Clare BaldingBBC TV presenter
1 Forest Gunner 2 Strong Resolve 3 Colnel Rayburn 4 Marcus Du Berlais
Ginger, if I'm right and Forest Gunner wins, I'll be looking for you after the race!

Ian BartlettCommentator
1 Innox 2 Double Honour 3 Hedgehunter 4 Fondmort
Innox ran well at Sandown recently, and will be ridden by the excellent jockey Robert Thornton.

Balthazar FabriciusBookmakers Ladbrokes
1 Clan Royal 2 Innox 3 Forest Gunner 4 Amberleigh House
Tipped to go one better than last year, Clan Royal is very much a fresh horse. The top man in the saddle, AP McCoy, can bring home a king's ransom.

Honest FrankBBC Sport website
1 Forest Gunner 2 Strong Resolve 3 Innox 4 It Takes Time
Take a chance on girl power with Carrie Ford riding Forest Gunner and Lucinda Russell saddling the second.

Luke HarveyBBC Five Live reporter
1 It Takes Time 2 Clan Royal
3 Forest Gunner 4 Nil Desperandum
Confirmed mudlark It Takes Time put up a career-best display on his penultimate run at Lingfield. Stable jockey Timmy Murphy has picked him - a tip in itself.

Carl HicksBBC racing editor
1 Strong Resolve 2 Forest Gunner 3 Hedgehunter 4 Colnel Rayburn
I think a woman will be celebrating a National win on Saturday - but my money is on Lucinda Russell and Strong Resolve.

Lydia HislopBBC pundit
1 Jakari 2 Ballycassidy 3 Strong Resolve 4 Double Honour
Jakari ran well in the William Hill Chase at Cheltenham and is worth a punt at long odds.

Mark HowardAuthor, One Jump Ahead
1 Strong Resolve 2 Hedgehunter
3 Forest Gunner 4 Clan Royal
Strong Resolve can provide a long overdue success for Scotland from three proven performers over the famous fences.

Cornelius LysaghtBBC Five Live racing correspondent
1 Strong Resolve 2 Double Honour
3 Forest Gunner 4 Amberleigh House
Strong Resolve, trained by Lucinda Russell, will relish softening conditions - maybe the media have been focusing on the wrong woman in the build-up.

John ParrottSnooker star and racing fan
1 Clan Royal 2 Strong Resolve
3 Forest Gunner 4 Hedgehunter
Clan Royal's stable has had a nightmare time, but if he gets it right, should take some beating

Rishi PersadBBC pundit
1 Clan Royal 2 Just In Debt
3 It Takes Time 4 Joly Bey
I think this could be the year for Joly Bey - but don't want to tempt fate, so I've put him finishing fourth!

Dave WhalleyWilliam Hill shop manager
Knowsley, Liverpool
1 Strong Resolve 2 Jakari 3 Merchants Friend 4 Joly Bey
Strong Resolve ran a great race in the Welsh National, and will stay all day.

Sunday newspapers

Alastair Down Sunday Mirror/Racing Post
1 Hedgehunter 2 Joly Bey 3 Monty's Pass 4 Jakari

Eddie Fremantle Observer
1 Forest Gunner 2 Strong Resolve
3 It Takes Time 4 Longshanks

Larry Lynx Sunday People
1 Hedgehunter 2 Strong Resolve 3 Colnel Rayburn 4 Joly Bey

Sue Montgomery Independent on Sunday/BBC TV
1 Hedgehunter 2 Royal Auclair 3 First Gold 4 Forest Gunner

David Nicholson Sunday Express/Former trainer
1 Hedgehunter 2 Forest Gunner 3 Innox 4 Amberleigh House

Jonathan Powell Mail on Sunday/BBC TV
1 Colnel Rayburn 2 Forest Gunner 3 Hedgehunter 4 Joly Bey