Classiest Grand National field of all time ready for a fast and furious show
By Andy Stephens@StevoGG
Fri 9 Apr 2021
Forty horses. Forty jockeys. Thirty fences dressed in spruce. The Randox Grand National is always one of the great spectacles of the sporting year and the world’s most famous race will be watched by an estimated a global audience of 600 million on Saturday.
Casual viewers turning in for their once-a-year fix might not notice, but modifications mean the showpiece is not the contest it once was.
The fences are less fearsome than in days of old and the race distance has been shortened, with the one-time long run to the first fence no more. Only three horeses fell in the latest renewal, which must constitute a record and suggests the tinkering has brought benefits.
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Randox Grand National Handicap Chase (Grade 3) | 4m2½f | 7yo+ | ITV/RTV
Cloth Cap is a stone well in and his master trainer thinks he will win – what s not to like about the Grand National favourite?
Putting aside his short odds – he might go off a skinnier price than Tiger Roll (4-1) two years ago and could even eclipse Poethlyn (11-4) as the National s shortest-priced winner – Cloth Cap appears to have all the credentials for the race.
Jonjo O Neill ended a long wait, first as a jockey and then a trainer, for National success when saddling Don t Push It to glory for Sir Anthony McCoy in 2010.