Lung infection fells Timbera’s Grand National bid

DESSIE HUGHES’ Timbera, backed down to clear favouritism with a number of firms — as low as 8-1 — will miss Saturday’s Martell Cognac Grand National at Aintree.

Set to be the Curragh-based handler’s first ever runner in the Liverpool spectacular, the ten-year-old scoped poorly yesterday and is suffering from a lung infection.

“The news isn’t good, he has scoped badly”, reported Hughes, who admitted to feeling “gutted.”