Bookies will be donating profits from this Saturday’s Virtual Grand National to an NHS charity. William Hill has agreed to make the gesture to the NHS Charities Together.
Spokesman Rupert Adams said: “We like to think that the public will get right behind it and hope that the industry can raise a substantial sum of money. “A large number of people choose their Grand National bet by using names and colours, which you can clearly still do.” The 40 runners and riders for the Virtual National will be revealed in the next 48 hours and include horses who had been due to run in the real race before it was lost to coronavirus.