Dolled up Alex Gerrard snubs the Grand National at Aintree for girls' night out in Manchester

Dolled up Alex Gerrard snubs the Grand National at Aintree for girls' night out in Manchester

By Daily Mail Reporter

10th April 2011

Her fellow WAGs might have been showing off their best frocks at the Aintree racetrack to watch the Grand National, but Alex Gerrard decided to give it a miss this year.

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Instead Alex hit the town in Manchester for a night out with friends, but still dressed up for the occasion.

The 28-year-old slipped on a pair of black peep-toe heels and a peach lace dress as she headed to San Carlo’s restaurant with her pals.

Dolled up: Alex Gerrard headed out to an Italian restaurant with friends in Manchester in a peach and black lace frock

Steven Gerrard’s wife looked like a doll in the long-sleeved peach frock, which was garnished with black lace around her bodice and arms.

She accessorised with a black oval clutch purse and plenty of pick blush on her cheeks to finish off the ensemble.

San Carlo’s boasts the very best in true Italian dining and has a bar for pre and post dinner drinks too, where the women sipped on cocktails.

While Alex decided against heading to the Aintree racetrack earlier in the day, fellow WAG Coleen Rooney made sure to make an appearance alongside her family and friends.

It was Coleen’s second day at the ground after having attended the event’s Ladies’ Day on Friday.

Girls' night out: Alex appeared to be with some fellow blonde pals, one of which wore see-through black lace tights

Meanwhile, Alex announced this week in her OK! Magazine column that she’d be taking her two daughters, Lilly, seven, and Lexie, four, to Portugal with her mother and Steven’s mother.

She wrote: ‘The children break up for school this week so I’m taking them back to Portugal. 

'I’m so fed up with this weather – one minute the sun’s shining and the next it’s raining.

‘It’s gorgeous over there and we have our own house. Steven’s working at the moment so he can’t come but after he finishes, we’ll be planning another visit out there in June.'

Grand National: Meanwhile, Alex's fellow WAG Coleen Rooney was spotted at Aintree enjoying the annual event

People:

Coleen Rooney,

Steven Gerrard

Places:

Manchester,

Portugal

Island tycoon Trevor Hemmings toasts Grand National win

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10 April 2011 

Island tycoon Trevor Hemmings toasts Grand National win

Isle of Man millionaire Trevor Hemmings is celebrating a Grand National victory for the second time in six years.

His horse Ballabriggs, ridden by jockey Jason Maguire, came home by two-and-a-quarter lengths in the famous race at Aintree, Liverpool on Saturday.

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The 10-year-old was his second winner as his horse Hedgehunter came home first in 2005.

The London-born businessman, 75, who grew up in Leyland, Lancashire, owns more than 100 racehorses.

The winning horse was trained by Donald McCain, whose father Ginger trained famous national winner Red Rum.

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"Donald has done a brilliant job with Ballabriggs and clearly learned plenty from Ginger as they now have five National trophies on their mantelpiece," said Mr Hemmings.

Mr Hemmings, who is also the owner of Preston North End FC, was the person who introduced the Center Parcs holiday complexes to Britain.

He currently owns two of Blackpool's piers and recently sold the North Pier.

Last year he sold the resort's famous tower to the local council.

Ballabriggs wins Grand National racing

Ballabriggs wins Grand National racing

AFP – Ballabriggs ridden by Jason Maguire soars over the water jump on his way to winning the Grand National …

– Sat Apr 9 2011

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LIVERPOOL (AFP) – Ballabriggs, trained by Donald McCain and ridden by Jason Maguire, won the Grand National here on Saturday, the 14-1 chance beating Oscar Time, partnered by amateur rider Sam Waley-Cohen.

Don't Push It, last year's winner, came in third with State Of Play in fourth.

Horse racing-McCain wins Grand National with Ballabriggs

Horse racing-McCain wins Grand National with Ballabriggs

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(Reuters) - Trainer Donald McCain followed his father and four-time winner Ginger McCain into Grand National folklore by winning the world famous steeplechase at Aintree racecourse on Saturday.

