THE RANDOX HEALTH 2020 OWNERS’ & TRAINERS’ INFORMATION

TIGER ROLL 2 - 4 APRIL 2020 ORDER OF RUNNING

1.45 The Manifesto Novices’ Steeple Chase (Grade 1) 2m 4f £100,000 2.20 The Doom Bar Anniversary 4YO Juvenile Hurdle (Grade 1) 2m 1f £100,000 2.50 The Bowl Steeple Chase (Grade 1) 3m 1f £200,000 3.25 The Betway (Grade 1) 2m 4f £250,000 4.05 The Randox Health Foxhunters’ Steeple Chase (Class 2) 2m 5f £45,000 4.40 The Close Brothers Red Rum Handicap Steeple Chase (Grade 3) 2m £100,000 5.15 The Goffs UK Nickel Coin Mares’ Standard Open NH Flat (Grade 2) 2m 1f £45,000 LIVERPOOL’S DAY 2) (Thursday TOTAL ON THE DAY £840,000 1.45 The Ladies Day Handicap Hurdle (Grade 3) 2m 4f £75,000 2.20 The Betway Top Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) 2m ½f £100,000 2.50 The Betway Mildmay Novices’ Steeple Chase (Grade 1) 3m 1f £100,000 3.25 The Marsh Steeple Chase (Registered as the Melling) Grade 1 2m 4f £250,000 4.05 The Randox Health Topham Steeple Chase (Grade 3) 2m 5f £140,000 4.40 The Doom Bar Sefton Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) 3m ½f £100,000 5.15 The Pinsent Masons Handicap Hurdle (cond’ and amat’) Class 2 2m ½f £50,000 LADIES DAY 3) (Friday TOTAL ON THE DAY £815,000 1.45 The Gaskells Handicap’ Hurdle (Grade 3) 3m ½f £75,000 2.25 The Betway Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) 2m 4f £100,000 3.00 The Doom Bar Maghull Novices’ Steeple Chase (Grade 1) 2m £100,000 3.40 The Ryanair Stayers’ Hurdle (Registered as the Liverpool) Grade 1 3m ½f £200,000 4.15 The Betway Handicap Steeple Chase (Listed) 3m 1f £75,000 5.15 The Randox Health Grand National Steeple Chase (Grade 3) 4m 2½f £1,000,000 6.20 The Weatherbys Racing Bank Standard Open NH Flat (Grade 2) 2m 1f £45,000 GRAND DAY NATIONAL 4) (Saturday TOTAL ON THE DAY £1,595,000 GRAND TOTAL £3,250,000 GENERAL INFORMATION CAR PARKING AND TRAVEL DIRECTIONS

This handbook is intended as a useful OWNERS’ AND TRAINERS’ For Trainers who do not have a source of information that will help you CAR PARK runner but would like a car park label, prior to, and during The 2020 Randox There is one car park for Owners, please contact Carly Sage on Health Grand National Festival. Trainers and Jockeys at The Railway 0151 522 2959 or email at Club on Melling Road. There is a short [email protected] Please ensure that you read all sections walk to the Owners’ and Trainers’ by Friday 27 March. Please ensure that of the booklet and bring it with you Reception, which is on the inside of you have a valid car park label. to Aintree. the Racecourse. Melling Road is ONLY accessible by one route off the M57, HORSEBOXES ONCE AGAIN IN 2020 Junction 6. Please follow the signs. Entry for horseboxes is via the Seeds • The PASS System will be in operation. Lane entrance off Melling Road, and is All Owners and Trainers will require a Sat Nav Postcode L9 0LD. signposted off Junction 6 of the M57. valid PASS card to gain badges. • There will be one car park for Owners, Two car park labels each, will be sent Please follow the signs. Horseboxes will Trainers and Jockeys located off out by Weatherbys to all Owners and park in their normal lorry park, which is Melling Road. Trainers with an entry, at the five/six close to the stabling area. It is important • There will be one Badge Collection day stage. that the driver knows the identity of the Point for Owners, Trainers horse(s) he or she is transporting. and Jockeys. Two car park labels will be sent to • Everyone will be subject to security Owners and Trainers after the second TAXIS scanning. forfeit stage, who have a horse entered If you plan to travel by taxi, a car park in the Randox Health Grand National. label will still be required so that you can access the Owners and Trainers drop off point.Without the correct label, you will not be given access.

