Steeple Chase2m 5f
16.40Red Rum Handicap Steeple Chase2m
17.15Mares’ Standard Open NH Flat2m 1f
TimeDay Two, Friday April 12 2024Distance
13.45Mildmay Novices’ Chase3m 1f
14.20Handicap Hurdle2m 4f
14.55Top Novices’ Hurdle2m 1/2f
15.30Melling Chase2m 4f
16.05Topham Chase2m 5f
16.40Sefton Novices’ Hurdle3m ½f
17.15Handicap Hurdle2m 1/2f
TimeDay Three, Saturday April 13 2024
13.20Bridle Road Handicap Hurdle3m ½f
13:55Mersey Novices’ Hurdle2m 4f
14:30Handicap Chase3m 1f
15.05Liverpool Hurdle3m ½f
16.00Grand National4m 2 1/2f
17.00Maghull Novice Chase2m
17:35Standard Open National Hunt Flat Race2m 1f

Grand National Each Way Betting

An each-way bet is unquestionably the most popular of all Grand National betting offers as means your selection will earn you winnings if it finishes in-the-frame (first, second, third, or fourth) with half your bet stake going on the ‘place’ part of the bet (at a fraction of the win odds) and half going directly on the win part of the bet.

bet365 are currently offering the best each-way terms as a bet with them will see you paid if your selection finishes in the top 5!

But you can shop around for even better terms with some firms, like Paddy Power, offering places 1-2-3-4-5-6 on race day. As a rule of thumb a placed horse at 5/1 will see you have your entire bet stake returned.

A placed hose priced around 10/1 will give you a yield of around 50% on your investment while a placed selection around 14/1 or 16/1 will see you double your money. Naturally, if your selection was to win you will see a handsome return on your money.

Ante Post Betting

An ‘ante-post’ bet is a bet placed on a race before the final field is known. You can get far bigger odds about a Grand National betting fancy if placing your wager ante-post but you will lose your stakes if it does not actually run.

It’s best to get confirmation from a trainer that he definitely plans to run his horse in the Grand National before placing an ante-post bet as almost two thirds of the original Grand National entries will ultimately not take part.

Non-Runner No-Bet (NRNB)

Naturally, with the race so far away, you will be worried that the horse won’t even make it that far. Don’t worry, in the run in there will be plenty of Non Runner No Bet opportunities for you to ensure you don’t lose out.

If you’re unsure of what a Non Runner No Bet offer is, it’s essentially a bet that means if your horse doesn’t race, then your bet will be null and void. Most of the UK’s leading bookmakers will offer this, and they’re well worth looking at if you’re betting well ahead of the race.

Grand National non runner no bet (NRNB) markets normally appear around two weeks before the Grand National race date at a time when most of the leading fancies have been confirmed as intended runners.

Best Odds Guaranteed (BOG)

A great concession BOG offered by many major firms, ‘BOG’ means you will receive your Grand National winnings at the price you struck your bet or even better odds, its SP (starting price), if the SP is a bigger price than the Grand National betting odds you initially accepted.

It’s believed Ladbrokes were the first firm to offer BOG and, as the most familiar of all high street betting firms, that’s not a bad place to shop around for the best odds. BOG is genuinely the best of all bookmaking offers as the stats show the vast majority of horse winners traded at a bigger price than their SP prior to the off time.

Extra Place Special Offers

Definitely an offer to look out for as this will see your selection paid out as an each-way winner if finishing fifth (as is the current case with bet365) and/or even sixth. At the same time you might be able to find more favorable each-way terms such as 1/4 the odds instead of the more traditional 1/5 of the odds.

Faller Offers

Another great concession which is sure to be used as a promotion by online bookmakers is ‘faller offers’. This baby returns stakes, normally as free bets, on bet selections which fall at the first fence. It can also apply to other fences, particularly the final fence and it might see your stakes returned in full in cash as an alternative to a free bet.

Enhanced Odds

Pretty much meaning what is says, some firms will enhance the price of your Grand National betting selection. The bigger enhancements from the likes of Coral, Betfair and 888sport are usually reserved for new customers only, but there’s no saying what outstanding Grand National offers Paddy Power, Betway et-al will devise in 2023. Most definitely you will not see this offer until race day.

Tote Betting on the Grand National

There will be a full complement of Tote betting opportunities on the Grand National. From simple win bets to place bets, exactas, trifectas, swinger (first two in either order) and even superfecta (the first four home in correct order).

