Mouse Morris is increasingly confident First Lieutenant will give Nina Carberry a “great ride” in the Crabbie’s Grand National at Aintree on Saturday.

Fingal Bay is set to make his long-awaited return from injury in the Betfred Mobile And Levy Board Heroes Handicap Hurdle at Sandown on Saturday.

Seabass is unlikely to take his chance in the Latin Quarter Chase at Galway on Tuesday due the prospect of fast ground.

The British Horseracing Authority’s review of the 2012 Grand National found the circumstances which led to the deaths of Synchronised and According To Pete could have been neither “foreseen nor prevented”.