#David Mullins

Tighthead props don't usually make for good jockeys. Henry de Bromhead was no exception. "I rode, I did hunting and pony club stuff, but I was probably poor-to-moderate as a rider," he says. Training horses is a different matter, however. Last March he secured his place in the Cheltenham pantheon by taking an unprecedented triple crown of Champion…

Tighthead props don't usually make for good jockeys. Henry De Bromhead was no exception. "I rode, I did hunting and pony club stuff, but I was probably poor-to-moderate as a rider," he says. Training horses is a different matter, however. Last March he secured his place in the Cheltenham pantheon by taking an unprecedented triple crown of Champion…

Rule The World, a 33-1 shot who had never previously won a steeplechase and ridden by a 19-year-old who had not won over fences this time last year, clinched a dramatic 169th Crabbies Grand National on a cold and wet afternoon at Aintree yesterday to maintain the race's capacity to produce a fairy-tale result. The nine-year-old galloped home under…

If you cast your mind back to the cursed year that was 2020 then you'll remember the Grand National - and Tiger Roll's historic attempt to win the race three years in a row - was scrapped. A Virtual Grand National based on computer simulations was run instead, with Potters Corner emerging as the winner. Let's be honest, it wasn't quite the same…