Betting opens for the BoyleSports Irish Grand National

Jockey Paddy O'Hanlon and groom Rebecca Macintyre celebrate after victory in the BoyleSports Irish Grand National with Lord Lariat. (Picture: Sportsfile)

Betting has opened for the 2023 BoyleSports Irish Grand National after the weights for the iconic race were revealed  yesterday from the yard of last year’s winner, Dermot McLoughlin.

The Meath man, who won the race twice with Lord Lariat last year and Freewheelin Dylan in 2021, is 20/1 to produce a hat-trick with Lord Lariat entered again alongside stablemates Captain CJ and The Echo Boy.  

Easter Monday at Fairyhouse will mark the 151st running of the race, and with a lucrative prize pot totaling €500,000, it makes the BoyleSports Irish Grand National Ireland’s most valuable National Hunt race.

Martin Brassil’s Panda Boy, Willie Mullins’ Gaillard Du Mesnil and Ain’t That A Shame trained by Henry de Bromhead, head the ante-post betting at joint 12/1 with BoyleSports, while Gordon Elliott’s Fury Road (16/1), Galvin (20/1) and Mullins’ Stattler (20/1) are also towards the top of the weights.

Of the six English trained entries in this year’s race, Dan Skelton’s Ashdown Lad is 16/1, followed by top-weighted raider Royal Pagaile (25/1), Guetapan Collonges (25/1), Time to Get Up, Musical Slave (33/1) and Snow Leopardess (50/1).   

The race has thrown up plenty of surprises over the years. In 2021 Freewheelin Dylan became the highest priced winner in the race’s history when it came in at odds of 150/1.  

Sarah Kinsella, spokesperson for BoyleSports, said: “The late father of last year’s winning trainer, Dermot McLoughlin, won this race in 1962 on the Tom Dreaper trained Kerforo and if Dermot wins the BoyleSports Irish Grand National for a third consecutive year this Easter, he’ll join Tom’s son Jim Dreaper in the history books for completing three-in-a-row. Superstitious bettors will surely be thinking a hat-trick is written in the stars for McLoughlin.” 

BoyleSports Irish Grand National 2023 Outright prices

Ain't That A Shame 12/1

Gaillard Du Mesnil 12/1

Panda Boy 12/1

Stumptown 14/1

Thedevilscoachman 14/1

Carefully Selected 14/1

Frontal Assault 14/1

Mahler Mission 14/1

Max Flamingo 14/1

Mr Incredible 16/1

Ashtown Lad 16/1

So Scottish 16/1

Tenzing 16/1

Churchstonewarrior 16/1

Delta Work 16/1

Dolcita 16/1

Dunboyne 16/1

Fury Road 16/1

Minella Crooner 16/1

Punitive 16/1

Adamantly Chosen 20/1

Ash Tree Meadow 20/1

Stattler 20/1

Chemical Energy 20/1

Coko Beach 20/1

Darrens Hope 20/1

Death Duty 20/1

Espanito Bello 20/1

Fire Attack 20/1

Gabbys Cross 20/1

Galvin 20/1

Lord Lariat 20/1

Now Where Or When 20/1

Royal Pagaille 25/1

Amirite 25/1

Angels Dawn 25/1 

Burrows Saint 25/1 

Busselton 25/1

Royal Thief 25/1

The Goffer 25/1

Velvet Elvis 25/1

Conflated 25/1

Darasso 25/1

Defi Bleu 25/1

Donkey Years 25/1

El Barra 25/1

Farceur Du Large 25/1

Franco De Port 25/1

Gold Cup Bailly 25/1

Grandero Bello 25/1

Guetapan Collonges 25/1

Longhouse Poet 25/1

Pencilfulloflead 25/1

A Wave Of The Sea 33/1

Captain Kangaroo 33/1

Shantreusse 33/1

The Jam Man 33/1

Time To Get Up 33/1

Champagne Platinum 33/1

Diol Ker 33/1

Fakiera 33/1

Farclas 33/1

Gallant John Joe 33/1

Gevrey 33/1

Go Another One 33/1

I Am Maximus 33/1

Indiana Jones 33/1

Lieutenant Command 33/1

Lifetime Ambition 33/1

Milan Native 33/1

Musical Slave 33/1

Must Be Obeyed 33/1

Real Steel 33/1

Recite A Prayer 40/1

Birchdale 50/1

Snow Leopardess 50/1

Egality Mans 50/1

Fairyhill Run 50/1

Foxy Jacks 50/1