Grand National 2011: Don't Push It is primed to do it all again in the Grand National So is it asking Don’t Push It a big question to go out there and do it all over again, this time with an even bigger weight? Top flight: Binocular and Tony McCoy team up again at Aintree Photo: ACTION IMAGES By Tony McCoy 08 Apr 2011 Horses don’t generally win successive Nationals but 34 years after Red Rum won his third you could say we are due another and I don’t think it is beyond the horse, even though he is another year older. He was the first horse to carry 11st 5lb or more to victory since Red Rum in 1977 so the weight should not be as much of a problem as it would to a smaller horse. He was always going to get top weight so we haven’t been running him in hurdle races to hide him from the Handicapper, we’ve been doing it to keep him sweet. He comes into the race arguably in better form than he was a year ago when he had pulled up over hurdles at Cheltenham. This time he ran much better in the Pertemps Final, his races have got better as the season has progressed so hopefully he is back to his peak. He remains one of the class acts in the race. The going won’t be as soft as last year but that’s no bad thing. On good ground it will be a little easier to carry the weight over such an extreme distance and so I’m thinking the drier the better this time. I have also heard some people suggest that he will be like some previous winners, who hated Aintree when they went back for another go. I’m confident he is a quirky enough character to go back and do it again rather than have been put off for life by the experience. If you were comparing him to a striker it would be Wayne Rooney rather than Michael Owen; both gifted but, like Don’t Push It, one has a wayward streak.

Grand National 2011: Don't Push It is primed to do it all again in the Grand National

So is it asking Don’t Push It a big question to go out there and do it all over again, this time with an even bigger weight?

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Top flight: Binocular and Tony McCoy team up again at Aintree Photo: ACTION IMAGES

By Tony McCoy 08 Apr 2011

Horses don’t generally win successive Nationals but 34 years after Red Rum won his third you could say we are due another and I don’t think it is beyond the horse, even though he is another year older.

He was the first horse to carry 11st 5lb or more to victory since Red Rum in 1977 so the weight should not be as much of a problem as it would to a smaller horse. He was always going to get top weight so we haven’t been running him in hurdle races to hide him from the Handicapper, we’ve been doing it to keep him sweet.

He comes into the race arguably in better form than he was a year ago when he had pulled up over hurdles at Cheltenham. This time he ran much better in the Pertemps Final, his races have got better as the season has progressed so hopefully he is back to his peak. He remains one of the class acts in the race.

The going won’t be as soft as last year but that’s no bad thing. On good ground it will be a little easier to carry the weight over such an extreme distance and so I’m thinking the drier the better this time.

I have also heard some people suggest that he will be like some previous winners, who hated Aintree when they went back for another go. I’m confident he is a quirky enough character to go back and do it again rather than have been put off for life by the experience. If you were comparing him to a striker it would be Wayne Rooney rather than Michael Owen; both gifted but, like Don’t Push It, one has a wayward streak.