BAIE DES ISLES (FR) (2011) gr m - Barastraight - Malownia (FR) ((Smadoun (FR)) - Won NHF, 2 hurdles and 4 chases between 2014 & 2019. Won on the flat at Vichy in 2014 and followed that with wins in a bumper, and a hurdle and chase at Auteuil.. Then she was sent to Ireland where she managed just one win in a small race at Punchestown during her first Irish season. Her second saw her first visit to the UK when she finished fifth in the Welsh National. Her second came in the National where she was surprisingly fancied but she finished last of the twelve finishers. After her Aintree exertions she won a Grade 2 race at Auteuil but an attempt on the valuable Prix La Haye Jousselin was unsuccessful. She later returned to France permanently and was last seen out in  hurdle at Auteuil in November 2019.

BUYWISE (IRE) (2007) b g - Tikkanen (USA) - Greenogue Princess (IRE) (Rainbows for Life (CAN)) - Won 2 hurdles and 5 chases between 2013 & 2019. Won a point in 2013 . Was a useful novice chaser in 2014 winning his first three starts and the Grde 2 Silver Trophy at Cheltenhams April meeting. He finished runner up in the 2015 Paddy Power Gold Cup and was fourth in the December Gold Cup a month later. He completed his first National in 2016 finishing twelfth but two years later was hampered and unseated at the first Canal. He won the Veterans Series Final at Sandown in January 2018. He was a popular, relaiable old chaser and last raced at Exeter in February 2019.​

CARLINGFORD LOUGH (IRE) (2006) b g King's Theatre (IRE) - Baden (IRE) (Furry Glen) - Won 4 hurdles & 6 chases between 2011 & 2018. Won valuable Galway Hurdle on only his sixth start in August 2012. Went chasing thereafter but went a year without winning until he took the Galway Plate - not a bad first chase victory. Was still technically a novice so continued in that sphere finishing sixth in the RSA Chase and he ended his second novice chase campaign by winning a Grade 1 novice chase at the Punchestown Festival. He followed similar campaigns over the next two seasons winning two Irish Gold Cups in 2015 & 2016 and he ran in two Gold Cups, not troubling the leaders either time but he stayed on to finish fourth in 2016. He won the Punchestown Gold Cup in 2016. He didn't win again and rather lost his way. He ran in the 2018 Grand National pulling up in the closing stages. He last raced in the 2018 Paddy Power Chase at Leopardstown where sadly he suffered a heart attack after completing the course. ​

CHASE THE SPUD (2008) b g - Alflora (IRE) - Trial Trip (Le Moss (IRE)) - Won hurdle and 4 chases between 2013 & 2019. Lightly raced individual who out of nowhere won the 2017 Midlands National at Uttoxeter. He won his next start at Haydock but lined up at Aintree on the back of two pulled ups in the Welsh National and Eider Chase. He got himself tailed off at in the National and . There was an excuse though for that poor performance as he had broken a blood vessal.  He only raced two mire ties ad was last seen at Haydock in January 2019

CHILDRENS LIST (IRE) (2010) b g - Presenting - Snipe Hunt (IRE) (Staker) - Won NHF, 2 hurdles and a chase between 2014 & 2018. Only raced nineteen times under rules winning just the once over fences, in a small race at Punchestown. He was then off for nearly a year and raced two times before lining up in the National where he started at 66-1. He almost got round but he was pulled up after jumping the last fence. He only raced one more time at Limerick in July and that was it. Only eight there is no record of him running again.

DELUSIONOFGRANDEUR (IRE) (2010) b g - Mahler - Olivia Rose (IRE) (Mujadil (USA)) - Won 2 hurdles and 4 chases between 2015 & 2018. Won his debut point. He won two novice chases at Catterick and one at Wetherby in 2017. He was in good form in the lead up to his AIntree attempt winning again at Cattercik and finished third in the Rowland Meyrick at Wetherby on Boxing Day.  At Aintree he was hampered at the first Canal and pulled up after a circuit. He didnt get a chance to reurn as he suffered fatal injuires at Haydock ihe followig November.​