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Ridden by Jason Maguire, Ballabriggs (14-1) held off the strong challenge of amateur Sam Waley-Cohen on Oscar Time (14-1) with last year's winner Don't Push It (9-1) third. (Editing by Justin Palmer

Amateur rider seeks Grand National racing history

Amateur rider seeks Grand National racing history

Sat Apr 9

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LIVERPOOL, United Kingdom (AFP) – Amateur rider Sam Waley-Cohen, winner of the Gold Cup on Long Run, is out to spike the guns of his professional weighing room colleagues again and create history in Saturday's Grand National.

Waley-Cohen, who in his day job runs a dental practice, teams up over the famous Aintree fences for what would be an unprecedented double on Oscar Time, runner-up in last year's Irish National.

The 28-year-old, who also landed January's King George VI Chase on Long Run, is seeking to become the first amateur to win the Gold Cup and Grand National in the same season.

Waley-Cohen, who will as a non-professional forfeit any prize money he picks up in the near £1 million showpiece, said: "Although this season has been so good, it is still a boyhood dream come true to line up in the National on one of the leading contenders."

Oscar Time is part of a dozen-strong Irish raiding party headed by ante-post favourite The Midnight Club, whose rider, Ruby Walsh, will become the first jockey since the Second World War to win three Nationals should he succeed.

And his 2011 conveyance has been prepared with only Saturday in mind, having run only twice in the past year, runner-up in the Thyestes Chase at Gowran Park in January before displaying his wellbeing when going one better at Fairyhouse the following month.

Walsh's previous winners came on his father Ted's Papillon in 2000, and Hedgehunter, trained by The Midnight Club's handler Willie Mullins, in 2005.

Walsh's sister Katie was robbed of her first National appearance after her intended runner Our Monty was ruled out with a leg infection.

Another Irish trainer, flat supremo Dermot Weld, returns to the National fray for the first time in 16 years with 33-1 shot Majestic Concorde, who finished fourth on the level at Chester on his last visit to Britain.

Weld, who has two Melbourne Cups to his name, went close in the National with Greasepaint, twice runner up in 1983-84 and third in 1985.

Topweight over the gruelling four and a half mile marathon is shouldered by Don't Push It, successful last year for Tony McCoy, the multiple champion jockey for whom despite having ridden almost 3,000 winners this was a first victory in the world's most famous steeplechase at his 15th attempt.

It was also a first win for trainer Jonjo O'Neill, who had begun to think he was going to miss out on National glory.

"Sometimes you have to accept a thing is not going to happen," O'Neill told The Times on Thursday.

"You can't win everything, do everything. You can't be God."

O'Neill revealed how before last year's race he had rung owner JP McManus's racing manager, Frank Berry, to tell him it was a waste of time sending Don't Push It to Aintree, such was his disappointment at his horse's preparations.

"Luckily he (Berry) said we'd paid the money so we might as well go!"

Of the chances of a repeat O'Neill said: "I'm happier with him this year. The preparation has been brilliant, which probably means he'll fall at the first...."

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson would relish a win in Liverpool and the Scot's hopes are carried by What A Friend, Paul Nicholls' charge last seen out when fourth in the Gold Cup at Cheltenham.

Jockey Daryl Jacob is laidback over the identity of his big race mount's owner, saying: "I don't really think about who owns the horses before I ride them.

"It doesn't matter if it's Sir Alex Ferguson, the Queen or someone from Dorset - I want to do the best I can on them all."

A maximum field of 40 go to post for the 2011 edition.

Grand National Now a Matter of Class

SPORTSAPRIL 8, 2011

Grand National Now a Matter of Class

By JONATHAN CLEGG

WSJ

AINTREE, England—The Grand National, the world's most famous steeplechase, is an event that thrives on unpredictability.

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Only 11 favorites have won round here in more than a century, and none has done so in six years. Five have won at 100-to-1, most recently Mon Mome in 2009. The only sure bet in this long-odds race is that fewer than half the runners will reach the finish: In 1928, only two of the 42 horses completed the race; only four of 40 finished as recently as 2001.

Winning over Aintree's four-and-a-half miles and 40 obstacles requires experience, stamina and guts. But mostly, it's about luck.

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A. P. McCoy, right, celebrates as he rides Don't Push It to victory in last year's Grand National steeplechase at Aintree.

Or it used to be. But as the 40 thoroughbreds prepare for the 164th running of this history-steeped epic on Saturday, behind the scenes something rather unexpected is going on: This sport's most unpredictable race is no longer the wide-open sweepstake it's supposed to be.

