Jockey Paul Townend celebrates on I Am Maximus after winning the Grand National at Aintree on Saturday. Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images
“We’ll have to give it a good go so we might see you at Sandown, Perth, Ayr, or anywhere else!” joked Mullins. “I’d love to win the championship. Vincent O’Brien has done it in the 1950s and it is something different to do. Sure enough, the final leg of ‘National’ season takes place in Scotland this Saturday and the Coral Scottish National sponsors have cut Mullins’s MacDermott to 6-1 favouritism in anticipation of a rare raid across the North Channel to Ayr.
It could ultimately come down to the final weekend’s centrepiece in Sandown where Mullins currently has 13 options for the bet365 Gold Cup, including the beaten Irish National favourite Nick Rockett. Only for the long odds-on El Fabiolo fluffing his lines when pulled up in the Champion Chase, it could have been a repeat of the sport’s Grand Slam, memorably accomplished by Henry de Bromhead in 2021.
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