Aintree deserves praise for honoring the two heroes who saved the Grand National.

Completing a Champion Hurdle/Cheltenham Gold Cup/Grand National treble was an astonishing achievement by Mullins and Townend. They now just need to land the Eurovision Song Contest to complete a perfect spring. But had it not been for the double act celebrated earlier, Becher’s Brook could have been in somebody’s back garden. Meanwhile, the Chair might actually have been a chair in a neighbor’s front room.