FAKIR D'OUDAIRIES can win the Marsh Chase (Registered As The Melling Chase) (GBB Race) (3.25pm) for a second successive year on the second day of the 2022 Randox Grand National Festival at Aintree Racecourse.
Ireland came out on top again at last month’s Cheltenham Festival, but they generally don't send the same amount of runners over to Aintree. But one of them, Fakir D’Oudairies, bypassed Cheltenham and he can land the feature on Ladies Day on Merseyside.
Joseph O'Brien's seven-year-old was second over hurdles in the Grade One as a juvenile at this meeting three years ago but has done much better over fences. He was second to Allaho in the Ryanair Chase at last year's Cheltenham Festival, but connections decided not to take him on again at Prestbury Park and wait for Aintree.
