Snow Leopardess records fairytale Becher Chase success at Aintree

This was a fantastic race to watch.

She was amazing

Snow Leopardess, the mare who had a foal during a two-year absence from the track, reached the high point of her remarkable career on her first try over the famous National fences.

The desperate weather made it a day for the brave and Snow Leopardess showed that in abundance, taking up the running a long way from home and finding more for Aidan Coleman to hold off Hill Sixteen in a photo-finish to the Unibet Becher Chase.

In the gathering gloom, there was no mistaking the near-white nine-year-old as she answered every call to give her connections the biggest of thrills.

Trainer Charlie Longsdon was delighted to execute a long-held plan for the Fox-Pitts, one of Britain's best-known equestrian families, with a horse who had a Sir Percy filly foal while off the track between September 2017 and November 2019.

FANTASTIC