BATTLE GROUP (2005) - Beat Hollow - Cantanta (Top Ville (IRE)) - Won NHF, 7 hurdles and a chase between 2009 & 2014. Gained infamy for refusing to start in the 2014 Grand National which was a shame as he actually went with the field on the second false start.  He was actually a pretty useful handicap hurdler although the signs of mulishness were there when he refused to race at Uttoxeter in June 2010. He finished fourth in the Coral Cup in 2011 and followed that with a win in a handicap hurdle at the National Festival. Over fences he finished fourh behind Hunt Ball in the 2012 Festival Plate and hit a rich vein of form in 2013 when he won twice at the Aintree Festival taking a handicap hurdle on the Thursday and the handicap chase over the Mildmay course before the National. He made it a hat trick by taking a long distance hurdle at Haydocks mixed meeting in May. Then the following season he started to get really awkward. He pulled up in the Paddy Power Gold Cup, refused to race at Newbury and flopped at Ascot in the Silver Cup. THen came Aintree and the following week he also refused to start at the Scottish National. There was talk of him beng banned from racing but he bizarrely turned up on the all-weather during that summer but he only beat one horse home in two starts and perhaps wisely time was called on his career.​

BIG SHU (IRE) (2005) b g - Milan - Straight 'n' Fury (IRE) (Furry Glen) - Won 3 chases between 2009 & 2014. Failed in bumpers and usually found one too good in points so he did not win anything until his tenth race when he won a maiden point at Punchestown. He remained in the amateur game for most of his career but became very adapt over the Banks course winning the Ladies Cup in 2012 and the La Touche Cup in 2013. He also finished second over the course twice. He also showed that he was a cross specialist by wnning the Cross Country Event at the 2013 Festival. WIth all this experience he apppeared to be an ideal National sort but his effort in 2014 only lasted three fences and he took a heavy fall at the big ditch. Sadly he never got to have another go as he was fatally injured on the flat in the Cross Country event at Cheltenmah in December.​​

BUCKERS BRIDGE (IRE) (2006) b g - Pelder (IRE) - La Fiere Dome (IRE) (Lafontaine (USA)) - Won 2 NHF and 3 chases between 2012 & 2015. Very lightly raced and he only saw a racecourse nineteen times. He won his first four starts though, his point, his bumper and his first two chases in 2012. He never hit those heigths again although he did pick up a Grade 2 event at Navan in February 2013. He was unplaced in that years Galway Plate and came to Aintree in 2014 as an outsider on the back of chasing home On His Own in the Bobbyjo Chase. He managed to finish eleventh . He later won a couple of points in 2016 and was last seen pulling up in the 2017 Foxhunters Chase at the Festival.​​

BURTON PORT (IRE) (2004) b g Bob Back (USA) - Despute (IRE) (Be My Native (USA)) - Won NHF, hurdle & 5 chases between 2008 & 2015. Won on his fourth attempt in Irish points before being sent to the UK where he won his first two hurdles in 2008-09. Was a very useful novice chaser in 2009-10 winning five of his seven chases including the Reynoldstown Chase at Ascot and Mildmay Novices Chase at Aintree and in between was second in the RSA the Festival. He never won over fences again but he finished second to a tiring Diamond Harry in the 2011 Hennessy Gold Cup and had Denman behind him in third. He then injured a tendon which ruled him out for the season. In 2011-12 he finished second in the Denman Chase and was a very credible fourth in the Gold Cup before finishing second in the Aintree Bowl. He was then off for another year. It was noted that in his seventeen starts for Nicky Henderson he had never finished out of the first four. When he reappeared, now with Jonjo O'Neill, he was not as good and whilst he appeared an ideal National sort he only got as far as the second fence at Aintree in 2014 . He then put up another great run in defeat when, looking the winner of the Bet365 Gold Cup at Sandown having taken the lead three out, he was collared in the closing stages by Hadrians Approach. Sadly in February 2015 he was killed in a fall at Doncaster.​

