The 2024 Grand National is fast approaching and for many that means it is time to start the process of finding the winner.
With the Cheltenham Festival in the rear-view mirror attention can now turn in earnest to Aintree and the 176th running of the Randox Grand National on April 13.
Galopin Des Champs became only the eighth horse in the 100 years of the Boodles Gold Cup to win jump racing’s blue riband more than once when he came home three and half lengths clear of Gerri Colombe in stamina-sapping conditions at Cheltenham yesterday.
Galopin Des Champs was described as a "superstar" by his trainer Willie Mullins after joining an elite club of horses to claim back-to-back Cheltenham Gold Cups on Friday.Galopin Des Champs put up a performance fitting of the 100th anniversary of National Hunt's premier prize to join Best Mate and Al Boum Photo as the only horses to win the Gold Cup in successive years this century.