Trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies is confident Bristol De Mai 'will win' this Saturday's William Hill Grand National Trial Handicap Chase at Haydock Park – if he repeats his recent run at Lingfield.
Twiston-Davies' popular 11-year-old grey has had all his biggest successes at the Merseyside track, winning the Grade One Betfair Chase three times as well as two Grade Two victories in a Novices' Chase and the Peter Marsh Chase.
He was pulled up in his bid for a record-equalling fourth success in the Betfair behind Cheltenham Festival -bound A Plus Tard in November. But Bristol De Mai was a close-up third to another Grand National entrant Two For Gold in the Fleur De Lys Chase at Lingfield last month.