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🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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0:00.0 | When a horse |
0:02.8 | result, and it's coming through now. |
0:05.8 | First, number 13. |
0:08.0 | Tiger Roll has got it. |
0:09.7 | When a horse wins a race, let alone a Grand National, |
0:14.3 | few people will ever understand what's involved to get them there. |
0:18.9 | Those moments don't just happen. |
0:21.7 | He went at the right time and he held on and what a game performance from Tiger Roll. |
0:26.0 | It was in mid-December 2013, years before he'd make sporting history that a three-year-old |
0:32.4 | Tiger Roll had just been bought by Michael O'Leary and arrived to Gordon Elliott's training yard in County Meath. |
0:40.6 | Tiger wasn't to know it then, |
0:42.7 | but he was just about to make a new, lifelong friend. |
0:47.0 | My name is Karen Morgan. |
0:48.7 | I've been involved with Tiger Oles since he first arrived in Gordon's in the yard. |
0:53.4 | There was a few horses that came in at that time, |
0:56.7 | but he stood out a little bit because he was a little bit quirky. |
1:00.7 | He was quite boyish and he was a little bit of a handful in that he was always on his toes. |
1:09.3 | You're listening to episode four of Tiger Roll, |
1:12.4 | the People's Horse, |
1:13.5 | from RTE Documentary in One. |
1:15.7 | So he arrived and my job really would have been to look after him. |
1:20.8 | I didn't know a massive amount about what he had done. |
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