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Cloth Cap will be going in as favourite Credit: PA The 2021 Grand National gets underway this afternoon. Here, 1990 winner Marcus Armytage gives his verdict, while you can find the view of our tipster Marlborough and the thoughts of the great and the good from sport below. Good luck! It may not be quite the message the Government has wanted to get across to the public in the last 12 months but, as a degree of normality begins to return, it is time we should all start Takingrisks. A year after the Randox Health Grand National was cancelled by Covid, the 173 rd running will finally take place...

Cloth Cap is the favourite for this year's Grand National Credit: PA After being cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic last year, the Grand National is back in 2021. While Tiger Roll won't be returning for a tilt at an historic third title - and the event will take place behind closed doors - there are still plenty of compelling storylines ahead of this year's race. Does Cloth Cap really justify such short-priced favouritism? Can Secret Reprieve follow up his Welsh National success with the big one? Or could Magic of Light become the first mare to win the world's greatest steeplechase in 7...