article_snippet: Clare Balding has abandoned the Grand National to host the Boat Race .
article_snippet: Clare Balding will abandon the Grand National next month to host the Boat Race because it is the first time coverage will also include the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.
article_snippet: I knew I couldn’t do the Grand National because of the Boat Race. '
article_snippet: For the record, the Grand National doesn’t need my help, women’s sport does.
highlights_snippet: Clare Balding will miss the Grand National to host the Boat Race .
  
highlights_snippet: Clare Balding has never covered the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race .