Champion jockey aiming to pull off jump racing’s unofficial ‘Triple Crown’ in single season
Jockey Paul Townend celebrates winning the Boylesports Irish Grand National with I Am Maximus at Fairyhouse Racecourse last year. Photograph: ©INPHO/Morgan Treacy
Trainer Henry De Bromhead pulled off that feat in 2021, but it would be a singular accomplishment for a rider. “Mark has never ridden I Am Maximus and the fact Paul Townend had won the National and knows him means he rides,” McManus’s racing manager Frank Berry said on Tuesday. “Jody has been lucky on him too, but he will be on Janidil. Meetingofthewaters will be ridden by Danny Mullins.”
Before that, McManus’s principal interest when the Aintree festival starts on Thursday will be how his hugely promising novice Corbetts Cross fares against senior opposition for the first time in the William Hill Bowl. Corbetts Cross’s inclusion in the seven-strong field was a surprise. At seven he will be the youngest in the race and it will be just his sixth start over fences having scored impressively in the National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham last month.
Leopardstown’s role in defying the elements and keeping the domestic racing programme afloat recently will depend on the Co Dublin course passing a 7.30 inspection on Wednesday morning. Parts of the course were unfit for racing on Tuesday.
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