Lifetime Ambition of National victory edging closer for Jessica Harrington

Victory would taste all the more sweeter in light of the news that the veteran trainer has been battling breast cancer

GRAND PLANS: Jessica Harrington is confident Lifetime Ambition has the right attributes to thrive over the extended four-and-a-quarter-mile trip at Aintree. Picture: Healy Racing

Jessica Harrington has captured many big races in both codes of racing, but the decorated handler could have found an appropriately-named horse to fill the Randox Grand National-shaped void in her trophy cabinet.

Lifetime Ambition is the horse in question — an eight-year-old gelding who comes alive in the spring.