‘Brexit makes picking the Grand National winner look easy’

Racegoers at Aintree yesterday for the Grand National.Photograph: Mike Egerton/PAIn the glorious spring sunshine at Aintree on Saturday, it was all but impossible not to feel optimistic about the future. The immediate future, at any rate, and the spectacular opportunity for short-term financial gain when 40 horses and riders set off to tackle the most famous and capricious race of them all. But finding the Grand National winner looked like child’s play when set against the other fiendish p