Ruby Walsh has yet to decide which of Willie Mullins' team he will ride in the Crabbie's Grand National at Aintree on Saturday week.
Mullins still has five in the world's greatest steeplechase - Sir Des Champs, Ballycasey, Turban, Boston Bob and On His Own - but at this stage the Closutton maestro's stable jockey cannot say which he will partner.
However, he played down his chances of winning for a third time after Papillon in 2000 and Hedgehunter in 2005 as he considers all of the champion trainer's five possibles to be "longshots".
"We have five in it. Sir Des Champs is Gigginstown's so I don't know what Bryan (Cooper, their retained rider) is doing," Walsh told At The Races.
"We've Ballycasey, Turban, Boston Bob and On His Own. I'd imagine Patrick (Mullins) will ride On His Own.
"They are five long-shots and any of them, on their best day, could run a big race, but whether their best days are behind them or not now is questionable."
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