COLBERT STATION (IRE) (2004) b g - Witness Box (USA) - Laurenca's Girl (IRE) (Comanche Run) - Won 3 hurdles and 2 chases between 2009 & 2017. The choice of AP McCoy in 2013 on the basis of his victory when favourite for the Paddy Power Chase at the Leopardstown Christmas meeting and he had followed that up with a win in a handicap hurdle at Punchestown. Prior to this he had been a useful hurdler/handicao chaser who had not until then hit the headlines. At Antree he unseated the champ at the Chair and a year later he pulled up before Valentines second time. He later reverted back to hurdles before a spell hunter chasing with Jonjo O'Neill and he last raced under rules at Warwick in May 2017. He ran in points the following year and was successful once.​

DOUBLE SEVEN (IRE) (2006) b g - Milan - Bargante (IRE) (Phardante (FR)) - Won 4 hurdles & 5 chases between 2010 & 2017. This one burst onto the scene and shone brightly for a brief time and to be fair he seemed an ideal National sort and was the choice of the champ in 2014. He had won some hurdles in his younger days but but took time to warm up over fences and didn't win until his eleventh chase but then he won five on the bounce during the summer/autumn of 2013, three at Kilbeggan and then the Munster National at LImerick. Despite being beaten on his National prep race he started 10-1 joint favourite at Aintree. He ran well but ulitimately did not quite stay weakening in the closing stages to finish third. He ony raced three more times over the next three seasons (one a year - he was eliminated from the 2016 National) and was last seen pulling up at Navan in March 2017.​

GOLAN WAY (2004) b g - Golan (IRE) - Silk Daisy (Barathea (IRE)) - Won 5 hurdles & 4 chases between 2008 & 2014. Won on the all-weather at Wolverhampton in November 2006. Whilst he didn't set the world alight on the flat he took to hurdles with four straight wins in 2008. He later won his first chase in October 2010 and finished third in the Mildmay Chase. He was hopelessly outclassed in the King George VI Chase in 2011, refusing late on when tailed off. He twice finished unplaced over hurdles at the Cheltenham Festival and still occassionally ran on the flat. He did not seem an ideal National horse but he did win a hunter chase before his Aintree exertions where he fell when with the leaders at the first Canal Turn. He later showed sigs of mulishess and refusedto race on his next starts at Southwell and Cheltenham and later refused at the first fence in two pointts in 2015.  

HAWKES POINT (2005) b g - Kayf Tara - Mandys Native (IRE) (Be My Native (USA)) - Won hurdle & 2 chases between 2011 & 2015. Had a very brief career and only ran seventeen times under rules. Won his point  and one hurdle in his only season over timber. He won at Exter in January 2013 but pulled up in the National Hunt Chase. The following season he only went down by a head in the Welsh National. He was unplaced in the Haydock Park Grand National Trial which led to is his appearance at Aintree where he finished a very distant last of the eighteen finishers. He was only nine but only raced one more time in the 2015 Midlands National.​​​

HUNT BALL (IRE) (2005) b g Winged Love (IRE) - La Fandango (IRE) (Taufan (USA)) - Won 3 hurdles and 8 chases between 2009 & 2015. Having showed very little in his early years in the 2011-12 season he became the most improved horse in training in a journey that started with victory in a 0-95 chase at Folkestone and ended seven races and six more victories later with victory at the Cheltenham Festival. The following season there were fewer races and only one win and he was sold privately to be raced in the USA. Trained by multi-champion trainer Jonathan Shepherd in the States he failed miserably in four Grade One events and only beat a handful of rivals home. He came back to the UK and finished amongst the backmarkers in the 2014 National. A year later he finished fourth in the Topham before he rattled off three wins in novice hurdle events (all in small fields). Surprisinsgly he went back to the States where again he finished in rear in the Americal Grand National at Far Hills and that was the end of a very eventful career. ​​​

