LORD DE MESNIL still in training 2025

MILAN NATIVE  last raced in a point in March 2024

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ACAPELLA BOURGEOIS (FR) (2010) ch g Network (GER) - Jasmine (FR) (Valanjou (FR)) - Won NHF, 3 hurdles and 5 chases between 2014 & 2022. He won a bumper in France before moving to Ireland where he won three of his novice hurdles. His chasing career got off to an inauspicious start when he fell at the very first fence in a beginners chase at Naas but he later won twice at Navan and finished a distant sixth behind Might Bite in that RSA Chase. He won a small race at Clonmel the following season, finished third in the Irish Grand National and was sent to Auteuil where he contested the Grand Steeplechase de Paris but was unplaced. He twice won the Bobbyjo Chase and twice chased Al Boum Photo home at Tramore on New Years Day, He seemed an ideal National sort but struggled and finished a very distant thirteenth. He only raced one more time at Tramore on New Years day 2022 when he pulled up 

ALPHA DES OBEAUX (FR) (2010) b g Saddler Maker (IRE) - Omega Des Obeaux (FR) (Saint Preuil) (FR) - Won 2 hurdles and 4 chases between 2014 & 2022. Tough sort who enjoyed a long career and ran well in a host of major races without really troubling the leaders. He was good enough to win a Grade 2, the Clonmel Oil Chase in November 2017. He ran in three Cheltenham Festivals and reached a place each time, runner up behind Thistlecrack in the 2016 Stayers, fourth in the RSA a year later and in the twilight of his career (by which time he was specializing in cross country racing) fourth in the Cross Country race behind Tiger Roll in 2021. At Aintree he took a crashing fall at the Chair in 2018 and in 2021 got round in eleventh place. He last ran under rules at Wexford in April 2022 but ran in a few points later that year.

AMI DESBOIS (FR) (2010) b g Dream Well (FR) - Baroya (FR) (Garde Royale (IRE)) - Won 4 hurdles and 3 chases between 2015 & 2023. The highlight of a career which also saw him finish second ten times was when he notched up a hatrick of wins in 2017, his last hurdle and first two chases. An outsider at Aintree he fell at the Chair. He later won a hunter chase at Newbury in April 2022. He wa last seen unseating when in rear in the 2023 Foxhunters.

BALKO  DES FLOS (FR) (2011) ch g - Balko (FR) - Royale Marie (FR) (Garde Royale (IRE)) - Won 2 NHF, a hurdle and 3 chases between 2015 & 2021. This one ran an amazing race a odds of 100-1 to finish second to Minella Times in 2021 on his only start over the National fences. Earlier in his career he has been very useful and had won the 2017 Galway Plate and the 2018 Ryanair Chase at the Festival when he had been running in the Gigginstown Stud colours. He hadn’t won since then and perhaps it was the fact that he was sold just before the National that put punters off or the fact that he had unseated in the cross country chase at the Festival on his last start for Gigginstown. He only raced three more times twice over the Cheltenham cross country course finishing lame on his final start there in December 2021 and he was retired.

BALLYOPTIC (IRE) (2010) b g Old Vic - Lambourne Lace (IRE) (Un Desperado (FR)) - Won 4 hurdles and 5 chases between 2016 & 2021. Came from Ireland where he won a point and had a stunning start for new connections when he won his first four hurdles including the 2016 Sefton Novices Hurdle at Aintree. He was highly tried in his second season in long distance hurdles but after falling in the Long Walk, pulling up in the Stayers and finishing unplaced in the Liverpool Hurdle it was clear that his future lay over fences. He won twice in his novice season and only went down by a nose to Joe Farrell in the Scottish Grand National with the post coming just in time for the winner as this one was going the stronger in the dying strides. In 2019 he fell late on in the National but in his next season he gained his biggest success when landing an admittedly substandard Charlie Hall Chase. He ran in two Becher Chases falling once and ran his last race in the 2021 Naional when he refused when in rear. He was retired and retrained in dressage winning his first competition in that sphere

