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Trainer Gordon Elliott has added the American Grand National to his list of honours. Photo credit: Brian Lawless\/PA Wire.<\/p>\n
Gordon Elliott enjoyed a Saturday to remember in New Jersey as Zanahiyr landed the American Grand National as part of a five-timer for the trainer at Far Hills.<\/p>\n
Having won a chase at Galway and a Flat race at Bellewstown this summer, Zanahiyr made the trip across the Atlantic with major claims in the Grade One feature.<\/p>\n
The eight-year-old was not entirely convincing in the jumping department, but stuck to his guns to keep himself in the fight.<\/p>\n
He dug deep on the run-in chase down the Gavin Cromwell-trained Ballysax Hank and got up in the dying strides to claim a narrow but thrilling victory in the hands of Jack Kennedy.<\/p>\n
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Elliott and Kennedy successfully combined with four winners overall, with Chortal, We’re Back Again and Emily Love all striking gold, while Danny Gilligan steered Coutach to a runaway success in the Foxbrook Champion Hurdle Stakes.<\/p>\n
In a post on X, Elliott said: “A truly magical day at Far Hills for the Team with a five-timer, including the American Grand National<\/p>\n
“Thank you to our owners for their support and congratulations to all of them on their wins.<\/p>\n
“A big well done to the entire team, both Stateside and back home – a day to remember!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trainer Gordon Elliott has added the American Grand National to his list of honours. Photo credit: Brian Lawless\/PA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[20576,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-210801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-gordon-elliott","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}