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DISABLED FACILITIES HELICOPTER FACILITIES OWNERS’ BADGES The badge, and associated wristband In an effort to cater for large syndicates, There are a limited number of car An area, adjacent to Steeplechase car The PASS System will be in operation (which must be worn) will admit to a restricted number of Owners’ and park spaces for disabled visitors in park, is provided for helicopter landing. with one badge collection point at the the Paddock and the (O&T) Pavilion Trainers’ badges will be available for the Owners and Trainers car park, if Owners’ and Trainers’ Reception in the (please note that for 2020 badge and sale on a strictly first come first served arrangements are made in advance. The site will be operated by Rotary horsebox park within the Racecourse. wristlets will be checked). basis. Thursday £55, Friday £90 and Wing Limited, 109 Gilda Road, Worsley, No badges will be sent or issued in Grand National Day £120. Festival Please supply your details; name, Manchester, M28 4BP. Contact Philip or advance and will only be available for Please note: Due to restrictions on Zone (formerly Tattersalls enclosure) vehicle registration number and horse Karen Pickford on 0161 799 6967, via collection from Owners’ and Trainers’ space, badges will only be issued to badges will also be on sale (subject to name to Carly Sage by email at email on [email protected] or by Reception on the day of running. Owners with declared runners. availability): Thursday £30, Friday £47 [email protected] mobile on 07968 758 915. and Grand National Day £70. or on 0151 522 2959, before Friday ALLOCATION The Owners’ and Trainers’ badges for 27 March. These will be available on Prior notice is required in advance Single ownership & partnerships The Randox Health Foxhunters’ Chase METAL BADGES (ROA, NTF, PJA, a first come, first served basis. for landing facilities and insurance Six badges and six wristbands (Thursday), Randox Health Topham RCA, BHA, JCO AND Please ensure you bring your Blue indemnity. Please contact Karen Chase (Friday) and Randox Health CLUB BADGES) Badge with you. Pickford on the above number. Particular The Randox Health Grand National, Grand National Chase (Saturday) will These badges are NOT applicable at attention is to be paid to the rules of the Topham and Foxhunters’ Steeple Chase be a commemorative badge. The Randox Health Grand National TRAIN air which govern the overflying of built- Eight badges and eight wristbands Festival and will not allow access to For those arriving by train at Aintree up areas. No landings will be permitted Please note that for the above races the racecourse. The ONLY badge that Station, there is a courtesy car shuttle 30 minutes before the first race and Owners’ and Trainers’ badges will also no other Owners’ and Trainers’ badge will admit to the Racecourse is the which will transfer you to the Owners’ no take-offs will be permitted until 30 enable you to walk the course. will permit access to the Parade Ring badge issued from the Owners’ and and Trainers’ Reception. Please go to minutes after the last race. and the Winners’ Enclosure, following Trainers’ Reception. the Owners’ Information Point, located the race. at the top of Grand National Avenue in If you are arriving by helicopter, ACCOMMODATION the Toby Carvery car park opposite the please notify the Owners’ and Trainers’ A list of hotels located near Aintree can public entrance to the racecourse. Reception in advance, so that your be found at www.visitliverpool.com badges are available upon landing.

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TRAINERS IRISH TRAINERS WITH RUNNERS STABLING & STABLE STAFF Two Trainers’ badges and wristbands As with British trainers, no admission ACCOMMODATION will be issued to Trainers upon badges will be sent out in advance All stabling and accommodation must production of a current PASS card. of the Randox Health Grand National be booked, in advance, for The Randox Please note: badges will only be Festival. On production of a current Health Grand National Festival. issued to the authorised, named PASS Irish Trainers’ licence, each Irish Trainer Card holder. with a runner will be issued with two ANY QUERIES? badges for that day. Badges may only If you have any queries regarding We appreciate how frustrating it can be be collected from the Owners’ and badges, please call the Owners’ for Trainers to be stopped by security Trainers’ Reception. Information Line which will be open at stewards and asked to show their the following times: badges, especially when trying to access IRISH TRAINERS the Parade Ring or Weighing Room. WITHOUT RUNNERS Owners’ Information Line 0151 522 2959 We very much hope you will understand Arrangements have been made with Email [email protected] that security arrangements mean that the Irish Trainers Federation for Irish this procedure will be politely, but firmly Trainers, who do not have runners, to Monday 30 March enforced throughout the Festival. apply to the IRTA in advance of the to Wednesday 1 April Festival to ensure a badge for entry is 9:00am - 5:30pm METAL BADGES (ROA, NTF, PJA, available upon arrival. Thursday 2 and Friday 3 April RCA, BHA, JCO AND JOCKEY 7:00am - 3:00pm CLUB BADGES) Please note: no badges will be Saturday 4 April These are NOT applicable at the issued to Irish Trainers who do not 6:00am - 3:00pm Randox Health Grand National Festival have runners, unless they have applied and will NOT allow access to the in this way and are for the named racecourse. The ONLY badge and trainer only. wristband that will grant access to the racecourse are those issued from the Owners’ and Trainers’ Reception. www.jockeyclub.co.uk/aintree STABLING AND STABLE STAFF ACCOMMODATION GOFFS UK OWNERS’ AND TRAINERS’ PAVILION

