Might Bite and Supasundae offer options as bankers on day one, but there are some longer prices worth looking at too
No one will need sunglasses at Aintree on Thursday as the first afternoon of the Grand National Festival gets under way, but the better news is that umbrellas should be largely redundant too. The skies will be grey but the forecast is dry, and while there was 1.5mm of rain at the track overnight, it was not enough to change the going, which is soft on the Grand National course and good-to-soft, soft in places on the chase and hurdles tracks.
From a betting perspective, it has to be said that the field sizes on the day are a little disappointing, with just half a dozen going to post in the opening Grade One and – following the withdrawal of Vincitore – only 21 in the Foxhunters’, barely two-thirds of the maximum field of 30.
Related: All eyes on Foxhunters’ test for Grand National conditions
Aintree 1.45 Cyrname (nb) 2.20 Malaya 2.50 Might Bite 3.25 Supasundae 4.05 Balnaslow 4.40 Theinval (nap) 5.15 Dissavril
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