Grand National pinstickers' guide to runners

Runners, riders, trainers and form - all the key details you need to know for Saturday's big race at Aintree.

Plus, BBC Radio 5 Live's John Hunt and Gina Bryce give you the rundown on each of the 34 that will go to post for the 2026 Grand National.

Note: Approximate odds may change and the field is subject to change until 13:00 BST on 10 April.

Number two (Nick Rockett), number seven (Spillane's Tower) and number 35 (Pied Piper) have been declared non-runners.

(Racecard number, horse, trainer, jockey, recent form, age, weight carried [ie 11st 12lb is top weight]. Form: F - Fell, P - Pulled up, U - Unseated rider, S - Slipped up.)

1 Panic Attack 2 Grangeclare West 3 Jagwar 4 Jordans

Best outsider: Quai de Bourbon

1 Grangeclare West 2 Monty's Star 3 Panic Attack 4 I Am Maximus

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Nick Rockett withdrawn from Grand National

Trainer: Willie Mullins (IRE) Jockey: Paul Townend

Form: 82-925 Age: 10 Weight: 11-12

Gina: Winner in 2024 before running equally well to finish second to stablemate Nick Rockett last year on faster ground. The Willie Mullins-trained Aintree specialist must have another excellent chance this year, off just a 1lb higher mark.

Trainer: Joseph O'Brien (IRE) Jockey: JJ Slevin

Form: 7-4423 Age: 10 Weight: 11-11

Gina: Won the King George in 2024 before coming within a nose of repeating the feat at Kempton this season.

He'll likely get his preferred faster surface but doubts have to remain over his ability to stay this trip, having struggled over a testing three miles in the past.

Trainer: Willie Mullins (IRE) Jockey: Patrick Mullins

Form: 5-8481 Age: 10 Weight: 11-10

John: Finished third last year, beaten by just three lengths. An excellent effort by a horse who has always had a touch of class.

It wasn't all smooth sailing 12 months ago as he was hampered at fence 25 (Valentines Brook) and then made a mistake of his own creation at the last fence.

He had moved to the lead ominously at the second last, and, perhaps with more patient tactics, we can expect even more?

Trainer: Gordon Elliott (IRE) Jockey: Jack Kennedy

Form: 3-P321 Age: 10 Weight: 11-10

Gina: Returned from a long absence at the start of the season and has improved with every run, notably when an excellent second to the well-fancied Grangleclare West in Ireland's renowned Grand National trial, the Bobbyjo Chase.

Now a 10-year-old but a former winner of the Betfred Bowl at this meeting and he deserves this first stab at the race.

Trainer: Rebecca Curtis Jockey: Sean Bowen

Form: 1P11P Age: 9 Weight: 11-10

John: Firmly established as one of the stars of the 2025-26 season with fabulous victories in the Welsh Grand National at Chepstow and the Denman Chase at Newbury - and all of that just months after winning the Irish Grand National.

Indeed, so rapid his development, he was sent off as a 6-1 chance for the Cheltenham Gold Cup last month. The drying ground was ultimately against him there, and that's the rub.

A soft-ground National gives him real hope - dry conditions, not so much.

Rating: 5/10 growing to 7/10 on soft ground Odds: 14-1

Trainer: Gordon Elliott Jockey: Keith Donoghue

Form: 21246 Age: 8 Weight: 11-4

Gina: Unproven stamina and has looked to struggle over extended trips at the top level in recent starts.

He looks up against it here, for all his trainer has won this race three times before.

Trainer: Henry de Bromhead (IRE) Jockey: Darragh O'Keeffe

Form: 4-3056 Age: 9 Weight: 11-3

John: A regular performer at the top, Grade One level for the past two years, but his win in a small race on New Year's Eve 2023 remains his only win over fences.

On his previous form behind Fact To File and fellow National rival Spillane's Tower, he can be fancied.

But judged on what he has produced in the past 12 months, that is another matter entirely.

Trainer: Willie Mullins (IRE) Jockey: Brian Hayes

Form: 11PUP Age: 8 Weight: 11-3

Gina: A sequence of letters by his name in recent starts makes it hard to inspire confidence, for all his Kerry National win earlier in the season suggests he could be well suited to this test.

He looked set to figure in the Thyestes before a last fence unseat but has to be forgiven a very disappointing display last time in the Bobbyjo to merit an each way chance.

Trainer: Willie Mullins (IRE) Jockey: Sean O'Keeffe

Form: F77P8 Age: 8 Weight: 11-2

John: Winner of three of his eight starts over fences, the pick of which was his Cheltenham Festival win in 2025, where he beat other Grand National hopefuls, Stellar Story and Gorgeous Tom.

His five runs since have been underwhelming.

Even in the hands of genius trainer Willie Mullins, he is hard to fancy.

Trainer: Willie Mullins (IRE) Jockey: Danny Mullins

Form: 12S57 Age: 10 Weight: 11-1

Gina: A Grade One-winning novice chaser who hasn't really progressed this season in the way his promising first start of the campaign suggested he would.

A lightly raced 10-year-old but one whose body of work this season suggests his best may be behind him.

Trainer: Oliver Greenall & Josh Guerriero Jockey: Jonjo O'Neill Jr

Form: 24-210 Age: 8 Weight: 11-1

John: Attempts to overcome a seven-length deficit, having finished fourth in last year's race, when he stayed the final part of the race very strongly, certainly better than most.

His overall solid form in the past 12 months helped to send him off as the second favourite for the prestigious Ultima Handicap Chase at Cheltenham Festival last month. His 10th place there was seemingly excused as a minor infection was identified afterwards.

A healthy Iroko certainly has a solid chance.

Trainer: Gordon Elliott (IRE) Jockey: Danny Gillgan

Form: 05F112 Age: 11 Weight: 11-1

Gina: Has had a brilliant season with victories at Leopardstown and Cheltenham preceding a second-placed finish in the Cross Country race at the Festival.

Will stay this marathon trip and comes here at the top of his game but he is now much higher in the handicap and a good deal older than Gordon Elliott's most recent cross country convert, Tiger Roll, who won this race twice, as an eight and nine-year-old.

Trainer: Gordon Elliott (IRE) Jockey: Jordan Gainford

Form: 82127 Age: 9 Weight: 11-0

John: A second attempt at National glory for this guy, also trained by Elliott, who in addition to his two wins with Tiger Roll also triumphed in the race with Silver Birch in 2007.

Last year, he was right up with the pace before slowly but surely weakening away into 11th place.

Despite a fine run when second to Panic Attack in the Coral Gold Cup in November, he simply doesn't look well enough handicapped to win.