Grand National weights were announced this week and winning jockey in the 1988 race Brendan Powell is the guest on this edition of Oddscrackers. Brendan talks about the strange preparation for Rhyme N Reason in 1988 and his new career as assistant trainer to Joseph O'Brien.

On this week's show The Oddscrackers meet up with Brayan Gault to discuss his passion for horse racing and the reasons for creating the number one site for Cheltenham Festival statistics www.gaultstats.com

Irish racing expert Andy Holding joins Sam Turner and Jon Babb to look ahead at a wonderful weekend of National Hunt racing at Leopardstown.

Oddscrackers meet up this week with leading tipster Steve Jones who is always looking for that special nap selection every day. He chats about his time at The Sun newspaper and his family life in horse racing.

Co host Sam Turner returns to the show with Jon to discuss a variety of topics and sports including our first mentions of the 'C' word, the Cheltenham Festival.

Nick Goff gives us his mid season verdict on the football season to date and a few betting opportunities to consider for the second half of the season.

Neil Channing and Eddie Fremantle join the show to talk about the possible implications of the gambling laws review that was launched by the UK government this month.

Timeform jumps editor Dan Barber joins Jon to look back at last weekend as well as an early look at a few races on the televised Cheltenham card on Saturday.

Ben Keith of Star Sports joins us this week to chat about his lifetime in betting and gives his views on some topical issues.

Full time punter Mark Holder joins Oddscrackers this week. We journey through his life, look at the importance of specialising and betting on what you can quantify and try to break down some of the barriers that can get in the way for a betting mind.