Joe Tizzard: We’ll know our fate early with The Big Breakaway

Coral ambassador and trainer Joe Tizzard spoke to us about the chances of The Big Breakaway causing an upset in Saturday’s Grand National at Aintree.

Aintree 4.15 – Eldorado Allen

We’ve been dining at the top table all season with this horse, and he has more than held his own, getting placed in these graded races, but straight after the Gold Cup we made the decision that his next race would be in a handicap.

I’m hoping this race isn’t as competitive as it often is, it certainly doesn’t look it, although our fellow will still need to perform to his best to get involved here. He seems in really good form at home, because we didn’t go into the Gold Cup with huge expectations and he didn’t have a really hard race there, although we won’t know for sure until we run him. At the end of the day he is a graded horse running in a handicap, I’m certainly hoping he can run a big race.

The Grand National, Aintree 5.15 – The Big Breakaway

The Big Breakaway did disappoint us at Cheltenham, although they did go flat out from the word go, he was just never travelling at any point. Go back to his Coral Welsh National run, though, and he ran a blinder, carrying a huge weight, so off 10-10 here he’ll think he’s running loose.