Grand National 2023 LIVE: Results, reaction and latest updates after dramatic day at Aintree

Next up is a Grade 1 Novices’ Chase. Dark Raven and Hermes Allen are the two favourites as the start approaches.

You Wear It Well who won at Cheltenham is also fancied as is Irish Point. This one is expected to be the closest race yet on Grand National Day.

Who’s going to win it?

Winning jockey Harry Skelton, speaking to ITV Racing: “She has a lot in hand, good mare, good training. Hasn’t run for 90 days - she has won two big handicaps this year but that is down to the training.

“Dan leads, the team, he is a great leader but we have good people around us - good owners who have been patient and they have been rewarded.

“Unbelievable. Cheltenham is the Olympics but there is no place like this. Liverpool is unbelievable, the people of Liverpool make it all special. We will witness the greatest race there is later on and look at all the people here.”

The most famous event in British racing returns in 2023 with the Grand National set to be held for the 175th time at Aintree on Saturday.

First run in 1839, the steeplechase will see competing horses and jockeys clear 30 fences in the hopes of etching their names in history.

Noble Yeats took victory in 2022, becoming the first seven-year-old horse to win in more than 80 years, with punters eager to find the best bets this weekend.

40 runners are ready to tackle the four-and-a-bit mile course, with a trio of favourites heading the betting.

Here are the runners and current odds for the 2023 Grand National:

More from jockey Rachael Blackmore who spoke to Betfair about her chances in the Grand National later on when she’ll be riding Ain’t That A Shame.

“Ain’t That A Shame has a lovely profile for the race. He was unlucky to be just beaten in the Munster National at Limerick in October, and it wasn’t my best day in the saddle when I finished fourth on him in the Paddy Power Chase at Leopardstown over Christmas.

“But he won nicely at Gowran the last day, and it was no harm that the runner-up came out and won at Fairyhouse there at the weekend. You don’t really know how a horse will handle the track or the fences until you get out there, but he had a pop over the National fences at The Curragh, and he went well.

“I’d be confident that he will take to the fences fine.He travels well through his races, which is a big help. You’re just hoping that you can get into a nice position and find a nice racing rhythm over the first few fences. I am hopeful that he can.

“After that, you never know, it’s the Grand National, but he has his chance and I’m very much looking forward to it.”

Adele Mulrennan explains just why the Grand National is so special:

Full result:

1. West Balboa - 9/2

2. Pounding Poet - 50/1

3. Mill Green - 14/1

4. Good Time Jonny - 11/2

5. Gatsby Grey - 14/1

It’s West Balboa who takes the win!

She powered over the final hurdle and then bombed towards the finish line. West Balbao upped the pace and made it a comfortable win in the end.

The crowd seemed to enjoy that one.

The dash is on towards the final flight and the whole field opens up. West Balbao takes the final hurdle in first just ahead of Outlaw Peter.

Pounding Poet and Mill Green push up too.

Gaelik Coast pulls up at the back of the field. Three hurdles to go and Mill Green makes up ground into fourth. Outlaw Peter is still at the head with Au Fleuron and Glimpse of Gala alongside him.

Eight hurdles to go and it’s still Outlaw Peter at the front but he’s setting a nice pace for the field to keep close to him.

Au Fleuron is now up to third. West Balbao and Good Time Jonny are easing their way through the field but they’re all bunched up and anyone can take this yet.