Grand National Lucky Dip

Snow Leopardess jumped superbly to win the recent Becher Chase where she was a gutsy winner, hanging on by a nose from the fast-finishing Hill Sixteen. The winner is a grey mare who had a long period where she was out of training due to an injury and her owners used the time to put the mare in foal. Snow Leopardess must be the only mare to win over the national fences who is also a mum! Immediately after winning the Becher Chase bookmakers began quoting odds for the mare for the National itself but, at the time, trainer Charlie Longsdon reported that a return trip to Aintree was not a certainty. Longsdon suggested that Snow Leopardess’ owners were worried about the big field in the National for their valuable broodmare to be. In the interim, Snow Leopardess went to Exeter for a valuable mares’ chase and again underlined her current from when routing the field by twelve lengths. After the victory at Exeter, Longsdon suggested that the National was back on the agenda as coonections are now fully committed to Aintree being her big target.  Snow Leopardess goes into Aintree on the back of three consecutive wins, something that is something of a rarity in the Grand National. Since 1998 only six horses have lined-up with the same credentials ans, whilst none of them have won, two have finished second and one finished third. The mare's jumping is exceptional but there might be a question mark about her ability to see out the 4m 2f distance. She seemed to be running on empty at the end of the Becher Chase (run over one mile less) but the ground was very soft that day.  She has run over 3m 6f once when finishing fourth behind the likes of Galvin and Escaria Ten in the National Hunt Chase last year. That race is often a good trial for the Grand National and Snow Leopardess looks to have an excellent chance in the 2022 Grand National.