The ride stuff

New TV series goes behind the scenes at Aintree

- Chris Riches

FILM makers were calling the shots at the Grand National, preserving I Am Maximus's nail-biting win for a new generation of fans in a documentary lifting the lid on Aintree.

It will follow jockeys, trainers, owners and horses as they rush headlong towards Saturday's four-mile classic, won by jockey Paul Townend.

It is the first time horseracing has been featured in a prime-time television documentary and follows similar fly-on-the-wall series on football, tennis, F1 and golf.