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Barton Snow followed up his Cheltenham Festival Hunters’ Chase victory by landing this afternoon’s Randox Foxhunters’ Chase at Aintree.
He became the first horse to win both races in the same season since On The Fringe scored for Limerick trainer Enda Bolger in both 2015 and 2016.
Trained in Cheshire by Joe O’Shea and ridden once again by Henry Crow, nine-year-old Barton Snow (pictured above, No.3 – photography by Debbie Burt) cruised along the run-in and dominated the finish of the race in a manner rarely seen. Sent off the 7/4 favourite he won by seven lengths – although it could have been doubled – from the Mags Mullins-trained Lets Go Champ (11/1) with Take All (50/1) producing an outstanding run for trainer Myles Osborne and jockey Sam Scott by taking third, one and a quarter lengths further back. Unexpected Party finished fourth, while last year’s winner, the O’Shea-trained Gracchus De Balme, looked likely to be placed when they turned for home, but faded into seventh.
Double completed – Henry Crow is all smiles after his Randox Foxhunters’ Chase win (Ce)
Crow said: “It went exactly to plan – that was Plan A. It’s great when it happens like that. To win at Cheltenham and Aintree takes a very good horse.
“I was happy all the way, they went a good gallop, he jumped really well and he won it really well. I just had to sit there and let him roll. We know from the gallops how good he is. All the credit has to go to Joe who’s now won four Foxhunters [three at Aintree, one at Cheltenham]. I wouldn’t be here if he hadn’t put me on.
“When you get on the racecourse you’ve got a job to do and it’s great when it works out, but when you think about a race so much in advance it just becomes another race. It was the same at Cheltenham – it’s a week after that you get the buzz. On the day it’s just another race.”
Hardly breaking sweat, Barton Snow (Henry Crow) cruises to victory (Debbie Burt)
O’Shea said: “Two weeks ago Henry jumped off this horse and said ‘I don’t know what you’ve done Joe, but I know you’ve done it right – he can’t get beat.”
Asked to compare his previous winners of the race, Cousin Pascal and Gracchus De Balme, with Barton Snow, he said: “This one is faster and can keep it up for longer. He’s a very special horse. If he were to leave me [and go handicap chasing from a licensed yard] he’d go backwards. Leaving me is like leaving Old Trafford . . . there’s only one way and it’s downhill.
“I’ve had owners who have tried that and it’s not worked out. The owners tell me they want to come back for this next year. This win means far more to me than Cheltenham, because here at Aintree they know how to look after you. They look after the staff and the owners – they can’t be more helpful.
“The group of owners bought him, not me. He arrived at ten past two in the morning, came down the ramp of the lorry and at five o’clock I spoke to one of the owners and said ‘What have you sent me – a greyhound? He’s so small he’s unbelievable’ and he said ‘Wait until you work him’.”
Crow’s father Alastair and his aunt Lucy, both former champion point-to-point riders, share the Aintree magic (Ce)
Barton Snow was bought by his owners, the MMI Partnership, in the summer of 2024 from Irish trainer William Murphy for whom he won a single point-to-point in 19 starts. Since moving to Cheshire he has won nine of ten races and is unbeaten in his last eight.
