The Grand National is just hours away, and everybody has an opinion.

Over half the country will place a bet on this afternoon's race, with the big money coming in for Cloudy Lane, who could set off this afternoon as the shortest price favourite fora number of years.

To try and help you decide where to put your money, here's the picks from a number of experts, along with our own picks for this afternoon's race:

OddsPreview.com's picks
1 Chelsea Harbour 2 Cloudy Lane 3 Comply or Die 4 Slim Pickings 

David Williams (Ladbrokes)
1 Cloudy Lane 2 Comply or Die 3 Hedgehunter 4 Simon

Clare Balding (BBC TV)
1 Bewleys Berry 2 Hedgehunter 3 Simon 4 D'Argent

Jim McGrath (BBC TV)
1 Philson Run 2 Cloudy Lane 3 Slim Pickings 4 Mr Pointment

Richard Pitman (Former jockey and BBC TV analyst)
1 Slim Pickings 2 Point Barrow 3 Simon 4 King Johns Castle

Sue Montgomery (The Independent on Sunday)
1 Bewleys Berry 2 Simon 3 Hedgehunter Outsider: Idle Talk

Chris Goulding (Sunday Express)
1 Mr Pointment 2 Philson Run 3 Ungaro 4 Hedgehunter

Eddie Fremantle (The Observer)
1 D'Argent 2 Mon Mome 3 Slim Pickings 4 Ardaghey 5 Comply or Die

Pegasus (News of the World)
1 Chelsea Harbour 2 Slim Pickings 3 Comply or Die 4 Bewleys Berry

Alastair Down (Sunday Mirror)
1 Simon 2 Cloudy Lane 3 Mon Mome 4 Philson Run

Gary Nutting (Sunday Mirror)
1 Cloudy Lane 2 Black Apalachi 3 Slim Pickings 4 Hedgehunter

Ryan McElligott (Sunday Mirror)
1 Chelsea Harbour 2 Bewleys Berry 3 Slim Pickings 4 Hedgehunter.

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