Daily Star’s racehorse will get inexperienced gentle to run in entrance of fifty,000 sturdy Ladies Day crowd

The Daily Star’s racehorse Wendigo is all set for the off – after getting the green light to run on Grand National Ladies Day.

Trainer Jamie Snowden said the seven-year-old gelding – which boasts six wins and four places in 13 starts – has been declared to run in the 2:20pm William Hill Mildmay Novices’ Chase in front of a 50,000 sell-out crowd.

The race – over three miles and 210 yards – boasts £120,000 in prize money with £67,524 going to the winner. There are only eight runners but it is a Grade I race meaning it is only open to the best horses.

Jockey Jonathan Burke will ride him. We told how Jamie was mulling over whether or not to run him after he fell at the last while challenging in the 16-strong Brown Advisory Novices’ Steeple Chase at last month’s Cheltenham festival.

Jonathan Burke will take over from Wendigo’s usual jockey Gavin Sheehan. Jamie said, though he was ‘pleased’ Wendigo had been declared to race, he would still pull him out if he thinks the ground is too firm for him.

Recent good weather has made going at Aintree ‘good to soft’.

A spokesman for The Racing Club – the 4,000-member syndicate the Daily Star joined – said: “We are pleased to confirm that Wendigo has been declared to race at Aintree on Friday.

“Jamie will make a decision regarding the ground on the day.

“If it is too quick and is not soft enough for Wendigo he will be withdrawn.”

We bought a hoof of Wendigo just minutes before he raced in front of the Queen on Ladies Day at Cheltenham.

The seven-year-old gelding boasts six wins and four places in 13 starts and is the star of The Racing Club syndicate aimed at allowing folk who would not normally be able to afford a thoroughbred to compete in the sport of kings.