"The Grand National always throws up interesting stories," says Julian Thick, managing director of Aintree Racecourse. "But they're not always fairy tales anymore."

The Grand National is on a tear these days. Television ratings topped 7.6 million in the U.K. last year, making the National a bigger draw than the FA Cup final and Wimbledon. Prize money for this year's race has risen to £950,000 ($1.5 million) and more than 73,000 fans will pack the racetrack for Saturday's big race, the first sellout crowd in decades.

But the biggest upturn at this race may be the one taking place on the track. For reasons that range from the modernization of this famous old course to a new plan for handicapping the field, the most remarkable jump around Aintree in recent years has been in the quality of horses taking part.

Just a decade ago, the National was still largely made up of horses that would have been better employed in front of a cart. But in the past few years, the calibre of mount has improved to such an extent that Bobbyjo, which streaked to victory by 10 lengths in 1999, wouldn't have made the final field in any of the past 10 runnings.

"It's a very different race to what it was a decade ago," said Russ Wiseman, of London-based online gambling company Sportingbet PLC.

The National's transformation from a race in which few owners were willing to enter a top-class horse into an event that attracts many of chasing's biggest names surely has something to do with the heaps of cash on offer: Prize money at this race has risen by £500,000 in the past decade.

But it's also the result of efforts by Aintree officials and race sponsors to modernize a course that included a stone wall and a stretch of ploughed field for the first Grand National in 1839.

Since the 1989 running, in which two horses died, administrators have softened the course, modfiying some of the most hazardous obstacles to protect the animals. The upshot is a race that, while still a fearsome challenge, is no longer such a perilous one—especially since the notorious Becher's Brook was covered up in 2005. Last year, more than a third of the field made it round.

At the same time, a new formula for handicapping the race has bridged the gap between the highest-rated horses and the lowest. In recognition of the unique demands of this race—the longest, toughest steeplechase in the world—the National now allocates weights for each horse that differ from the official handicaps for regular chases.

Since Phil Smith, the British Horseracing Authority's senior jumps handicapper, began tweaking the weights in 2001, the class of entries has increased dramatically. In 1999, the lowest-rated horse in the race had an official rating of 110; in Saturday's race the lowest-rated horse, Golden Kite, has a rating of 135. In other words, the quality of the field has increased by 25lbs in 11 years.

"They have tried to encourage the high-class horses to run by compressing the handicap a little," said David Pipe, the trainer of the 2008 winner Comply or Die.

All of which means that the National has swiftly come to resemble any other handicap race—one in which the best horses with the highest ratings usually win. Only four of the past 20 winners here have returned odds of greater than 20-1

In previous years, that wasn't the case—a third of the runners went to the starting post with no chance at all because a weight of 11st or more was insurmountable.

When Hedgehunter carried 11st 1lb in 2005, it was the first National winner to carry over 11st in 22 years. Since then, three of the past five winners have carried 11st or more.

Which explains why Ruby Walsh is optimistic ahead of his ride on The Midnight Club, the favorite for Saturday's race.

"It's great to have a ride in the Grand National and a fancied one at that," he says. "I think he's got a good shout—and in the Grand National, that's really all you can hope for."

Graduate of Northern Racing College in Grand National

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Graduate of Northern Racing College in Grand National

A former student of the Northern Racing College in Doncaster will be riding in the Grand National at Aintree on Saturday.

Dominic Elsworth will be riding on the 40/1 shot Skippers Brig.

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The horse, trained by Nicky Richards, made it into the race following the withdrawal of three horses earlier in the week.

Mr Elsworth, who has ridden in the Grand National before, said it was a "testing" but "unique" race.

'Cup final buzz'

He said: "It is like nothing you have ever experienced before, it is a tremendous buzz.

"Anything can happen, there was a hundred to one winner a few years ago.

"When you walk around at the start all you can hear is people saying good luck to you, there is a cup final buzz to it."

Mr Elsworth had more than a year out of racing after suffering the effects of concussion following a fall in August 2009 on Keepitsecret.

The fall left him in hospital with bruising on the brain, which led to problems with his balance.

He returned to racing in October 2010.

Northern Racing College, at Rossington Hall in Doncaster, opened in 1994 and provides training for young people wanting to work in the horse racing industry.

Paul Howard, senior training instructor at the Northern Racing College, said: "It is great for any former student to do well but this is a big race so it is great for Dominic and great for us."

