Ruby Walsh: Luckless last year, Any Second Now can land Grand National spoils this time

Our columnist assesses all 40 contenders in the world's most famous race

BIG PLAYER: Leading Grand National contender Any Second Now on the gallops with Katie Walsh at Aintree on Friday. Picture: David Davies via Jockey Club/PA

1. Minella Times 

Last year’s historic winner for Rachael Blackmore and Henry de Bromhead, he bids to defy a big rise in the weights and comes here, I think, out of form. It’s hard to see a repeat.