BRISTOL DE MAI (FR) (2011) gr g Saddler Maker (IRE) - La Boie Night (GR) (April Night (FR)) - Won 2 hurdles & 10 chases between 2014 & 2023. A lovely lovely grey horse who, if the Gold Cup was run at Haydock would probably have been a multiple champion. Having been unplaced in a couple of bumpers in the French provinces he won his only hurdle for Guillaume Macaire at Auteuil and was then sold to run in he UK. He won on debut at Chepstow in December 2014 but failed to add to that win and was sent chasing. Kept busy in his novice campaign he ran eight times, won four including his first of six wins at Haydock and was narrowly beaten in the JLT Novices Chae at the Festival having made most of the running. Campaigned in the higest company for most of his career he won his first major chase at Haydock, the Peter Marsh in 2017, finished third in the Denman Chase but was unplaced in both the Gold Cup and Aintree Bowl. In 2017-18 he won the Charle Hall Chase and the Betfair Chase at Haydock were he accounted for Cue Card by a staggering fifty seven lengths but was not match for Might Bite in the King George. He missed the Gold Cup due to wind surgery and was again no match for Might Bite in the Aintee Bowl. The following season he beat Gold Cup winner Native River to land his second Betfair Chase but fell before half way in the King George. Held every chance two out in the 2019 Gold Cup but he could not last home losing third place in the dying strides. Lostintranslation narrowly prevented him from winning his third straight Betfair Chase but he regained his crown a year later this time beating dual King George winner Clan des Obeaux in the process. He surprisingly lined up in the 2021 Grand National but was pulled up at second Bechers having never really got into the race.  He won a sixth race at Haydock the 2022 Grand National Trial although this was on a tehnicality.  He last raced in the 2023 renewal but finished unplaced and was retired.

CABARET QUEEN (2012) b m King’s Theatre (IRE) - Ke Dame Brune (FR) (Mansonnien (FR)) - Won a hurdle and 4 chases between 2017 & 2021. Won an Irish point. Initially with Dan Skelton she didn’t set the world alight. Moved to Willie Mullins in September 2019 she won the valuable Munster National at Limerick on her second start for new connections and the following season won the Kerry National at Listowel. She also finished third in the Galway Plate but the rest of her career was fairly disappointing and she was an outsider at Aintree where she finished ninth on what was her last start 

CANELO (IRE) (2013) ch g - Mahler - Nobody’s Darling (IRE) (Supreme Leader) - Won 2 hurdles and 3 chases between 2017 & 2024. Hit a rich vein of form prior to his one attempt at the National winning over the Mildmay course in November and followed that with success in the Rowland Meyrick Chase at Wetherby where he beat Snow Leopardess. A couple of placed efforts at Doncaster followed and he was an attractive 66-1 for the big one but he got no further than the Chair. He didn’t return and only reached a place one more time under rules although he did win a point in May 2024. He last raced at Cartmel later that month

CHRIS’S DREAM (IRE) (2012) b g - Mahler - Janebailey (Silver Patriarch (IRE)) - Won 2 hurdles and 4 chases between 2016 & 2022. After finishing down the field in a bumper he won a point in December 2016 and then finished down the field in another bumper. He won a Grade 3 novice hurdle in February 2018 so found himself quite fancied for the Albert Bartlett at the Festival but he finished unplaced. He then went chasing, won on his debut at Navan, won a Grade 2 chase at the same venue but was soundly beaten in the MIldmay Novice Chase. He won the Troyown Chase in a big field (this third chase victory at Navan) in November 2019 and when he won the Red Mills Triall at Gowran he took his chance in the Cheltenham Gold Cup. He was not up to the task and finished tenth. He was not so food thereafter and was easy to back at 40-1 or the National but due to the name he carried my 50p each way and he ran well and was still with a shout when he unseated late on. He unseated on his next start as well, in the Becher Chase, this time at the Canal Turn. He later won two points in 2022-23 and finished fifth in the 2023 Foxhunters at the Festival. He was last seen falling when in contention in the Punchestown Festival Hunters Chase in April 2023.

DEFINITLY RED (2009) ch g - Definite Article - The Red Wench (IRE) (Aahsaylad) - Won 3 NHF, 3 hurdles & 8 chases between 2013 & 2021. Won a point in 2013 at the third attempt. Won three bumpers but was unplaced in the Festival Bumper and it was a similar story as a novice hurdler - three wins and then unplaced in an event at the Festival. Made it three times unlucky at the Festival as he fell as a novice chaser in the National Hunt Chase. He found himself amongst the favourites for the 2017 National on the back of victory over The Last Samuri in the Grimthorpe Chase at Doncaster. Unfortunately at Aintree he was badly hampered at first Bechers, his saddle slipped and he was pulled up a few fences later. The next two seasons were about the Gold Cup on the back of wins in the Many Clouds Chase at Aintree (a race he won twice) and the Cotswold Chase. In the 2018 Gold Cup he was a never dangerous sixth and a year later he was unuckily brought down before half way. His final season was geared up for a second attempt at the National. He lost his only "win" that season (at Kelso) in the stewards room on a technicality and in the National itself he was pulled up in the closing stages. This was his last race and his retirement was announced shortly afterwards.

