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Mack. View member profile	8th April 2021, 07:29 PM Post #21
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,747 User: 12,915	awardinary 32 THE LONG MILE (GB) 7 10 4 Philip Dempsey IRE Luke Dempsey 40/1 About: Completes the Bobbyjo five after finishing third in that race behind Acapella Bourgeois and Burrows Saint, his staying-on effort after being ridden cold suggesting he might well have what it takes for this sort of stamina test. That’s open to interpretation as all of his victories have come over much shorter distances, his career-best win coming at Limerick over Christmas over the extended 2m3f in heavy ground. Indeed, he handles heavy ground so well that there has to be a doubt about him on more spring-like conditions, although he is unproven on that score in recent times, too. A bit of an unknown quantity, all in all.


Mack. View member profile	8th April 2021, 07:31 PM Post #22
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,747 User: 12,915	Sarah 26 DISCORAMA (FR) 8 10 6 Paul Nolan IRE. Bryan Cooper 16/1 About: This fellow looks a major contender. Second seven times in his career, including at three Cheltenham Festivals, the perennial bridesmaid could finally become centre of attention now he’s exposed to a serious test of stamina in handicap company. He was a half-length runner-up in a gruelling National Hunt Chase when it was still almost four miles at Cheltenham in 2019 and the pleasing thing for Paul Nolan was how he came out of that race. Indeed, he beat A Plus Tard in Grade One company when second again at Punchestown the following month. He gave 4lb to the aforementioned Milan Native when beaten a short head by him on his seasonal reappearance at Galway, a run that might’ve impacted his rare below-par run at Cheltenham in November. Freshened up since – and he goes well fresh – this strong stayer looks a big player off a light weight.


Rooney View member profile	8th April 2021, 08:02 PM Post #23
WINTER IS COMING Joined: 7 March 2006 Posts: 45,599 User: 88	Yes please


Mack. View member profile	8th April 2021, 10:38 PM Post #24
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,747 User: 12,915	Rooney 10 TALKISCHEAP (IRE) 9 10 12 Alan King. Tom Cannon 50/1 About: There’s one piece of form that marks Talkischeap out as a Grand National contender – his 10-length demolition of the bet365 Gold Cup field at Sandown in the April of 2019. The problem is, he’s looked a shadow of his former self since then, and if he was been saved for a return to fences until after the National weights were released it backfired as he’s 5lb wrong now after another no-show at Kempton. It’s very hard to make a case for him.


Mack. View member profile	8th April 2021, 10:40 PM Post #25
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,747 User: 12,915	Mart!n 21 JETT (IRE) 10 10 7 Jessica Harrington IRE. Sam Wahley-Cohen 66/1 About: It’s only two years since Jett beat The Storyteller by four-and-three-quarter lengths in the Grade 2 Devenish Chase at Fairyhouse and later that same year he beat Alpha Des Obeaux in a Grade 3 at Punchestown. That’s the sort of form that persuaded Robert Waley-Cohen to purchase him for his latest Grand National project, but since he switched owners Jett has failed to fire. In six goes in his new colours his best performance has been a 45-length seventh to The Storyteller, which is a clear indication of his rapid regression over the last few years. He’s impossible to fancy on recent form.


Mack. View member profile	8th April 2021, 10:41 PM Post #26
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,747 User: 12,915	Houdini 19 TAKINGRISKS (IRE) 12 10 7 Nicky Richards. Sean Quinlan 33/1 About: Takingrisks looks better than ever at the age of 12 and goes into the Grand National as one of only six last-time out winners in the race. Not only that, but his victory from Aye Right in the Sky Bet Chase, from a perch of 146 on his second start since wind surgery, was a career-best victory, while his credentials for a stamina test on spring ground are unquestioned following on from his Scottish National win (with Cloth Cap four lengths behind in third) at Ayr in 2019. A tremendously consistent horse, who has been in the top three in half of his 32 career starts, he has an each-way chance at a big price if taking to the fences.


Mack. View member profile	8th April 2021, 10:43 PM Post #27
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,747 User: 12,915	Riser 35 MINELLA TIMES (IRE) 8 10 3 Henry de Bromhead IRE. Rachael Blackmore 10/1 After taking the Cheltenham Festival by storm Henry De Bromhead and Rachael Blackmore will set their sights on the Grand National with Minella Times, who looks a highly-progressive chaser. He too has been rarely tried at three miles, but on both occasions he has attempted the trip he has shaped like he’ll get a good bit further and his good keeping-on second at Leopardstown on December 27, where he beat Farclas, Milan Native and Class Conti, is encouraging regarding the stamina question mark. Second again last time over the extended 2m5f at the Dublin Racing Festival, where he once more finished ahead of Farclas, Minella Times is improving fast as an official rating hike of 15lb in three runs suggests. He might not have stopped improving yet, though, and he jumps well and should like the ground, too, so he’s an interesting lurker towards the bottom of the weights.


