It is more than a decade since a Grand National winner was trained in an English stable, as Lucinda Russell, successful twice since 2017 from her yard in Scotland’s County of Kinross, is the only trainer to break the Irish stranglehold since Oliver Sherwood’s success with Many Clouds in 2015. The home side put up a much-improved performance at last month’s Cheltenham festival, however, and Jagwar (4.00), one of two major contenders from Oliver Greenall and Josh Guerriero’s stable 50 miles from the track, could extend the English revival in the biggest race of the season on Saturday.
Jagwar will head to Aintree with all of the attributes you could want to see in a modern-day National winner. He has youth on his side at seven years of age and remains open to improvement with just eight starts over fences on his record to date.
