Schoolboy an authority on great Aintree showpiece
HE MAY be too young to place a bet but today is still a special occasion for Yorkshire schoolboy Oliver Davies, an unlikely racing pundit who can recite every Grand National winner.
The six-year-old from Baildon, near Bradford, wants to be a jockey and spends hours reading about past Aintree meetings.
His favourite National winner is Foinavon, who won at odds of 100-1 in 1967, but he expects a more fancied horse to triumph today – 20-1 chance Vic Venturi.
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Hide AdYesterday was as much about the fashion as the stakes, however, with Coleen Rooney stealing the show in a little black dress at Aintree as racegoers turned out in brightly-coloured frocks on Ladies' Day.
But the deaths of three horses overshadowed proceedings.