DOUBLE SHUFFLE (IRE) (2010) b g Milan - Fiddlers Bar (IRE) (Un Desperado (FR) ) - Won 2 hurdles & 3 chases between 2014 & 2022. Did a lot of his racing at Kempton and all three of his chase victories came here. He also put up his best performance when only going down a length to Might Bite in the 2017 King George VI Chase at odds of 50-1. Away from Kempton he was a 100-1 outsider when he pulled up in the 2019 Gold Cup and he also ran in two Nationals but he failed to get round both times pulling up in 2017 and falling in 2021. A popular horse he last raced at his beloved Kempton in February 2022.

FARCLAS (FR) (2014) gr g Jukebox Jury (IRE) - Floriana (GER) (Seattle Dancer (USA)) - Won a hurdle & 3 chases between 2016 & 2023. Won on the flat in France. His sole hurdle win came in the 2019 Triumph Hurdle but he struggled in his second season and he went chasing winning his first three chases in the spring of 2019. He finished placed in two big field handicaps at Leopardstown and followed that with a second place in the Plate at the Festival so he came in for each way support for the National. He ran well too finishing a staying on fifth. He was aimed at the Irish National the following year but fell. His career ended when he broke down at Down Royal in March 2023.

GIVE ME A COPPER (IRE) (2010) ch g Presenting - Copper Supreme (IRE) (Supreme Leader) - Won NHF, 2 hurdles and 2 chases between 2016 & 2022. This one was very lightly raced and never ran more than three times in a season. Highlight was his triumph in the Badger Beers Trophy at Wincanton in 2019. He didn’t seem an Aintree type and he wasn’t - he struggled throughout and was pulled up in the closing stages. He was last seen in a hunter chase a Warwick in May 2022 but he reappeared in a few points the following November

HOGAN’S HEIGHTS (IRE) (2011) b g Indian River (FR) - Electre du Berlais (FR) (Royal Charter (FR)) - Won 2 hurdles and  5 chases between 2017 & 2022. Notched up a hat-trick of wins in novice chases in 2017-18 and his career highlight was a victory over the National fences when he landed the 2019 Grand Sefton Chase by a very comfortable sixteen lengths. He was off for  nearly a year and was unconsidered in the National but ran credibly enough to finish twelfth. He later raced two more times over the National course finishing both times in the Grand Sefton and Becher Chase giving him a 100% completion rate. He later won a hunter chase a Ludlow but wasn’t seen out again after finishing runner up in the Royal Artillery Gold Cup at Sandown in February 2022

JETT (IRE) (2011) b g  Flemensfirth (USA) - La Noire (IRE) (Phardante (FR)) - Won hurdle and 5 chases between 2015 & 2022. Was only an average hurdler but was better over fences and was particularly effective at Thurles winning there twice during the 2017-18 season. He ran consistently the followng season but could not get his head in front again untl he won a Grade 2 event at the Fairyhouse Easter festival. He was sold to the Waley-Cohens but remained with Jessica Harribgton and made his Aintree debut in the 2020 Becher Chase where he was a long way last of the eight finishers. He was unconsidered at 80-1 for the National but put up one of the best front  running performances seen in recent years. He led from flag fall, was clear after the first circuit and was still eight lengths ahead after the twenty sixth. Inevitably the petrol tank emptied and he was swallowed up by rivals on the approach to the second last and he weakened to finish eighth. Sam Waley-Cohen would have to wait another year for Aintree immortality. He left Ireland and won a hunter chase at Kelso in February 2022 at odds of 1-6 on and it was after he had faied to justify favoritism in the 2022 Foxhunters that his rider announced that his ride on Noble Yeats in the National two days later would be his final ride. The rest as they say is histpry. As for this one he didn't run under rules again, flopped in two points in the winter of 2022 and that was it.

