Osborne's Major ride
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Your support makes all the difference.Jamie Osborne will partner Major Bell, a leading fancy for Saturday's Scottish Grand National, now that the horse's original rider, Tony Dobbin, has been forced to give up the mount after breaking his collar-bone. Dobbin, the winning rider at Aintree on Lord Gyllene, sustained his injury in a fall at Hexham on Monday. He will be out of action for three weeks.
David Nicholson has confirmed that he will mount a two-pronged attack on the race with Sounds Strong and Baronet. "Both horses are very well and I'm looking forward to it," he said.
On the National undercard, Pridwell, winner of a match at Cheltenham yesterday, is a possible for the Scottish Champion Hurdle. "We'll have to see how he is in the next few days," Martin Pipe, his trainer, said. "It will depend on where the owners want to go as he is also in a race at Punchestown next week."
Pipe and Tony McCoy managed to notch the first four winners at Exeter yesterday in the trainer's latest attempt to go through the card at a meeting.
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