You can place tote bets with a number of online bookmakers. Totesport was the traditional home of betting into the UK tote pools via desktop and mobile devices but in recent years Betfair and bet365 have given their customers direct access to them and on Grand National day pools in all races at Aintree will be massive.


Choosing the Best Grand National Offer for you

Providing you don’t wait until the Wednesday before race day you should have a number of new and existing customers bet offers available to you. The big question is how to best take advantage of these concessions as each are genuine money making opportunities.

If you are simply eager to spin a profit we would certainly suggest blending in a free bet with an enhanced each-way offer. That’s because one is a ‘something for nothing’ and the other is a bet bonus.

But there is a lot of common sense involved in manipulating Grand National offers to best suit your wants, needs and selections habits. For example your horse could be a strong pulling type who has fallen at the first fence before (statistically an average of two horses fall at the first fence in Grand Nationals).

Any horse that gets booked by a popular jockey is certain to reduce in odds so be sure to secure the early odds – albeit there is no good reason not to take BOG about any Grand National bet. But ultimately it’s the free bet promotions that can be the most fruitful and using it on a horse to be placed, or each-way is your most likely path to profit.

Grand National Betting Markets

In addition to win and each-way bets there will be countless other betting markets come race day. Intrepid punters can place:

Forecasts – which needs you to select the first and second in correct order

Tricasts – requiring first-second and third

Potential returns from these bets could be huge but those that don’t possess a crystal ball and prefer a less speculative type of bet can choose to invest their money in ‘place only’ markets which are becoming more and more popular. The Betfair Betting Exchange and bet365 are great places to find these markets.

Another great way of enjoying the race is by placing bets in some of the numerous ‘Special Markets’ which will appear closer to Grand National day. These will include bet options on the ‘Number of Finishers’, the ‘Age of the Winner’, ‘an Irish Trained Winner’, a ‘Lady Jockey to Win’ and other such outcomes.

How to Get Grand National Free Bets

As the National Hunt season gets underway in the winter, you’ll be able to study the form ahead of early Spring.

Check our detailed ‘How to Bet’ guide to learn how to read the Grand national form.

As March draws in, it’s the perfect time to make the most of Grand National free bets.

Just like enhanced odds offers, the online bookies are fully aware of what a hectic day Grand National 2024 betting will be and they tend to suspend their traditional concessions, enhancements and, more importantly, New Customer Offers for those 24 hours.

Grand National Day will see a raft of new customers join countless sportsbooks and none of them are likely to benefit from the traditional free bets they can get during the rest of the year.

So, be prepared, meaning apply for bookmaking accounts early with the firms offering new customer free bet offers to receive a free bet you can use on the Grand National.

Be mindful that the Grand National free bet will usually not be credited to your new account until after your first bet has been placed and settled. So place that qualifying wager before a few days before the Grand National and have a free go on the biggest race of them all!


Grand National Betting Tips & Strategies

The record books, not the form books, is one of the best ways to identify who will win the Grand National…

  • Age: Nine is the best age for Grand National winners. A quarter of all winners have been nine years old. Selecting a horse between 9 and 11 is definitely the only way to go. The last winner aged seven or under was in 1940 and there has only been one 12-year-old winner since 1995.
  • Weight: Very few horses have managed to win the Grand National carrying big weights. Since Red Rum in 1977 only four horses have won carrying 11st 5lb or more.
  • Recent Run & Stamina: A recent run is crucial. Only one Grand National winner since 1981 had its prep-run more than 50 days prior to lining up for the big race. Similarly all but one of the last 48 Grand National winners had winning form at three-miles or more.

Where Can I Find the Latest Grand National Betting Tips?

You’ll find all the very best Grand National betting tips right here as the big day gets ever closer.

Every week we provide you with some of the best horse racing tips on the market and come Grand National weekend our experts will bring you the complete lowdown on all the major meets.

We’ll bring you plenty of Grand National previews, analysing the season so far and what’s coming out of the owners and trainers ahead of the pinnacle of the National Hunt season.

Keep checking back for all the latest betting tips and Grand National free bets, come April 10, you’ll be glad you did!


What is the Grand National?

The Aintree Grand National is one of the biggest betting events of the entire horse racing year.

The 2024 Grand National will take place on Saturday April 13, back to a more traditional start time of 4:00pm.

