The biggest day in the horse racing calendar - the Grand National - is finally here.
Thousands of people will descend on Aintree Racecourse for the festival on Thursday, Ladies Day and Saturday. The opening day will host the Betway Aintree Hurdle and Close Brothers Red Rum Handicap Chase.
Ladies Day will cover the Randox Topham Handicap Chase, but all eyes are on Saturday's main race, The Randox Grand National Steeple Chase, at 5.15pm.
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Snow Leopardess is the shortest-priced favourite at 7/1 while Delta Work is not far behind at 8/1. Over the three days, millions of people will want to keep up to date with proceedings live, but if you can't watch the races, you can listen to live commentary.
BBC Radio 5 Live and talkSPORT 2 will be tailoring their sports programme to the Grand National. TalkSPORT 2 will cover Thursday, Ladies Day and Saturday. Thursday and Friday's programme starts at 1pm on talkSPORT 2 with Lee McKenzie hosting live racing from Aintree and reporting the day's biggest racing stories
On Saturday, talkSPORT 2's Rupert Bell and Lizzie Kelly will look ahead at 10am to the day's racing at the Grand National Festival at Aintree. The Grand National is live on talkSPORT at 5.15pm. BBC Radio 5 Live will have live coverage of the Grand National on Saturday from 5pm, with the race itself starting at 5.15pm. The show will last one hour.
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