Friday at Aintree is one of the highlights of the racing calendar, with seven high quality races for fans to enjoy on the middle day of the Grand National festival.
The racing gets underway on Friday with the Mildmay Novices' Chase (13:45) before six more races including three more grade ones. The feature race of the day is the 2m4f Marsh Chase, with seven runners vying for the race which has a top prize of £140,325 for the winner.
Fakir D'Oudairies has won the race for the past two years and will be aiming for a historic hat-trick on behalf of trainer Joseph O'Brien and owner JP McManus.
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Whether you’re listening at home or on the move, here is how you can listen to Grand National Festival coverage on the radio:
Friday's Grand National coverage on radio
Listeners can tune into Grand National radio coverage and commentary via BBC Radio 5 Live and talkSPORT. TalkSPORT 2 will cover Thursday, Ladies Day and Saturday.
Thursday's coverage on talkSPORT 2 starts at 1pm with Lee McKenzie hosting live racing from Aintree and reporting the day's biggest racing stories. You can listen to talkSPORT2 here.
Saturday's Grand National coverage on radio
The big race is at 5.15pm on Saturday and full details are below:
BBC Radio 5 Live will provide live coverage on Saturday, with full commentary of the main event as well as extensive build-up.
- AM / MW analogue radio: 909 or 693
- DAB Digital Radio: search for BBC R5L
- BBC Sounds app: Download here
Rupert Bell and Lizzie Kelly will bring coverage on talkSPORT from 5pm.
- AM / MW analogue radio: 1089 or 1053
DAB Digital Radio: search for talkSPORT
talkSPORT app: Download here
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