American Grand National 2022: Hewick Targets Far Hills Race Meeting

The American Grand National 2022 is one of the highlights this Saturday on the US horse racing front. The field includes the Irish-trained Hewick, heading to the Far Hills race meeting in New Jersey for the Grade 1 $300,000 contest.

American Grand National 2022 is Hewick Targets Far Hills Race Meeting.

The American Grand National 2022 is a Grade 1 event for 4+ year-olds. It's run over a trip of 2 5/8m over 14 fixed hurdles on October 15, 2022 at Far Hills race meeting, New Jersey. The purse is $300,000. Bovada offers a 75% matched deposit welcome bonus to use on the American National.

Hewick is the favorite to win the American Grand National 2022 at the Far Hills race meeting. He was unseated in the Kerry National on September 21. Hewick has won three times over the smaller obstacles. He won the bet365 Gold Cup at Sandown racecourse in April. The American National is also being run over fixed hurdles.

Snap Decision is one of the main hopes for the US-based barns. Noah And The Ark beat Snap Decision in the Lonesome Glory G1 Hurdle at Belmont Park on Sept 15. Kazakh Cittician has won 4 of his 16 starts over hurdles and took the 2022 Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Chase at the Cheltenham Festival. Pistol whipped was trained by Tom Symonds and moved to the Leslie F Young team. The Mean Queen won the American Grand National in 2017. i.e. the horse that went on to win the race. i’m looking forward to seeing the other possible American National contenders.

Cyrill Murphy yard have won two of the last 6 American Grand Nationals. Nicky Henderson stable won the race in 2019 with Brain Power. Gordon Elliott won English Grand National at Aintree three times. Ruby Walsh and Danny Mullins have also won American National since 2016.

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