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Mullins rides the National
The Mercury
|April 07, 2025
PATRICK MULLINS, the winning jockey on Nick Rockett in the 177th Randox Grand National, said at the post-race press conference: "It doesn't get any better than this.
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I just remember, when I was five or six, reading a book on the Grand National history, and going back to The Lamb, Lottery, Abd-El-Kader, I know the history going back 200 years. I know names because they won the Grand National, so to put my name on that is mind-blowing.
Nick Rockett
"I ended up on Nick Rockett because he had enough weight for me, first. Obviously, Paul [Townend] was going to ride I Am Maximus, and I just saw Nick Rockett - he won the Thyestes and he had 11 stone 8lbs, and I thought he had every chance.
"If I wrote the race myself, I couldn't write it any better. I went down to the first thinking I am too forward, spent the first lap trying to get him back a bit, crossing the Melling Road the first time I had Brian Hayes beside me, and he asked me how I was going.
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