Can Mon Mone Win The Grand National Twice in a Row?

As the National Hunt season draws to a close and after having a wonderful and enthralling four days of Cheltenham betting we now turn our attention to Aintree and the 2010 Grand National. Last year’s surprise winner, 100-1 shot Mon Mone returns after putting in a decent performance at the Cheltenham Gold Cup where he finished a respectable third.

Of course there are thirty intimidating fences, two and a quarter miles of muscle sapping track and thirty nine other horses standing in the way of another Mon Mone Grand National success. Only four other horses have achieved this massive feat of winning two Grand National’s in a row : Abd-El-Kader (1850, 1851), The Colonel (1869, 1870), Reynoldstown (1935, 1936) and Red Rum (1973, 1974) – so, you could say that history was stacked against Mon Mone from achieving two Grand national wins in a row but it’s not impossible.

My picks as contenders for the 2010 Grand National crown, aside from Mon Mone, are early favourite Big Fella Thanks (8/1), Tricky Trickster (14/1) and 2008 winner, Comply or Die (25/1).

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