Aidan Coleman

Pendra’s a big price but he wouldn’t be running if he wasn’t going to have some sort of impact in the Randox Health Grand National Handicap Chase.

It’s been a wholly frustrating week. I haven’t known a wet spell like this so late in the season. It’s April after all!

With the exception of San Calvados my horses ran pretty much as anticipated at the Cheltenham Festival.

Go Conquer is always a horse I look forward to riding and he’s got a good chance in the big race of the day, the Betdaq Handicap Chase at Kempton Park.

I would be very confident of Cepage’s chance of winning at Wincanton today, although I do have a slight concern about the ground.

I was meant to be riding Fountains Windfall at Warwick today, but I got the call at Kempton on Friday to say that he’d died in a freak schooling accident.

Beer Goggles will carry so many hopes today, when he lines up for the galliardhomes.com Cleeve Hurdle at Cheltenham.

It’s been a very interesting week, beginning with my third place finish on Final Nudge in the Coral Welsh National at Chepstow last Saturday.

Nicky Henderson has won the Ladbrokes Trophy, formerly known as the Hennessy, three times since 2005, which fills me with confidence going into Saturday’s big race.

Go Conquer is appropriately named, given the way he sets out to control his races from the front, and he did just that in the Sodexo Gold Cup at Ascot last weekend.