McCain: National is too easy; Handicapper: it’s wide open

GRAND National legend Ginger McCain has criticised the great race for now being too easy.

McCain, who entered folklore by training Red Rum to win the National three times in the 1970s and struck again with Amberleigh House in 2004, is not a man known to mince his words.

He said: “Last year, when I saw all those horses coming back onto the racecourse at the second-last I thought, ‘It’s not Liverpool’. You are eliminating the Aintree factor by making it softer, not making it better.