KIMBERLITE CANDY (IRE) (2012) b g - Flemensfirth (USA) - Mandys Native (IRE) (Be My Native (USA) - Won 2 hurdles and 4 chases between 2016 & 2022. Won his point in April 2016 and his first two hurdles that winter. He was a very useful long distance chaser winning the Classic Chase at Warwcik in January 2020 and he twice finished runner up in the Becher Chase in 2019 and 2020. I really fancied him for the National as he seemed tailor made for the race but he did not get a clear passage and was eventually pulled up. He lost his form thereafter and after a run of pulled ups (the last being at Lingfield in February 2022) his career in the professional ranks was over. He resurfaced in a couple of points in the 2022-23 season. 

LAKE VIEW LAD (IRE) (2010) gr g Oscar (IRE) - Missy O’Brien (IRE) (Supreme Leader) - Won NHF, 3 hurdles and 5 chases between 2015 & 2022. A lovely grey horse who was in particularly good form before he lined up for his first National in 2019 having won the Rehearsal Chase at Newcastle, the Rowland Meyrick at Wetherby and had finished third in the Ultima at the Festival. He was hampered four out in the National and was pulled up. Later that year he did taste success at Aintree over the MIldmay course when he took the Many Clouds Chase but he showed little in his next two starts so was easy to back for his second National which ended at the very first fence. A week later he turned out again for the Scottish National and finished seventh. He was last seen in the Eider Chase at Newcastle in February 2022.

MAGIC OF LIGHT (IRE) (2011) b m - Flemensfirth (USA) - Quest of Passion (FR) (Saumarez) - Won NHF, 3 hurdles and 5 chases between 2016 & 2021. Equally as effective over hurdes or fences she twice won at the Punchestown Festival, a handicap hurdle in 2017 and the mares chase a year later.  She won the same two races in consecutive seasons in the UK, a listed mares chase at Newbury and the Grade 2 Warfield Hurdle ast Ascot. She finished seventh in the Ultima at the Festival before her first National where she ran the race of her life to finish seond behind Tiger Roll. She was upsides the two time hero at the last fence but she brushed through the top of the fence which checked her progress and she had no chance after that.  She returned two years later but only got as far as the fourth fence. She last was seen at the 2013 Punchestown Festval and was retired to the paddocks. Sadly she died afer giving birth to her first foal in May 2022. ​​

MINELLACELEBRATION (IRE) (2010) b g - King’s Theatre (IRE) - Knockarton (IRE) (KIng’s Ride (IRE) - Won 3 hurdles and 8 chases between 2015 & 2022. Came from the pointing field where he was successful four times in 2015. He loved the Mildmay course winning three times but he had wind problems which required surgery on more than one occasion which led to spells on the sidelines. He ran in two Becher Chases (finished one, unseated on the flat after the water the second) and also won a valuable handicap at Uttoxeter in the summer of 2018. He was an outsider in the National and unseated at the tenth fence when he stumbled on landing. He later won a hunter chase at Fakenham and was last seen pulling up in a veterans chase at Aintree in October 2022

MISTER MALARKEY  (2013) ch g Malinas (GER) - Priscilla (Teenoso (USA)) - Won a hurdle and 5 chases between 2017 & 2023. Won three of his first four chases including the Reynoldstown Chase in February 2019. He added a second big chase at Ascot when he took the Silver Cup in December 2020. He also won a Grade 3 handicap (the old Racing Post Chase) at Kempton in February 2020. Clearly useful and on the back of wind surgery he was fancied for the National but he seemed to hate the experience, was tailed off by the end of the first circuit and called it a day soon afterwards. He didn’t return and was last seen at Cheltenham in April 2023.

OK CORRAL (IRE) (2010) b g Mahler - Acoola (IRE) (Flemensfirth (USA)) - Won NHF, 2 hurdles and 3 chases between 2015 & 2021. Highlight was his victory in the old Great Yorkshire Chase in 2020. After that win he was off the course for over a year before he lined up in the Ultima pulling up and being found to be lame. The National was his next start - ambitious in the circumstances and it was not a happy experience. He was hampered at the first, was never travelling well and was pulled up. He did not race again.

