Grand National 2025: updates from Aintree – live

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Hello and welcome to Grand National day, the biggest day of the racing year bar none and the one event that truly transcends the sport. Personally, I loved the days before racing’s weights-and-measures man, Phil “Tinkerman” Smith, started to fiddle about with the race but these days it’s truly wide open and the shortlists have become ever longer – everyone has an opinion which are not as easily dismissed and consequently more and more people are having a wager again. The ending of the Topham Trophy, the race run over the National fences the day before the race every year, summed up the new National … lots in with chances at the last fence, the Irish had the first five and a classy horse prevailed. Matt Tombs wrote very interestingly about the “Plastic National” and what type of horse to go for this year here on the Racing TV website. Whatever your fancy, good luck!

Hello from Aintree, where the sun is shining and a 55,000 capacity crowd is assembling for the 2025 Grand National – the race that still stops the nation (or perhaps as much as a third of it, at any rate).

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