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Moffatt lodges National hopes
- Updated: December 5, 2016
James Moffatt believes Highland Lodge’s performance in the Becher Chase at Aintree on Saturday should be good enough to earn him a place in the Randox Health Grand National back there in April.
The 10-year-old was only touched off on the line by Vieux Lion Rouge in his bid to record back-to-back victories in three-and-a-quarter-mile test over the famous obstacles.
Moffatt felt that effort was better than the one that saw him victorious 12 months earlier when it was his first race since he bought the horse out of Emma Lavelle’s stable.
Highland Lodge missed the cut for National last season, but the Cartmel handler expects him to get a run this time round on the back of that display.
“We were …
