Another sunny and dry day at Aintree has seen the official going description for the Grand National Course change ahead of the 2017 Randox Health Grand National Festival which starts on Thursday, April 6.
Clerk of the Course Andrew Tulloch commented late afternoon: "The ground has just dried out a bit more, so we have gone Good to Soft (from Soft, Good to Soft in places).
"We have watered (five millimetres) the Mildmay and Hurdle Courses and so we have kept the descriptions broadly the same at Good to Soft, Good in places.
"The backside of the Melling Road has been watered today and I would hope that would carry us through to Thursday. If we need to do anything more tomorrow, in terms of watering, we will do so.
"From tomorrow, the forecast suggests the weather will become cloudier and it looks like we won't see much sunshine again until Saturday."
Grand National Course - Good to Soft
Mildmay & Hurdle Courses - Good to Soft, Good in places
Selective watering of the Mildmay and Hurdle Courses today - five millimetres
GoingStick Readings at 2pm
Grand National 5.7 (5.3 Monday)
Mildmay 6.7 (6.5 Monday)
Hurdle 6.8 (6.3 Monday)
Forecast
Wednesday - dry, cloudy with possibly odd brighter spell - 11C
Thursday to Saturday - dry, cloudy with odd sunny spell - 11C
