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With it being my favourite race I always studied the National very carefully and, over the years did very well, winner wise, because it often needed a bit of thinking outside of the box. I backed Mon Mome when the weights came out, only to not back him again when he went out to 100/1. My few weights day bets were usually the ones that threw up the winner even though I’ll be the first person to admit that I eventually have far too many bets on the race because of the very nature of it. Nothing worse than having only one bet and for that horse to come down at the first. With Auroras Encore I’d realised that previous winners had won a ( I think) grade one or three or something  in the past  and was surprised to find that he had done so. Also the easier fences that year enabled him to make a few mistakes. I also liked to back horses with course form even if it was in a hurdle race. I was the only person in my racing club to back Seagram, even though I was rooting for the Pitman horse over the last. But that was then and these days I haven’t got a clue. You don’t even necessarily even need a staying type who jumps well any more. All I know this year is that I don’t want Monbeg Genius to win because I think it would be bad publicity for the race, something it can well do without.