Ballyholland has Topham target

Ballyholland is to return to Aintree this spring – but it will be the Topham rather than the John Smith’s Grand National for Colin McBratney’s charge.

The Northern Irish raider, who won the 2009 Galway Plate, was prepared for the National last season and travelled smoothly through much of the race before weakening and pulled-up at the third-last.