Race sponsors Coral have price up 3 horses as 12/1 joint favourites for this year’s Scottish Grand National, with Kim Roque, Quebecois and Transmission the early market leaders ahead of next week’s publication of the weights for the historic 4 miles handicap chase at Ayr.

A total of 49 horses have been entered for this year’s renewal but, Willie Mullins, the trainer of the last two winners, Captain Cody in 2025 and Macdermott in 2024, only has one entry this year, after 13 in 2025 and 10 in 2024.

Mullins’ sole possible runner in 2026 is the sponsors’ current 14/1 chance Road To Home, a horse which has already raced 3 times in Britain this year, the latest of those being his neck second in the Kim Muir/Fulke Walwyn Chase at Cheltenham under trainer’s son Patrick Mullins. 

There are 13 entries trained in Ireland with just a single Scottish-trained entry from the Lucinda Russell and Michael Scudamore yard, King Of Answers, a 7 year-old which has yet to run at Ayr but which finished second in the National Hunt Chase at the Cheltenham Festival on its last run in March.

The last Scottish trained winner was the Russell trained Mighty Thunder in 2021 with Stuart Coltherd’s Cooper’s Cross the closest to winning since, having finished second to Kitty’s Light in 2023.

The weights will be published on April 8