Longhouse Poet can give Martin Brassil a second Grand National win

The eight-year-old has a similar profile to 2006 hero Numbersixvalverde

Longhouse Poet was an impressive winner of the Thyestes Chase at Gowran Park in January and should give Darragh O'Keeffe a good spin in the Grand National. Picture: Healy Racing

Successful with Numbersixvalverde in 2006, Martin Brassil can continue the recent Irish domination of the Randox Grand National by saddling Longhouse Poet to victory in the Aintree spectacular.

Placed at Grade One level as a novice hurdler, Longhouse Poet lacks experience over fences but his impressive victory in the Thyestes Chase at Gowran Park in January — a race Numbersixvalverde won the season before his Grand National triumph — proved his fondness for an extreme stamina test.