Clonmel goes ahead

Ballyfad gets the opportunity to put Cheltenham Festival disappointment behind him and continue Gordon Elliott’s recent dominance in the Turners Mersey Novices’ Hurdle at Aintree.

The Aintree Grand National looks an extremely competitive race, and I'm sure everyone interested in horse racing, and even those not particularly interested, will be glued to the television from about five minutes to four until about twenty minutes past four, as the most historic National Hunt race in the world takes place at Aintree Racecourse on Saturday.

Haiti Couleurs has the chance to create his own little piece of history if he can end the 121-year-wait for a Welsh-trained winner of the Randox Grand National.