It might not be as prestigious or as far in distance as the Aintree Grand National and it might not have as many runners but the Scottish Grand National is still a great opportunity for punters to back a decent priced winner or pick up some decent e/way place money.
This year 21 runners go to post and we're taking a look at those that we think will run well and maybe bring us a return on our money.
Quite a few of the runners including Nine De Sivola 8/1,Tricky Trickster 8/1, Dear Villez 20/1, Gone to Lunch 12/1 all ran at the Cheltenham Festival, but Festival runners don't have great record in the race and we're probably going to look elsewhere.
Grand National Runners don't have great record in this either, so Brooklyn Brownie 18/1 although falling early at Aintree is another we're going to pass over.
So now that we've discounted some we think won't win... what about those that might?
A horse we do like is According to John 16/1 who ran in the John Smiths Chase at Aintree finishing fourth. He will like the underfoot conditions but a hard race at SAintree might just tell on him over this long distance and we think he will have place chances at best.
Chief Dan George 13/2 has been heavily backed for this and will be a leading contender. He's likely to go off favourite, but favourites have only won two of the last 10 runnings of the race and again he's one that we think may well be for forecast backers rather than for single bets.
Our idea of the winner is Sound Accord 20/1 The horse has only raced seven times over fences, but he's only ever been out the frame once. Lightly raced horses have a decent record in the race and he's a horse who looks as if he will be suited by the trip.
We also think Native Coral 33/1 and King Barry 20/1
have lively chances at big prices.
With most bookmaker's paying 1/4 odds for the first four our selections are
1st Sound Accord-we recommend an each/way bet
2nd According to John
3rd Chief Dan George
4th King Barry
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