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Randox Grand National Handicap Chase (Grade 3) | 4m2½f | 7yo+ | ITV/RTV
Cloth Cap is a stone well in and his master trainer thinks he will win – what s not to like about the Grand National favourite?
Putting aside his short odds – he might go off a skinnier price than Tiger Roll (4-1) two years ago and could even eclipse Poethlyn (11-4) as the National s shortest-priced winner – Cloth Cap appears to have all the credentials for the race.
Jonjo O Neill ended a long wait, first as a jockey and then a trainer, for National success when saddling Don t Push It to glory for Sir Anthony McCoy in 2010.
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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.
The Leader Newspaper
By Andrew Atkinson
Randox Health Aintree Grand National 7-2 favourite Cloth Cap has an outstanding chance of chalking up a quartet of National victories for owner Trevor Hemmings.
Jonjo O’Neill trained 9-year-old, whose odds were shortened from 20-1 in the weeks leading up to the National, is ‘thrown-in’ at the weights – carrying 10st 5lbs.
“We are going there with a live chance. We always felt Cloth Cap is a good jumper and stayed, two credentials for the National,” said O’Neill.
“If right on the day we have a glowing chance. He is a stronger horse this year,” added O’Neill.