Red hot racing tipster who had 77/1 winner's secrets to picking best Grand National horse

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racing tipster who had a 77/1 winner at Cheltenham has revealed his secrets to picking the best Grand National horse.Tom Collins successfully backed a 77/1 treble at the Cheltenham festival earlier this year after having a 50/1 winner at Aintree a week beforehand.Ahead of Saturday's Grand National, he has now provided punters with his best tips for picking a winning horse at one of the season's biggest races.On behalf of SBK, Collins has broken his secrets into five different areas and provided punters with his own tip for who will win the big race."There isn’t a horse racing test quite like the Grand National."The fashionable debate is whether each horse can jump well enough to clear the 16 distinctive obstacles, many of which they will take twice, during this Saturday’s showpiece contest.

But accurate jumping isn’t all that’s required. "Characteristics that you can’t see on the surface - guts, desire, determination and a willingness to respond to the jockey are all sought after traits.

Without them, your horse won’t win the Grand National.""Sir AP McCoy is generally considered the best jumps jockey ever to grace the planet, but it still took him 15 attempts to win the Grand National."Throughout his career he had a hotly-contested rivalry with Richard Johnson, who never won the greatest jumps race despite having 21 tries."Experience is generally required to win but the best riders don’t hold a considerable edge on the National course, so there is no need to pay too much attention to who is on board!

Every jockey riding in the race has the talent to succeed.""Along with the 30 jumping tests in total (16 individual fences), the Grand National field will negotiate their way around the expansive Merseyside course before.