At 73,Ginger Looks for One Last Drop of Red Rum Spirit ; 27 Years After His Grand National Fairytale, Mccain Dreams of Success with Amberleigh House to Cap His Aintree Romance
Mail on Sunday › March 28, 2004
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IN THE doorway of the box where Red Rum died, Ginger McCain was looking at AmberleighHouse,the12-year-old gelding entrusted with his dreams in the Grand National on Saturday. 'He's no Red Rum. Red would pose for anybody!' Ginger and Red had been Aintree's charismatic double-act who loved nothing more than to perform for a television audience of millions.
Ginger was the car dealer who taught himself to train horses on the beach at Southport. Red was the potentially crippled thoroughbred who jumped to his command to win the greatest steeplechase in the world a record three times.See the full content of this document
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At 73,Ginger Looks for One Last Drop of Red Rum Spirit ; 27 Years After His Grand National Fairytale, Mccain Dreams of Success with Amberleigh House to Cap His Aintree Romance
While Red Rum is buried in the shadow of the winning post at Aintree, McCain's larger-than-life presence at Liverpool on Saturday will be a reminder not simply of an illustrious past.
In Amberleigh House, he senses he has a horse who could return him to the winner's enclosure 27 years after Red Rum took the...See the full content of this document
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