Grand National Lucky Dip
We've picked a grand national horse at random for you. You can also pick your horse based on it star sign, the colour of the Jockeys silks or where the horse is trained. Good Luck!
Firefox
Firefox has been campaigned predominantly over distances short of three miles for the majority of his career with trainer Gordon Elliott only stepping him up in distance in his last two races. His first attempt at three miles was in the Paddy Power Gold Cup at Leopardstown where he finished a very credible fourteen lengths fourth behind Fact To File, Gaelic Warrior and Galopin Des Champs. That effort encouraged Elliott to run the eight-year-old in the Cheltenham Gold Cup but this time he was more comprehensively defeated into twenty-six length sixth place where he appeared not to stay the 3m 2f distance. Obviously that is such a high-class race that he may simply have been outclassed but he didn’t scream out that he wanted to go four miles plus in the Grand National.
Supporters for the Grand National will point to the fact that his sire, Walk In The Park, has sired an Aintree Grand National winner amongst many other hardy stayers but it the fact that Elliott has also entered the gelding in the Topham Chase at Aintree over 2m 5f it could be he intends to drop the horse back down in trip.