ONE of the best Channel 4 features around this year’s Crabbie’s Grand National was that of a mic’d-up, headcam-wearing A.P. McCoy jumping the Aintree fences on Hello Bud.

The 1998 Jurado gelding was bred in north Co Dublin by popular trainer Peter Casey and, on the last of 42 track performances, won the Betfred Chase over three miles, two furlongs of the National track in December 2012. The bay is very much a favourite of his jockey that day, Sam Twiston-Davies.