Grand National 2011

Posts Tagged ‘racing’

We mainly concentrate on the Grand National horse race but the Cheltenham Festival always grabs our interest. This year is set to be an epic meet with the Gold Cup battle between Denman and Kauto star looking like classic in the making.

The festival is four days and features many horse that will run in the 2010 Grand National. The festival is too big to cover here in detail, so I will point you in the direction of our sister website Cheltenham Race Festival, give it a visit for all the latest odds, runners and tips.

I’m heading off to the stunning Bangor-On-Dee (National Hunt Course) today in the hope of grabbing a few quality photos of AP McCoy and last years Grand National winning jockey Liam Treadwell. Both will be in action over the hurdles, interestingly AP is also riding in a ‘Bumper’.

Any good photos will make it onto my flickr photo profile it’s a mash up of all my photos, including many horse racing ones. The photo in the post was taken during my last visit to Bangor, it’s a great course for photographers to get racing shots on, it’s always fairly quiet and the jumps are well placed to easily accessible parts of the course to the general public.

Do you like the look of this site? Well you can download this free wordpress theme for your blog too! We custom designed two horse racing themes because we couldn’t find any good quality themes for horse racing websites like ours. As were feeling generous we decided to make the themes freely available to anyone who wants to use them. The two versions work with the latest updates of the WordPress blogging software (2.8.x). Each theme contains one link to our main sponsor ~ you can remove this link, but if you do a little angel in heaven will die!

The two themes to choose from are listed below, ‘Horse Race’ is the theme you are looking at now on the site and ‘Jockey and Horse’ is an alternative theme using a photo of AP McCoy and Ruby Walsh battling it out at Bangor On Dee race course. To preview the themes click on the links below.

Preview Theme (Jockey and Horse ~ Green)

Preview Theme (Horse Race ~ Brown)

To download the themes use the download links provided. Remember to upload them into your wp-content themes folder and then just activate them from the admin area.

Download (Horse Race)

Download (Jockey and Horse)