Three Card Brag Grand National Wins
Three Card Brag has never won the Grand National.
Their best finish to date was in 2025 where they came 11th. They were ridden by Sean Bowen and trained by Gordon Elliott.
Trained by Gordon Elliott in Ireland, Three Card Brag is a talented runner but wouldn’t have what you would consider to be a typical Grand National profile.
A bumper winner and placed in Graded events over both two miles and two and a half miles over hurdles, he wasn’t looking like the obvious staying chase candidate earlier on in his career. But it has eventually taken him to the Grand National.
Full Results
| Year | Result | Prize Money | Handicap | Jockey | Trainer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | - | 10-5 | Sean Bowen | Gordon Elliott |
Three Card Brag’s Early Years
March 2022 was the first time we saw Three Card Brag hit the track. He would win a bumper on heavy ground on debut and was swiftly put away for the summer to go novice hurdling the following season.
A winner on hurdles debut, he won two of six starts over the smaller obstacles in his first year. They included a 4th placed effort in a Cheltenham Festival Grade One, and placed efforts at Grade Two and Grade Three level in Ireland.
Chasing would come next, but while he was showing a good level of form, winning was not easy to come by. It would be on his 6th attempt that he would finally land a win, a Navan chase in January 2025.
He did finish third at Grade One and Two level, both before and after that win, to show how capable he is, despite not being a regular winner.
Of course, the Grand National brings a very unique test, and the honest answer is that there’s no way of knowing whether Three Card Brag will relish it, and step up to the challenge, or struggle in it.
Not a prolific winner, but a horse that has shown a good level of form over shorter distances and over both hurdles and fences, not the most obvious Grand National profile, but an intriguing one.