Dual Paddy Power Stayers' Hurdle hero Flooring Porter is set to head to Aintree Racecourse to try and double up in the Liverpool Hurdle.
Gavin Cromwell’s stable star scored in the Cheltenham Festival feature last week for a second successive year. But with a preference for running left-handed, the Punchestown Festival at the end of next month is out of the question.
Flooring Porter scored a fine front-running victory under Danny Mullins at Prestbury Park, landing a two-and-three-quarters-of-a-length success from Thyme Hill and Paisley Park.
Now the seven-year-old is set to line-up in the Grade One Liverpool Hurdle at the Randox Grand National Festival at Aintree on April 9.
And he could face a re-match with those in behind in the Grade One contest on Grand National day on Merseyside.
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Trainer Cromwell said: “Flooring Porter is great, he’s had a canter and he is 100 per cent.
“He has really grown up – it is just maturity, but when you take him out of his familiar surroundings it can affect him, but he is a very intelligent horse at the back of it all.
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“We got him over there good and early which was a big help. He was a little on his toes for the first couple of days, but then got settled into the place and the red hood was a big help at the start.
“He definitely won’t go to Punchestown as he won’t go right-handed, so we will go to Aintree and there is a possibility he will go to Auteuil (Grande Course de Haies d’Auteuil).”
For information regarding tickets for the Randox Grand National Festival visit thejockeyclub.co.uk/Aintree.
