By Betting Zone
April 17 2006

GVA Ireland, who won the Midlands Grand National in testing conditions last month for Francis Flood, is set to take his chance along with 2004 Cheltenham Gold Cup third Harbour Pilot

IRISH GRAND NATIONAL PREVIEW

By Nick Robson of Bettingzone.co.uk



Our Ben, trained by Willie Mullins, heads 30 runners in the Powers Whiskey Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse this afternoon.

The exciting novice must carry top weight of 11st 12lb after he was last seen unseating Ruby Walsh at the third fence in the Royal and SunAlliance Chase at the Cheltenham Festival.

Mullins will also be represented by another novice in Homer Wells.

Dun Doire missed the cut for the Aintree equivalent last week but will carry the hopes of Tony Martin at Fairyhouse.

The seven-year-old was a winner at Cheltenham after finishing with a rattling late run up the hill to win the William Hill Trophy Handicap Chase - his seventh victory in eight starts.

GVA Ireland, who won the Midlands Grand National in testing conditions last month for Francis Flood, is set to take his chance along with 2004 Cheltenham Gold Cup third Harbour Pilot.

Noel Meade will also saddle Topham Chase faller Star Clipper and No Half Session, who will be ridden by Grand National-winning jockey Niall 'Slippers' Madden.

Tony McCoy will ride the JP McManus-owned Far From Trouble, who finished third behind Hot Weld in the Letheby & Christopher National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham.

Paul Nolan will be double-handed with Coljon and Kymandjen, while Ferdy Murphy's Supreme Developer is the sole British representative in the three-mile-five-furlong contest.

RUNNERS, RIDERS AND ODDS

No.		Form	Horse	Age	Wt	Jockey	Bet
1		5P-213U	Our Ben 33	7	11-12	R Walsh	12/1 at Total Bet
2		111111	Dun Doire IRE) 34	7	11-6	M A Fitzgerald	5/1 at Total Bet
3		2/4P-12P	Harbour Pilot (IRE) 31	11	11-6	D F O'Regan	50/1 at Total Bet
5		562-1P6	Kymandjen (IRE) 51	9	11-1	J L Cullen	40/1 at Total Bet
6		9-P4551	G V A Ireland (IRE) 30	8	11-0	B J Geraghty	10/1 at Total Bet
7		0U53FF	Romaha (IRE) 31	10	10-13 t	T G M Ryan	66/1 at Total Bet
8		6-40003	Well Presented (IRE) 43	8	10-13	R M Power	40/1 at Total Bet
9		212226	Coljon (IRE) 57	8	10-11 hvc	R M Moran (3)	33/1 at Total Bet
11		5-01F14	Solar System (IRE) 43	9	10-11	J R Barry	50/1 at Total Bet
12		15092F	Star Clipper 10	9	10-11 t	Miss N Carberry	50/1 at Total Bet
13		12-5123	Far From Trouble (IRE) 32	7	10-10	A P McCoy	7/1 at Total Bet
15		P/59500	Montayral (FR) 12	9	10-10	Mr R O Harding (5)	66/1 at Total Bet
17		413166	Black Apalachi (IRE) 33	7	10-8	N P Madden	16/1 at Total Bet
18		U-21278	Colonel Monroe (IRE) 43	9	10-8	P W Flood	66/1 at Total Bet
19		0-69006	Point Barrow (IRE) 23	8	10-8	P A Carberry	25/1 at Total Bet
20		1111P3	What A Native (IRE) 31	10	10-8	D J Casey	40/1 at Total Bet
21		21U321	American Jennie (IRE) 29	8	10-7	D N Russell	25/1 at Total Bet
22		591764	Coolnahilla (IRE) 71	10	10-7	K T Coleman (3)	25/1 at Total Bet
23		2833R3	A New Story (IRE) 23	8	10-6	Andrew J McNamara	16/1 at Total Bet
24		2P1/13-7	Manjoe (IRE) 71	8	10-6	T P Treacy	66/1 at Total Bet
25		20-46P4	Supreme Developer (IRE) 37	9	10-5	K J Mercer	40/1 at Total Bet
26		660871	Doodle Addle (IRE) 31	10	10-3	A P Crowe	80/1 at Total Bet
27		P60228	Oulart (IRE) 32	7	10-1	R Loughran (3)	12/1 at Total Bet
28		3-0800U	What Odds (IRE) 34	10	10-1	R Geraghty	80/1 at Total Bet
29		131-123	Monterey Bay (IRE) 141	10	10-0	T J Murphy	9/1 at Total Bet
30		601-101	One More Minute (IRE) 224	6	10-0	M Darcy	66/1 at Total Bet