I’ve sadly lost all interest in race that is unrecognisable from when I first started watching it in the early 1970s.
Saying that it looks as though it’s become a race for young horses as with the Gold Cup most likely due to the much weaker fences and reduced distance. No winner aged 10 or over in the last 10 runnings.
All the trends were turned on their head and the thought of a novice (or maiden chaser) winning the National would have been unthinkable not that long ago.