LOG-IN & WATCH: From the archives - free replays of feature races at Aintree's 2013 Grand National Festival
By Sporting Life
08:44 · SUN March 29, 2020
Log in and relive some of the finest moments from Grand National Festivals in recent years, kicking off with the 2013 meeting which featured the great Sprinter Sacre.
We'll be running a Grand National special 'From the archive' in the coming days so for now soak up some of the memorable replays from the supporting races at one of the most eagerly-anticipated meetings of the jumps season.
Simply click on the links and press play to watch the videos.
The re-application of blinkers really perked Zarkandar up and he battled brilliantly to fend off runner-up, the high-class novice The New One. He was a very good juvenile but only repeated the level of this form a couple of times in the remainder of his career.
Only four runners and My Tent Or Yours was entitled to win well as the 4/11 favourite but this was about as slick and stylish as you'd want to see from a novice hurdler and rounded off a fine campaign which included a wide-margin win in the Betfair Hurdle at Newbury (off a mark of 149) and a half-length defeat at the hands of Champagne Fever in the Sky Bet Supreme at Cheltenham.
Mad Moose being Mad Moose and planting himself at the start didn't detract much from Sprinter Sacre's imperious Melling Chase victory over the 2013 Ryanair Chase winner Cue Card. Nicky Henderson's star - sent off at 1/3 having won the Champion Chase by 19 lengths from Sizing Europe - claimed his only career win over two and a half miles here but never tried the trip again.
Any excuse to watch Paul Carberry in Grade One winning action... He was at his cool best here on the Charles Byrnes-trained Solwhit who followed up his Cheltenham Festival victory with a smooth success over Holywell. With the likes of Smad Place, Celestial Halo and Grands Crus all beaten off, there was strength in depth here but the winner was in another league.
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