The one annual race to inspire uncertainty in the betting community has, due to the consistent occurrence of unlikely winners, become the Aintree Grand Nationa Festival.
Since 1928, horses that have provoked a lack of confidence have come through and achieved the improbable, horses such as Tipperary Tim (100/1) and Gregalach at the same odds began the trend with last years winner; Mon Mome, entering with same odds, capping the run at 5 unlikely runners to achieve success.
For this year’s event 65 runners remain, after the 5 day confirmation stage, raising the total prize money for the race to £925,000.
Three previous winners could enter the race including; Mon Mome and Comply or Die, with possible inclusion of Silver Birch
Silver Birch trainer Gordon Elliott made this confident comment about the horses status in the race, “Silver Birch will run in the John Smith’s Grand National if he gets in otherwise he’ll go for the John Smith’s Topham Chase on Friday. Robbie Power will ride him,”
This 2010 race will see a huge entry from Irish trained horses such as Silver Birch with other entries; War Of Attrition, Vic Venturi, Black Apalachi and Notre Pere attracting increasing interest in the Irish team.
The betting community’s main area of concern is the jockey choice for many of the runners. One such trainer, Howard Johnson, has yet to pick jockeys for both Royal Rosa and Ryan Mania, “Both the horses are both really well. I took them down to the sea at Redcar this morning and they loved it. I’ll be schooling them over Grand National fences at home on Wednesday and I’ll decide then about the jockeys,”
Enduring champion Tony McCoy has yet to make a decision on which runner he will take into the race, but it seems his choice may have been narrowed to Don’t Push It or Can’t Buy Time. It has, however, been reported that Ruby Walsh has been confirmed as jockey for favorite runner, Big Fella Thanks.
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