Trainer Lucinda Russell believes the low mileage on the clock of 2017 Grand National winner One For Arthur means he can still be a major force in big staying chases.

Trainer Lucinda Russell believes the low mileage on the clock of 2017 Grand National winner One For Arthur means he can still be a major force in big staying chases.

The animal lover said he is not against the sport but has changed his perspective on the historic race because of the number of horses which have died in the race.

The Grand National was dramatically called off on Monday night after new Government restrictions to fight the spread of coronavirus made it impossible to stage the Aintree showpiece.

The decision, which follows the announcement by the Jockey Club on Monday evening to cancel the Randox Health Grand National, will place the sport under considerable financial strain.

Presenter Ed Chamberlin says he hopes ITV broadcasting racing from Ireland on Saturday will be a tonic for sports fans in a barren live sporting landscape.

EXCLUSIVE BY DOMINIC KING AND MATT HUGHES: The cancellation of Saturday's Randox Health Grand National will cost almost half a billion pounds in lost revenue.

The Jockey Club announced the first day of the 2021 festival would be renamed Liverpool's NHS Day, with thousands of tickets donated to NHS and professional carers in Merseyside.

Ahead of Saturday's Virtual Grand National programme on ITV which also includes a Race of Champions, Sportsmail's MARCUS TOWNEND relives 10 of the Greatest Grand Nationals.

In all, Kenneth Rose wrote six million words of diaries, of which his appointed editor has selected roughly half a million for publication. If these are the gems, I dread to think what the duds were like

There was bad behaviour to be found in all sorts of books published this year, from the highest to the lowest

Did you know that in 2019 a Belgian man broke the record for sitting on the toilet for the longest time - 116 hours?

There have been books, articles, films and plays galore about Philby, Maclean, Burgess and Blunt, but nobody seems to know or care about the 'Fifth Man', John Cairncross

House Of Glass flows with the amazing clarity and delicacy of a fine novel. By the end, I was completely wrapped up in the sharply contrasting characters of the Glass family

Moving into the White House, which had just been built in the middle of a rutted field, America's second president, John Adams, prayed: 'May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof.'

John Carey is a welcoming host, full of enthusiasm, and the opposite of crusty. He can throw sparkling light on a poet's method in a handful of words

Downing Street has rejected a big business demand to allow low-skilled migration from the EU to continue after Brexit, telling companies to focus on training UK workers instead.

The Health Secretary sought to reassure the public today as he addressed MPs about the killer outbreak that has led Beijing to place a city larger than London in quarantine.

The former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director blasted Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her repeated 'idiotic' comments that the agency should be abolished.

Priti Patel today launched a savage attack on big British business as she said companies had become 'far too reliant on low skilled' and 'cheap' workers from the EU.

New Zealand expatriates in Australia have called on Russell Crowe to support their bid to change 'racially discriminatory' citizenship laws.

Dozens of foreigners who may have been exposed to the potentially deadly coronavirus are set to be secretly held in isolation at a hotel near the centre of Sydney, a source has revealed. 

A student bragged about how he snuck into Australia from China by lying on his arrival form, despite a travel ban to protect citizens from coronavirus.

The federal government plans to set up English classes in refugee camps to give potential immigrants a better shot at getting a job when they get to Australia.

Adau Mornyang, 25, was held in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centre in New York for three months before her release on December 21.

The High Court has ruled in a majority 4-3 verdict that Aboriginal people can't be deported from Australia because they are exempt from immigration laws under the constitution.

The population in parts of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane is growing at double the national average pace. CommSec senior economist Ryan Felsman cited international students.

The chancellor insisted the UK's new border system would not be ready by December. Relations between No 10 and No 11 were stretched by the proposed extension.

Sir Keir Starmer insisted he does not believe in 'a numbers game' as he was repeatedly challenged on his views on immigration.

Backpackers are being invited to help Australian farmers and communities rebuild after devastating bushfires, with visa changes designed to encourage them to join the effort.

Scott Morrison raged against the sudden scrapping of Holden in Australia, but he must have forgotten the Coalition Government forced the car marker to close its factories in 2013.

Zoltan Tamas (pictured), an immigrant from Romania who once drove for President Donald Trump is still being detained by ICE a year after he was given a deportation reprieve.

Australian workers are failing to get a decent pay rise, whether they work in the public service or on a construction site. CommSec said high population growth was keeping a lid on wages.

New post-Brexit immigration laws in the UK will favour skilled English-speaking migrant workers over cheap unskilled labour from within the European Union.

The review into the Government's policy towards migrants has seen the claim edited out of the final draft. It was commissioned in 2018 after the Windrush scandal.

The system crashed on Friday about 12pm, causing hours of delays for travellers venturing in and out of the holiday hotspot.

David Hernández Colula, an undocumented male immigrant from Mexico, died Thursday by apparent suicide at a jail in Ohio, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Friday.

Jonathan Coreas-Salamanca, 20, and Ivan Reyes Lopez, 19, were arrested earlier this month for allegedly raping two different 11-year-old girls in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Verónica Carmen Lara-Márquez, who is three months pregnant, was briefly detained by ICE last week in Philadelphia moments after leaving her four-year-old daughter at a school.

President Trump defended his response to the coronavirus outbreak and attacked 'Do Nothing Democrats, who he said were 'wasting time' on the 'Immigration Hoax.'

Almost a third of Australians who took part in a survey expressed concern about immigration. The study commissioned by Real Insurance showed overcrowding as an issue.

The government is now examining the claims of 23 immigration detainees who all claim to be from indigenous backgrounds - with some having no physical proof.

Lucio Delgado, from Mexico, took to Facebook last week to share that a letter he received informed him that he 'failed to successfully pass the reading test.'

The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against ICE claiming New York officers rigged algorithms to always recommend people arrested for immigration violations be detained.

The allies claim Sir Philip's live statement to the BBC - in which he said he was planning to take her and the department to court for constructive dismissal - had 'Javid's fingerprints all over it'.

Maria De Los Angel Sanz Pimentel, a Dominican woman who is allegedly in the United States without a work visa, was taken into custody by several ICE agents after a raid in Brooklyn on March 1.

Rishi Sunak today announced he is hiking the amount it costs migrants to use the NHS as the government's spending watchdog predicted net migration could fall to 129,000.

President Rodrigo Duterte announced strict immigration curbs and a halt on domestic land, sea and air travel to and from Manila to arrest the spread of coronavirus on Thursday.

New pictures circulating on social media purport to show massive queues of travellers waiting to pass a border checkpoint to enter mainland China after the centre of the outbreak moved to Europe.

Migrants wearing facemasks were pictured arriving at Dover after crossing the English Channel in a large rubber dingy today.