And they're off! The Grand National Festival us underway and the countdown is well and truly on to the most famous horse race in the world on Saturday and the 175th running of the steeplechase.
Aintree will welcome 39 horses - Escaria Ten is a non runner - and jockeys, who will battle it out over the course's 16 fences to try and claim one of the most prestigious prizes in sport. Over £250 million will go on fancies as racing fans look to land a winner. Scottish trainer Lucinda Russell's Corach Rambler, who became a back-to-back winner of the Ultima Handicap Chase in impressive fashion at the Cheltenham Festival in March, who leads the betting.
The nine-year-old is available at odds of around 6/1 and many fancy the horse trained in Kinross. But it's the fact this race is so unpredictable that makes it so special and plenty of punters will be looking to bash the bookies with a long shot.
