THE owners of recent Cheltenham Festival winner Haiti Couleurs have reportedly already booked their table at Fairyhouse Racecourse on Easter Monday (April 21st) ahead of the €500,000 BoyleSports Irish Grand National.

Trained in Wales by Rebecca Curtis, Haiti Couleurs is one of 11 British entries for the 2025 edition of the famous race and he is the early favourite with the sponsors at 8/1.

Although the National Hunt Novices’ Handicap Chase winner has been allocated 10st in the marathon chase, the weights are expected to rise by at least 13lb, as most of the top weights are expected to run at Aintree next week.

There are three other 2025 Cheltenham winners engaged in the Irish National - Stumptown (Cross Country), Daily Present (Kim Muir) and Wonderwall (Hunter Chase).

The last overseas winner of the race was Shutthefrontdoor in 2014. His trainer Jonjo O’Neill, now jointly at the helm with son A.J., has entered Kim Muir runner-up Johnnywho and Hasthing in this year’s race.

Grade 1 races

Cheltenham Festival winners Jango Baie and Lecky Watson are among an entry of 22 horses for the two and a half-mile WillowWarm Gold Cup, the first of two Grade 1 contests at Fairyhouse on Easter Sunday, April 20th.

Nicky Henderson’s Jango Baie would be going up in distance after his last-gasp success in Cheltenham’s two-mile Arkle Chase, while the Willie Mullins-trained Lecky Watson would be coming back in trip after his taking victory in the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase, over an extended three miles, if they were to run.

Not short of options, Mullins has also entered his Grade 1 Dublin Racing Festival winner Ballyburn, fifth behind Lecky Watson at Cheltenham last time, the Limerick Grade 1 winner Impaire Et Passe, two-time chase winner Ile Atlantique, and last weekend’s Limerick scorer Fun Fun Fun.

The Mullins-trained Spindleberry saw off the Gavin Cromwell-trained Bioluminescence to take the Listed Irish EBF Colreevy Mares’ Novice Chase at Fairyhouse in late February and they also feature.

The Grade 1 Bar One Racing Drinmore Novice Chase winner Croke Park, Firefox, Down Memory Lane and Shecouldbeanything have been entered by Gordon Elliott, while Common Practice and Jordans are there for Joseph O’Brien, with Slade Steel a possible contender for Henry de Bromhead.

A fascinating rematch between de Bromhead’s Air Of Entitlement and the Gavin Cromwell-trained Sixandahalf is on the cards in the Grade 1 Irish EBF Honeysuckle Mares’ Novice Hurdle on the same Easter Sunday programme.

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Boylesports Irish Grand National

Latest betting: 8 Haiti Couleurs, 12 Better Days Ahead, Now Is The Hour, 14 Daily Present, High Class Hero, Intense Raffles, Johnnywho, Quai De Bourbon, 16 Bioluminescence, Captain Cody, Chosen Witness, Dancing City, Hasthing, I Am Maximus, Impaire Et Passe, Iroko, Kinturk Kalanisi, Nick Rockett, Perceval Legallois, Stumptown, Wonderwall, 20 bar.