Carl Llewellyn is one of very few jockeys to take the coveted title of Grand National winning jockey not once but twice when he successfully rode both Party Politics in 1992 and Earth Summit in 1998. Modest Llewellyn stresses that his National wins have both been all about luck but it’s far from just [...]
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The last 10 years have seen an explosion of Irish winners at the Aintree Grand National but the history between the two goes back much further than that. In fact it was two Irish fox-hunting gentlemen Edmund Bake and Cornelius O’Callaghan who gave birth to the word ‘steeplechase’ back in 1752! So it only [...]
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Back in the 2009 Grand National, the French bred gelding My Will, owned by the Stewart family, started the race at 8/1 and joint second favourite and, to be fair, he did very well coming in a respectable third place after Mon Mome and Comply or Die.
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Buzz surrounds the Aintree Grand National all year around with rampant speculation as to who will win months before the entrants have even been named so what are the prospects for one of the more seasoned horses – Comply or Die?
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