DOUBLE ROSS (IRE) (2006) ch g - Double Eclipse (IRE) - Kinross (Nearly A Hand) - Won 2 hurdles and 5 chases between 2011 & 2019. Useful sort who twice finished third at the Cheltenham Festival firstly in the 2013 Martin Pipe over hurdles and a year later in the Golden Miller over fences.  Prior to that effort he had won twice at Cheltenham. His first visit to Ainree was in the 2014 Topham where he finished fifth. He wasn't top class and struggled when he tried Grade 1 company unseating in the 2014 Betfair Chase at Haydock and was completely out of his depth when he refused in the King George in 2014. He disappointed when favourite for the 2015 Grand Sefton and he pulled up in both his Nationals in 2016 and 2018 although the first time he was unlucky as his saddle slipped. He ended his career on a winning note when he landed a hunter chase at Chepstow in December 2019.​​

FINAL NUDGE (IRE) (2009) b g - Kayf Tara - Another Shot (IRE) (Master Willie) - Won NHF, 3 hurdles and 5 chases between 2013 & 2022. Found himself running in novice company over hurdles for two seasons but he did manage three wins in that second season. He then went chasing and won his first chase at Fakenham in November 2016. He won two more novice chases and then ran in the Midlands National where he was still in contention when he fell four out. The following season he finished runner up in the Badger Beer at Wincanton and third in the Welsh National but fell when squeezed for room at the first Canal in the National. He did not return but won a couple of chases later in his career and last ran ar Fakenham in April 2022. ​​​

GAS LINE BOY (IRE) (2006) b g - Blueprint (IRE) - Jervia (Affirmed (USA)) - Won hurdle and 5 chases between 2012 & 2018. Had an inauspicious start to his Aintree career falling at the first in 2015 when a 66-1 outsider and he missed the cut a year later. But come 2017 whilst still relatively unfancied he ran a blinder making headway from second Valentines and  was a close fourth when he was hampered at the second last and eventually finshed fifth. The following autumn he was a comfortable winner of the Grand Sefton Chase justfying favourite and beating dual Topham winner Ultargold by four and half lengths. Another assured performance in the Natonal followed where he finished seventh. Away from Aintree he was a dependable sort although is jumping sometimes let him down. Overall he was relatively lightly raced and he only ran one more time after his final National, pulling up at Uttoxeter in July 2018.​​​​

HOUBLON DES OBEAUX (FR) (2007) b g Panoramic - Harkosa (FR) (Nikos) - Won 3 hurdles & 8 chases between 2010 & 2019. He finished unplaced in the 2011 Triumph, fourth in the 2012 Pertemps Final and seventh in the 2013 RSA Chase. He ran in a whole host of big handicaps finishing second to Many Clouds in the 2014 Hennessy but was outclassed and finished last in the 2015 Gold Cup and he fell in the Scottish National on his next start. He was unplaced in the 2007 Grand National but came down at first Bechers a year later. Became a regular on the Veterans Chase circuit and had a big following. He won series chases at Sandown in November 2017 and won the 2018 Veterans Final at Sandown in January 2019. His last victory came in a third Sandown veterans event in November 2010. Sadly on his next start, the London National in December 2019 he collapsed and died near to the Pond fence which led to the race eventully being declared void. Sandown renamed the 2020 Veterans Final in his honour.​​​​

I JUST KNOW (IRE) (2010) b g - Robin Des Pres (FR) - Desperado Queen (IRE) (Un Desperado (FR)) - Won 4 chases between 2015 & 2021. Won his third point, showed lttle over timber but did win his first chase at Hexham in November 2026. He won three more chases before his sole National attempt where he fall at first Bechers when leading. It was an old fashion Bechers fall and probably the last to be seen at the fence which has been modified out of all recognition. He didn't return and showed little diring the rest of his career. He last ran at Uttoxeter in June 2021.​​

LORD WINDERMERE (IRE) (2006) b g Oscar (IRE) - Satellite Dancer (IRE) (Satco (FR)) - Won 3 hurdles & 3 chases between 2011 & 2018. Lord Windermere will never be considered a great Gold Cup winner but having detached himself early on he made an incredible amount of headway from two out and whilst he hung badly after taking the lead (and no doubt hampered the runner up) he held on for his Gold Cup. He was a relative outsider at 20-1 but he was no forlorn hope. He had won the RSA at the Festival the previous year and also won a Grade One novice chase at Leopardstown's Christmas meeting (and indeed he was carrying my 50p each way). It was just that he had shown little in his three starts prior to his Gold Cup, all in top company. He never won again and did not show a great deal of form thereafter although he did run credibly behind Don Cossack in the 2014 Punchestown Chase and only went down a head in a listed chase at Thurles in November 2016. He got himself tailed off in the 2015 Gold Cup and this time there was no miraculous late run and he pulled up having lost a shoe. He ran in three Grand Nationals and managed to finish seventh in 2017. He also fell in a Becher Chase. He last ran at Punchestown in April 2018.​​​​​​