LAST TIME D’ALBAIN (FR) (2004) b g - Sassanian (USA) - Lightim (FR) (Lightning (FR)) - Won 2 hurdles and 2 chases between 2009 & 2015. Was an average Irish chaser but he finished third in the Paddy Power Chase in 2012 before he finished a strong finishing third in the Topham. On the back of that he took his chance in the National a year later but he got no further than first Bechers. He later ran in hunter chases and points winning a point and a hunter chase at Fairyhouse in February 2015. He ran another fine race over one circuit of the National course finishing third in the 2015 Foxhunters which was the last time he raced under rules.​​

LION NA BEARNAI (IRE) (2002) b g - New Frontier (IRE) - Polly Plum (IRE) (Pollerton (IRE)) - Won 4 chases between 2007 & 2015. Pretty useless over timber and he didn't manage a win until his sixth start over fences but it was at the Punchestown Festival ((his twenty sixth start). He caused a surprise when wining the Irish Grad National in 2012 at odds of 33-1 . Lightly raced the following season he only saw a racecourse twice pulling up in the Hennessy and in the Scottish Grand National. He pulled up in the National in 2014 and was unplaced in the Irish National.  He returned to Aintree and pulled up in the Becher Chase. He last saw a racecourse when he uncharacteristically fell at he first fence in the 2015 Irish National.​​

LONG RUN (FR) (2005) b g Cadoudal (FR) - Libertina (FR) (Balsamo (FR)) - Won 5 hurdles & 10 chases between 2008 & 2016. When he lined up in the 2014 Grand National at the age of nine it already felt that he was at the veteran stage such was the amount he had packed into his career up to that point. They start them early in France where he was only once out of the first two in twelve starts. All his racing was done at Auteuil and he won the most important three year old hurdle (Prix Cambaceres) in 2008 and the Grand Steeplechase for four year olds in 2009 in what was his final race for Guillaume Macaire. Sent to Nicky Henderson he won on his debut, the Kauto Star (then known as the Feltham) Novices Chase in December 2009 and also won his second chase at Warwick. At Cheltenham though in the RSA he could only finish third and he filled that position in the Paddy Power Gold Cup on his first start of the following season. However on his next start in the rescheduled King George (run in January after snow and frost had wiped out the traditional Boxing day programme) he was breathtaking while Kauto Star (looking to make it five straight wins) was struggling when he made a terrible mistake two out. Such was his impressive performance that the six year old started favourite for the Gold Cup. At the turn into the straight he looked booked for third place behind Kauto Star and Denman but his younger legs prevailed and he swept past the two champions to record a seven length victory. He was put away for the season. The following year Kauto Star gained his revenge on him finishing ahead in both the Betfair Chase and King George but he won the Denman Chase albeit in a tight finish with the vastly inferior Burton Port. In the Gold Cup he was challenging for the lead at the last but could only finish third behind Synchronised. All in all a slightly disappointing season. The following year he regained his King George crown in a titanic struggle on rain soften ground with Captain Chris and finished an excellent second in the Gold Cup. He also finished runner up in the Punchestown Gold Cup at the end of the season. Whilst he did win a valuable race at Kelso in February 2014 he never hit such heights again. He unseated in the King George, fell when leading in the 2014 National at Valentines first time and never got into the Grand Steeplechase de Paris finishing unplaced. He suffered an injury on the ferry coming home from France and was off for twenty two months. There was still talk of a second attempt at the National on his return but after he failed to sparkle in his comeback race, a hunter chase at Carlisle in March 2016 he was retired.

