AMATEUR rider Sam Waley-Cohen has a quite extraordinary record around Aintree and Rajdhani Express’s comfortable victory at 10/1 in the Grade 3 Crabbie’s Topham Chase took his tally over these unique obstacles to six - two Tophams, a Becher Chase and three Fox Hunters. No professional can match those figures.

He became the winning-most jockey over the National obstacles of the modern era when guiding his father Robert’s homebred Rajdhani Express (10/1) to victory. Only 10 of the 30 runners completed the course.