{"id":832534,"date":"2026-03-17T21:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/832534\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:02:19","slug":"daily-stars-horse-to-run-in-worlds-most-famous-race-the-grand-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/832534\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Star’s horse to run in world’s most famous race \u2013 the Grand National"},"content":{"rendered":"

EXCLUSIVE: Wendigo made such an impression in front of the Queen at Cheltenham’s Ladies Day he is set to star in the Aintree classic in a front of global TV audience of up to 600m<\/p>\n

20:40, 17 Mar 2026Updated 20:55, 17 Mar 2026<\/p>\n

\"Wendigo<\/p>\n

Wendigo looks a very good thing at Ayr on Thursday says the Daily Star’s chief tipster Jason Heavey(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

The Daily Star\u2019s horse is to run in the world\u2019s most famous race – the Grand National.<\/p>\n

Trainer Jamie Snowden plans to enter Wendigo in next year\u2019s Aintree classic. It will be beamed to a TV audience of up to 600 million across 170 countries<\/a> – and boasts \u00a31m in prize money.<\/p>\n

We bought a hoof of the horse just minutes before he raced in front of the Queen on Ladies Day at Cheltenham last week. The seven-year-old gelding boasts six wins and four places in 13 starts and is the star of The Racing Club – a syndicate aimed at allowing folk who would not normally<\/a> be able to afford a thoroughbred to compete in the sport of kings.<\/p>\n

\"He<\/p>\n

He appeared at the Cheltenham Festival(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

And he looked certain to set the sporting world alight as he hurtled through the 16-strong Brown Advisory Novices\u2019 Steeple Chase field to fourth with just one fence to jump. Sadly he stumbled at the last and unseated jockey Gavin Sheehan – leaving 50,000 fans and HRH \u2018open-mouthed\u2019, according to observers.<\/p>\n

Thankfully Wendigo was fine, has made a full recovery and put in such a promising performance Jamie plans to train him up to take on Aintree\u2019s historic four mile, 514 yard steeplechase. His next big race as part of his preparation is set to be the \u00a3250,000 Coral Gold Cup at Newbury in November – previously won by legends Denman and Arkle.<\/p>\n

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Jamie said: \u201cWendigo seems to be ok after his tumble at Cheltenham in the week. He has been down splashing in the river, hacking around the bridle paths and we gave him a gentle canter yesterday and he seems fresh and happy in himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll get our vet to check him out this week and then we\u2019ll just see where we are with him before making any plans for the rest of this season. He has the Coral Gold Cup written all over him though.<\/p>\n

\"Jamie<\/p>\n

Wendigo’s trainer Jamie Snowden(Image: Getty Images Europe)<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that and the Grand National look the route to take with him next season.\u201d Jamie said the horse had run a \u2018big race\u2019 on \u2018unsuitable\u2019 ground which was too firm for him.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cHe was out of his comfort zone for the whole first circuit but his jumping kept him in there. He was just creeping into it and I was thinking we might just have a chance. He was staying on all the way. And he stumbled and came down.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t quite to be. But we live to fight another day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Wendigo made such an impression in front of the Queen at Cheltenham’s Ladies Day he is set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1759,110690,287,288,1232,4575,2607,1071,79,37143,16,15],"class_list":["post-832534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-camilla-parker-bowles","tag-cheltenham","tag-grand-national","tag-horse-racing","tag-money","tag-queen","tag-queen-camilla","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-the-inside-track-horse-racing","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116246540993436986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}