Joe Tizzard Aintree Day two runners blog: 'He loved these fences in last year's national'

Ahead of Saturday's huge Grand National race, Coral ambassador and leading trainer Joe Tizzard shares his latest blog, previewing his runners on day two of Aintree.

The Grand National meeting is one we’ve had plenty of success at as a yard over the years, and while we’ll only have the three runners here this year, all on Friday, we’re bringing three we think can do themselves justice. It’s a great meeting to be involved in, I used to love riding here, and it’s no different as a trainer, the racing is top class, it’s important, but everyone is just a bit more relaxed than Cheltenham, and the city and people of Liverpool make it even more fun.

The course does a terrific job in producing safe ground, the dry forecast means they’ve been able to water with confidence, and decent, spring ground will suit all three of ours.

We’re rolling the dice a little bit with The Changing Man, he’s in the last month of being a novice but he’s got loads of experience over fences, and has run consistently well all year in some big handicaps. I appreciate he’s officially rated the lowest of the eight, but we wanted to give him a chance at a Grade One while we could.  

 There are no stamina doubts about him, which isn’t the case with all of these, so we’ll probably look to make it a decent gallop, and see how the jumping of the others holds up. He’s come out of Cheltenham really well, and we’re really looking forward to running him.