About 100 students attend the college each year from all over the country.

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Grand National jockeys at Alder Hey Children's Hospital

8 April 2011 

Grand National jockeys at Alder Hey Children's Hospital

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Grand National jockeys offered their racing tips to youngsters on a visit to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool.

Among the stars to take time out from their training schedule were last year's champion AP McCoy, Ruby Walsh, Daryl Jacob and Aiden Coleman.

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They spent about an hour at the hospital's oncology unit, chatting to the children and their parents.

McCoy said the visit "really put things into perspective".

The jockey, who with retired champion Mick Fitzgerald is a patron of Alder Hey's Imagine Appeal, said: "I never fail to be moved by the bravery of these children and their families.

Shelley Ball, whose five-year-old son Nathan is undergoing treatment for Langhan Cell Histiocycosis, said: "Nathan has been very excited all week.

"He doesn't really know about horse racing but kept asking when the 'jackies' would be coming."

Mrs Ball, from St Helens, added: "I can't describe what a boost it has given him, and me."

Becca Bate, 15, from Speke in Liverpool, got some hot tips for the Aintree meeting.

Her mother, Emma Paulson, 31, said: "Becca has Ewing Sarcoma but she has been responding well to treatment.

"She asked all the jockeys which horses they were riding and which were the best to have a flutter on.

"As soon as they left she dispatched her dad down to the bookies with her pocket money."

Jenny Lee, whose nine-year-old daughter Catherine has bone cancer in her leg, said: "I think it's great that they all came down today.

"The visit has really lifted the whole place."

Christine Done, fundraising manager at the hospital, said: "Some of these children are very poorly and something like this can really give them a lift for days and weeks to come."

The hospital's Imagine Appeal is the official charity partner for the Grand National meeting.

The jockeys also took part in a singing challenge to raise money for the cause.

Aintree primed for Grand National

Aintree primed for Grand National

By Frank Keogh 

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JOHN SMITH'S GRAND NATIONAL Aintree, 

Saturday 9 April, 1615 BST

Live on BBC TV, HD, Radio 5 live, online Other races also across the BBC 7-9 April

Last year's winner Don't Push It tops the weights as 40 horses are set to contest the 164th running of the Grand National at Aintree on Saturday.

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Champion jockey Tony McCoy is again on board the horse after an emotional win at his 15th attempt 12 months ago.

Two-time winner Ruby Walsh partners leading contender The Midnight Club for top Irish trainer Willie Mullins.

A worldwide audience of 600 million will watch the famous four-and-a-half mile race over 30 demanding fences.

For the first time in recent memory, all 71,000 tickets for the track have sold out in advance and racegoers are expected to bask in warm spring sunshine.

The going is expected to be just on the softer side of good with the course being watered after racing on Friday to ensure safe conditions for horses and riders.

Bookmakers estimate £150m will be wagered on the race, with more than half the adult population of the UK having a flutter.

McCoy's mount, carrying 5lb more in the handicap chase last year, is seeking to become the first consecutive winner since

in the 1970s.

"Winning last year was the best day of my racing career but that was last year, and it's more important to think about this time now," said the Northern Irishman.

"Red Rum was the last horse to win back-to-back Nationals so it would probably be a better feat than last year were he to win again."

The 36-year-old, who has been champion jockey 15 years running and has won more than 3,000 races in his career, said Don't Push It's preparations have been at least as good as last year.

Asked to nominate horses who he felt would be dangers to his mount, McCoy pinpointed The Midnight Club, stablemate Arbor Supreme and the Nicholls-trained Niche Market.

RECENT NATIONAL WINNERS 

2010 Don't Push It 10-1

2009 Mon Mome 100-1

2008 Comply Or Die 7-1

2007 Silver Birch 33-1

2006 Numbersixvalverde 11-1

2005 Hedgehunter 7-1

Other leading National contenders include

who is owned by Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson and his friend Ged Mason.

The Cheltenham Gold Cup fourth runs for Paul Nicholls, the champion trainer whose record is 0-44 in the Grand National.

Amateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen rides

who is owned by his father Robert together with Sir Martin Broughton and the former Liverpool FC chairman's brother Steve.

Waley-Cohen, who is a friend of royal bride-to-be Kate Middleton, has already won the Gold Cup and King George VI Chase this season on Long Run.

