Merigo to run in Becher Chase

Question

Trainers usually do their level best to get a horse into a handicap on the lowest weight possible.

But such is the revival of fortunes in the John Smith’s Grand National that connections do not want to take the chance of relying on a favourable handicap mark that might backfire by not being high enough to make the final field of 40 that will go to post for the big race next April.

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