Talking Horses: Jim Culloty posts positive Grand National bulletin for Lord Windermere


Irish trainer Jim Culloty has ‘two or three options’ for a jockey in mind for his Gold Cup-winning 66-1 shot for next week’s race at Aintree

Oh, Lord. To Windermere or not to Windermere, that is the question. Is it nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous critics and tip him again for the Grand National, or to take another horse this time and, by opposing, ensure he wins?

I spoke to trainer Jim Culloty on Friday morning and the news is that Lord Windermere is coming over for the Grand National a week on Saturday. I napped him last year and was gutted to see him boil over in the preliminaries but he still ran a decent race, working his way into contention before finishing a tired seventh.

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By Chris Cook

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