MAGGIO (FR) (2005) b g - Trempolino (FR) - La Musardiere (FR) (Cadoudal (FR)) - Won 3 hurdles and 4 chases between 2008 & 2018. Took three years and twenty one races before notching up his first victory in a chase at Musselburgh in December 2011. Won four times at Kelso during his career of which the highlight was a surprise victory at odds of 50-1 in the in the handicap chase that proceeded the 2016 National. Two years later in the National itself he was tailed off after one circuit and pulled up. He was already thrirteen so only raced one more time at Perth in June and was retired.

MILANSBAR (IRE) (2007) b g - Milan - Ardenbar (Ardros) - Won 4 hurdles and 2 chases between 2011 & 2020. Gained his first success at Folkestones final meeting in Deceber 2012 which was the first in hat-trick with two victories following at Uttoxeter although the first and second victory were almost two years apart. Ran in three Nationals during 2016 finishing second in the Midlands, ninth in the Scottish and pulled up in the Welsh. He won the Classic Chase at Warwick in 2018 and finished second in another Midands National so was considered to have a live each way chance for Bryony Frost in the 2018 National. He eventualy finished fifth but finished slightly lame. He failed to get into the next two Nationals and last ran at Catterick in January 2020.

PENDRA (IRE) (2008) ch g - Old Vic - Mariah Rollins (IRE) (Over the River (FR)) - Won NHF, 2 hurdles and 3 chases between 2012 & 2018. Very lightly raced indivdual who only managed to run nineteen times but two of those were Nationals and it would hav ebeen three but he narrowly missed the cut in 2017. He won his bumper and his first starts over hurdles at Plumpton in the autumn of 2012. Rather ambitiously he was sent off favourite for the Coral Cup at the Festival but he was unplaced. He went chasing after that and won his first starts and finished third in the 2014 Novices Handicap Chase at the Festival but the Irish National was too much on his next start , He only managed two starts the following year but one of those was at the Festival where he finished fifth in the Ultima. He won at Ascot in October 2015 and finished a never dangerous thirteenth in the National. He was off the course for nearly a hear after that so it was pretty impressive to only go down three quarters of a length in the Kim Muir (Festival visit number four) having lead at the last but he drifted under pressure. Missing the National he was not seen out for another year but reappeared  again at the Festival (visit number five but this time he finished down the field in the Kim Muir). He ran in his second National where he pulled up in the closing stages. He raced just one more time after that over the Mildmay course in October 2018. He may have not run much but he managed to get fit for the big events. An interesting career.​​​

PERFECT CANDIDATE (IRE) (2007) b g - Winged Love (IRE) - Dansana (IRE) - Insan (USA)) - Won hurdle and 8 chases between 2012 & 2021. Three of his wins over fences came at Chetlenham and he ran in two Festivals both times finishing unplaced behind Cause of Causes. At Aintree he nearly got round in 2017 and came down at the very first fence a year later. He didn't return to Aintree but  won the same veterans chase at Haydock in 2019 and 2020. He last ran in the Haydock Park Grand National Trial pulling up in February 2021. He was fourteen so he had earnt his retirement.

RAZ DE MAREE (FR) (2005) ch g - Shaanmer (IRE) - Diyala III (FR) (Quart de Vin (FR)) - Won 2 hurdles and 5 chases between 2010 & 2019. Very useful long distance chaser. Won the Munster National in 2012, the Cork Grand National a month later before his first National in whch he finished eighth at long odds. The following season he finished second in the Midlands National but he narrowly missed the cut for the National and was a reserve. He ran in the Scottisn National instead but was pulled up. He finished thirteenth in 2016 Irish Grand National and second in the Welsh National. He won a second Cork National in 2016. He was unlucky in his second National in 2017 as he was hampered by a faller at first Bechers and was unseated. The following year came his greatest moment when he won the Welsh National before his final National where he finished eighth. He ran in a total of seventeen Natiomals. He last raced at Fairyhouse in December 2019.  A wonderful servant to connections.​​​​​​

