19 Oct 2026 Share on X Share on Facebook American Grade 1 for Winter Sale Graduate Western Fold American Grand National winner Western Fold is a graduate of the Winter Flat & National Hunt Sale.Tattersalls Ireland graduate Western Fold provided trainer Gordon Elliott with a third success in the Grade 1 American Grand National at Far Hills on Saturday.The seven-year-old, owned by Weld Spec Glasgow and Dee L’Estrange, was winning his second Grade 1 having landed a Grade 1 novice chase at the Punchestown Festival earlier this year.The weekend success for Western Fold brought his career earnings in excess of €500,000.He has proven himself admirably consistent across the last couple of seasons, with his eight career wins also including the Galway Plate and Grade 2 PWC Champion Chase.He was sold as a yearling by his late breeder Martin Dibbs’ Clinton House Stud to Peter Nolan at the 2020 Winter Flat and National Hunt Sale.
