National aim for Baie Baie Des Iles will aim to tee up a crack at the Randox Health Grand National at Punchestown on February 11. Ross O'Sullivan's mare won the Grand National Trial there last season but this year she has the main event in her sights where she will be ridden by the trainer's wife, Katie Walsh, who finished third on Seabass in 2012. "Baie Des Iles is in really good form and has come out of her latest race really well. The Grand National is the long-term aim for her," said O'Sullivan. "She won the Grand National Trial at Punchestown last year, but wasn't high enough in the weights to get into the Grand National itself, so we couldn't run her in it last year, but she should hopefully be high enough this time around. "Baie Des Iles will go the Grand National Trial at Punchestown again and we'll see how she gets on there on February 11. We'll then probably give her a break and go straight for the Grand National. "She loves cut in the ground. Come April 14, there is the probability that the ground could come up good which wouldn't suit her as much. "Her owner (Zorka Wentworth) has been very patient with her. She was one of my first owners and it would be great to saddle a horse in the Grand National for her. "Katie has rode Baie Des Iles on most of her starts and she doesn't have a bad record in the race!"
