Tiger Roll

He achieved fame with victories at Cheltenham and Aintree in 2018 and then again in 2019, when he became the first horse since Red Rum in 1973 and 1974 to win back-to-back Grand Nationals.

He never raced for Godolphin and was sold for £10,000 three years later to Devon trainer and former Grand National winning jockey Nigel Hawke.

Partnered for the first time with jockey Davy Russell and starting at odds of 10/1, he won by 3¼ lengths with Kentucky Hyden in second place and Guitar Pete in third.

Tiger Roll's last race of the season was in the Champion Four Year Old Hurdle at Punchestown, where he started favourite but came a disappointing seventh.

After a summer break, Tiger Roll returned to the racecourse in October for a 2m½f hurdle race for four year olds with a field of four at Cheltenham.

In the December Festival Hurdle at Leopardstown Tiger Roll was competing for the first time against older horses and came sixth of seventh runners, beaten nineteen lengths by Hurricane Fly.

After a break of nearly eleven months from May 2015 to March 2016, Tiger Roll ran in a 2-mile flat race on the all-weather track at Dundalk Stadium.

In October 2016, ridden by conditional jockey Donagh Meyler, he won the Munster National Handicap at Limerick over 3 miles and in a field of fifteen.

After a break of over four months, Tiger Roll returned to racing in March at the 2017 Cheltenham Festival with victory in the Grade 2 National Hunt Challenge Cup Amateur Riders' Novices' Chase over 4 miles, ridden for the only time by Lisa O'Neill.

In December 2017 Tiger Roll and Keith Donoghue had their first taste of the cross country course at Cheltenham, coming fifth behind stablemate Bless the Wings.

In March 2018, after a break of nearly three months, Tiger Roll returned to Cheltenham and won the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase, beating Urgent de Gregaine by two lengths.

Ridden by Davy Russell and starting at odds of 10/1, he went into the lead two from home and held off a late challenge from Pleasant Company to win by a head in a photo-finish.

[1] At Aintree, on 6 April, partnered by Davy Russell and carrying six pounds more than in 2018, he started favourite for the Grand National at odds of 4/1 and won by more than two lengths from Magic of Light.

"[7] In the 2020 Virtual Grand National, Tiger Roll started 5/1 favourite but came home in fourth place, behind Potters Corner, Walk in the Mill and Any Second Now.

On this occasion his trainer was Denise Foster, as Gordon Elliott was serving a six-month suspension after a photo emerged of him sitting astride a dead horse.

[12] Having been withdrawn from the Grand National, Tiger Roll was instead entered in the Betway Bowl Grade 1 chase at the Aintree Meeting on 9 April 2021.

He trailed home fourth of five finishers, 92 lengths behind the winner, Clan des Obeaux, and the stewards held an inquiry into his running and riding.

Jockey Jack Kennedy's explanation, that Tiger Roll was never really travelling due to the fast early pace and a mistake at the 3rd, was noted.

[13] Tiger Roll was pulled up in his first race of the season, the Many Clouds Chase at Aintree on 4 December, and came 14th of 17 runners in the Navan Handicap Hurdle the following month.

[1] On 15 February 2022, owner O'Leary announced he was withdrawing Tiger Roll from the 2022 Grand National after the horse was assigned a 161 rating.

[14] Tiger Roll was narrowly denied victory in his farewell race by stablemate Delta Work, also owned by O'Leary.