Want Grand National tips? Amazon Alexa on your Echo has we covered

It’s Grand National weekend, with a many sparkling date in a UK equine racing calendar holding place tomorrow. The four-and-a-bit mile competition sees jockeys and horses hurtling around dual laps of a Aintree Racecourse, jumping 30 fences along a way. And it’s got a new large fan: Amazon’s Alexa.

If we get talkative with Amazon’s voice partner on your Echo orator this weekend you’ll find it’s been updated to answer a whole horde of questions on a competition and a story – yet we competence not wish to rest on Alexa for a tip to find a winner.

Grand National skills

Though there are many some-more to discover, we can exam Alexa’s believe on a following topics with this preference of starter questions:

Q. Tell me about a Grand National

Q. When is a Grand National?

Q. Where is a Grand National?

Q. Who won a Grand National final year?

Q. Who won a Grand National in 1862?

Q. Which manoeuvre won a Grand National equine competition in 1968?

Q. How prolonged is a furlong?

Amazon guarantee that there is copiousness some-more we can ask a partner in propinquity to a competition – some-more than adequate info for we to be means to feign consultant believe come a final furlong.

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