Mullins’ battalion attacks Scottish Grand National with eye on title

An Irish-trained horse has not won of the most coveted prizes in UK jumps racing since Queen Victoria was on the throne In the spring of 1869, Queen Victoria was approaching the halfway mark of what would eventually be a 64-year reign, Sir Henry Morton Stanley was preparing to head for Africa to seek out Dr Livingstone, and a horse called Huntsman won the third running of the Scottish Grand National at Bogside, a now-defunct racecourse on the banks of the River Irvine in Ayrshire. More than a ce