MONBEG DUDE (IRE) (2005) b g Witness Box (USA) - Ten Dollar Bill (IRE) (Accordian (IRE)) - Won 4 chases between 2010 & 2015. Won his sole point to point but failed to win in bumpers and hurdles but he won his debut chase at Lingfield in November 2011. Won rescheduled Welsh National in January 2013 and finished third in the Haydock Park Grand National Trial. Not up to the Gold Cup and pulled up but was fancied for his first National finishing seventh in 2014 but at longer odds chased home Many Clouds in third pace in 2015 having jumped over a faller at first Bechers. That turned out to be his final race although his retirement was not announced until November 2016.​​​

MOUNTAINOUS () b g Milan - Mullaghcloga (IRE) (Glacial Storm (USA)) - Won 2 hurdles and 4 hurdles between 2011 & 2017. Did most of racing at Chepstow and Fgos Las and ran in four consecutive Welsh Nationals winning twice in 2013 and 2016 and pulled up twice. His Aintree experience was brief - he was disputing the lead when he came down at first Valentines and he didn't return as he was eliminated in both 2015 & 2016. He stayed forewever and that National was the only fall of his career. Hee was last seen out in the 2017 Eider Chase at Newcastle​​

MR MOONSHINE (IRE) (2004) b g - Double Eclipse (IRE) - Kinross (Nearly A Hand) - Won 3 hurdles and 4 chases between 2010 & 2016. Won his first two chases in the autumn of 2011 but he was no match for Bobs Worth when he finished sevenh in the RSA Chase at the Festival. He showed little in his second season over fences and was an outsider when he pulled up in the 2013 National. He was bought by the connections who had owned Auroras Encore and became his replacement in 2014 and  be fair he appeared to have a much beter chance this time as he had run well to finish third in the Becher Chase the previous autumn. He ran a blinder for most of the way. He led at second Bechers and was still in front four out when he was headed and lost his place evenually finishing fifteenth.  Although he did manage to pick up a hurdle at Haydock in February 2016 he lost his way over fences. He was eliminated in 2016 so ran in the Topham instead finishing ninth and was last seen out at Wetherby in October 2016.​​

ONE IN A MILAN (IRE) (2005) b g Milan - Kitty Star (IRE) (Montelimar (USA)) - Won a hurdle and a chase between 2010 & 2015. Had the worst possible start to his career. He refused at the very first fence in his first Irish Point to Point and refused at the second fence in his second. He did manage to win over hurdles before moving to the UK where he won his sole chase, a novice event at Ffos Las in January 2013. He became a fixture in long distance chases finishing placed that years Midlands and  Welsh Nationals. After a couple of runs over hurdles he lined up at Aintree and was still in contention when he came down at second Bechers. Sadly he suffered a heavy fall in the Welsh National in 2015 and was not seen again.​

OUR FATHER (IRE) (2006) gr g - Shantou (USA) - Rosepan (IRE) (Taipan (IRE)) - Won 2 hurdles and a chase between 2011 & 2018. This very lightly raced individual only raced seventeen times in total.  Highlight probably came early on when he won a competitive handicap hurdle at Ascot at odds on in December 2011. He started favourite for the Pertemps Final at the Festival on his next start but he finished unplaced. He won on debut over fences at Cheltenhams Open meeting in 2012 but his novice career only lasted three races. The following season he started favourite for the Hennessy finsihing a well beaten seventh and then finished fifth in the Haydock National Trial and ninth in the Kim Muir. He was clearly well thought of as he held solid each way claims for the National but he was hampered and unseated at the first Canal Turn. On his next race he was subject to a last minute plunge in the Becher Chase and as he drew clear before three out it looked liked the punters would collect. Inexplicably though the petrol tank emptied. He was headed at the last fence and weakened rapidly to finish ninth. That was it really he finished second at Cheltenham on his next start and then was off for three years. He resurfaced in the care of Gordon Elliot for whom he ran twice last being seen pulling up in the Troytown Chase at Navan in November 2018​​

