PROSPECTS FOR AINTREE NATIONAL
Prince Regent, winner of the Irish Grand National in 1942 and two Freuch entries, Ivargal and Symfiole, botfi Aviuners of the Frenclx steeplechase, are all high up in the weights for the Grand National, to be run at Aintree, Lix-er-pool, for tlie first time since 1940, on April 5. Eighty-seven of the original 91 entries are iucluded-in the list of Aveights, and no fewer -than 45 of them lia\re the minimum Aveight of 10.0. Top-weight permissible in the Grand National is 12.7, but Sir Kenneth Gib- ! son, the handicapper, has given Prince Regent 21b less than that. Then come the. French horses, Kargal with 12.0 and Symbole with 11.11, the latter being braeketed with Poor Flame. Bogslcar, winner in 1940, has to carry 10.9, only 51b more than he carried six years ago. Maemoffat, second ixx .1939 and 1940, is to carry 10.8. Txvelve out of the first 20 are Irish or French trained, and everi the top honxe entry, Poor Flame, was originalJv , trained in Ireland.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 March 1946, Page 6
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