Gavin Cromwell
Gavin Cromwell’s William Hill blog: Aintree Thursday & Friday preview
William Hill ambassador Gavin Cromwell previews his runners on the first two days of Aintree’s Grand National Festival.
Thursday & Friday, Aintree
We’ve got two runners across the first two days at Aintree, starting with My Mate Mozzie on Thursday in the Red Rum Chase (4.40pm) and he seems to have come out of Cheltenham really well.
Aintree is a flat track which will suit him, as will the better ground. He’ll have cheekpieces on which will help him travel and hopefully he’ll be coming home best of the lot. We won’t to be too far back over this trip; we’d like to be in the first half of the field I would’ve thought.
Keith Donoghue and I will work out how much pace there is in the race and I’ll let him decide how he thinks it’s best to ride him through the race. Ideally we’d like it to be a strongly run race and hopefully he’ll come home well over the shorter trip with no hill, on a flatter track and nice ground.
On the Friday we have The King Of Prs in the Topham. I was surprised he was such a big price earlier in the week because I think he’ll run well here. He’ll jump the National fences well; I was really impressed with how he schooled over them. I think he’ll be a strong traveller over the longer trip which should suit well. He seems in good form since his run at Cheltenham.
He’s been running over two miles but I think he should stay fine at 2m5f on the flat track and better ground. When he won the Dan & Joan Moore he was ridden prominent on proper soft ground and he stayed well on that day. We won’t look to be as prominent here, but I think he should stay.
