Grand master: Hoiles must ‘do the race justice’

ITV racing commentator, Richard Hoiles, was a busy man last night.

The eve of the Aintree Grand National is always the high point of his preparatory work for the calling of the world’s greatest steeplechase.

The focus of his studies was on “the majority of the background stuff, preparing colour sheets, identifying stories and highlighting characteristics, such as headgear, white faces, etc”.