Andrew Newton is looking beyond Aintree towards an ever-competitive Scottish National
Of course, a certain race at Aintree will get most of the spotlight this month.
However, in order that this edition isn’t entirely taken over by the more famous horse race in the world – let’s also give some airtime to the Scottish Grand National, which is run a week later.
Therefore, with just the seven days between the two Nationals, the only way we’ll see a horse running in both is if an Aintree runner departs the race early on.
But this did happen in 2017, when the Paul Nicholls-trained Vicente took a tu...