If horse racing fans can’t get to a television, you can also stream the 2023 Grand National via your mobile phone or tablets with the best live horse racing streaming sites for free.

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With 1468 race meetings, it is safe to say horse racing in Britain is a very popular sport with racing taking place almost every day of the year. ITV is delighted to announce the continuation of free to air coverage of a sport that is loved and followed by so many. The biggest events in the calendar have seen large increases with the 2019 Grand National’s average audience up by more than 2m compared with 2016 and this year’s Cheltenham Festival hitting audience highs not seen since records began in 2003. As the 2023 horse racing calendar is coming to an end we have the full horse racing fixture list for 2024 including all the new Premier Raceday fixtures for 2024. ITV has been a terrific partner for British horseracing over the last three years and ITV has earned the right to renew the contract for a further three years.I’d also like to thank all the sport’s participants, particularly the jockeys, for the positive roles they have played in engaging with the ITV coverage.

Horses are just starting to reach full fitness and looking to win the class 2 or class 1 handicap chase events. The daily ITV coverage will start at 2:20pm on Thursday (13th April) and Friday (14th April), and at 2:25pm on Grand National Day (15th Saturday).Commanche Falls has won the last two runnings of the Stewards’ Cup, but this Michael Dods runner doesn’t hold an entry this year. Away from the Grand National, there are other main races across the meeting including the Grade Ones – Liverpool Hurdle, Turners Mersey Novices’ Hurdle, Maghull Novices’ Steeple Chase, Sefton Novices’ Hurdle, Marsh Steeple Chase, Top Novices’ Hurdle, Aintree Hurdle, Aintree Bowl, Manifesto Novices’ Steeple Chase and the Anniversary 4-y-o Juvenile Hurdle. It will be the last Glorious Goodwood for popular jockey Frankie Dettori, as the pocket Italian announced last year this will be his final season in the saddle – can he go out on a high and grab some more winners over the five days? There are 60 flat and national hunt racecourses within the 2024 racing calendar with horse racing in the United Kingdom.

The runners and riders are looking for positive results in the trials to give them a chance of competing on the big stage. In this section you can find various versions of the Fixture List, compiled by BHA’s Racing Department. But there will be 170 Premier Raceday cards in 2024 across 38 racecourses (only 115 meetings in 2023). Flat fans have had to rely on all-weather action during the cold winter months as the Jumps boys and girls have dominated proceedings – but that is all about to change!We are committed to responsible gambling and have a number of ways to help you stay in control and keep gambling fun. With Ed Chamberlin at the helm, with the likes of Matt Chapman, Luke Harvey and Oli Bell assisting, the ITV horse racing team are also expected to have three ex- Grand National winning jockeys helping out. Has written for GeeGeez and BetBright, plus was the former sports betting editor of odds comparison site Easyodds and Juicestorm. Our commercial content notice does not influence our evaluations where the gambling operators appear on the page. So far this year, viewing for ITV4’s coverage is 2% higher than for the equivalent events shown on C4 in 2016.