POTTERS CORNER (IRE) (2010) b g - Indian Danehill (IRE) - Woodfield Beuty (IRE) (Phardante (FR)) - Won NHF, 3 hurdles and 4 chases between 2014 & 2022. Winner of the 2020 "Virtual Grand National", a computer simulated race that was shown on what should have been Grand National day of the Covid-19 ravaged 2020 season. He had won twice that season at Chepstow including the Welsh National and he also had won the Midlands National earlier in the year and a long distance He has also won a long distance chase at Wincanton which was probably why the computer thought he would run well at Aintree. What do computers know ? When he did actually run in the real thing a year later he struggled, was never travelling well and was pulled up by second Bechers. He was not asked to try again. He later ran over the Cheltenham cross country course and was unplaced in the 2022 La Touche Cup at the Punchestown Festival. He last ran at Warwick in November 2022.​​​

SHATTERED LOVE (IRE) (2011) b m Yeats (IRE) - Tracker (Bustino) - Won NHF, 3 hurdles & 7 chases between 2016 & 2021. Won her point in 2015, her first bumper a year later, her first hurdle and her first chase. Arguably a better chaser she won five of her first six starts including a Grade One event at Leopardstown's Christmas meeting and the JLT Novices Chase at the Festival. She found wins harder to come by after that novice campaign wining the same listed mates chase twice at Clonmel whilst tried in the highest company both in the UK and Ireland. She finished ninth in the 2018 Gold Cup, pulled up in the Irish Grand National on her next start and finished sixth in the 2020 Ryanair Chase. She finished third in the 2021 Mares Chase at the Festival before finishing tenth in the Grand National which was her final start and she was retired to start life as a broodmare.

SUB LIEUTENANT (IRE) (2009) b g Brian Boru - Satellite Dancer (IRE) (Satco FR)) - Won NHF, 2 hurdles and 5 chases between 2013 & 2021. Won a bumper at the seventh start. Didn’t take as long to register a win over timber as he won his first hurdle at Fairyhouse in November 2014. He was at his best over fences in 2016-17 when he finished second in the Ryanair Chase and the Melling Chase. A year later he finished fourth in the Ryanair and fifth in the Bowl. He first ran over the National fences in the 2019 Topham finishing second. Two years later he was trained in the UK and was now ridden by Tabitha Worsley who nursed him home to finish a very distant fourteenth in 2021. Notably he was partnered by female riders on both his races over the National course. He was last seen pulling up at Exeter in December 2021.

TAKINGRISKS (IRE) (2009) b g Golden Tornado (IRE) - Downtown Rosie (IRE) (Good Thyne (USA)) - Won 3 hurdles and 6 chases between 2015 & 2021. Won an Irish point. Having plied his trade in he north and Scotland without hitting the headlines he caused something of a surprise when at 25-1 and despite mistakes he won the Scottish National in 2019 (this was his third victory at Ayr). He caused another surprise he following year at 40-1 winning the Skybet (old Great Yorkshire ) Chase at Doncaster. That gave him each way prospects at 14-1 for the National but he was pulled up at half way. He only ran three more times and was last seen pulling up at Wetherby in the Rowland Meyrick on Boxing Day 2021.

TALKISCHEAP (IRE) (2012) b g Getaway (GER) - Carrigoorna Oak (IRE) (Milan) - Won 3 hurdles and 2 chases between 2017 & 2021. Won all three points in 2016 He was highly tried in his novice hurdle campaign winning three times but he pulled up in the Albert Bartlett at the Festival. His novice chase campaign ended with an impressive ten length victory over the Young Master in the Bet365 Gold CUp at Sandown. He only managed two two races the following season during which he had two bouts of wind surgery and on his return he ran on the all-weather at Southwell, a novice hurdle at Lingfield before finishing unplaced in a handicap chase at Kempton. Running next in the National when he had showed so little for two years seemed ambitious and so it proved - he was pulled up. Whilst he managed to finish a close second at Perth on his next start he pulled up in his next two starts and was not seen out again after unseating over the cross country course at Cheltenham in November 2021

THE LONG MILE (2014) b g Kayf Tara - My Leader (IRE) (Supreme Leader) - Won 4 chases between 2018 & 2021. Didn’t show much over hurdles but won two chases at Gowran as a novice. He ran at Aintree in his second season and had finished third in the Bobbyjo Chase on his prep run behind rival Acapella Bourgeois. Sadly at Aintree he was amongst the backmarkers when he broke his leg shortly after jumping second Bechers and he was put down.

