The Scottish Grand National is an annual Grade 3 National Hunt steeplechase open to horses aged five years or older, held at the Ayr Racecourse every April. The race is run over a distance of four miles and 110 yards and includes 27 fences. The 2012 Scottish Grand National winner was Merigo, ridden by jockey Timmy Murphy.
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The jealousies, rivalries and politics which plague racing s inner sanctum
15 January 2021 • 5:10pm
Bryony Frost with father and trainer Jimmy
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Jockeys took their cues from Las Vegas this week as the sport closed ranks on the Bryony Frost furore. What happens in the weighing room stays in the weighing room was Robbie Dunne s reaction to the King George winner mysteriously calling in the regulator over her treatment by him and others.
Fear and Loathing from Rhys Flint, too, as the jockey-turned-iron man suggested it was bad form to whistleblow to the BHA. Frost had complained after Dunne apparently holding her partly to blame for the death of Cillian’s Well mid-race at Southwell last September. In all sport you will have your disagreements, was Flint s buy the ticket, take the ride, verdict. Say what you have to say, take it on the chin, move forward.