He is one of five amateur riders in the race, with Nina Carberry on the grey Character Building bidding to become the first female jockey to triumph.

McCoy's victory was the latest in a series of National stories that have captured the public's imagination and helped him to a landslide win in the 2010 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.

Two years ago, the 100-1 shot Mon Mome scored a shock success and this year marks the 30th anniversary of

Back in 1981, jockey Bob Champion overcame cancer to guide home the injury-plagued horse. Their triumph was made into a movie.

Champion has gone on to raise millions of pounds for his cancer charity and will lead out the runners and riders, together with Don't Push It's trainer Jonjo O'Neill, for an Aintree Legends race earlier in the day.

The charity flat contest features 10 former National-winning riders, including Carl Llewellyn (Party Politics 1992, Earth Summit 1998) and Jim Culloty (Bindaree 2002).

Jimmy Frost (Little Polveir 1989), whose son Hadden makes his debut in the National later on Saturday on Calgary Bay, and former champion jockey Peter Scudamore also feature.

Scudamore is assistant to trainer Lucinda Russell, who is hoping her National contender Silver By Nature will become the first Scottish-trained winner of the big race since Rubstic in 1979, and the first grey since Nicolaus Silver 50 years ago.

Chief Dan George runs for Jimmy Moffatt. The Scottish trainer is fighting back after a serious blood infection earlier in the year.

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Nicholls enters 10 for Grand National at Aintree in April

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Champion trainer Paul Nicholls has 10 of the 102 entries for the Grand National at Aintree in April.

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Nicholls has never won the race and his hopes include recent Cheltenham winner Neptune Collonges and What A Friend, part-owned by Sir Alex Ferguson.

The Midnight Club is among nine entries for Irish trainer Willie Mullins.

Jonjo O'Neill has three contenders - Don't Push It, who won the National for Tony McCoy in 2010, plus Synchronised and Can't Buy Time.

Entries for the Grand National closed on Wednesday, with the weights announced on 15 February. Of the 102 contenders, 34 are trained in Ireland and three in France.

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Last year the race attracted 112 entries. although a maximum field of 40 is allowed on the day for the four-and-a-half mile contest.

Neptune Collonges and What A Friend are joined by stablemates The Tother One, Tricky Trickster, Taranis, Tatenen, Niche Market, Just Amazing, Gullible Gordon and Meanus Dandy.

McCoy won the National at the 15th attempt last year, and was voted the 2010 BBC Sports Personality.

It seems likely he will choose between Don't Push It and January's Welsh National winner Synchronised.

The Northern Irish jockey is retained by owner JP McManus, whose other entries are the recent purchase Quolibet, trained in France by Francois Doumen, as well as Arbor Supreme and Quiscover Fontaine, representing Willie Mullins.

Ballabriggs, trained by Donald McCain, hardened as ante-post National favourite after winning over hurdles at Ayr on Monday.

The 10-year-old, ridden by Jason Maguire, was scoring his fifth straight victory as he took the novices' hurdle over two miles and four furlongs.

Ballabriggs is rated a 16-1 chance for the Aintree marathon on 9 April.

McCain's father Ginger won the National four times - three with Red Rum in the 1970s, plus Amberleigh House in 2004.

Hoping to win the National for a second time will be David Pipe, whose five hopefuls number the 2008 scorer Comply Or Die, now aged 12.

He has also entered Junior, who could seek a remarkable Royal Ascot-Grand National double, having won the Ascot Stakes last summer.

The Evan Williams-trained State Of Play, Howard Johnson's Tidal Bay and Ferdy Murphy's Big Fella Thanks are other interesting contenders.

The Irish entries include the 2008 Welsh National winner Notre Pere, the Edward O'Grady-trained Tranquil Sea, Noel Glynn's stable star Becauseicouldntsee, the Martin Lynch-trained Oscar Time and Gordon Elliott's Backstage, who unseated his rider in the 2010 race.

But one Irish challenger who will not be making the trip is the 2010 Grand National runner-up Black Apalachi, who has been ruled out for the season.

Now a 12-year-old, Black Apalachi was going ominously well when unseating Denis O'Regan at Becher's Brook on the second circuit in 2009 before finishing second to Don't Push It last April.

He was being prepared solely with the race in mind again but has sustained a tendon injury.

"Can you imagine it? He jumps around Aintree with not a bother year after year and then he gets a leg," said trainer Dessie Hughes.