PRINCE DE BEAUCHENE (FR) (2003) b g - French Glory (IRE) - Chipie D'Angron (FR) (Grand Tresor (FR)) - Won NHF, hurdle and 2 chases between 2007 & 2015. Won his bumper in France and won a hurdle at Argentan and a chase at Pau before being purchsaed by Andrea and Graham Wylie and bing moved to Howard Johnson. He was lightly raced but he won a hurdle at Ayr in a season that yielded just two runs. The following season 2009-2010 he ran just three times but won at Haydock. His busiest season was in 2010-11 which yielded five runs and he was successful in the handicap over the Mildmay course on Grand National day. When Howard Johnson was warned off the Wylies moved their horses to Willie Mullins. He won the 2012 Bobbyjo Chase and as a result was promoted to favouritism for the 2012 National before a stress fractire to the hip ended his season. He was of the course for ten months winning on his return, a hurdle at Limerick and after he finished second in the Bobbyjo Chase he was again amongst the favourites for the National when lightning struck twice - another stress fracture and that was his season over. His chance had probaby come and gone but after a number of runs in top company he finally got to line up in the National andmanaged to finish the course amongst the backmarkers but virtually walked across the line. The following season he won a point and three hunter chases on the bounce, the last by an incredible sixty two lengths at Gowran in March 2015.​

QUITO DE LA ROQUE (FR) (2004) b g - Saint des Saints (FR) - Moody Cloud (FR) (Cyborg (FR)) - Won 2 hurdles and 7 chases between 2009 & 2014. Won his Irish point and was successful in a listed novice hurdle at Clonmel and in a large field at the Fairyhouse Easter meeting. He  enjoyed a very successful first season over fences winning five times including the Mildmay Chase and a Grade 1 at the Punchestown Festival. He started his second season well with victory over future Queen Mother Chase winner SIzing Europe in the Down Royal Champion Chase and then he fihisned third behind future Gold Cup winner Synchronised in the Lexus Chase. That was the end of that season and whlst he still could put up a big performance (he won a Grade 2 event at Thurles in January 2014) he was not as good. He pulled up in the Grand National having got himself tailed off, burst a blood vessal and he was not seen out again.​​​

ROSE OF THE MOON (IRE) (2005) gr g - Moonax (IRE) - Little Rosel (IRE) (Roselier (FR)) -  Won NHF, hurdle & 3 chases between 2010 & 2015. Won his first two chases in the autumn of 2012 but pulled up in the National Hunt Chase at the Festival. He was unplaced in the Becher Chase and then won a small race a Wetherby before his attempt at the National which was only his seventh start over fences. He was still in contention when he fell at the twenty sixth. He pulled up in the Bet 365 Gold on his next start and later tried his luck over the cross country course at Cheltenham and the banks course at Punchestown finishing fourth in the 2015 La Touche Cup. He was eliminated in 2015. He last ran under rules at Doncaster in December 2015 butr ran in points the following spring without success.​​​

SHAKALAKABOOMBOOM (IRE) (2004) b g - Anshan - Tia Maria (IRE) (Supreme Leader) - Won 4 chases between 2009 & 2015. Had possibly the craziest name of any National runner and possibly on the back of that he came in for considerable support from the once a year punters in 2012. He didn't seem to have enjoyed himself when he finished seventh in the 2011 Topham but he had followed that with a victory in a big field at the Punchestown Festival. He was prominent leading from the fourth to the thirteenth and again from four out until he was headed at the second last. He evenytually finished ninth. He was then off the course for over a year and was not as good on his return. He returned in 2014 but was never in contention and pulled up before the twentieth fence. He showed nothing the following season and last raced under rules at Ffos Las in May 2015. He then went pointing where he was successful once in sixteen starts. 

