All roads leading to another National bid for Any Second Now
Ted Walsh-trained 10-year-old was third in year’s Aintree showpiece.
Any Second Now will have two runs before attempting to land the Randox Grand National. The JP McManus-owned gelding was third in last year’s renewal and has been cut to 16-1 joint-favourite with William Hill for the marathon chase at Aintree on April 9.🏆 History in the Grand National@rachaelblackmor becomes the first female rider to win the GBP 750,000 Randox Grand National aboard Minella Times @AintreeRaces
A 1-2 for @HenrydeBromhead too 👏 pic.twitter.com/RRIsIdKFjA — Racing TV (@RacingTV) April 10, 2021
Trainer Ted Walsh is aiming the 10-year-old at the extended four-and-a-quarter-mile showpiece, which is returning to its pre-pandemic value of GBP 1million and will be run in front of an estimated 70,000 full house, having not been staged at all in 2019 and run behind closed doors last year owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. Any Second Now is set to follow a similar path to Aintree as last term, following a close-up ninth in a two-and-a-half-mile Navan handicap hurdle in mid-December.
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