Racing: Ollie Magern will not run in the John Smith's Grand National at Aintree on Saturday after his trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies discovered he was lame this morning and scratched the 10-year-old from the marathon race.
He was to have been ridden by Noel Fehily, but is now ulkikely to run again this season.
"He's lame. He has had those problems in the past but he had been much sounder this season. Now it's happened just a few days before the National," said Twiston-Davies.
"It's not serious. He'll be all right but I don't think we'll run him until next season now."
The Naunton-based handler will still have three runners in the big race — Knowhere, Fundamentalist and Naunton Brook.
"All the others will run and Ardaghey will if he gets in. You never know, he might do now," he added.
Ollie Magern was as big as 100-1 for the National.
The news means that Philson Run is now guaranteed a place in a maximum 40-strong field while Ardaghey is just two away from getting in.