"I've no idea how it happened, it just appeared. We were lucky we didn't run him the other day.

"He might come back, but he's 12 now. He'll have to stand in his box for a month or two. This probably would have been his year.

"But maybe his year was the year he unseated - you don't get too many chances."

Another horse missing the race is Pipe's The Package , who has suffered a setback.

He was creeping into contention before unseating Graham Lee at the 19th fence in the 2010 National.

"Fortunately he is a relatively lightly-raced eight-year-old so there is still plenty of time for him, and I look forward to getting him back on track next term," said Pipe on his

Grand National entries

0P1-006 ALWAYS WAINING (IRE) 10 Peter Bowen

60U0-60 AMBOBO (USA) 11 Martin Brassil IRE

2212-52 APT APPROACH (IRE) 8 Willie Mullins IRE

0U2F-0P ARBOR SUPREME (IRE) 9 Willie Mullins IRE

256-021 ASKTHEMASTER (IRE) 11 Robert Tyner IRE

0BP-500 BACKSTAGE (FR) 9 Gordon Elliott IRE

3111-11 BALLABRIGGS (IRE) 10 Donald McCain

40F-044 BALLYFITZ 11 Nigel Twiston-Davies

0100-03 BALLYTRIM (IRE) 10 Willie Mullins IRE

2212-42 BECAUSEICOULDNTSEE (IRE) 8 Noel Glynn IRE

1F4/22-1 BELON GALE (IRE) 8 Wylie Howard Johnson

2U14-2F BIG FELLA THANKS 9 Ferdy Murphy

0C21-04 BLUESEA CRACKER (IRE) 9 James Motherway IRE

P12-UPP BURREN LEGEND (IRE) 10 Richard Rowe

4-56242 CALGARY BAY (IRE) 8 Henrietta Knight

16F-0P5 CAN'T BUY TIME (IRE) 9 Jonjo O'Neill

635P-6P CANE BRAKE (IRE) 12 Conor O'Dwyer IRE

12/- CARRONHILLS (IRE) 9 Rebecca Curtis

000-305 CHARACTER BUILDING (IRE) 11 John Quinn

30011-0 CHIEF DAN GEORGE (IRE) 11 Jimmy Moffatt

2/000-06 COMPLY OR DIE (IRE) 12 David Pipe

1P46-3U DEEP PURPLE 10 Evan Williams

363221- DEV (IRE) 11 Gordon Elliott IRE

23P1-P0 DON'T PUSH IT (IRE) 11 Jonjo O'Neill

01F24-4 DOONEYS GATE (IRE) 10 Willie Mullins IRE

21PP-PP DREAM ALLIANCE 10 Philip Hobbs

05241P DUERS (IRE) 9 Paul Magnier IRE

3/402P-0 FAASEL (IRE) 10 David Pipe

1500-10 FAIR ALONG (GER) 9 Philip Hobbs

1F3U-P1 FRANKIE FIGG (IRE) 9 Howard Johnson

313-355 FROM DAWN TO DUSK 12 Philip Hobbs

5/2613-P GALANT NUIT (FR) 7 Ferdy Murphy

F123-P2 GILES CROSS (IRE) 9 Victor Dartnall

1-P1440 GLENCOVE MARINA (IRE) 9 Eoin Griffin IRE

421001 GOLDEN KITE (IRE) 9 Adrian Maguire IRE

11FP10 GRAND SLAM HERO (IRE) 10 Nigel Twiston-Davies

P22-41F GULLIBLE GORDON (IRE) 8 Paul Nicholls

005P-1P HELLO BUD (IRE) 13 Nigel Twiston-Davies

P0-24U3 I'MONCLOUDNINE (IRE) 8 Neil Mulholland

F42040 I'MSINGINGTHEBLUES (IRE) 9 David Pipe

566U-34 IN COMPLIANCE (IRE) 11 Dessie Hughes IRE

3131-32 JUNIOR 8 David Pipe

121616- JUST AMAZING (IRE) 8 Paul Nicholls

