Going - Good to Soft (Good in places).
Jackpot Pool - £35,211.27 Not Won. Carried forward on Saturday 10th April. Placepot Pool - £343,340.99 Dividend - £73.70 Winning Units - 3397.99. Quadpot Pool - £30,516.72 Dividend - £17.50 Winning Units - 1287.82.
Tronador pounces for Pertemps victory
He ran a cracker in the Boodles two years ago and wasn’t beaten far that day. He was fresh and well and he travelled over well. He only squeezed into the bottom of the handicap. We were expecting him to run well, but we weren’t actually expecting him to get in. It’s possible he’ll go to Punchestown. It likes like he’s progressive at the trip. There might be something else for him.
Belfast Banter gains Grade 1 glory
I’m absolutely thrilled — we’re celebrating here at home!. After Cheltenham we picked out this race and I said to the owners we were just hoping he’d go over and run a big race. To come out and win is absolutely unbelievable. We went into the race thinking we were riding him to be placed, just because he’s that type of horse that follows along, so to go and win has given us all a massive buzz. I don’t think he’ll go to Punchestown, to be honest. I’ll have a chat with the owners, but he’s not in any of the graded races there. The plan was to go to Aintree and if he ran well and went up a couple of pounds, he’d be guaranteed to get into the Galway Hurdle. We’ll see what way things are now and see what the handicapper does — we might be out of handicaps now, I suppose. The Galway Hurdle is worth a lot of money, but I’d take a Grade One over that any day.
Chantry House collects dramatic Mildmay honours
Fakir D'oudairies wins Marsh Chase
Livelovelaugh wins Topham for Team Mullins
Incredible. Every jockey wants to win over the Grand National fences. It’s something you’d like to do before you retire. My father did it on Atha Cliath in the Foxhunters’ in 1983. I got some spin there. If I could bottle that I’d take it home. It’s great to get one on the board the day before tomorrow. I wanted to get out, get away and over the first four fences near the font rank and get a break before the bend and let him jump and enjoy himself. I hadn’t asked him to go forward. He was just enjoying himself. When I jumped the third-last I had a look behind and was surprised how far clear I was. I wanted to get a little breather into him, but not give away my advantage altogether. The horse was very brave, but he’s a real example of the Aintree factor.