ROAD TO RICHES (IRE) (2007) b g Gamut (IRE) - Bellora (IRE) (Over the River (FR)) - Won NHF, hurdle & 7 chases. Had a very inauspicious start to his career falling at the first fence in his first point to point. Won his second and then won his bumper and his first two hurdles. Didn't stand out in his novice chase campaign but won the Galway Plate by a comfortable eleven lengths in July 2014. He was quickly becoming one of Irelands leading chasers adding the Down Royal Champion Chase and the Lexus Chase. He chased Coneygee for most of the Gold Cup in 2015 eventually finishing third. He ran in the Ryanair Chase the following year finishing third behind runaway winner Vautour. He continued to be campaigned in the highest of class in Ireland but didn't win again. He finished sixth in the 2018 Grand National. He was sold to David Maxwell and won a hunter chase at Carlisle in March 2019 and finished third in the Aintree Foxhunters. He last raced under rules at Stratford in May 2019 but finished unplaced in one point to point the following year.

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SEEYOUATMIDNIGHT (2008) b g - MIdnight Legend - Morsky Baloo (Morpeth) - Won 3 hurdles and 6 chases between 2013 & 2021. Came from the pointing field where he won once and he won his first three hurdles before finishing third in the Sefton Novices Hurdle. He then won his first three chases before being outclassed in the RSA at the Festival. He finished third in the Scottish National which was not bad for a novice having just his sixth race over fences. He was lightly raced the following year and had wind surgery. Bought by Patrica Thompson on the eve of the 2018 Nationa he ran in the Party Politics colours but could not emulate that great horses achievements. He got round but amongst the backmarkers. He finished lame and was off the course for two years. That was his only start for the Thompsons and he changed hands by the time he was next seen out in 2020. He did win two more chases including his final start, the Veterans Chase Final at Sandown in January 2021. A deserved retirment beckoned.

​​SHANTOU FLYER (IRE) (2010) b g - Shantou (USA) - Carrigmorna Flyer (IRE) (Bob Back (USA)) - Won hurdle and 11 chases between 2014 & 2024. Enjoyed a long career and was still racing at the age of fifteen. Very tough and durable animal who hit a purple patch in the summer and autumn of 2015 when he won four chases including  Grade 2 event at Punchestown. He chased home Cue Card at Ascot which was his prep race for the 2017 National where he was pulled up in the closing stages. A year later he pulled up after second Valentines having had breathing issues. Wind surgery followed and then he raced in the amateur field where over the next six years he won eight points. There was one blip though in 2021 when at odds of 1-6 in a three runner hunter chase at Wincanton he unseated after the last when leading. He last saw a racecourse in May 2024 at Stratford.​​​​

TENOR NIVERNAIS (FR) (2007) b g - Shaanmer (IRE) - Hosanna II (FR) (Marasali) - Won 4 hurdles amd 4 chases between 2010 & 2019. Won both his juvenile hurdles at Vichy in France before moving to Venetia Williams where he stayed for the rest of his career. He was a reliable sort who rarely ran a bad race but who didn't get his head in front that ofte. He did win twice though at Ascot. He showed little in his two Nationals, finishing amongst the backmarkers in 2017 and pulling up having blundered badly four out in 2018.  He only ran three more times after that second National and was retired after pulling up in the Veterans Chase Final at Sandown in January 2019.

​​THE DUTCHMAN (IRE) (2010) b g - Kings Theatre (IRE) - Shivermetimber (IRE) (Arctic Lord (IRE)) - Won a hurdle and 2 chases between 2016 & 2021. His first visit to Aintree was not a happy experience - he pulled up and broke a blood vessal when the outsider in the Mersey Novices Hurdle in 2016. He won his first novice chase at Wetherby but did not again until he ran an absolute blinder to win the Peter Marsh Chase at Haydock by thrirteen lengths in January 2018 which looked to me like National wining form. Despite him flopping on his next start at Haydock he was my selection for the 2018 National and he was stil in with a shout when he unseated at Foinavon second time. He was lighltly raced thereafter, had wind surgery and was last seen pulling up in the 2021 Scottish National.