While some may be fortunate enough to travel to Aintree to watch the races take place in person, a whole host of people will be watching the race from the comfort of their own living rooms and will be searching around for some great Grand National offers.

Aintree has been the home of the Grand National since its first running in 1839. Ironically a horse named Lottery won the inaugural race and Captain Becher fell off his mount at the brook, hence the famous name – Becher’s Brook. In those days, horses jumped a stone wall, crossed ploughed land and finished over two hurdles.

Since those early days the course and fences have undergone many changes. Most recently in 2012 the wooden stakes at the core of the fences have been replaced with flexible plastic to reduce the risk to the horses and jockeys. The starting line has also moved further away from the main stand so as to get the horses away from the hullabaloo of the grandstands.

The race still remains one of the toughest tests of horse and rider in the world. A maximum field of 40 horses can line up at the start of which an average of 40% will go on to complete the race, which is four and a half miles long and has 30 fences to jump.

Finally, if you are feeling a little nostalgic then why not take a look back over the Grand National archives at some of most memorable races, horses, jockeys in our Grand National Top-5 series. You’ll be amazed by some of the National stories.

Grand National Course & Fences

Of the 16 fences which make up the Grand National course, five of the jumps have acquired famous names: Becher’s Brook, Valentines’ Brook, The Chair, Canal Turn and Foinavon are all names which make up part of the Aintree legend.

All fences bar the Water Jump are covered with spruce from evergreen coniferous trees and all, with the exception of The Chair and Water Jump are jumped twice during the race.

Many of the other fences can be described as relatively straightforward with the first (and 17th) being 4ft 6in high and 2ft 9in wide. The second and fourth are similar but the third (and 19th) is a big test as it features a 6ft ditch on its approach – as does the 11th (and 27th).

Many horsemen will tell you the Canal Turn is the place where the Grand National is most often won or lost. On landing over this small obstacle horses must quickly turn a full 90 degrees and with 30 or more horses often still in contention not every rider can find a clear passage and often encounter momentum stopping interference.


How to watch the Grand National online in the UK

Thousands upon thousands will be arriving in Liverpool for Grand National weekend which gets underway on Thursday, April 11, 2024. The big race itself will take place on the Saturday April 13.

The Grand National will be live on ITV, so you’ll be able to catch all the buildup alongside other big meets taking place across the long weekend.

If you’re struggling to get to a TV at 4:00pm on the big day, don’t worry, there’s a simple solution. Grand National live streaming is available with most online bookmakers in the UK, which means you can enjoy the big race on the go via your mobile device or computer.


Trainers & Owners

There have been just three Irish trained winners of the Grand National in the past decade. However, all of the major stables have won this race in recent times including David Pipe, Willie Mullins, Paul Nicholls, Nigel Twiston-Davies, Jonjo O’Neill and Gordon Elliott.

Female Jockey

Rachel Blackmore finally cracked this race for women, becoming the first woman to win the race when doing so in 2021. She arrived on the back of an excellent Cheltenham Festival, and has shown women the way to be a jockey at the very top level.

Her success will hopefully open the doors for more to come through, ride in this race, and win.


Interesting Odds Facts

1. Horses beginning with the letter R have the best record in the race and the Grand National has been won five times by horses with ‘Red’ in its name.

2. if you love a grey horse do consider only three greys have ever won the Grand National.

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Grand National FAQs

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Do you get paid for 5th place in the Grand National?

Ante-post punters cannot avail of this extra-place bonus and will be lumbered with traditional 1-2-3-4 each-way betting terms but as race-day draws closer and the prices of all confirmed runners start to shorten, five-place each-way betting terms will become commonplace.

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How much do you get for winning the Grand National?

Winning connections receive £500,000 for winning the Grand National and, to give riders every incentive to achieve the best possible finishing position, the prize-money goes back to tenth place (£5,000).

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Do you win if your horse comes 4th in the Grand National?

Providing you have placed your bet each-way or in a ‘place only’ market you will get a return on your horse should it finish fourth.

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How long does the Grand National last?

The Grand National is usually won in a time of around nine or ten minutes, depending on the ground conditions we have on the day

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How do horses qualify for the Grand National?

Grand National entries are only accepted by horses which are aged 7 or older, have an official handicap rating of 120 or more and have been previously placed in a chase race with a distance of 3 miles or more.


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