Aintree Tips: Best Bets for Day 1 of the Grand National Festival

Grand National Festival LIVE - Aintree day 1 tips, racecard, runners and odds

This year's Grand National Festival gets underway at Aintree today with seven action-packed races to enjoy and a number of big names featuring on the racecourse

Aintree tips: Best bets for day 1 of the Grand National Festival

Free Aintree tips from Jonathan Doidge for Thursday at the Grand National Festival. Race-by-race analysis, best bets and expert selections for day 1.

Aintree Grand National Day 1 tips and best bets

Our man Garry Owen takes you through the card on the first of the Merseyside showpiece

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AINTREE’s big three days of the year are here with the highlight of course being Saturday’s Grand National. Before that there is plenty of other top-class action to get stuck into, beginning with today’s card which includes four Grade One races. Many of the contests feature horses that ran at the Cheltenham Festival and several look hard to beat, including Nicky Henderson’s duo Lulamba in the William Hill Manifesto Novices’ Chase (2.20pm) and Ja…