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Amateur rider Patrick Mullins enjoyed his finest hr arsenic helium guided Nick Rockett to triumph for his begetter Willie Mullins successful the Randox Grand National astatine Aintree.
The Closutton handler had assembled a ace squad for the Aintree marathon and arsenic the runners entered the concern end, his contenders were dominating the caput of proceedings, with I Am Maximus looking successful the perfect presumption to support his rubric successful the hands of Paul Townend.
However, the load of top-weight proved excessively overmuch successful the closing stages, arsenic Nick Rockett (33-1) finished afloat of running, starring location a one-two-three for the champion trainer, who was registering not lone back-to-back victories but his 3rd occurrence 20 years aft his archetypal with Hedgehunter.
For bully measure, Mullins besides had the fifth-placed equine successful Meetingofthewaters.
Iroko was 4th for Oliver Greenall and Josh Guerriero.
Nick Rockett was intelligibly travelling powerfully coming to the last obstruction and helium galloped distant from apical value I Am Maximus to triumph by 2 and a fractional lengths.
There was a further half-length backmost to Grangeclare West successful third, with Iroko taking 4th arsenic the 13-2 favourite.
Patrick Mullins told ITV Racing: 'I had excessively bully a commencement and was having to instrumentality him backmost each the way. I was wondering astatine Canal Turn had I mislaid excessively overmuch ground, but helium conscionable jumped fantastic.
'Then I was determination excessively soon and it is simply a agelong mode from the backmost of the past with Paul Townend (on I Am Maximus) connected my outside.
'It's everything I've dreamed of since I was a kid, I cognize it's a cliche but erstwhile I was 5 oregon six years old, speechmaking books astir the National and watching achromatic and achromatic videos of Red Rum. To enactment my sanction determination is precise special.'
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