Grand National Lucky Dip
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Western Fold
Western Fold began his career over fences when falling behind Majborough in a novice chase and trainer Gordon Elliott has been keen to get plenty of experience into this son of Westerner with twelve races over fences in just over a year.
The seven-year-old gelding has won four times in that period, the highlight of which was a comprehensive victory last July in the 134k Galway Plate. Elliott has seen his charge move up twenty pounds in the handicap and the gelding has now also graduated to Grade One races where he has also put in some fine performances.
Western Fold’s last race was at the Cheltenham Festival where he recorded one of his few disappointing runs, finishing tenth behind Kitzbuhel in the Brown Advisory Chase, although Elliot’s horses appeared to not be firing on all cylinders that week.
If Western Fold does run in the Grand National it would be by far the longest distance he has ever tried in a race so stamina for Aintree would have to be taken entirely on trust and given how he weakened at Cheltenham it would take a leap of faith to believe the four and-a-half miles would bring out the best in him.