SWING BILL (FR) (2001) gr g Swing Bill - Melodie Royale (FR) (Garde Royale (IRE)) - Won 2 hurdles and 4 chases between 2005 & 2014. Won a hurdle and a chase in his native France before being moved to the UK in October 2006, Became something of an Aintree specialist making his first appearance in the 2011 Topham where he finished fifth. He ran over the National course a further five times and only failed to finish once when he pulled up two out in the 2011 Becher Chase. He completed in his three Nationals finishing twelfth in 2012, sixth in 2013 and ninth in 2014. That was his final start under rules but he ran in a few points the following year.  ​​​
TEAFORTHREE (IRE) (2004) b g Oscar (IRE) - Ethel's Bay (IRE) (Strong Gale (IRE)) - Won Hurdle & 4 chases between 2010 & 2015. Started life in the Irish pointing field winning once from five starts in 2010. Afer a quiet start he came to prominence by lifitng the National Hunt Chase at the 2012 Festival. He was fancied for the 2013 National having only gone down by half a length to Monbeg Dude in the Welsh equivalent. Featuring prominently in the build up he led between Foinavon second time and the twenty sixth and led again at the second last eventually finishing third to Auroras Encore. The following year he was joint favourite for the race but uncharacteristically unseated at the Chair (the only time in his career that he lost his rider). He did run in the Gold Cup beforehand and finished eighth but he seemed far of a National horse than a Gold Cup one. He won a hunter chase the following season at Bangor and last raced at Haydock in February 2015.​

THE PACKAGE (2003) br g - Kayf Tara - Ardent Bride (Ardrross) - Won NHF, hurdle and 3 chases between 2007 & 2016. Won his bumper and a maiden hurdle but had to wait two more years before win number three at Cheltenham in December 2009. He then only failed by a head to win the Ultima Handicap Chase at he Festival and was fancied for the National on his next start and he was still in contention when he unseated at the nineteenth. He finished fifth in the Bet365 Gold Cup on his next start. He then had his problems, had two lengthy spells on the sidelines and he did not run in the National again until 2014 (he finished third in his prep race the Ultima at the Festival). I had a real good feeling about him in 2014 and had actually dreamt that he won the race Going down to Bechers second time I really though he had a chance but he faded to finish twelfth. He pulled up in the Becher Chase the following autumn but enjoyed one magnificent day in the sun when he won the Kim Muir at the 2015 Festival by twelve lengths. He was eliminated from the National and pulled up in the Bet365 Gold Cup on his next start and ran one more time at Uttoxeter in June 2015.​​​

TIDAL BAY (IRE) (2001) Flemensfirth (USA) - Junes Bride (IRE) (Le Moss (IRE)) - Won 7 hurdles & 8 chases between 2006 & 2014. This one was quirky but loveable and he was also very talented (when he was in the mood). He won his first three novice hurdles in 2006 but was beaten a neck in the RSA Novices Hurdle at the Festival. He then won the Mersey Novices Hurdle on Grand National day 2007. Even better over fences, he won five out of his six starts including a Cheltenham/Aintree Grade One double of the Arkle and the Maghull Novices Chases. Then it started go a little askew - he won on seasonal debut at Carlisle, was no match for Master Minded in the Tingle Creek where he lost his place after poors jumps early on, got behind in his Festval target, the Ryanair and was left with too much to do although he did rally and finally appeared reluctant in the Melling Chase where he finished a distant fifth. He even earnt the dreaded Timeform "squiggle" in that seasons Chasers and Hurdlers. The following season he was switched back to hurdles and won the Cleeve Hurdle but was no match for Big Bucks in both the Stayers and Liverpool Hurdles. He couldn't shake that 'squiggle' though and after some satisfiactory performances in defeat (he finished sixth in 2011 Gold Cup) there was that nagging feeling that with his quirky high head carriage and tendancy to drop himself out in races that he just wasn't genuine enough to ever challenge for top honours. He was even tried in the National but unseated on the first circuit. In November 2011 he was moved to Paul NIcholls yard and in the mud at the end of the season put up his best display over fences when running away with the Bet 365 Gold Cup by fifteen lengths, the third widest margin in the history of the race. Later that year he finished second in the Hennessy behind Bobs Worth, won the Lexus Chase at Leopardstown and finally lost that damned squiggle. He suffered a stress fracture on the gallops after that Lexus win when he was probably at the height of his powers and although he did return to racing the following season (and won his second West Yorkshire Hurdle at Wetherby) he was never going to retain that level of form although he did finish third in the Welsh National and was runner up in the Irish Gold Cup. He was aimed for a second National in 2014 but was hampered and unseated at the first Canal (later whilst running loose he carried out the leader Across The Bay after the water relegating him from first to last in a matter of strides). He last raced in the Scottish National the following week.

