Grand National Bets 2012
For many placing a bet on the Grand National is the only bet that you may have in the whole year and you may not be very familiar with the different types of bet available on the this great race. We will go through some of these Grand National type bets for your information and when you open an account and go to the horse racing section of the relevant bookmaker you will see most of these bets on offer.
Standard Bets - Win and Each Way Betting
For most people these are the main bets that they will have and in simple terms to place a win bet this is backing your selection to come first. An each way bet on the National is backing your horse in two bets one is to win and the other is to finish in the first four. Some bookmakers will pay the odds on the first five
Placing Win and Each Way Grand National Bets
Number of Grand National Finishers
This Grand National bet is predicting the number of finishers there will be in the race so with 40 runners starting how many will complete the course. This can be difficult to get right but we have some good National tips to help you with your bet.
Placing a bet on the number of Grand National Finishers
Grand National Betting In Running
Most people have their Grand National bet before the race but nowadays there is a great facility with the betting exchanges and more recently the online bookmakers to place your bet while the race is underway. Betting in running allows you to place bets even when there have been fallers during the race.
Live In Running Grand National Betting
Grand National Winning Distance
This Grand National bet is a bit of a novelty bet but is very popular and here you are predicting the distance between the first and second place horse and like the number of finishers Grand National bet there are some tips that should be taken into account before having this type of bet.
Grand National Winning Distance Betting
Other types of bets on the Grand National
Some of the other National bets that you can have is the Nationality of where the winning horse is trained, the winning trainer as there are a number of trainers who will have more than one runner, the age of the winning horse.
