ITV Racing: Grand National Festival 2024

ITV Racing: Grand National Festival 2024

Presented by Ed Chamberlin, ITV Racing will broadcast five races a day of top class racing across the three-day Festival, with an extended show on Grand National Day.

ITV’s BAFTA-winning team include pundits and Grand-National winning jockeys, Sir Anthony McCoy, Ruby Walsh and Mick Fitzgerald.

Joining them covering all the action around the whole course will be Rishi Persad, Alice Plunkett, Adele Mulrennan and Matt Chapman. Brian Gleeson will be in the betting ring with Luke Harvey down at the starts. Oli Bell will interact with viewers at home and look at stats in the ‘social stable’ and the three big race commentators will be Richard Hoiles, Mark Johnson and Stewart Machin.
On Saturday, Ruby Walsh will also be alongside Oli Bell for a fence-by-fence review analysing how the action unfolded and how your horse got on.

The Opening Show will be on ITV4 each day and ITV1 on Saturday. Oli Bell will host a preview all the big races and take in the morning action around the course. He will have guests with him each day and a big race line up on Saturday including Sir Anthony McCoy and Ruby Walsh.

Across the week, the award-winning production and technical team will use state-of-the-art equipment with approximately 50 cameras around the course including a tracker following the horses, a wire cam along the home straight and a drone.

The ITV7 team will also run a Grand National Sweepstake competition and every day there will be the hugely popular a free-to-enter ITV7 competition.

Randox Grand National Day – Saturday 13th April

Saturday’s feature is the world’s most famous race, the Randox Grand National Steeple Chase, due off at 4pm, with supporting races on the card including the Bridle Road Handicap Hurdle (1.20pm), the Grade One Turner Mersey Novices Hurdle (1.55pm), the William Handicap Steeple Chase (2.30pm). the Grade One JRL Group Liverpool Hurdle (3.05pm).
The Randox Grand National will be followed by a full replay with analysis to show where viewers’ selections finished.

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Main programme coverage times:

9.30am - 10.30am: ITV Racing: The Opening Show

Oli Bell and the team are at Aintree ahead of the world's most famous race, the Grand National.

12.55pm - 5pm: ITV Racing: The Grand National Festival (including the Randox Grand National Steeple Chase (4pm)

Ed Chamberlin presents coverage of the first four races at Aintree and all the build-up to the Grand National later this afternoon. The Liverpool Hurdle is a Grade One contest which has been won by plenty of great staying hurdlers and is the final big race before the Grand National.

Analysis from Sir AP McCoy, Ruby Walsh and Mick Fitzgerald, reporting from Alice Plunkett, Adele Mulrennan, Matt Chapman, Oli Bell, Rishi Persad and Luke Harvey, betting news from Brian Gleeson and commentary from Richard Hoiles.

Randox Grand National from Aintree

Coverage of the world's most famous horse race – the Randox Grand National from Aintree – as 34 runners line up to be the latest winner, including 2023 winner Corach Rambler who looks to be the third horse after Tiger Roll and Red Rum to win back-to-back renewals. After dominating at Cheltenham, the Irish team headed by Willie Mullins look to have a very strong chance of winning this year's race.

Analysis from Sir AP McCoy, Ruby Walsh and Mick Fitzgerald, reporting from Alice Plunkett, Adele Mulrennan, Matt Chapman, Oli Bell, Rishi Persad and Luke Harvey, betting news from Brian Gleeson, and commentary from Richard Hoiles, Mark Johnson and Stewart Machin.