TWIRLING MAGNET (IRE) b g - Imperial Ballet (IRE) - Molly Maguire (IRE) (Supreme Leader) - Won NHF, hurdle and 5 chases between 2010 & 2017. Had won over hurdles at Sandown and chases at Newbury and Cheltenham but was one of the outsiders in 2014 and his experience was very brief falling at the first fence. The following year he was running in hunter chases and was successful three times in that sphere. He ran in the Foxhunters in 2015 finishing sixth and he also ran in the 2016 Cheltenham Foxhunters but was amngst the backmarkers. He last was seen falling  at Ludlow in January 2017.​​​

VESPER BELL (IRE) (2006) b g - Beneficial - Fair Choice (IRE) (Zaffaran (USA)) - Won NHF, hurdle and chase between 2011 and 2014. Very brief career lasting oly four seasons. He had an inauspicious start to his Aintree career faling at the first fence in the Becher Chase. Did much better in the National finishing the course albeit never troubling the leaders. He ran at the Punchestown Festival on his next start but whilst he was still only eight there is no record of him running anywhere again.

​VINTAGE STAR (IRE) (2006) b g - Presenting - Rare Vintage (IRE) (Germany (USA)) - Won 2 hurdles and 3 chases between 2011 & 2015. Fairly average chaser who plied his trade mostly in the north of England. Pulled up in 2013 RSA and also the Scottish Grand National in 2015. At Aintree he never got into the National pulling up after Valentines second time. He was eliminated in 2015. His career ended at the relativly early age of nine but he went out on a winner, at Carlisle in November 2015. Incidentally four of his five wins came at the Cumbrian track.​​​

WALKON (FR) (2005) gr g - Take Risks (FR) - La Tirana (FR) (Akarad (FR)) - Won 4 hurdles & a chase between 2008 & 2015. Won four times on the flat in France before moving to the UK. Took to hurdles like a duck to water winning three of his first four starts, only going down three quarters of a length on the Triumph before lifting the Anniversary Hurdle at Aintree. He ended the year the second highestrated juveile hurdler according to Timeform one point behind his Cheltenham conqueror Zaynar. A tendon injury kept his off the course for twenty one months and he did well to finish runner up on his reappearance at Ascot in January 2011. He finished seventh in the Coral Cup at that years Festival and then went chasing winning his first chase at Exeter ironically beating his old rival Zaynar. He didn't win again.  He finished fifth in the 2012 RSA and pulled up in the Scottish National. His fourth Festival in 2013 saw him finish fifth in the Festival Plate and then he put up probably his finest performance over fences when he was only beaten three quarters of a length by Triolo D'Alene in the 2013 Topham. The National semed the obvious next step but he was behind when he pulled up suddently before the second last. He had slipped a tendon which was initialy thought to be career ending. He did though reappear later that year but after failing to sparkle in two races (the last at Cheltenham in January 2015) time was called on his career.

WAYWARD PRINCE (2004) b g Alflora (IRE) - Bellion Spirit (IRE) (Robellino (USA)) - Won 2 hurdles & 6 chases between 2009 & 2015. Won a point to point in 2009. Won the Sefton Novices Hurdle at the 2010 AIntree Festival which was a step up in class. Won his first three chases and finished third in the RSA in 2011. Didn't show that much over the following two seasons although he did pick up a chase at Aintree in December 2012. Finished tailed off in the 2013 Gold Cup and was also a long way behind in the 2014 Grand National when he took a very tired fall three out. He enjoyed a renaissance in his final season wnning the Grimthrope Chase at Doncaster and ended on the most wonderful hgh when he held on to take the Scottish Grand National. What a way to go out.