A look ahead to Saturday's Becher Chase

Grand National-winning trainer Mouse Morris sends Rogue Angel across to Aintree for the Betfred Becher Handicap Chase on Saturday.

The eight-year-old landed the Irish National in the spring before the now-retired Rule The World claimed the biggest jumps prize of them all on Merseyside to give Morris a National double.

Gordon Elliott's Ucello Conti finished sixth in the Aintree National and has topped the Becher ante-post market, with Jim Dreaper's Sizing Coal, Portrait King from Patrick Griffin's yard and the Eric McNamara-trained Dare To Endeavour making up a strong Irish raiding party.

Grand National runner-up The Last Samuri is also among a field of 24 runners in the Becher. Kim Bailey's charge was beaten six lengths in the main event and finished fifth in a Down Royal Grade One on his seasonal return.

Last year's winner Highland Lodge defends his title for Jimmy Moffatt, with Henry Brooke taking the ride again after completing his comeback from injury with a ride at Catterick on Wednesday.

"It is all systems go with Highland Lodge and I am very happy with him. He has done all his work now and we are just keeping him fresh for Saturday," said Moffatt.

"He has run well fresh in the past and has also been called a few names! He has done two serious two-and-a-half-mile gallops on the grass. He hasn't been on track, but that has been on purpose, as we have lovely big fields here we can work him around.

"It was soft ground when he won last year and obviously we would like conditions to be replicated as much as possible. But if you dip back in his form he had run some good races on good ground, including when he was fourth in the Hennessy."

Alvarado is another who is already familiar with the Aintree fences, having claimed fourth in the 2014 and 2015 Nationals for Fergal O'Brien.

Colin Tizzard has found a rich vein of form in Saturday races and recent Cheltenham scorer Viconte Du Noyer will try to extend the team's winning run on his first attempt over the National fences.

Last term's bet365 Gold Cup winner The Young Master is another notable contender for Neil Mulholland, while Alan King has two candidates in Ziga Boy and Midnight Prayer.