‘Queen of the yard’
WHEN Snow Leopardess lines up for the 174th Randox Health Grand National at Aintree on 9 April, she will be bidding to become the 14th mare to be successful in the world’s greatest race, the first to win it since Nickel Coin 71 years ago, the first-ever grey mare to win it and, I am pretty certain, the first broodmare to win it.
Statisticians would probably take great joy in telling us that makes victory nigh on impossible. The opposite view is, of course, that not many grey mares have tried and winning it is overdue.
What is more, thus far, Marietta Fox-Pitt’s fifth-generation home-bred has achieved every target she
