Tiger Roll Emulates Red Rum to Win Two Consecutive Grand Nationals | sport

Tiger Roll won the Grand National for the second time, becoming the first horse since Red Rum in the 1970s to win the race more than once. Highlighting the magnitude of his achievements in the race for 40 riders, he is only the third horse to win several national titles since the nineteenth century.

"I can not believe it," said winning jockey Davy Russell between two buckets of water on his mount's neck in the moments following the race. "Ah Jaysus, I can not … at my age now, you're after winning two Grand Nationals … It's a hell of a horse."

Gordon Elliott, winning coach, said, "What a horse. It's a tiger. The coach had 11 riders but needed only the favorite.

Already considered the most popular racehorse in the world, Tiger Roll immortalized a second time in the race and could be qualified as a potential winner. While he needed an arrival photo to qualify as a winner a year ago, his supporters were able to breathe softly for the final while he won it. in broad daylight.

Magic Of Light, a first runner in the race for Jessie Harrington, ran a huge run to be second, after leading a good part of the way and blundering to the last one. Rathvinden, also in high profile from the start, remained third after a serious mistake on the part of Valentin. Walk In The Mill was fourth.

The first circuit of the race was remarkable for the number of fences that went off without incident. But Vintage Clouds fell early and may have caused Up For Review. This meant that more than 30 runners had to be channeled around the fence a second time, causing a moment of intense tension while the crowd was waiting to see if there would be enough room, but the horses and jockeys would 39 are well off.

Up For Review suffered a fatal injury during this fall while General Principle was brought back into the ambulance on horseback, but according to information available to it, it only has superficial wounds.

Step Back ran early but was tired and was rebadembled. Rock The Kasbah was one of the few hunters at the start of the second circuit, which means Richard Johnson is still waiting for his first Grand National success.