Ashley Iveson gives his opinion on all 40 runners for the Randox Health Grand National at Aintree.

Eighteen years. It’s how long Jack Kennedy, who announced himself to the wider world with four wins at this week’s Festival, has been on this planet. But it’s also how long British champion jockey Richard Johnson, a veteran of more than 3,000 victories, has had to wait for a second Timico Gold Cup victory.

Six Irish trainers had skin in the game when the cards were dealt at the start of the Gold Cup yesterday and few could have guessed then that Tony Martin would come up with the strongest of those hands.

Gordon Elliott has farmed valuable handicap chases in recent seasons, but the Goffs Thyestes Chase is one of the few to elude the trainer.

Livelovelaugh, one of six runners this weekend for Willie, can get us off to a winning start, in the two-and-a-half-mile beginners’ chase at Cork this afternoon.

Leopardstown’s Christmas festival had everything, both from Willie Mullins’ point of view, and from the racecourse point of view, writes Ruby Walsh.

I’ve ridden in a lot of King Georges but I don’t remember riding in one with such a small field.

On December 31, 2014 a horse called Sadler’s Risk won over flights at Punchestown.

Champion trainer Willie Mullins won the Grade 2 Navan Novice Hurdle for the fourth time in five years when Bellshill, ridden by Ruby Walsh, proved an impressive twelve lengths winner of yesterday’s feature in Navan.