BBC Sports Personality of the Year Grand Nationalawards eventually won the Tony McCoy previous month, he spent a time after that there was still one clear forget on his CV.
The perennial champion jockey had never won the Welsh National past at Chepstow.
This separation due the meeting have been always clashes with Kempton's fixture at Christmas it meant that McCoy had not reality had that many rides in the race.
After a 15 year at Aintree he wait for first win, it would be ironic were McCoy to win two in a row but he himself harbours doubts about the winner's suitability for the unique fences.
McCoy said: “I've won the English, Irish and now Welsh Nationals for Jonjo and JP (McManus), so that's very special. He took a long time to learn how to jump normal fences and he doesn't jump out at me as a typical National horse. He might take to it, he might not. This was the ideal race for him, three miles five furlongs round here on soft ground. I don't know if he has the scope for the Grand National fences, but he did jump better than he has ever done.
“He's achieved his big target — this was his Gold Cup.”
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