Trainers often spend their time on a racecourse being force-fed the views of others but David Pipe certainly has no regrets heeding the advice given to him at Aintree last month.

Richard Hughes – who was at the meeting assisting his father, Dessie, with his runners at the Grand National meeting – suggested that the horse who had finished down the field in a handicap hurdle was the right one for one of the most idiosyncratic races of the Flat season.

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