Since the mid-70s Ginger McCain has been Mr Grand National but we now have a new candidate in Ruby Walsh.
The Irishman claimed his second Grand National win, courtesy of Hedgehunter, in Saturday's race.
Walsh is a jockey who has a good horse racing pedigree and is completely reliable.
He doesn't make mistakes and also seems to be able to make his own luck.
Amid the Grand National hurly-burly, he seems to be able to stay out of trouble and just sparkle.
If he was to be based full-time in the UK, rather than splitting his time between Ireland and the UK, I think he would give Tony McCoy a run for his money for the jockey's title.
Walsh is now going to bid for an extraordinary Grand Slam when he rides Cornish Rebel in next Saturday's Scottish Grand National at Ayr.
Before his Aintree win, Walsh had also won the Welsh Grand National on Silver Birch and triumphed on Numbersixvalverde in the Irish National.
Although we were waiting for the Carrie Ford story at Aintree, Hedgehunter's win was still a fairytale success for his owner Trevor Hemmings, one of the country's richest men, who finally broke his National duck at the 13th attempt.
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Twelve months ago, Hemmings' dream was face down in the mud after the horse fell at the last but this time, without any dramas and with Ruby weaving his magic, he comes up with the winner.
Hedgehunter is a very good horse of his type and full credit after he became only the third horse in the last 25 years to carry more than 11 stone to win the race.
He was trained to the minute by Willie Mullins, and managed to overcome the slight illness setback he had.
It's another feather in the cap of Mullins who is a great trainer and yet another success for his family.
Perhaps next year Tony McCoy's luck will finally come in at Aintree.
Seeing him come to grief on Clan Royal at Becher's on the second circuit was like watching a drama unfold in slow motion.
It shows that however outstanding a jockey you are, and McCoy is the greatest jump jockey, not everything works for you and the Grand National has its own rules.
Carrie Ford did absolutely nothing wrong on Forest Gunner. The only problem was that the horse's stamina ran out a bit towards the end although her stamina didn't.
The horse travelled beautifully and she looked every inch a Grand National jockey and it was a triumph for her and it was a sweet irony that while she finished fifth, Ginger McCain's Amberleigh House was only 10th.
She put in a remarkable performance and as fifth out of 21 finishers, it was totally unlike Rosemary Henderson's fifth place on Fiddlers Pike in 1994 where she was second-last of six finishers.
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