Conflicting weather forecasts are giving Aintree clerk of the course Sulekha Varma a Randox Grand National headache.
Her opposite number at Cheltenham, Jon Pullin, came under fire for watering the track before persistent rain turned the going heavy at last month’s National Hunt festival. And Varma is anxious to avoid a similar fate when the three-day fixture starts on Thursday.
“We are, unfortunately, not able to plan too far ahead,” said Varma, who yesterday changed the ground on the Grand National course to ‘good to soft, good in places. Basically, the forecasters are telling us they don’t know beyond Tuesday and Wednesday – some think it is going to be dry, some think it is going to be wet.”