STABLING GALLOPS Located on the ground floor of the Owners and Trainers will receive a Full stable security, with BHA The fibre-sand exercise gallop will be Goffs UK Owners’ and Trainers’ Pavilion, ‘Complimentary Lunch Voucher’, as well stable access control and CCTV, will available daily from 8am to 10am. the Owners’ and Trainers’ Restaurant, as a complimentary drink upon arrival. operate from noon on Wednesday ‘1839’, overlooks the Parade Ring. If you 1 April. Applications for stables and STABLE STAFF wish to reserve a table in this facility, OWNERS’ AND TRAINERS’ BARS accommodation, stating the day and ACCOMMODATION please contact: Linda White on The main Owners’ and Trainers’ bar is time of arrival and departure, Trainers must state the name of 07920 471 836 or email to situated in The Goffs UK Owners’ and should be sent via email to ALL their stable staff when booking [email protected] Trainers’ Pavilion, overlooking the Parade [email protected] accommodation for the Randox Ring. Owners’ and Trainers’ badges will or via phone 0151 522 2938. Health Grand National Festival. An Owners’ and Trainers’ badge and allow access to all ground floor bars and Accommodation is limited and must wristband will be required to gain terraces in all grandstands. Trainers with runners on the second and be booked in advance. We are unable admission. third days are advised that it may not to provide accommodation to OWNERS’ AND be possible to provide boxes for horses stable staff under the age of 18. Please ensure that you have arranged TRAINERS’ LIAISON before 6pm on the evening prior to the Accommodation will be available your badge allocation with Carly Sage After each race, a racecourse liaison second and/or third day. as follows: on 0151 522 2959 before booking. person will be located in the pull-up area for any Owner, Trainer or Lad/ NON-PERMIT HOLDERS One Horse One Lad/Lass. Tables can only be reserved by Lass wishing to enquire about the Owners with horses running in Two or more horses One Lad/Lass owners/trainers who have runners on whereabouts of their horse. The Randox Health Foxhunters’ per horse, plus one Head Lad/Lass. the day. If your horse is not declared Steeple Chase on the Thursday, who to run, your table reservation will be DISABLED SEATING do not have a permit to train, must cancelled. There is an allocation of seats in the ensure that their staff bring with them grandstands (subject to availability), photographic identification. O’SULLEVAN’S BUFFET where there are lifts for Owners This facility is located on the first floor. requiring these facilities. Please ensure you have arranged disabled seats with Carly Sage on 0151 522 2959 or [email protected]

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Information Ford Activation (Open to All) STEEPLECHASE CAR PARK THE EMBANKMENT Ticket Collection Point McCoy’s (Private Hospitality) MELLING ROAD

41 SEEDS LANE Toilets Chi Chi Activation (Open to All) MELLING ROAD 40 Bar Grand National Merchandise OWNERS & TRAINERS CAR PARK MELLING ROAD Food Aintree History (Open to All) Cash Machines Randox Health Activation (Open to All)

