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GRAND NATIONAL winner Ballabriggs could have more than one run before the defence of his John Smith's-sponsored crown, trainer Donald McCain revealed on Tuesday.

Speaking at a Grand National media day at his yard in Cheshire, McCain also revealed that Ballabriggs, a general 16-1 favourite for the Aintree spectacular, could be joined in the famous race by stablemates Weird Al, Wymott and Fabalu.

"We will just wait until we get a bit closer before deciding. Ideally, he would have two runs but it would not bother me if he didn't."

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USA: Cape Blanco was on Monday night named America's champion turf performer for the 2011 season at the prestigious Eclipse Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

Top filly Havre De Grace was named Horse of the Year, while other major award winners included Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom, narrow victor in the champion three-year-old male category, and Breeders' Cup Juvenile winners Hansen and My Miss Aurelia, who were named leading two-year-old male and filly respectively.

In the human categories, Cigar's trainer Bill Mott landed his third accolade as outstanding trainer and Ramon Dominguez completed back-to-back victories as the nation's leading rider.