Tiger Roll takes second Grand National - Davy Russell wins and inspires

The Tory zealots, the European Research Group, may not maintain a wine cellar, but if it did, it is unlikely that the faction’s sommelier would have been busy serving champagne after Saturday’s Grand National.

The first three places were taken by Irish horses trained in Ireland. That result might have been sobering for the ERG’s true believers, but it could have been worse — the first three might have been French or German.