About Noble Yeats
Noble Yeats is a bay gelding who was bred in Ireland by Mrs Kristene Hunter. He was sired by Yeats out of the Flemensfirth mare That’s Moyne. Trained by Emmet Mullins and currently owned by Robert Waley-Cohen, he has amassed over £699,000 in career earnings to date.
Noble Yeats Career Form And Notable Achievements
Noble Yeats has won 6 of his 18 career races to date, and is most well known for winning the 2022 Grand National at Aintree. He only had the one race over hurdles (which he won), before being sent chasing in the 21/22 season. Having won on debut over fences at Galway, he then failed to win any of his next six races, and was priced up as a 50/1 outsider for the Grand National in April. He put in a phenomenal effort to win, under an expert ride from the owners son, Sam Waley-Cohen, on what was his final ride as a jockey.
He progressed further in the 22/23 season, winning the Many Clouds Chase at Aintree in December, before a strong-finishing third in the Cotswold Chase at Cheltenham in January. He returned to the Prestbury Park course in March to finish fourth in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, before an attempt at retaining his crown in the Grand National. It wasn’t to be however, finishing fourth off a 19lb higher mark.