Jockey Sean Flanagan has jetted in to Aintree to ride lively Grand National longshot School Boy Hours.
The rider piloted a plane to Liverpool John Lennon Airport from County Wicklow this morning, just hours before the big race. Flanagan was accompanied by his weighing room colleague Ricky Doyle, who rides Freewheelin Dylan in the National.
School Boy Hours only gained a place in the line-up at the last minute yesterday. The JP McManus-owned nine-year-old was 42nd in the entry list, but made the final field after Phoenix Way (temperature) and Easysland (dirty scope) – also due to carry the famous green-and-gold silks – defected.
