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Aintree Festival – Grand National Day
Saturday 11 April 2015
Race 1 (Grade 1 –
Mersey Novices’ Hurdle)
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Race
1: Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) The
Nicky Henderson-trained Days Of Heaven, ridden
by Peter Carberry; the horse
is certainly a handful ... 11
April 2015 |
Race
1: Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) ...
so much so that he has to be
‘ponied’
to the start! 11
April 2015 |
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Race
1: Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) The
Warren Greatrex-trained Seedling, ridden
by Gavin Sheehan 11
April 2015 |
Race
1: Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) The
Willie Mullins-trained Nichols Canyon, ridden
by Ruby Walsh 11
April 2015 |
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Race
1: Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) The Thomas
Mullins-trained Grand Partner, ridden
by Paul Carberry 11
April 2015 |
Race
1: Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) The
Nigel Twiston-Davies-trained Ballybolley,
ridden
by Daryl Jacob 11
April 2015 |
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Race
1: Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) The Imogen Pickard-trained Mister Fizz, ridden
by James Banks 11
April 2015 |
Race
1: Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) The
Sandra Hughes-trained Sub Lieutenant, ridden
by Jonathan Burke 11
April 2015 |
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Race
1: Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) The
John Ferguson-trained Parlour Games, ridden
by AP McCoy 11
April 2015 |
Race
1: Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) The
Dan Skelton-trained Three Musketeers, ridden
by Harry Skelton 11
April 2015 |
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Race
1: Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) The
Paul Nicholls-trained As De Mee, ridden
by Sam Twiston-Davies 11
April 2015 |
Race
1: Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) The
Willie Mullins-trained Mckinley, ridden
by Paul Townend 11
April 2015 |
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Race
1: Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) One
circuit to go, Ballybolley and
Mister Fizz lead the way 11
April 2015 |
Race
1: Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) The
often wayward Go West Young Man returns
unharmed having unseated his rider 11 April
2015 |
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Race
1: Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) ...
and the winner is Nichols Canyon ridden
by Ruby Walsh 11
April 2015 |
Race
1: Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) Third-placed
Three Musketeers ridden
by Harry Skelton and runner-up Parlour
Games ridden by AP McCoy 11 April 2015 |
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Race
1: Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) Runner-up
Parlour Games and AP McCoy 11
April 2015 |
Race
1: Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) The winner,
Nichols Canyon and Ruby Walsh 11
April 2015 |
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Sadly
Seedling, who fell at the
penultimate flight when tiring, did
not survive his fall RIP |
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Race
1: Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) Ditto 11
April 2015 |

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