No Grey Highs Ahead ; Chris Wright's Aintree Diary the Inside Track On Liverpool's Top Sporting Event
Liverpool Echo › April 06, 2011
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NOBODY wants grey skies over Aintree on Saturday. But 50 years on many are wondering if it will be finally be another grey's day.
Since Nicolaus Silver landed the Grand National in 1961, almost to the day Lucinda Russell's Silver By Nature leads the charge to end one of the most long-running and baffling statistics in Aintree history. Can a grey horse conquer the daunting Aintree obstacles and win the John Smith's Grand National? The dashing grey has an affinity with the racing world thanks chiefly to Desert Orchid and the likes of One Man and Monet's Garden. But a quirk of fate means that since Nicolaus Silver's success in 1961, 60 greys have tried and failed to win the National.See the full content of this document
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No Grey Highs Ahead ; Chris Wright's Aintree Diary the Inside Track On Liverpool's Top Sporting Event
Nicolaus Silver himself was only the second grey in the race's hist...
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