article_snippet.sent: Having won last year’s race on Pineau De Re, 38-year-old Leighton Aspell, who once walked away from the sport for 18 months after becoming disillusioned, became the first rider since Bryan Marshall, who won on Royal Tan and Early Mist in 1953 and 1954, to land the biggest jumps race of the year in successive years on different horses.
article_snippet.sent: Many Clouds was a third winner of the race for owner Trevor Hemmings.
article_snippet.sent: The man who owns both Blackpool Tower and Preston North End has also won the race with Hedgehunter in 2005 and Ballabriggs in 2011.
article_snippet.sent: Many Clouds, ridden by Leighton Aspell, jumps a fence on the way to winning the Grand National at Aintree .
article_snippet.sent: Many Clouds passed the line one-and-three-quarter lengths in front of Tom George-trained 33-1 shot Saint Are, with 40-1 chance
article_snippet.sent: Aspell holds up the Grand National trophy as the 38-year-old celebrates a famous victory .
article_snippet.sent: Many Clouds won the National for trainer Oliver Sherwood (centre) and last year's winning jockey Aspell .
article_snippet.sent: If Aspell was not fatigued, Aspell mount certainly was and Many Clouds had to be dismounted on the track on welfare grounds to aid a speedy recovery in the wash-down area.
article_snippet.sent: Aspell was later paraded in front of the grandstands after the final race of the day.
article_snippet.sent: Aspell, riding  Many Clouds (right), goes toe-to-toe with second placed Saint Are (centre) along the final straight .
article_snippet.sent: Last year's winning jockey Aspell celebrates Last year's winning jockey Aspell victory as Many Clouds slows to a halt after the race for owner Trevor Hemmings .
article_snippet.sent: Many Clouds is doused with water shortly after winning the Grand National in Liverpool .
article_snippet.sent: Many Clouds (far right) leaps over the water jump during the Grand National at Aintree on Saturday afternoon .
article_snippet.sent: Dave Stevens of Coral said: ‘The victory of Many Clouds would certainly have been cheered by some punters, but we have absolutely no complaints about the result, and would place the result in the “very good” category.’
highlights_snippet.sent: Cloud Nine ridden by Leighton Aspell won the Grand National at Aintree .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Leighton Aspell has won two years running after 2014 success on Pineau De Re .
  