Bobbyjo, last year`s Martell Grand National winner, is set to reappear at Galway next Monday having been entered both over hurdles and over fences..
Tommy Carberry`s star turn finished only eleventh in this year`s renewal of the Aintree spectacular having been campaigned lightly with just three races over hurdles beforehand and not reappearing until January.
But Carberry said today: 'We hope to be able to give him a run at Galway and if the ground was going to be soft or heavy we would run in the hurdle race (T-B-D Handicap Hurdle) otherwise we may go for the chase (Independent Handicap Chase).
'He wasn`t busy last season, so he has to be busy sometime - the ground was the reason we ran him over hurdles, he does not like it soft or heavy so it easier for him than running over fences.
'He has summered well and seems in good form. Seeing how things go we might enter him for the three miles and five furlongs race at Cheltenham`s Thomas Pink meeting next month. We will have a think about the Becher Chase at Aintree too.'
Bobbyjo had one more run after Aintree in April, in the Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse where he was pulled up, and Carberry went on: 'I`d say the National had taken too much out of him. Aintree is hopefully again the main aim all being well.'
