Summary

  • Rachael Blackmore rides 11-1-shot Minella Times to Grand National victory

  • Irish jockey Blackmore, 31, first female to win the famous race at Aintree

  • Winning trainer Henry de Bromhead also had 100-1 Balko Des Flos finish second

  • Any Second Now takes third and Burrows Saints fourth - two more Irish horses

  • The Long Mile put to sleep after suffering unrecoverable injury

  • Field of 40 runners faced 30 fences over four and a quarter miles

  • 2020 race cancelled because of Covid - virtual race held instead

  1. The Grand Nationalpublished at 14:14 British Summer Time 10 April 2021

    The Grand NationalImage source, Getty Images

    Welcome to coverage of this year's Grand National.

    The race was not run last year - the first time since the Second World War - because of the coronavirus pandemic.

    There are no spectators this year, but a field of 40 runners will contest the most famous jumps race in the world.