315F-0(3) KHACHATURIAN (IRE) 8 Donald McCain

P2P-253 KILLYGLEN (IRE) 9 Stuart Crawford IRE

3211-11 KING FONTAINE (IRE) 8 Malcolm Jefferson

3P-0204 LE BEAU BAI (FR) 8 Richard Lee

16-1155 LITTLE JOSH (IRE) 9 Nigel Twiston-Davies

U62/1-31 MAJESTIC CONCORDE (IRE) 8 Dermot Weld IRE

P1P-41U MEANUS DANDY (IRE) 8 Paul Nicholls

0D61-0F MERIGO (FR) 10 Green Andrew Parker

1-41111 MIDNIGHT CHASE 9 Neil Mulholland

15P-614 MOBAASHER (USA) 8 Venetia Williams

1-122B0 NEDZER'S RETURN (IRE) 9 Gordon Elliott IRE

F14/-B01 NEPTUNE COLLONGES (FR) 10 Paul Nicholls

520P-F5 NICHE MARKET (IRE) 10 Paul Nicholls

331-P31 NICTO DE BEAUCHENE (FR) 10 Victor Dartnall

021-062 NOBLE CONCORDE 9 Jim Culloty IRE

P-55004 NORTHERN ALLIANCE (IRE) 10 Tony Martin IRE

4UP-250 NOTRE PERE (FR) 10 Barry Potts IRE

1P0-053 ONE COOL COOKIE (IRE) 10 Charlie Swan IRE

2F1425 OR NOIR DE SOMOZA (FR) 9 Jean Pierre Totain FR

1215/1P/- ORNAIS (FR) 9 Paul Nicholls

3152-26 OSCAR TIME (IRE) 10 Martin Lynch IRE

013111- OUR MONTY (IRE) 8 Willie Mullins IRE

00P-234 PIRAYA (FR) 8 David Pipe

PF4-536 POMME TIEPY (FR) 8 Willie Mullins IRE

321112 PUTNEY BRIDGE 9 Keith Goldsworthy

012P51 QUEZAC DE LA ROQUE (FR) 7 Francois Cottin FR

510-113 QUINZ (FR) 7 Philip Hobbs

0/1160-2 QUISCOVER FONTAINE (FR) 7 Willie Mullins IRE

2F-FF25 QUOLIBET (FR) 7 Francois Doumen FR

560-P23 REGAL HEIGHTS (IRE) 10 Tom George

3P6/454- ROLL ALONG (IRE) 11 Nigel Twiston-Davies

P5U-42P ROYAL ROSA (FR) 12 Howard Johnson

111U0-6 SADDLERS STORM (IRE) 9 Tony Martin IRE

31-PP11 SAGALYRIQUE (FR) 7 Donald McCain

6-22000 SANTA'S SON (IRE) 11Howard Johnson

20-3534 SCOTSIRISH (IRE) 10 Willie Mullins IRE

5121-00 SILVER BY NATURE 9 Lucinda Russell

41/313-0 SKIPPERS BRIG (IRE) 10 Nicky Richards

032236- SNOWY MORNING (IRE) 11 Colin Bowe IRE

11P61/0/- STARZAAN (IRE) 12 Hughie Morrison

0/144/P3- STATE OF PLAY 11 Evan Williams

PP2/111/- SURFACE TO AIR 10 Chris Bealby

131-561 SYNCHRONISED (IRE) 8 Jonjo O'Neill

14P//1-0F TARANIS (FR) 10 Paul Nicholls

UP-3631 TATENEN (FR) 7 Richard Rowe

301050 THAT'S RHYTHM (FR) 11 Martin Todhunter

U3133-2 THE MIDNIGHT CLUB (IRE) 10 Willie Mullins IRE

00-5064 THE SAWYER (BEL) 11 Bob Buckler

204/12-P THE SLIOTAR (IRE) 10Philip Hobbs

205-244 THE TOTHER ONE (IRE) 10 Paul Nicholls

104-322 TIDAL BAY (IRE) 10 Howard Johnson

4F2P-43 TINAKELLYLAD (IRE) 7 Mouse Morris IRE

311120- TOBY JUG 10 Sarah Humphrey

2106-11 TRANQUIL SEA (IRE) 9 Edward O'Grady IRE

F/116PP- TREACLE (IRE) 10 Tom Taaffe IRE

1/2100-P TRICKY TRICKSTER (IRE) 8 Paul Nicholls

501B-00 VIC VENTURI (IRE) 11 Dessie Hughes IRE

2P/00-11 WEST END ROCKER (IRE) 9 Alan King

61/211-5 WHAT A FRIEND 8 Paul Nicholls