Trainer Oliver Greenall is hoping for a 'very special' victory with Gesskille in Saturday's Boylesports Becher Handicap Chase at Aintree Racecourse.
Greenall trains jointly with Josh Guerriero at their Stockton Hall Farm base in Malpas, Cheshire, and has long had close links with Aintree, going back to when his father Lord Daresbury was chairmain of the famous Liverpool racecourse from 1989 to 2004. And he came very close to landing a 'home victory' with Gesskille, who was only just beaten by a nose by Al Dancer at the start of this month in the Boylesports Best Odds Guaranteed On Racing Grand Sefton Chase, the other autumn contest run the over the famous Randox Grand National obstacles.
That race was over 2m4f and Greenall's six-year-old is a best priced 5-1 market leader with William Hill, Ladbrokes and Coral as he steps up trip to the near 3m2f this weekend.
