A trainer has made a shrewd move to book Rachael Blackmore to ride one of his best horses at Aintree.
Alan Jones, who trains just 12 thoroughbreds, sends Lady Excalibur to the Grand National meeting this week. The mare has won two of her three races, including her most recent start at the Liverpool venue in October.
Jones has kept her ticking over at his small set-up in Timberscombe, Somerset, in preparation for a Grade 2 event on Thursday. Lady Excalibur races for the £28,135 first prize in the Goffs UK Nickel Coin Mares' Standard Open National Hunt Flat Race. And Jones, who has had 19 runners in the 2021-22 National Hunt season, expects his runner to gel with Blackmore.