Mack. View member profile	8th April 2021, 10:44 PM Post #28
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,747 User: 12,915	Jade: 28 CLOTH CAP (IRE) 9 10 5 Jonjo O'Neill. Tom Scudamore 4/1f About: The key player in this year’s race, there is no doubt that Cloth Cap deserves to be a strong favourite. His run to the National has been timed to perfection by Jonjo O’Neill, with the nine-year-old blossoming this season due to a catalyst combination of cheekpieces and aggressive tactics. They didn’t see which way he went in an emphatic Ladbrokes Trophy jaunt and, kept for the spring after that, he then saw off a posse of horses rated in the high 150s in the Premier Chase at Kelso, comfortably, after the National weights were released. Officially a stone well in on the back of that, his races this season have been over 3m2f and just shy of three miles, but a Scottish National third from 2019 tempers any stamina queries. With the ground coming in his favour, too, it is difficult to pick holes in his chance, but, he is very short, he’s never been to Aintree and this race asks different questions of him – including - can he sustain another aggressive run from the front over this trip?


seven. View member profile	9th April 2021, 12:16 AM Post #29
i can only do one normal thing a day Joined: 25 July 2011 Posts: 19,629 User: 14,428	i'll take one x


Brer View member profile	9th April 2021, 01:19 AM Post #30
is my brain across your walls? Joined: 14 February 2009 Posts: 115,078 User: 8,300	sure why not I have some money left in my Bet365 account still xo


Mack. View member profile	9th April 2021, 07:54 AM Post #31
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,747 User: 12,915	Bre 14 KIMBERLITE CANDY (IRE) 9 10 10 Tom Lacey. Richie McLernon 11/1 About: Very lightly-raced in the last two years running just three times since being pulled up in Burrows Saint’s Irish National. However, those three runs mark him out as a serious Grand National player, as he’s been second in two Becher Chases and in-between those he bolted up by 10 lengths in the 3m5f Warwick Classic Chase. Stamina is this horse’s game and he clearly goes well over the National fences, so the two main questions are; has the handicapper got him now, and does he need soft ground? I’m leaning towards answering with ‘yes’ on both counts.


Mack. View member profile	9th April 2021, 07:56 AM Post #32
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,747 User: 12,915	Doctor Blind 1 BRISTOL DE MAI (FR) 10 11 10 Nigel Twiston-Davies Daryl Jacob 25/1 About: Daryl Jacob riding a Grade One-winning grey in the Grand National, you say? Nine years on from Neptune Collonges’ last-gasp lunge to deny Sunnyhillboy history could well repeat itself for Jacob if Bristol takes to the Aintree spruce like Neptune did back in 2012. We know he jumps well and we know he stays well – he does over the extended 3m1f in Haydock heavy anyway – and while this is a very different test he is the class horse in the race. Bristol De Mai goes well fresh, too – and he’s been kept fresh for this – while he benefits from the unique National weights compression by way of 2lb.


Mack. View member profile	9th April 2021, 07:58 AM Post #33
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,747 User: 12,915	SevenSeize 33 GIVE ME A COPPER (IRE) 11 10 4 Paul Nicholls Harry Cobden 40/1 About: Not an easy horse for Paul Nicholls to train, Give Me A Copper has had his problems and has had to make a habit of racing on the back of long breaks. That has impacted the amount of times he has been seen, his 13-race career, including nine steeplechases, a relatively tiny amount of outings for an 11-year-old. There have been some high points in his rare forays to the track, notably the 2019 Badger Beers at Wincanton where he stayed on well to beat Soupy Soups by a neck on good to soft ground. He’s only 5lb higher in the National because he’s lesser-spotted, but this would be a training performance to rank alongside the greatest in the race’s history if Nicholls were to saddle him home in first.


Mack. View member profile	9th April 2021, 08:52 AM Post #34
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,747 User: 12,915	Riser 30 MINELLACELEBRATION (IRE) 11 10 5 Katy Price Ben Poste 66/1 About: The first thing to say about Katy Price’s gelding is that he absolutely loves the Mildmay track at Aintree. His record over the park fences in Liverpool is 1-2-1-1 and that latest victory came in October over 3m1f where he won by 14 lengths off a rating of 140. Unfortunately, he hasn’t been able to transfer that form to the National course, with a 41-length 10th in the 2019 Becher Chase preceding an unseating of jockey Ben Poste after the seventh in the 2020 renewal. He looks held by the handicapper following a hefty rise for his October win, too, while he also has his stamina to prove.


