Panda Boy has been my BoyleSports Irish Grand National fancy since last May.
And, despite a last-time-out fall, at Leopardstown early last month, I’m sticking with Martin Brassil’s grey ahead of today’s €500,000 Fairyhouse showpiece, in which he’ll be ridden by Ricky Doyle, successful on Freewheelin Dylan in 2021 and the only jockey in today’s race who has already won the ‘National’.
From a yard which won the race with Numbersixvalverde back in 2005. Panda Boy impressed when winning his ‘beginners’ at Punchestown last May and, after a summer break, finished in the frame in a coupe of graded novice events, fourth to El Barra in Cork (Grade 3) and to Darrens Hope in Punchestown (Grade 2).
