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The National is one of the last races of the three-day Grand National Festival in Merseyside, which takes place from Thursday to Saturday. Racers will be taking on the course's 30 Grand National fences over the course of four miles, or two and a half furlongs.
The total prize fund is £1 million, but the winner could expect to come away with just over half of the amount. Runners-up, meanwhile, will get a percentage of money in proportion to their finishing positions.
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Some 150,000 fans are expected to attend the Grand National Festival over its three-day duration, making it one of the biggest horse racing events on the planet. Globally, it is thought that some 600 million people watch the Grand National in more than 140 countries.
Last year, Sam Waley-Cohen made history with his horse Noble Yeats, becoming the first amateur jockey to win the race in more than three decades. He returned at 50-1, defeating 15-2 Favourite Any Second Now by two and a quarter lengths with Delta Work (10-1) third and Santini (33-1) fourth.
He became the first amateur to succeed since Marcus Armytage won on Mr Frisk in 1990. Sam was also the first amateur jockey to ride the winner of the Grand National and the Cheltenham Gold Cup - he won Cheltenham Gold Cup on Long Run in 2011.
Sam announced his retirement from racing two days before the Grand National at Aintree last year. "That's definitely it now, I'm done," he said. "I always knew when I had second thoughts about getting
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