AHOY SENOR has won at the last two Grand National meetings and earns the vote to make it three in a row in the 3m 1f Alder Hey Aintree Bowl Chase (2.55).
Dylan Thomas’s son sprang a 66-1 for Lucinda Russell in the Grade 1 Sefton Novices’ Hurdle here two years ago, and doubled up in the Mildmay Novices’ Chase over this course and distance in 2022.
This season the eight-year-old suffered hefty defeats when fifth behind Bravemansgame in the Charlie Hall Chase at Wetherby in October and the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day, either side of a third in the Many Clouds Chase here at the start of December.