OWNERS & TRAINERS MELLING ROAD Betting Ring Manager Garden Club and Red Rum Bar 38 RECEPTION GRAND NATIONAL HOSPITALITY PAVILION Entertainment Red Rum Garden (Open to All) START LINE 37 39 Grand National Trophies Red Rum Bronze Disabled Viewing Sharps Brewery (Open to All) 36 SILVER BIRCH Betting The Horse Comes First LORD SEFTON STAND Grand National Course Tour Suite (Private Hospitality) First aid Parade Ring EARL OF DERBY STAND 12 Course Crossing Point Art School (Private Hospitality) 3 PRINCESS ROYAL STAND 1 2 4 WEST TIP 5 QUEEN MOTHER STAND 34 Left Luggage The Goffs Owners’ & Trainers’ Suite LORD DARESBURY STAND 35 CHAIR PAVILION 30 Commemorative Bronze Statue (Lower Floor 1839 Restaurant, Upper - O’Sullevan’s) GREEN ROOM 29 Pharmacy Winners’ Enclosure 6 31 West Tip Entrance Alan Lee Media Centre (Restricted Access) 28 33 10 18 17 West Tip Bar (Private Hospitality) Green Room (Private Hospitality) 8 14 25 7 13 19 West Tip Grandstand (Private Racecourse Viewing) Weighing Room 16 15 32 AINTREE PAVILION 15 11 Unreserved Seating (Plus Decking Area) Station Entrance 21 23 27 GRAND NA 20 22 Chair Pavilion (Open to All) Sefton Arms Entrance 9 OWNERS & TRAINERS 26 Festival Zone Food Court (Open to All) Meet The Horse TIONAL AVENUE ART SCHOOL SUITE 24 Drive 3 Entrance Saddling Boxes and Pre-Parade Ring TIGER ROLL SUITE Princess Royal Food Court (Open to All) Silver Birch (Private Hospitality) COUNTY CAR PARK ORMSKIRK ROAD County Car Park & VIP Entrance Owners’ and Trainers’ Reception Sales Upgrades and Information Hospitality Pavilion (Private Hospitality) Grand National Avenue Entrance 39 Grand National Start Line www.jockeyclub.co.uk/aintree Finishing Line Seeds Lane Entrance Embankment Entrance (Saturday Only) GRADE 1 OTHER INFORMATION BRANDING The sponsors will pay the Owners NOTICE WINNERS Further to the British Horseracing of horses, who display the sponsors’ Horses, and those in charge of them, 4from just four boutique sales Authority’s (BHA) decision to allow the logo on Owners’ silks and paddock are admitted and received on the terms sponsors to have the option of exclusive sheet/rug, taking part in The Randox that neither , The access to all the Owners’ and Jockeys’ Health Grand National £1,250, plus VAT, Jockey Club, nor their servants are liable branding sites and attendants’ clothing each. In the other 20 (twenty) races, for any damage, loss or injury to such for races at the Grand National Festival, a sponsorship payment of £210, plus horses or persons, while in or about the sponsors, Aintree Racecourse, the VAT, will be made to each Owner who the Racecourse premises or stabling, Racehorse Owners’ Association and the displays the sponsor’s logo. It is possible from whatever cause arising, including professional Jockeys’ Association have that in one race the sponsors will allow damage, loss or injury caused by the reached agreement for this option to logos promoting a charity to be worn negligence of any servant or agent of apply in all races. The sponsors have instead of their own. If this is the case, Aintree Racecourse/ The Jockey Club. exercised the exclusivity option in all 21 the sponsorship payments will still be (twenty-one) races scheduled to take made to the Owners. Subject to the GOING REPORTS place during The 2020 Randox Health Rules of Racing, the sponsors will make Enquiries should be made to Grand National Festival. a payment of £173.59 per ride to each Sulekha Varma, the Clerk of the Course Jockey who displays the sponsor’s logo. on 0151 523 2600. If the office is not For all races during The 2020 Randox open, recorded information will be Gr.1 winner Gr.1 winner Any Owners wishing to make further SAMCRO FIDDLERONTHEROOF Health Grand National Festival the available on this line or contact Sulekha sponsors will display their logo on enquiries about these arrangements on 07715 640 525. Owners’ silks, Jockeys’ branding please contact Sulekha Varma sites, paddock cloths and attendants’ (Clerk of the Course) on 0151 523 2600, www.TheAintreeSale.com clothing. All logos will be supplied or alternatively the Information Line on by the sponsors. In addition, for 0151 522 2959 or 2 April 2020 The Randox Health Grand National the [email protected] sponsor will provide a branded paddock sheet/rug.

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