Each-way Grand National Betting Tips 2022 – Two Big Prices Against the Field

The Grand National will see spectators at Aintree for the first time in 3 years and I cannot wait to be apart of the atmosphere that will be in Liverpool in 2022. With the cancellation of the 2020 version and last year’s renewal being run behind closed doors, 2022 promises to be some spectacle.  

I’ve loved this race ever since I can remember but my affection for it grew even more when being at Aintree for the 2018 and 2019 additions when Tiger roared supreme and won back-to-back Nationals.

The most famous jumps race in the world is nearly here and whether you are a once-a-year punter or if you love the sport as much as me, it’s time to go through the runners, get your pen out and circle those selections you want to back.

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Grand National Each-way Tips

Santini – 66/1 (6 places & BOG with bet365)

Longhouse Poet – 16/1 (5 places each-way with William Hill)

Farclas  

He might not be Tiger Roll but I believe another Gigginstown owned, previous Triumph Hurdle winner can repeat his recently retired stable mates’ success and win the Randox Health Grand National. I have followed Farclas since his juvenile days and I believe he has a big race handicap chase in him after going close before at Cheltenham and in the Troytown.

A respectable 5^th in the race last year as a fresh faced 7-year-old, I would be amazed if he doesn’t take well to the fences again and improve as an 8-year-old. Beaten 29 lengths in last year’s race by Minella Times, the argument could be that he didn’t stay and will maybe get out-stayed again this year by 1 or 2. However, I believe the extra 12 months would have done him the world of good and he has been campaigned very differently to last year. He ran 4 times from November last year including a competitive race at the Cheltenham Festival. This season he has only had 1 run in November (2^nd in the Troytown) and Gordon Elliott has obviously kept him fresh for this and changed tact to last season.

Farclas ticks a lot of boxes for me and is a big player in this year’s renewal. He has been campaigned with the race in mind, has form on good and heavy ground so is versatile to what the weather does, has big field handicap experience, and has a good mix of speed and staying ability. He has a right chance and is still overpriced on my watch.

Santini 

You would normally associate boats with the famous boat race between Oxford & Cambridge but this year it might be that a boat wins the most famous steeplechase in the world.

For years Santini (Slowtini to others) has been talked about as a Grand National horse as no distance can be deemed long enough for him. Now, I don’t want to be doing the horse a dis justice here as I think he can be tailor-made for this race. He has his flaws yes, but he’s still a highly rated horse who can run well here.

Classy enough to be (unluckily in my opinion) beaten a neck in the Cheltenham Gold Cup only 2 years ago, Santini is a horse that has been written off far too early in my eyes. He has run his race more times than not in his career and outside of G1 level is a horse not to be dismissed. He has plummeted down the weights since his Gold Cup 2^nd and even though this will only be his second ever run in a handicap, I think he is handicapped to be competitive. His jumping is usually sound and he can act on either surface.

The Grand National always produces special moments and stories and this year will be no different if Santini managed to outstay all his rivals. Trained by the unknown and unfashionable Polly Gundry, this would be some story for the ‘little’ trainer brigade. His price has halved in the last few days (66s to 33s) and I think even more support will come his way from now until the off.

Longhouse Poet 

Another 8 year old, Irish-trained horse is my 3^rd and final selection. With the sunny spring weather being something of a distant memory (it snowed on the last day of March) and the forecast showing signs of rain in Liverpool for National week, I couldn’t let Longhouse Poet go unbacked.

The majority of my selection’s better form has come on soft/heavy ground and I’m willing to take the chance that the ground is going to be softer and wetter than we may have thought it would be a few days ago.

Longhouse Poet’s biggest win to date came in the 3m1f Thyestes Chase on soft ground at the end of January and I think that’s a great form line to come into this race with. Good horses were in behind him that day including one of the market leaders here (Escaria Ten) and I still think there’s more improvement to come from this horse. His last run was over hurdles to blow the cobwebs off and remain fresh (and well-weighted) for this. He’s number 13 on the list at the moment but it’s looking like another 3 or 4 above him will come out which will give him a weight in the early 11st which I don’t think will be a problem.

Still a best price 25/1 available at the time of writing and I think that’s fair. Another horse who has big field handicap experience already and although getting the marathon trip is an unknown, I cannot see why he wouldn’t be suited by the distance. The softer the ground the better but the horse has also won on good to soft. Cracking EW value.

 

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