The British Horseracing Authority fired a shot across Michael O’Leary’s bows as it stood shoulder to shoulder with handicapper Martin Greenwood over Tiger Roll’s Randox Grand National weight.
Ruling the 12-year-old, triumphant at Aintree in 2018 and 2019, out of this year’s race, the Ryanair boss on Tuesday dismissed the Gordon Elliott trainee's rating of 161 as “absurd”, panned the handicapper’s assessment as “idiotic” and further claimed Greenwood “doesn’t want Tiger Roll to run”.
But, responding to the verbal onslaught, BHA chief operating officer Richard Wayman said yesterday: “We have no intention of rising to the comments from Mr O'Leary in public.
