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The first race of the 2014 Aintree Festival and it promises to be a cracker as it has been for the past few years with the great Big Buck's winning the race for the past three years. It attracts some of the very best long distance hurdlers around to the race and it offers them a further chance for Group 1 success following the Cheltenham Festival a few weeks earlier.
There is no Big Buck's this through injury this season but we do have the first two from the World Hurdle at Cheltenham last month. Solwhit will be looking to win the race after his Festival success while Celestial Halo will also be engaged with connections looking to reverse the placings
Liverpool Hurdle Race Card and Form
14:50 John Smith's Liverpool Hurdle (Grade 1)
1.Solwhit - C Byrnes - P Carberry - 9/4F
2.Holywell - J O'Neill - A P McCoy - 9/1
3.Smad Place - A King - W Hutchinson - 5/1
13 Ran
14:00 BGC Partners Liverpool Hurdle (Grade 1) (Class 1, 3m 110y)
1.Big Bucks - R Walsh - P Nicholls - 2/9f
2.Crack Away Jack - N Fehily - T George - 33/1
3.Across The Bay - J Maguire - D McCain - 50/1
8 Ran
14:00 BGC Partners Liverpool Hurdle (Grade 1) (Class 1, 3m 110y)
1. Big Buck's (R Walsh) 4/6F
2. Grands Crus (T Scudamore) 3/1
3. Won In The Dark (A Lynch) 66/1
11 Ran
