Inothewayurthinkin Odds and Grand National Form 2025

Gavin Cromwell’s rise up through the training ranks has been helped by the JP McManus owned Inothewayurthinkin who won at the Cheltenham Festival last year and then went on to record Grade One success at Aintree.

Gromwell had campaigned this horse cannily in the early part of last season, running him inadequate distances and then taking advantage of a lenient handicap mark to win the Kim Muir Handicap Chase at Cheltenham under a typically cool ride from Derek O’Connor. After winning that handicap, Cromwell pushed the gelding into Grade One company in the Mildmay Novices Chase where again he came home a comfortable four length winner. 

This season he has had to move out of novice company and take on the likes of Fact To File and Gallopin Des Champs and his performances have improved as the season has progressed. Inothewayurthinkin really caught the eye in the Irish Gold Cup when running on impressively to take fourth place, just over seven lengths behind the best chaser of the last few years in Gallopin Des Champs. Bookmakers had to take evasive action as punters availed themselves of the 33/1 that was available for Aintree success and a short time later the seven-year-old gelding was a best priced 16/1.

At the time of writing, the weights for the Grand National have still to be published but the handicapper will also be aware of that good run in Ireland and as he is already rated 159 it doesn’t appear that there is a lot of wiggle room left in his handicap mark. A factor of his wins last year was that he was still able to win despite some hair-raising jumping but even with the reduced test of the Grand National fences, he would probably need to improve his fencing to be a serious contender in April.

Gavin Cromwell stated in a stable tour in early February that this horse's participation in the Grand National was by no means certain with the Aintree Bowl also under consideration.