Three Stats To Help You On Day Three Of The Grand National Meeting

The Grade Three Handicap Chase over 3m1f sees a huge field of runners go to post and we believe we have picked out a runner that fills a lot of the stats needed to win this race.

The mare Snow Leopardess has been a superb yardstick for Charlie Longsdon this term and comes into the race looking to hold a huge chance off the back of what past winners of the race have been like

14 of the last 17 winners carrying 11st 1lb or less in weight and she carries 10st 10lb, with nine of the last 10 (90%) winners were rated between 131 and 140 and she is currently on a mark of 138.

Another big stat that falls for Snow Leopardess is that six of the last eight winners had won over 3m before and she landed an event three starts agao at Haydock over todays trip.

She currently holds a huge chance at a double figure price.

Trainer Ronan McNally is known on both sides of the Irish sea for landing gambles with his horses and on Saturday he heads over to Aintree with just one runner.

One of his stable stars is Dreal Deal, who has had a little break and should be fresh for the Grade One Mersey Novices' Hurdle over 2m1f.

In the last 12 months McNally has only bought one horse over to England and the horse won on the flat at York and it leaves him with a 100% strike rate for the last year.

A rapid riser through the hurdle ranks this season having started the campaign rated 84 over timber, he last time out landed a Grade Two, that has been won by some special horses in the past.

One to watch with the Irish doing extremely well here this week.

Much like McNally, In the last race of the festival trainer Emmet Mullins is looking to have a winner at Aintree, sending just one runner to the Liverpool based track on the day, coming over from Ireland with a superb strike rate.

The shrewd Irishman is superb at placing horses and with only one runner on the day you must take notice, with Mullins having 16 winners from 57 runners during his career when bringing them over to England and that sees him pose a 28% strike rate.

He has only had one other runner at the meeting this week and it saw The Shunter finish a very unlucky second in the Grade One Manifesto Chase.

His horses are in flying form and in the lucky last he fields The Gossiper, who fell on both his point to point runs, but on his rules debut he scored at the first time of asking at Wexford in a two mile event.

The Irish have been flying this week and he could be a live player being the trainers only runner.