NI’S Randox in extension to Grand National deal

NORTHERN Ireland company Randox has agreed a five-year extension to its current sponsorship of the Grand National meeting at Aintree.

The new agreement will run from 2022 to 2026 and follow on from the initial five-year contract which runs until next year.

As well as being the headline sponsor of the festival, Randox will lend its name to the three races over the Grand National fences at the fixture — the Randox Foxhunters Chase, the Randox Topham Chase and the big one, the Randox Grand National.

Dr Peter Fitzgerald CBE, founder and managing director of Randox, said: “We have thoroughly enjoyed working with the Jockey Club’s team at Aintree and look forward to another successful five years, when we are once again able to celebrate the Randox Grand National.”

Randox has developed a test for Covid-19 and is currently processing 90,000 a day for the UK government’s national Covid-19 testing programme.

Fitzgerald added: “We are excited for this new era of our partnership, of horse racing and society in which Covid has taught us to appreciate the important things in life — our friends, our family, and our health.”

Dickon White, North West Regional Director for Jockey Club Racecourses, which runs Aintree, said: “At a time when we are facing massive challenges in British racing, it is a tremendous boost to the Jockey Club, and a huge endorsement to the Grand National itself, that a new multi-year deal has been agreed with Randox.”