White Star Line out of Grand National

White Star Line, Planet Of Sound and Merry King are three of the 15 horses to have been taken out of the Crabbie’s Grand National at the latest forfeit stage.

The Dessie Hughes-trained White Star Line has lost his race against time to be fit for Aintree while the Philip Hobbs-trained Planet Of Sound was unplaced in the BetBright Chase at Kempton last weekend, Jonjo O’Neill’s Merry King ran no sot of a race in the Grand National Trial at Haydock.

“He had a setback and I needed him to run in the Bobbyjo if he was going to make the National,” Hughes said of the Kerry National winner.