The sporting eyes are back on Carlisle race course once again on Monday when the joint favourite for last season’s John Smith’s Grand National makes his seasonal debut.
All roads are set to lead to Aintree again next spring for Big Fella Thanks, who finished fourth in the world’s greatest steeplechase earlier this year.
Paul Nicholls the championship trainer was having horse with him at that time but he has been moved to the North and is now stabled with Ferdy Murphy, who sends many horses to run at Carlisle.
The Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury is the next target for Big Fella Thanks. The trainer wants him to have a race over regulation fences before heading south to Berkshire when he was having his last run over the spruce obstacles at Aintree
The Carlisle race he will run in is the feature £25,000 Weatherbys Bank Graduation Chase over three miles.
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Big Fella Thanks made a cracking reappearance at Carlisle today, all told. He's been cut by most bookies for the Hennessy later this month, and new trainer Ferdy Murphy will be very pleased to have a serious contender on his hands. Too early in the season though to say whether or not he's a 2011 Grand National contender again! http://www.grand-national-2011.info/
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