Today's Number: 11
The number of years since a favourite has won the Grand National. Grittar, at 7-1, was the punters' saviour then and the sequence will not encourage today's market leader, Captain Dibble. Yet well- backed horses do well. In the last 25 runnings, 18 winners have started at odds lower than 16-1.
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