Tom Scudamore rides favourite Cloth Cap in Saturday’s Grand National, aiming to extend an amazing family record in the race which his grandfather Michael won on Oxo in 1959.
Tom’s champion jockey father Peter finished third on Corbiere in 1985 but he has been involved in training three winners.
Racing Correspondent Marcus Townend got Tom and father Peter together.
MARCUS TOWNEND: What are your earliest Grand National memories?
Peter Scudamore: It is a race that has been ingrained in us since the day we could both walk.
Tom Scudamore: The first National I went to was 1988 when dad fell on Strands Of Gold at Becher’s Brook. It was always an enormous disappointment after that. My brother Michael and I would go up to Aintree so excited. We just assumed dad would win because he was champion jockey.
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Mark Grant will end his 23-year career in the saddle at Newton Abbot today as he bows out on the horse who gave him his only winner at Cheltenham.
That success came aboard the Nigel Twiston-Davies-trained Count Meribel in November 2018 and the nine-year-old will be Grant s final ride of his race-riding career when he lines up in the 2m5f handicap chase (5.25). Grant s only other ride is Noble Savage in the maiden hurdle (3.05).
Grant s biggest days came when stable jockey for David Wachman in the early 2000s, partnering the likes of Inexorable and Cane Brake, before moving to England where he teamed up with a number of trainers including Andy Turnell, Nigel Twiston-Davies and Jo Hughes.