This detailed information article will help you know which trainers and riders have had good results in the Scottish Grand National horse racing. The race is held at Ayr racetrack with a total track length of 4 miles. The article will also analyze the trends of winning horses in previous years to predict this year’s tournament.

Overview of Scottish Grand National Horse Racing 2025

The Scottish Grand National horse race was first held in 1858 and moved to its current location at Ayr racecourse in 1966. The race has the same First Class as the Grand National Aintree, with horses participating (from 5 years and older) must overcome 27 standard obstacles on a nearly 4-mile long track.

The race usually takes place a few weeks after the Aintree race depending on the Easter schedule. Red Rum is the only horse to ever win both events in the same year (1974). Music Hall was the first horse to win both in 1922, and Earth Summit (in 1994) is the most recent horse to win both the Scottish Grand National, Welsh Grand National, and British Grand National.

Scottish Grand National Horse Racing Trends

• Is this year’s winner of the Scottish Grand National horse race worth betting on for the next one? In the past 20 years, if you bet on a horse to win the Scottish Grand National in the next race, you would only win three events. Betting on all 18 horses that entered subsequent events to win at starting odds (SP) in the next event would result in a loss with a total loss percentage (LSP) of -1.25. Before placing your bets on the 2025 Scottish Grand National, see which other horses today are predicted to win on the Horse Racing Predictions page.
• The horse holding the record for the slowest time in the past 20 years belongs to the 2014 race. At that time, Al Co, trained by Peter Bowen and controlled by Jamie Moore, won with a time of 8:35.70. On the other hand, Hot Weld, trained by Ferdy Murphy and driven by P J McDonald, set the fastest time of 7:55.10 in the 2007 race.
• These are the 3 fastest horses in the Scottish Grand National over the past 20 years:
• Hot Weld (7:55.10) 2007
• Joe Farrell (8:00.50) in 2018
• Taking risks (8:02.40) 2019

List of previous winners of the Scottish Grand National horse race

Below is a list of 10 horses that won the Scottish Grand National horse race in the last 10 years. Each row displays the year the race was held, the name of the winning horse along with its age and weight. The horse’s trainer and rider at the time of his Scottish Grand National win are also shown along with the horse’s starting odds.

Origin of the Winning Horse

• The backgrounds of the winning trainers of the Scottish Grand National horse race come from the following countries:
• Great Britain (GB): 17 wins with 55 other places out of 453 participating horses
• France (FR): 2 wins with 1 other place out of 10 participating horses
• Ireland (IRE): 1 win with 4 other places out of 42 participating horses

Statistics on the achievements of the riders of the Scottish Grand National horse race

The leading horseman of the Scottish Grand National over the past 20 years is Sam Twiston-Davies, who has won the tournament twice with Vicente (2016 & 2017).

Here are some of the top statistics for Scottish Grand National horsemen over the past 20 years (R = Number of horses ridden, W = Number of horses won, P = Number of horses finishing in Top [X] – including horses winning prize, Win LSP based on 1 winning point and EW LSP based on 0.5 winning points & 0.5 finishing points):

Analysis of Scottish Grand National horse racing trends

Trend Factor: The factor that yields the most 10+ winning horses and has the best average floor win ratio (LSP) is when the horse has 1 win in the last 90 days. The average LSP in this case is +103.00. The least effective factor, which did not produce any winning horses, was when the horse ran on a heavy track in his debut. Statistics show that the winning rate in this case is 0-67.

Racetracks: The racetracks that produce the most Scottish Grand National-winning horses are Doncaster and Cheltenham, each racetrack has 3 champions.

Gender: The race is open to both male and female horses. The stallion dominated with a total of 19 wins from 498 starts, while the mares had just 1 win from 7 starts.

Origin: Looking back at recent races, these are the male horse breeds whose offspring have won the Scottish Grand National multiple times:

Dom Alco (3 times champion)

Pistolet Bleu (2-time champion)

These are the stallions whose offspring failed to win the Scottish Grand National despite participating multiple times:

Milan (0 wins from 12 starts)

Kings Theater (0 wins from 11 starts)

Roselier (0 wins from 11 starts)

Brian Boru (0 wins from 10 starts)

Old Vic (0 wins from 8 starts)

Odds: In terms of winning odds in the last 20 races, the winning horse with the highest odds was Iris De Balme in 2008, winning at odds of 66/1 under the guidance of Charlie Huxley. In the last 20 races, only the 3 highest-rated horses won. Combine the information on this page with reputable betting experts to find options for the 2025 Scottish Grand National race.

List of horses participating in the 2024 Scottish Grand National horse race

• The entry list for the Scottish Grand National horse race will initially include many horses. Trainers will disqualify some horses for various reasons. The line-up will then be narrowed considerably via five days’ notice before the final line-up is announced on the Thursday before race day. The Scottish Grand National race only allows a maximum of 30 horses to participate.
• 5-day notice (April 14)
• Final announcement (April 17)
• Race Day (April 19)

Tip for Scottish National

There are a few ways to narrow down the field and find your options for the Scottish Grand National. The most common way is to use trends, which means analyzing previous races to find repetitions. You can find the full list of trends above courtesy of VIPPH.

Avoid choosing a horse that was not rated highly in its most recent start. Statistics show that out of a total of 138 horses participating in the Scottish National with odds greater than 18/1 in the previous run, no horse won.

In this type of racing, you don’t want to choose a horse that has never competed. However, you also need to choose a horse that has been to the racetrack. Horses with 3-7 starts last year are ideal choices, while horses outside this range have a win rate of 0-104.

Ways to choose horses:

Use trends to narrow down the list of participating horses

Read comments from leading horse racing betting experts

See the most popular choices for the Scottish National

Ideally, you should choose a trustworthy horse. In the last 20 races, 156 participating horses fell at least once that season. Only two of these horses won: Vicente in 2017 and Macdermott in 2024.

Weight: In a tough race like this, the weight the horse must carry is also an important factor. Gray Abbey in 2004 is the most recent winning horse to carry top weight. Fourteen of the last twenty winning horses carried 14lbs less weight than the heaviest horse and eleven of those carried 20lbs less weight than the heaviest horse.