Point Barrow has become the fifth horse in twenty-five years to win the Pierse Leopardstown Handicap Chase carrying top weight. The nine-year old will be signed up for the Irish and English Grand Nationals and he is likely to head to Aintree.

“Aintree will be just the job as he stays so well,” owner Pat Hughes said. “He'll be entered in both the English and Irish but at the moment, I'd be coming down in favor of Liverpool. I haven't even mapped out a program yet but that was always in the back of my mind.”

Hughes also said that the horse would have a break for a couple of weeks and then he would run over hurdles. Point Barrow, who won the Irish National last season, is seen by many firms as the favorite to win this year’s Aintree marathon.