Mack. View member profile	9th April 2021, 08:53 AM Post #35
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,747 User: 12,915	Brett-Butler 12 ANIBALE FLY (FR) 11 10 12 Tony Martin IRE. Denis O'Regan 25/1 About: Famous for being placed in successive Cheltenham Gold Cups, Anibale Fly has also run well in two Grand Nationals on the back of his excellent efforts at the Festival. In 2018 he was fourth behind Tiger Roll off a mark of 159 and a year later he was fifth behind the same horse off 164. Highly consistent up to that point, he has gone off the rails since and has been beaten by a combined margin of 249-and-three-quarter lengths on his last five starts. He looks well treated off 155 on his previous performances in the National, but massively up against it on his recent efforts.


Mack. View member profile	9th April 2021, 08:53 AM Post #36
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,747 User: 12,915	Jade 37 HOGAN'S HEIGHT (IRE) 10 10 3 Jamie Snowden Gavin Sheehan 50/1 About: Hogan’s Height might just be one of those horses that is a different beast over the National fences. Certainly, his 16-length victory in the 2019 Grand Sefton over the Aintree spruce was a career-best performance by a country mile and he hasn’t got anywhere near that level of form on any start before or since. It was notable how strongly he travelled in his Grand Sefton win and he jumped the fences with aplomb, but he is 12lb higher now and he, too, is 4lb wrong, after being beaten 128 lengths by Tiger Roll in the Cross Country. He’s another with the Topham as an option.


Mack. View member profile	9th April 2021, 08:55 AM Post #37
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,747 User: 12,915	Dobbo 16 BALKO DES FLOS (FR) 10 10 9 Henry de Bromhead IRE. Aidan Coleman 50/1 About: As a progressive young steeplechaser this horse won the Galway Plate and then the Ryanair Chase at the Cheltenham Festival – but since that latter success he’s completely lost his way. The losing run stands at 13 now, he unseated Rachael Blackmore in the Cross Country Chase at Cheltenham last time and his previous two defeats were by 85 and 50 lengths. He’s got everything to prove – form, stamina, suitability for the test – so some Henry de Bromhead magic is very much required.


Mack. View member profile	9th April 2021, 08:56 AM Post #38
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,747 User: 12,915	Houdini 7 BURROWS SAINT (FR) 8 10 13 Willie Mullins IRE Patrick Mullins 9/1 About: Has been considered the perfect type for Aintree by Willie Mullins ever since he won the Irish Grand National two years ago. He dominated his Fairyhouse field that day under Ruby Walsh when a novice, travelling well within himself throughout off a rating of 144, fully deserving his 12lb hike in the weights afterwards. He runs off 156 in the National, but rather than his progress stunting he’s been well hidden from the handicapper by competing solely over hurdles since New Year’s Eve 2019 – until after the National weights were published. Then he was unleashed in the Bobbyjo Chase at Fairyhouse where he was an encouraging second to Acapella Bourgeois. The one little nag is that he jumped to his right when under pressure that day and has only ever run at right-handed tracks in Ireland.


Mack. View member profile	9th April 2021, 08:57 AM Post #39
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,747 User: 12,915	Rooney 25 MILAN NATIVE (IRE) 8 10 6 Denise Foster IRE Jamie Codd 33/1 About: Attracted money when the weights came out thanks to positive comments from Gordon Elliott but support for him seems to have cooled in recent weeks. That’s probably on the back of a fairly uninspiring ninth in the Ultima Handicap Chase at the Cheltenham Festival, but that was his first run back from wind surgery following a 79-day break so he could well come on for that run. He was sent off at 13/2 at Cheltenham with last year’s Kim Muir win in the minds of punters and that victory marked him out as a staying chaser with a future. Has yet to complete beyond 3m2f and also has to prove himself at this level on better ground.


Mack. View member profile	9th April 2021, 08:57 AM Post #40
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva Joined: 1 February 2011 Posts: 53,747 User: 12,915	bigwiglaf 36 SUB LIEUTENANT (IRE) 12 10 3 Georgie Howell Tabitha Worsley 100/1 About: Sub Lieutenant is best known from his Gigginstown days where he mixed it with the best in top company. Second in a Ryanair Chase to Un De Sceaux and runner-up to Fox Norton in the Melling Chase in 2017, he was a 162-rated chaser at his zenith and was second in the 2019 Topham off a mark of 155 on his first dip back into handicap company since the 2018 Galway Plate. Sold at the Goffs horses-in-training sale last September, he’s with Georgie Howell now, one of just half a dozen horses at the Tenbury Wells handler’s base, and he’ll be ridden by her daughter, Tabitha Worsley, who won the Aintree Foxhunters’ over the National fences aboard Top Wood in 2019 – just 17 months after breaking her back. Sub Lieutenant has run okay in fourth in two starts for his new stable at Ascot and is rated 146 for Aintree, which is 4lb wrong, but there would be no greater story in this year’s National than this one.