Elliott planning ambitious double Grand National tilt with Tiger Roll

Any doubts surrounding Tiger Roll’s participation in the Aintree Grand National were allayed by his trainer Gordon Elliott yesterday, who also revealed that the gutsy nine-year-old may well be one of a number of his charges who could follow up in the Boylesports Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse.

Elliott hosted the launch for the latter contest at Cullentra House yesterday and having won the €500,000 feature he had coveted for so long for the first time in an eventful renewal last year thanks to General Principle, has 34 of the 110 entries this time around and will in his own words, “be firing as many darts as we can at it” again on Easter Monday.