2015 Grand National runner profile: Mon Parrain

Mon Parrain

Age: 9

Weight: 10st 11lb

Owner: John & Barbara Cotton

Trainer: Paul Nicholls. Grand National record – 1992 Just So (6th); 1996 Vicompt De Valmont (10th), Deep Bramble (PU 29th), Brackenfield (UR 19th); 1997 Straight Talk (FELL 14th); 1998 What A Hand (FELL 1st), Court Melody (FELL 6th), General Crack (PU 11th); 1999 Strong Chairman (15th), Double Thriller (FELL 1st), 2000 Earthmover (FELL 4th), Torduff Express (FELL 13th), Flaked Oats (FELL 20th), Escartefigue (UR 30th); 2001 Earthmover (FELL 4th); 2002 Murt’s Man (PU 17th), Ad Hoc (BD 27th); 2003 Montifault (5th), Fadalko (UR 6th), Ad Hoc (UR 19th), Shotgun Willy (PU 22nd), Torduff Express (UR 27th); 2004 Exit To Wave (PU 9th); 2005 Royal Auclair (2nd), Heros Collonges (8th), L’Aventure (15th), Ad Hoc (FELL 22nd); 2006 Royal Auclair (FELL 1st), Le Duc (UR 8th), Silver Birch (FELL 15th), Heros Collonges (UR 15th), Le Roi Miguel (PU 19th), Cornish Rebel (PU 19th); 2007 Le Duc (UR 6th), Royal Auclair (FELL 9th), Eurotrek (PU bef 22nd), Thisthatandtother (PU 30th); 2008 Cornish Sett (12th), Turko (FELL 25th), Mr Pointment (PU 30th); 2009 My Will (3rd), Big Fella Thanks (6th), Cornish Sett (17th), Eurotrek (PU 17th); 2010 Big Fella Thanks (4th), Tricky Trickster (9th), My Will (FELL 4th), Nozic (UR 20th); 2011 Niche Market (5th), Ornais (FELL 4th), The Tother One (FELL 6th), What A Friend (PU 27th); 2012 NEPTUNE COLLONGES (WON); 2013 Join Together (12th), What A Friend (PU 19th), Harry The Viking (PU 26th); 2014 Rocky Creek (5th), Hawkes Point (18th), Tidal Bay (UR 8th)

Jockey: Sean Bowen. Grand National record – no previous rides

Form: P1P1316112/5312/734/P81-P015

*Was trained by Guillaume Macaire in France, where he won five times, before joining Paul Nicholls during the 2010/2011 season.

*Finished second in the 2011 Crabbies Topham Chase over the Grand National fences on his second start in Britain

*Mon Parrain came 11th in the Crabbie’s Becher Chase over the Grand National fences on December 6, 2014

*His two most recent wins have come at Cheltenham – April, 2014 and January, 2015

*He last raced when fifth in the BetBright Grimthorpe Handicap Chase at Doncaster on February 28.

Race record: Starts: 24; 1st: 8; 2nd: 2; 3rd: 3; Win & Place prize money: £142,169