Merry Christmas all

First of all Merry Christmas to all of you and your families and loved ones.

Secondly, thankyou for following our Twitter account and/or blog.

Aintree Info (@aintreeinfo) has been created by a bunch of racing enthusiasts who love horse racing and love the Grand National in particular. We will focus on the key trials and contenders leading up to the big race itself. We will also help with any questions you may have. As locals, we are open to any questions and would love to help where we can. Be it a question about transport, places to go, the course and its facilities, hotel proximity, bets, anything ... just ask and we will try to answer.

We have attended the meeting for around 35 years now and have seen Aintree transform from a meeting that almost didn't happen in the early 80s to the true festival it is now.

Our account is literally days old and we already have close on 300 followers. Thanks to all that have followed and particularly those that have retweeted, we really do appreciate it. As with all life, we have also had some negatives .. quite sad really but human nature is a strange thing.   You .... the follower always has the final choice though. We hope you like what we do though.

Will we bring anything different? Maybe ... at this point we are not sure where this will go. We will try to bring news, humour, guest interviews, an alternative angle possibly ...  but most of all a key focus on the Grand National itself, building up the picture week by week.

We were very excited last night when @neptunecollonges followed us first! A simple retweet and some of you then joined the official account of the 2012 champion.

Enough from us for now, please keep following, tell us what you'd like to see us cover and finally, it just remains to say ...

Merry Christmas.