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Former British point-to-pointers served up a royal finish when taking first and second places in the weekend’s Becher Chase over Aintree’s Grand National fences.
Twig (18/1), who has become the horse of a lifetime for the Morgan family, carried Beau Morgan into the winner’s circle after holding off Mr Vango (9/2f) by a short head. Last season’s Welsh Grand National winner Val Dancer finished third. (Picture above shows Twig leading at the final fence from fifth-placed Mahons Glory with Mr Vango under Jack Tudor in red and blue colours about to make his challenge – picture from The Jockey Club/John Grossick Photography)
Victory for ten-year-old Twig continued a story which started with two bumper runs for Ben Pauling before embarking on two seasons of point-to-pointing with Bath trainer Matt Hampton. Acting as a schoolmaster he provided Beau with a winner on his first ride when landing a maiden race at Maisemore Park in Gloucestershire before they scored again at Upcott Cross later in the disrupted 2020/21 season. The following season the partnership won two more point-to-points and two hunters’ chases before Twig returned to Pauling to take up handicap chasing.
He soon carried Beau’s older brother Luca to victory in a handicap chase and has since added six more victories in hurdles or chases under the younger sibling, including the big win on Saturday. It was only confirmed after a lengthy stewards’ inquiry, following which Beau said: “Normally those photo finishes don’t come in for me but thank God the one time it mattered, it did. Every time this horse wins there is a stewards’ inquiry. He is one of those horses that if you hit the front too soon, he will slam on the brakes.
“We chased down the horse that had a nice lead and we probably got there a bit too soon, but it worked out well for us. We were always waiting for that horse to come upsides us and give us a bit of challenge up the run-in. Thank God he dug deep today, and I owe everything to him.
No one was more delighted at the Merseyside track than Morgan’s dad Arron, although his wife, Georgia, who owns Twig, was at home nursing a broken leg.
Morgan Snr said: “It is amazing and I’m so proud of the boys. Luca has been helping to train him and Beau rides it, what more could you want.
“The poor wife is sat at home with a broken leg and she is absolutely devastated she can’t be here. She is at home, but she is loving it and she is ecstatic the same as all of us.
“I turned away thinking is this true, and I couldn’t believe it. To see Beau come across the line was emotional. It is a brilliant day and a dream come true.”
Mr Vango, who finished a noble runner-up under top weight of 12st, started racing from the stable of Chris Barber, who trained him to win at Horseheath on his sole start in a point. The late Mark Bradstock then bought Mr Vango at Doncaster for £30,000, and he has since won five races under rules, latterly while under the care of Bradstock’s widow Sarah.
She said: “He is amazing. We got him for £30,000 as he had a great reputation of being a big old slow old horse, but he is a big slow old horse with an engine and an attitude.
“Give us another furlong and we win it. He is a real old hero.
“We wouldn’t come back here on anything that isn’t softer than good to soft as otherwise they go too fast for him. This ground over four and a bit miles you think he would have a shout [in next year’s Grand National] and if you got Red Marauder ground [bottomless] then no one would get near him.
“The Welsh Grand National is in my mind, the Classic Chase probably won’t go heavy enough. He loves the ground at Haydock Park so the Grand National Trial is a possibility.”
On another good day for ex-British point-to-pointers the Mel Rowley-trained Bear Market won Aintree’s following race, a handicap hurdle. In the 2023/24 season Bear Market won a Bangor point-to-point flat race and then a bumper limited to pointers at Aintree while stabled with Rowley’s husband Philip.
At Sandown the Martin Keighley-trained Hung Jury ran another fine race when second in the London National over three and a half miles. Now a ten-year-old he started racing from the stable of Fran Poste and won three point-to-points before moving to Sian Brooke and scoring twice more.
