Fil Dor Grand National Odds 2025: Can €620,000 impress around Aintree?

Gordon Elliott will send out Fil Dor at a pretty big price for the Grand National on Saturday hoping that a rough month or so for the trainer can turn around with a strong run for one of his stable at Aintree.

Are Fil Dor’s Grand National Odds worthy of some action? Let’s look at the recent form and chances of this seven-year-old…

A month or so ago Gordon Elliott expected to rock up to Aintree with Galvin and 2024 runner-up Delta Work as his best chances to win the Grand National for the fourth time. Silver Birch won in 2007 before the wonderful and legendary Tiger Roll went back-to-back in 2018 and 2019.

Plans, as they say, change, as the former of those two hopes has been retired and the latter sadly passed from colic. It has left the stable at Cullentra House over in Ireland short of bona fide contenders for Saturday’s race but it does mean some horses deeper in his yard will get a chance to impress on the bigger stage.

One such horse is the seven-year-old Fil Dor, who made plenty of headlines last year winning a race when going off as the 1/40 favourite after a stunning spate of non-runners due to the going, which left just two at the start line.

This campaign has been nothing to write home about for this horse though, despite placing in three of four starts. Winning has eluded him and with a whopping €620,000 paid for him at the Tattersalls Ireland sale in February 2024, somebody clearly thought that he was worth a supersized investment.

So far, that early belief that there was a mighty fine horse ready to breakout has been wide of the mark but he is still just a seven-year-old. There is plenty of time to fulfil the hopes and expectations that that hefty price tag belies but this race seems to potentially be a bit early for him.

On the plus side, he has a sensational trainer who knows how to get horses ready for this race, so tough to just write his chances off entirely but he’ll be a big price for a reason.

Fil Dor is one of seven Grand National Grey Horses in the 2025 field. If you love backing Greys, then feel free to check them all out via our article on the subject.

Fil Dor Grand National Odds & Chances:

As of the opening of the betting market at midday on Thursday, the odds of Fil Dor winning the Grand National are 66/1 on Betfred. If we turn that price into implied probability, that equates to a 2% chance of winning the race based on the betting price.

Bet on Fil Dor to win the Grand National:

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Betfred Grand National Offer:

Betfred are paying out seven places on the big race for each-way bets at 1/5 odds for those betting on the Grand National. You can do so by following either the Grand National Odds link above or if you want to bet on Fil Dor, just click on either of the banners at the top or bottom of the article and you’ll be sent to the market page on betfred.com with your selection already loaded into your betslip.

Our Grand National market goes live with the confirmed 34 runners from midday on Thursday, April 3, 2025 and you can bet each-way and get seven places all the way through to 16:00 on Saturday, April 5, 2025, which is when the race will get underway live on ITV1.

You can check out all of our Grand National Tips as well as the profiles for all the other horses running in the race on our main Grand National page…