Which was the last horse to win the Welsh Grand National and the Grand National?

The Welsh Grand National is run over three miles and six-and-a-half furlongs, and twenty-three regulation park fences, at Chepstow on the day after Boxing Day. The distance of the race is half a mile shorter than that of the Grand National, which, despite being shortened in recent years, still stands at four miles and two-and-a-half furlongs. The fences, too, are fewer in number, and lesser in difficulty, than the 30 distinctive, spruce-topped obstacles that must be completed in the Grand National.

Nevertheless, underfoot conditions at Chepstow in midwinter are invariably very testing – and, occasionally, unraceable, forcing the postponement of the Welsh Grand National to the following – January – such that the most valuable race run in Wales is, fittingly, a true test of endurance and jumping ability. As such, the Welsh Grand National is considered a trial for the two most prestigious steeplechases of the season, the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March and the Grand National, at Aintree, the following month.

Horses to have won both the Welsh Grand National and the Grand National include Rag Trade, who, in 1976, won the former (in the days when it was still run in February) en route to denying Red Red a historic Aintree hat-trick, Corbiere (1982, 1983), Earth Summit (1997, 1998) and Bindaree, who actually won at Aintree in 2002 before winning at Chepstow in 2003. The last horse to win both races, though, was Silver Birch, who won the Welsh Grand National for Paul Nicholls in 2004 and the Grand National for Gordon Elliott in 2007.