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Last year’s winner Corach Rambler heads runners for Saturday’s Grand National after the final line-up was confirmed.
A maximum field of 34 has been declared for the Aintree race, with the limit cut from 40 following a safety review.
Conflated was the only withdrawal on Thursday from the remaining entries, meaning 2022 winner Noble Yeats is now top weight.
Eklat de Rire, Chambard and Kitty’s Light are the last horses to be guaranteed a place in the race.
There are 26 Irish-trained runners – with eight each for both Gordon Elliott and Willie Mullins.
The Mullins team includes leading fancies I Am Maximus and Meetingofthewaters, owned by JP McManus.
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Grand National runners and riders: Pinstickers’ Guide
Scottish National winner Kitty’s Light will bid to be the first Welsh-trained victor since Kirkland, in 1905, for trainer Christian Williams, whose young daughter Betsy is being treated for leukaemia.
Mac Tottie is another hope for Wales, with James Bowen riding for his trainer father Peter.
Shakem Up’Arry, a winner at the Cheltenham Festival last month for owner and former football manager Harry Redknapp, is among those to miss the cut.
With persistent rain in the build-up, the going on the National course is described as heavy, soft in places, although it is forecast to be drier over the weekend.
Who are the Grand National favourites?
Corach Rambler, bidding to be only the second horse after Tiger Roll to win back-to-back Nationals since Red Rum in the 1970s, is about 5-1 favourite with the bookmakers.
Approximate odds: 5-1 Corach Rambler, 7-1 I Am Maximus, 8-1 Meetingofthewaters, 9-1 Vanillier, 12-1 Mr Incredible, Panda Boy, 14-1 Kitty’s Light, 16-1 Mahler Mission 20-1 Bar
Rachael Blackmore, the first female jockey to win the Grand National when successful on Minella Times three years ago, will be aboard 2021 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Minella Indo for trainer Henry de Bromhead.
Minella Indo would be only the third horse, and the first since L’Escargot in 1975, to complete the Gold Cup-National double.
She is one of three women riding in the race, with Gina Andrews partnering Latenightpass for her husband Tom Ellis, while Lucy Turner rides the Venetia Williams-trained Chambard.
Turner is one of two amateur jockeys competing alongside David Maxwell, who bought Ain’t That A Shame – 17th in the National last year – so he could have a ride in the contest.
Irish trainers have developed a stranglehold on big jump races, winning 18 of the 27 contests at the Cheltenham Festival.
After Cheltenham, British Horseracing Authority chief executive Julie Harrington said the domination was “damaging” the sport and said more needed to be done to encourage the top horses to be bred, owned, trained and raced in Britain.
What are the safety changes?
Activist group Animal Rising says it will not disrupt the Grand National this year, after protesters entered the track and delayed the race by 14 minutes in 2023.
Police arrested 118 people on the day of the race, in which the gelding Hill Sixteen suffered a fatal injury.
As well as reducing the line-up, organisers have brought the contest forward by an hour and 15 minutes to 16:00 BST to provide safer ground for runners, and there will be a shorter run to the first fence to slow horses down early on.
The reintroduction of a standing start and further veterinary checks are among other changes.
