Two Grand National victories must rate as highlights in the career of Carl Llewellyn.

He won at Aintree on the aptly-named Party Politics just two weeks before the General Election in 1992.

And Llewellyn was back in the winner's enclosure at Liverpool six years later aboard Earth Summit.

On both occasions, he had stepped in for an injured jockey.

Llewellyn has also scored at the Cheltenham Festival, opening his account there in the 1988 Mildmay of Flete Challenge Cup with Smart Tar.

Among notable Festival wins for trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies was the 1998 Triumph Hurdle victory on Upgrade.

The Gloucestershire stable picked up another big race success in April 2000.

Llewellyn was aboard as Beau won the Whitbread Gold Cup at Sandown by the biggest winning margin in the race's history.

The combination were one of the few left in the latter stages of the rain-battered 2001 Grand National.

But Llewellyn's bid for a treble in the race came to grief when he lost his reins and was then unseated at the 20th fence.

The jockey desperately ran after Beau in the hope of remounting, but his chance had gone.