Donald McCain is looking at running his Champion Hurdle runner-up Peddlers Cross in the Aintree Hurdle at the Grand National meeting.

McCain's stable star lost his unbeaten record at the Festival but went down with all guns blazing to Hurricane Fly.

He has come out of the race in grand order and the Cheshire-based handler is keen to give him another run.

"He's doing somersaults at home, he's very well," McCain told At The Races.

"I'm a realist and I knew we had to get beaten somewhere along the line and I'd have found it difficult to cope if it was at Kelso but to be beaten the way he was in the Champion Hurdle - for five minutes I was devastated but after that I just felt thrilled to be a part of a horse like him.

"We'll start cantering again next week and I said all year we were aiming to do both Cheltenham and Aintree.

"Aintree should really suit him, it's two and a half miles around there on nice ground and it's one of our local tracks."