Talking Horses: Grand National musings and Tuesday tips


Ah, Lord Windermere, and the pity of his Aintree boilover. But One For Arthur was deeply impressive

So, Lord Windermere, then. I felt he ran well enough to reassure me that I hadn’t been seeing things when I took a shine to him, although he never looked a likely winner after the tape went up on Saturday. As most of you probably saw, he boiled over in the preliminaries, initially refused to go out on the track and was in a muck sweat by the time he approached the start. 

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