​​​TOUT ET PERMIS (FR) (2013) gr g - Linda's Lad - Kadalbleue (FR) (Kadalko (FR)) - Won hurdle and 4 chases between 2016 & 2023. Having been only distinctly average he hit a rich vein of form when he won three chases in a row in 2018-19 including the valuable Troytown Chase at Navan in a huge field. He also took a Grade Two event at Thurles. After that he could only finish eighth in the Irish National and whilst he never won again he started favourite for the 2019 Paddy Power Chase where he finished fourth and  later that season reverting to hurdles he finsihed third in the Pertemps Final at the Festival. His form deteriorated thereafter and he was a 100-1 outsider in thre National where he pulled up in the closing stages when tailed off. He later finished ninth in the Becher Chase. He raced over the banks course at Punchestown and the cross country course at Cheltenham later in his career and he was last seen pulling up  in hunter chase at Cheltenham in May 2023.

VIEUX LION ROUGE (FR) (2009) ch g - Sabiango (GER) - Indecise (FR) (Cyborg (FR)) - Won 3 NHF, 3 hurdles and 7 chases between 2012 & 2021. An Ainree legend who currently holds the record for the most National fences jumped successfully (253). He ran in five Grand Nationals and six Becher Chases and until the twentierh fence in 2021 he had a one hundred per cent completion rate. He was a prolific winner earlier in his career three times running up a hat-trick of victories. The first came in the winter on 2012 when he rattled off three wins in his first three bumpers before he was unplaced in the Festival Bumper. It was a similar story over hurdles - he won his first three races over timber in 2014 but was outclassed at the Festival finishing amongst the backmarkers in the Martin Pipe. A third Festival also ended in disappointment in the Martin Pipe the following year and he was done with hurdles. Over fences he won his first three starts before disappointment at Cheltenham although this time  he unseated at the December meeting. By 2016 it was Festival visit number four and defeat number four when he finished fourth in the National Hunt Chase (at least he got into the winners enclosure this time). It was very ambitious to run him in the National on his next start on what would be only his seventh chase and starting at 66-1 he did well to finish seventh albeit he weakened two out and was beaten a total of fourty seven lengths. He was relatively lightly raced for the rest of his career which was focused on his twice yearly visits to Aintree. In 2016 he won the Becher Chase catching long time leader Highland Lodge in the dyng strdes to win by the shortest of short heads. After he won the Haydock Park Grand National Trial on his next sart he was much more fancied for this second National - 12-1 this time but once again from two out he was a beaten horse finishing sixth. There was a feeling that he did not quite stay the National trip but connections were determined to keep trying. He was disappointing in the 2017 Becher Chase finishing a never dangerous seventh and come National time in 2018 he was also a never dangerous ninth. He returned to form in the 2018 Becher chasing home Walk In The Mill in second pace but yet again in the National he got round but not troubling the leaders. This time he finished fifteenth. He did occassionally visit courses away from Aintree and he won on his next start at Chepstow in October 2019. After finishing tenth in the 2019 Becher he was only allotted 9-10 in the the weights for the 2020 National and would have had no hope of getting into the race. Of course with Covid there was no National but he was not included in the 2020 "Virtual" race broadcast on ITV. He sarted 2020-21 with a spin over the Mildmay course and then lined up in the Becher Chase which had extra significance this year as this was (in my mind at least) the unofficial National of 2020 being the only action seen all year over the National fences. It was his swan-song - he ran magnificently and won by an incedible twenty four lengths. Two Becher Chases, four years apart. There would be no problems getting into the 2021 National and all was going reasonably well (he was in rear) when he came down at the twentieth fence. Fence number two hundred and forty three had proved one too much. He was only three fences behind Amberleigh Houses record so he took his chances in one final Becher Chase. He came down again although he was hampered but he had completed eleven fences successfully and became the new record holder. He pulled up on his next start at Haydock at the end of December and his retirement was announced.   

YALA ENKI (FR) (2010) bb g - NIckname (FR) - Cadiane (FR) (Cadoudal (FR)) - Won 3 hurdles and 10 chases between 2013 & 2023. Won a small chase at Fontainebleau when trained in France before moving to the UK in 2014. He won a couple of novice hurdles but was pulled up at the Festival. He won his first chase at Haydock in December 2016 and had his greatest success at the Lancashire course when he beat Blacklion in the Grand National Trial in 2018. He finished third in a Welsh National later that year and was third in the race a year later. He has no luck at Aintree though falling at the first in the 2020 Becher Chase and unseating at the twentieth in the National. Away from Aintree though he was as dependable as they came. He won the same long distance chase at Taunton three years in a row between 2020 & 2022. He was last seen pulling up in the 2022 Midlands National.