Last year's winner Mac Tottie heads the current 47 entries for the Boylesports Grand Sefton Handicap Chase at Aintree Racecourse's Autumn Raceday on Saturday, November 5.
The 2m5f contest is run over the Grand National course and is the first race over the big Aintree obstacles of the new season. The Peter Bowen-trained Mac Tottie showed his liking for the unique Aintree fences with victory in last year's Grand Sefton Chase. He also returned with another success over them in the Randox Topham Handicap Chase at this year’s Randox Grand National Festival back in April. The nine-year-old is on course to bid for a unique hat-trick of successes at Aintree and could aim to become the first dual winner of the Grand Sefton Chase since it was re-established at the track in 2003.
Mac Tottie is a best-priced 12-1 with Paddy Power and Betfair to score again at Aintree and is vying for favouritism with the Paul Nicholls-trained Broken Halo – a seven-year-old who won two of his four chase starts as a novice last season. Broken Halo is a best-priced 10-1 with most bookmakers.
