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Tiger Roll
Tiger Roll (foaled 14 March 2010) is a retired Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who competed in National Hunt racing and won the Grand National in 2018 and 2019. He has also won five times at the Cheltenham Festival: the Triumph Hurdle in 2014, the National Hunt Chase Challenge Cup in 2017 and the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase in 2018, 2019 and 2021.
Although bred for the flat, his first race was as a three-year-old gelding over hurdles. After winning this race he was sold to Michael O'Leary's Gigginstown House Stud and put into training at Gordon Elliott's Cullentra House Stables in County Meath, Ireland, where he has remained ever since.
After success as a four-year-old in the Triumph Hurdle, he had a chequered career over hurdles with just two wins in his next eleven starts, which included one entry in a flat race. His chasing career began when he was six, and, after winning or being placed in several novice chases, he won a handicap at Limerick and then the Grade 2 National Hunt Challenge Cup at Cheltenham in 2017. He achieved fame with victories at Cheltenham and Aintree in 2018 and then again in 2019, when he became the first horse since Red Rum in 1973 and 1974 to win back-to-back Grand Nationals.
He was ridden to victory in both Grand Nationals and the Triumph Hurdle by Davy Russell. Lisa O'Neill and Keith Donoghue rode him in his other Cheltenham victories. Bryan Cooper was his regular jockey until 2016 and he has also been ridden in several races by Jack Kennedy and Donagh Meyler, with Robert James, James Bowen, Robbie Power, Sam Ewing, Jamie Codd, Davy Condon, Mark Quinlan and R. P. Cleary each having ridden him once. Grooms Louise Magee and Louise Dunn usually led him up.
Tiger Roll, by 2007 Epsom Derby winner Authorized out of Swiss Roll, was foaled 14 March 2010. He is a bay gelding with a white star and, at 15.2 hands, is small for a racehorse. He was bred in Ireland by Gerry O’Brien and bought as a foal by Godolphin for 70,000 guineas at Tattersalls. He never raced for Godolphin and was sold for £10,000 three years later to Devon trainer and former Grand National winning jockey Nigel Hawke.
Tiger Roll's first race was a juvenile hurdle at Market Rasen Racecourse in November 2013. Ridden by Mark Quinlan, he won by 3¾ lengths. Two months later, in January 2014, he was sold for £80,000 to O'Leary's Gigginstown House Stud and put into training at Gordon Elliott's Cullentra House Stables in County Meath, Ireland. He has remained with the same owner and trainer ever since, with Denise Foster taking over from Gordon Elliott at Cullentra in March 2021 after Elliott was banned for a year (with six months suspended).
His first race for his new owner and trainer was the Grade 1 Spring Juvenile Hurdle at Leopardstown in February 2014. He was ridden by Bryan Cooper and came second, beaten 2¼ lengths by Guitar Pete.
The following month he made his first appearance at the Cheltenham Festival, competing against 15 other four-year-olds in the Grade 1 Triumph Hurdle. Partnered for the first time with jockey Davy Russell and starting at odds of 10/1, he won by 3¼ lengths with Kentucky Hyden in second place and Guitar Pete in third.
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Tiger Roll
Tiger Roll (foaled 14 March 2010) is a retired Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who competed in National Hunt racing and won the Grand National in 2018 and 2019. He has also won five times at the Cheltenham Festival: the Triumph Hurdle in 2014, the National Hunt Chase Challenge Cup in 2017 and the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase in 2018, 2019 and 2021.
Although bred for the flat, his first race was as a three-year-old gelding over hurdles. After winning this race he was sold to Michael O'Leary's Gigginstown House Stud and put into training at Gordon Elliott's Cullentra House Stables in County Meath, Ireland, where he has remained ever since.
After success as a four-year-old in the Triumph Hurdle, he had a chequered career over hurdles with just two wins in his next eleven starts, which included one entry in a flat race. His chasing career began when he was six, and, after winning or being placed in several novice chases, he won a handicap at Limerick and then the Grade 2 National Hunt Challenge Cup at Cheltenham in 2017. He achieved fame with victories at Cheltenham and Aintree in 2018 and then again in 2019, when he became the first horse since Red Rum in 1973 and 1974 to win back-to-back Grand Nationals.
He was ridden to victory in both Grand Nationals and the Triumph Hurdle by Davy Russell. Lisa O'Neill and Keith Donoghue rode him in his other Cheltenham victories. Bryan Cooper was his regular jockey until 2016 and he has also been ridden in several races by Jack Kennedy and Donagh Meyler, with Robert James, James Bowen, Robbie Power, Sam Ewing, Jamie Codd, Davy Condon, Mark Quinlan and R. P. Cleary each having ridden him once. Grooms Louise Magee and Louise Dunn usually led him up.
Tiger Roll, by 2007 Epsom Derby winner Authorized out of Swiss Roll, was foaled 14 March 2010. He is a bay gelding with a white star and, at 15.2 hands, is small for a racehorse. He was bred in Ireland by Gerry O’Brien and bought as a foal by Godolphin for 70,000 guineas at Tattersalls. He never raced for Godolphin and was sold for £10,000 three years later to Devon trainer and former Grand National winning jockey Nigel Hawke.
Tiger Roll's first race was a juvenile hurdle at Market Rasen Racecourse in November 2013. Ridden by Mark Quinlan, he won by 3¾ lengths. Two months later, in January 2014, he was sold for £80,000 to O'Leary's Gigginstown House Stud and put into training at Gordon Elliott's Cullentra House Stables in County Meath, Ireland. He has remained with the same owner and trainer ever since, with Denise Foster taking over from Gordon Elliott at Cullentra in March 2021 after Elliott was banned for a year (with six months suspended).
His first race for his new owner and trainer was the Grade 1 Spring Juvenile Hurdle at Leopardstown in February 2014. He was ridden by Bryan Cooper and came second, beaten 2¼ lengths by Guitar Pete.
The following month he made his first appearance at the Cheltenham Festival, competing against 15 other four-year-olds in the Grade 1 Triumph Hurdle. Partnered for the first time with jockey Davy Russell and starting at odds of 10/1, he won by 3¼ lengths with Kentucky Hyden in second place and Guitar Pete in third.