Glynn cool on Fairyhouse bid
Last week’s brave Cheltenham runner-up Becauseicouldntsee is likely to miss the Powers Whiskey Irish Grand National due to his preference for left-handed circuits.
Trainer Noel Glynn and jockey Nina Carberry had quite an experience in the National Hunt Chase as Becauseicouldntsee competed with just three shoes after the fourth could not be replaced at the start of the four-miler.
In the end he was only run out of it by Poker De Sivola and Katie Walsh, prompting the bookmakers to make him second favourite for the Fairyhouse Easter highlight.
Glynn said: “He has come out of it OK. It was a shame about the shoe, he’s a big horse and it was not the best thing to do.
“If I had been able to get down to the start I think we would have been able to get it on. He might have been a bit geed-up, but he’s a very easy horse to deal with. He still ran a blinder.”
Although the seven-year-old won a modest beginners’ chase by a distance at Fairyhouse in February, Glynn is not desperately keen to return there.
“He is a stone better going left-handed so we might well put him on hold this season and give him a couple of months off – although if something came up at Liverpool, we could still run him there,” added Glynn, who trains at Ennis, County Clare.
“He would definitely be one for the National (Aintree) next year.”
