Grand National 2022: Tips, selections, odds, race card and runners-in-full for Aintree showpiece

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Saturday afternoon brings the world’s most famous horse race as 40 contenders set off in this year’s renewal of the Grand National at Aintree.

The race goes off at 5:15pm and will be shown live on both ITV and Racing TV.

Here, Johnny Ward picks out three selections for the showpiece…

He may have reached pensionable age, but Martin Brassil’s hunger for the game is unsated and he can take the Randox Grand National with Longhouse Poet.

It is 16 years since the County Clare native took the race with Numbersixvalverde and he reckons that his runner in 2022 has considerably more class — but there is also no doubt you need it in this era.

The National, perhaps the most iconic race in the world, has changed for the