SO Tiger Roll is given a Grand National rating that puts him the equal of Grade 1-winning stable companions Delta Work and Presenting Percy and he is set to carry 11st 9lb next April at Aintree.

Like it or not, the majority of us agree with Michael O’Leary that, at this stage of his career, Tiger has little hope of matching a proven Grade 1 horse like Bristol De Mai or Santini carrying just a pound less.

But of course neither of them have proven to be so adept over the four miles, two furlongs of Aintree and it be unfair to others, just because Tiger Roll is a small horse, if the handicapper did not take his Aintree form into account.

“I’m not in the business of gifting horses anything,” said Martin Greenwood. Not even assisting another hats off, tremendous reception, third Grand National!

The handicapper does not work on the principal of gravity as the rest of the world does. What goes up, may eventually come down. But it takes it some time to do so to.

We all knew that Beef Or Salmon had little hope when set to carry 12st in the 2008 Irish Grand National as a 12 year-old, despite that, in his prime, he was a multiple Grade 1 winner.

To me the worst-treated horse in the National is Easysland on joint top-weight of 11st 10lb with Bristol De Mai and Santini. It’s very difficult to put a figure on what he achieved in his two cross-country wins, one by 17 lengths over a below-par Tiger Roll at the Festival, but there’s certainly no chance been taken with sticking him at the top.