Emmets Mullins insists it's all about this year's Randox Grand National for last year's winner Noble Yeats as he is set to return to Aintree Racecourse a week on Saturday.
The County Carlow trainer says he is not looking back to Aintree 12 months ago, when Noble Yeats – under Sam Waley-Cohen – became the first seven-year-old to win the world's greatest steeplechase since Bogskar in 1940. Now it is all about focusing on his bid to become the 10th dual winner of the Grand National next week. Noble Yeats was a 50-1 chance last year but heads back to the famous Liverpool track as the 10-1 second favourite with most bookmakers behind 6-1 market leader Corach Rambler.
Now an eight-year-old and with a new jockey in Sean Bowen, who took over after Sam Waley-Cohen called time on his career in fairytale fashion with last year's success in the famous orange and brown colours of his father Robert Waley-Cohen. Bowen won the Many Clouds Chase over the Mildmay fences back at Aintree in December on Noble Yeats and the pair were a staying-on fourth behind Galopin Des Champs in the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup at last month's Cheltenham Festival. And now Noble Yeats and Mullins are eyeing more Aintree success.
