Rosscarbery's Brian Hayes looking to make his own Aintree headlines

He's used to being called Mr Rachael Blackmore, but the Cork pilot is still keen to make his own headlines in the race that stops the world.

MUDDY MARVEL: Brian Hayes: "Everyone watches the National, don’t they?” Pic: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

Welcome to the wonderful world of Willie Mullins.

The champion trainer’s 11th-and-a-half-hour decision-making has attained mythological status over the years, though the sceptics have argued that he always knows and those in the inner circle know.