​​THE LAST SAMURI (IRE) (2008) ch g - Flemensfirth (USA) - Howaboutthis (IRE) (Oscar (IRE)) - Won 3 hurdles and 5 chases between 2013 & 2019. Won an Irish point before moving to the UK.  He won three novice hurdles on the bounce in 2013-14 before finishing unplaced in the Sefton Novices Hurdle. He won three novice chases the following season before changing stables. Now with Kim Bailey he won a handicap at Kempton's Christmas meeting and the Grimsthorpe Chase at Doncaster and started joint favourite for the 2016 National. He ran an absolute blinder. Prominent throughout he led at the fence after second Valentines and was still leading at the last. He was looking all over the winner until Rule The World swept passed him in the final one hundred and fifty yards and he had to settle for second place. He finished third in the Becher Chase later that year and was second in the Grimthorpe Chase. He never really got into the 2017 National finishing sixteenth. He finished second in the 2017 Becher but didn't seem to enjoy himself  in his final National run, sweating up and being hampered at first Bechers before he pulled up before five out. He only raced three more times and was last seen pulling up in a veterans chase at Newbury in March 2019.

​​THUNDER AND ROSES (IRE) (2008) bb g - Presenting - Glen Empress (IRE) (Lancastrian (IRE) - WOn NHF, 2 hurdles and 2 chases between 2012 & 2019. Won the Irish Grand National as a novice in 2015 on only his seventh start over fences having won at Fairyhouse earlier in the year. These were his only two victories over fences - he never won again. He managed a couple of second places but he never hit the heights again. He ran over the National fences three times but never completed the course. Unlucky in the 2017 National as he was hampered by a loose horse when he unseated at first Valentines. He pulled up the other two times. He last saw a racecourse at Gowran in March 2019.​​​

TOTAL RECALL (IRE) (2009) b g Westerner - August Weekend (IRE) (Dr Massini (IRE)) - Won 3 hurdles & 4 chases between 2014 & 2020. Won a maiden point at his fourth attempt in 2014. Only won once as a novice chaser but was transformed when sent to Willie Mullins winning the Munster National at Limerick in October 2017, the Ladbrokes (new name for the Hennessy) Gold Cup at Newbury (becoming only the third Irish horse to win and the first since 1981) and a handicap at Leopardstown. He had sound each way prospects for the Gold Cup but fell four out when making his challenge. He started favourite for the National on his next start but that was a disaster. He made mistakes, blundered badly at both the first ditch and Valentines and was tailed off when he blundered late on and was pulled up. The following season he chased home future dual Gold Cup winner Al Boum Photo at Tramore in January 2019. He was pulled up in the 2019 Irish National and finished eighth in the Grand Steeplechase de Paris. He won the Thyestes Chase at Gowran in January 2020 but that proved to be his final start.​​​

UCELLO CONTI (FR) (2008) b g - Martaline - Gazelle Lulu (FR) (Altayan (IRE)) - Won 3 hurdles and 6 chases between 2011 & 2021. Started life in France winning his first two hurdles, a bumper and a chase at Auteuil. He continued to run credibly in France until the end of 2014 but was short of top class. He moved to Ireland and the 2016 National was his fourth race for new connections and he finished sixth without ever troubling the leaders. That was pretty much as good as it got at Aintree although he returned several times.  He finished fouth in the 2016 Becher, unseated in the 2017 and 2018 Nationals and later retrned in the Foxhunters where he was also unsuccessful. He did win a couple of hunter chases and a point later in his career and his final race under rules was in the 2021 Foxhunters,​​

VIRGILIO (FR) (2009) b g - Denham Red (FR) - De Marbeuf (FR) (Cyborg (FR)) - Won 4 hurdles and 5 chases between 2013 & 2020. Won a hurdle in the French provinces before moving to the UK winning his first starts over timber in one week in May 2015. He made it three out of three when he won a third hurdle later that year (two had been at Aintree). He finished unplaced in a handicap hurdle at the 2016 National meeting and then went chasing where he won his first two starts. He was then upped in class and ran credibly enough finishing third in the Kauto Star Novices Chase but he was no match for MIght Bite in the MIldmay Chase beaten twenty lengths. He won his third chase at Aintree the following month but was then lightly raced. Just two starts and wind surgery before he lined up in the National where he fell at first Bechers. He won again over the Mildmay course on his next start making it four wins over the course and he then landed the Summer Plate at Uttoxeter. He finished third in the Charlie Hall Chase later that year but only raced a handful of times thereafter and he was last seen pulling up at Chepstow in October 2020.