You're listening to the Role for Tiger Role.

Tiger Roll is out in front.

You're listening to Episode 2 of Tiger Roll, the People's Horse,

from RTE's Documentary in One.

Tiger Roll has won his second Grand National.

Pure, pure magic!

What an extraordinary result!

Tiger Roll has won a game!

At the end of episode one, Tiger Roll, or Lot 975,

had just been sold in December 2010 as an eight-and-a-half-month-old foal.

My name is John Ferguson, Bloodstock advisor to shape Muhammad for many years,

purchased Tiger Roll as a foal for 70,000 guineas.

And when Tiger Roll came out of his box, as a foe at the sales,

he was a little bit on the small side, as he still is, but he was very athletic.

Very athletic. When Jerry O'Brien did a half-share deal in his foal Tiger Roll, it was Sheikh Mohammed who owned the other half, as he owned Tiger's

father, the stallion authorised. So when the Sheikh purchased Tiger Roll at the foal sale, he now

owned all of Tiger Roll. There were many different reasons why we bought Tiger Roll as the foal sale. He now owned all of Tiger Roll. There were many different

reasons why we bought Tiger Roll as a foal. Number one, it was authorised, who was a stallion that

Sheikh Mohammed owned, and it was his second crop of foals that year. So nobody knew at the time

whether authorised was going to be a great stallion or not, and therefore it was important to support the market, to show confidence to breeders that we felt that authorised was going to be a great stallion or not, and therefore it was important to support the

market to show confidence to breeders that we felt that authorised was a stallion that was going to go

places. So we were looking for good-looking sons of authorised. The other factor was that

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