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I've heard loads of 'proper' gamblers say that it's a terrible race to bet on (from the POV of trying to be profitable). When I was younger, it was the only bit of punting I ever did, cos I lived literally a stone's throw from the Aintree racecourse.
IYO Neil is it too much of a lottery or can you still find decent value? I know it's harder to get great value this close to the race when the prices have come in but have you got any tips?
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Yet if you look at just the last five winners, not one of them has gone off at less than 25-1, not one of them in the first ten in the betting.
I didn't answer this before the race as it was always going to be awkward if people started nagging me for as tip given I write stuff for the tipping site and we charge for that.
It's true that the National has become more wide-open in recent years and the prices of the winners have got a lot bigger. We are talking tiny sample-size though and I think it's wrong to say, as Tom Segal has, that the race is impossible to predict. It sort of amuses me that The Masters, which is on in the same week, has 94 runners, (30 who can't really win), and people go crazy about the eight places, (an outstanding offer and clearly a loss-leader from Sky Bet), but they aren't so excited by the 6 places that some firms offer in the 40-runner Grand National.
I think they are both great.
Having said all that I had four bets and only managed a place on the second to smallest one, although it was a decent price.
Definitely you get better value in a lot of 16-runner four place races but the National is still worth doing.