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Cloth Cap will be going in as favourite
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The 2021 Grand National gets underway this afternoon. Here, 1990 winner Marcus Armytage gives his verdict, while you can find the view of our tipster Marlborough and the thoughts of the great and the good from sport below.
Good luck!
It may not be quite the message the Government has wanted to get across to the public in the last 12 months but, as a degree of normality begins to return, it is time we should all start Takingrisks.
A year after the Randox Health Grand National was cancelled by Covid, the 173
rd running will finally take place albeit in front of its smallest ever crowd which might just about amount to 1,000 people if you add up the owners, trainers, officials, racecourse staff and police.
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Red Rum’s record-breaking third win at the 1977 Grand National has been named as the most memorable moment in the history of the famous race.
Runner-up in a poll of 2,000 Britons once run by bookmaker William Hill’s was the moment AP McCoy finally won after 14 attempts on Don’t Push It in 2010.
Third was the tear-jerking occasion when cancer survivor Bob Champion rode Aldaniti to victory at Aintree in 1981.