Favourite Tiger Roll will bid to become the first horse since the legendary Red Rum to win back-to-back Grand Nationals on Saturday.
Ruby Walsh, number one jockey for Mullins, and the Cheltenham Festival's all-time leading rider, will be 40 this year and has picked Rathvinden ahead of 2018 runner-up Pleasant Company and fellow stablemate Livelovelaugh.
Lining up for a trainer who won the race in 2013, more importantly Vintage Clouds was the subject of a vivid racing dream I had - and the previous two times that has happened, the horses won. Will I get up the 'mystic treble'?The best jumper in the line-up for a trainer who has won the race twice, Go Conquer comes into the National after probably his best run ever last time.
With a nice pull at the weights with last year's winner, Pleasant Company can run well again - it might be another season where he didn't perform at his best until the National.before the Grand National meeting in 2013 after two horses had died in each of the previous two runnings of the marathon race.
There have been no serious equine injuries among the total of more than 200 horses that have competed in the last six runnings of the National.- Forest Des Aigles was euthanised after breaking a leg while running on the flat in the Topham Chase, while Crucial Role was put down following a fall in the Mildmay Novices' Chase.
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