Trainer Joe Tizzard expects the “tide will turn” next year on the number of English-trained horses at the Grand National.

Eldorado Allen, from the Somerset-based trainer, is one of only five English entries out of the 34 runners in Saturday’s race.

The grey has odds of 66-1 in a field that has been reduced from 40 to 34 this year for safety reasons.

“British trainers aren’t shying away from the Grand National,” Tizzard said.

“At the moment we don’t have the horses that are qualified or good enough to get in the race. It’s as simple as that and there are a lot of them in Ireland.

“It’s swings and roundabouts, it’s something that as English trainers we’re conscious of and everybody’s looking at it.”

He told BBC Radio Somerset: “If you look at the Cheltenham results and what horses ran there and what horses ran in the stay and chasers there I think next year the tide will turn a little bit.

“I wouldn’t say it’s an immediate thing, there’ll still be a lot of Irish horses, but I think there’ll be more British horses next year.”

Tizzard finished fifth in the Grand National during his 18-year career as a jockey and his horse Fiddlerontheroof finish fifth in the race in 2022.

Eldorado Allen won the Denan Chase in 2022 and finished fourth in the Coral Gold Cup in December but pulled up at Cheltenham Festival last month.

“It’s a race we’ve talked about with Eldorado Allen all season,” Tizzard said.

“If he gets a bit of luck and running and he hunts away and creeps into it then who’s to say when they cross the Melling Road he won’t be there with a chance.

“It would be unbelievable – I feel privileged to be part of this huge race, I feel privilege that we’ve got a horse good enough to run in it.”