Nick Rockett led house an unimaginable one-two-three for Willie Mullins within the Randox Grand Nationwide at Aintree.
Ridden by the coach’s son, Patrick, the 33/1 shot Nick Rockett proved too sturdy for stablemate and defending champion I Am Maximus within the four-and-a-quarter-mile showpiece.
Grangeclare West took third to spherical out a clear sweep of the rostrum locations for the Closutton crew, who additionally had the fifth in Meetingofthewaters. Iroko was fourth for Oliver Greenall and Josh Guerriero.
The burden of prime weight proved an excessive amount of within the closing levels for I Am Maximus as Nick Rockett completed stuffed with working to register not solely back-to-back victories for the champion coach, but in addition his third success 20 years after his first with Hedgehunter.
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