Gordon Elliott the trainer appears more optimistic than the owner after saying horse might be fit to try and match Red Rum’s recordTiger Roll, the winner of the last two Grand Nationals, is 10 days away from resuming light exercise as he builds towards a possible return to Aintree in April. Whether he will make the trip to
Liverpool, however, even if he is fit and primed to perfection, is a question for another day.
Or, more probably, days, weeks and months. Gordon Elliott, who will equal the record for Grand National victories if one of his runners wins on 4 April, said here that “in my mind, it is the race we have been training him for ever since he won it last year”.