The Grand National meeting kicks off tomorrow with some brilliant races ahead of the main event on Sunday.

Especially looking forward to seeing Sprinter Sacre on Saturday and the Albertas Run and Finians Rainbow rematch.

I'm heading to Aintree on National day, Everton shirt underneath my suit.

You're going to Aintree on National day, wow good luck!

thursday is always the best day to go
friday is women's day and should be avoided at all costs
saturday is just organised chaos

After the death of 2 more horses , the Grand National has to be seriously looked at , the race is cruel and should not be alowed to continue unless measures are taken to eliminate(not reduce) risk to Horses, it's only a matter of time before a jockey is killed

How about we then use the horse meat on a BBQ, and therefore they haven't needlessly died. Good meat, too.

Good, it will serve them right for forcing a horse into a stall when it doesn't want to go in.

Would you jump on Usain Bolts back, kick him in the ribs and whip him to run faster? No.

Unethical treatment of animals.

They don't use stalls in jump racing.

Well over 400,000 tons of horse was killed for human consumption in 2009 (from wiki) thats equivalent to about 800,000 horses in one year, 812 horses have died in the course of five years of racing in the UK. Puts it into some perspective. In 2009 8.3 billion land animals were killed purely for consumption in the US. 3 million cattle, 13 million pigs, 19 million sheep and lambs, 70 million fish and 800 million birds are slaughtered for human consumption in the UK alone. Just a point that although unfortunate 162 horses a year dying is only one drop in a huge ocean. Around 110,000 innocent civilians killed in Iraq over 6 years. The point being that horse racing seems to be an easy target where there are other more weighty issues that people choose to ignore as that makes them feel uncomfortable. Put into context, sad though it is, the death of two horses is not in the overall context of how we view the horse or animals or even humans in terms of how we value them.

812 horses killed at the races.
How many people are killed or injured on British roads? Do we ban cars?

you always get the anti-racing mob out after the national, where are they for the other 51 weeks of the year? most of them know naff all about the sport either so instead of taking the moral high ground should focus on something they have knowledge of.