O'Leary has a point about lack of compression of weights

Michael O'Leary appears to have two main concerns with the Grand National weights.

His first is that Irish-trained horses are treated unfairly. That wasn't the case between 1999 and 2007, when the Irish won the race six times from just 60 runners, but since 2008 they have had 103 runners and just one winner.

This drop in success came shortly after a change in handicapping policy at the BHA. The British handicappers elected to rate Irish horses independently from the Irish Turf Club, using their own scale which is on a par with their own BHA figures.