85 entries for 2023 Aintree Grand National

There are 85 entries in the Grand National, the field dominated by horses trained in Ireland with just 31 British-trained possibles.

Gordon Elliott has a remarkable 21 entries, Willie Mullins has 8, while Irish-trained horses fill the first 4 places in the market with the Emmet Mullins-trained Noble Yeats only 12-1 favourite to repeat last year’s win followed by Sean Mulryan’s Martin Brassil-trained Longhouse Poet and Ted Walsh’s Any Second Now at 14/1 and Willie Mullins’ Gaillard Du Mensil at 16/1.

This weekend

Horseracing this weekend starts today (Thursday) at Thurles, with first race at 1.30 pm. To-