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Nobel Yeats wins National

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50-1 outsider Noble Yeats won horse racing's Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree in Liverpool, England to give amateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen victory in his final ride.

The favourite, Any Second Now, was second with Delta Work third and Santini fourth.

Noble Yeats, trained in Ireland by Emmet Mullins, is the first horse aged seven to win since Bogskar in 1940.

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