Noble Yeats targets second National & 2023 Gold Cup

Sam Waley-Cohen rode Noble Yeats to victory in the 2022 Grand National in his final race before retirement

Noble Yeats will run in this year's Grand National in an attempt to become only the second two-time winner of the race this century.

Only two horses - Golden Miller and L'Escargot - have won both the Grand National and the Gold Cup.

"we haven't found the ceiling for him yet," Irishman Mullins said.

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Tiger Roll, who won the National in 2018 and 2019, is the only two-time winner of the famous race since 2000.

Noble Yeats has won two of three races this season, first at Wexford in October and then in the Grade Two Boylesports Many Clouds in December.

"We are definitely aiming at the Grand National once again," Mullins said.

"After his performance in the Many Clouds last time he won't be too well looked after in the weights but with a horse like him he grows in that scenario and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't fancy our chances once again.

"The Cheltenham Gold Cup is a stayers' race and I would compare him to something like Hedgehunter who won a National and was second in a Gold Cup afterwards. Hopefully he'll take his chance in the Gold Cup."