Bertram Allen’s great ambition is to ride in Grand National

Bertram Allen doesn’t spook or excite too easily. He’s a show jumper, so he can’t.

Calm, calculated thinking and the ability to treat triumph and tragedy as equal imposters are pretty essential attributes when you have anything up to a ton of unpredictable horse flesh underneath you. But he does have one crazy, out there ambition.

He’d love to ride the Grand National. Allen admitted as much a few years ago, long before his 19-year old buddy Danny Mullins claimed victory last month in horse racing’s most illustrious race on board Rule The World.