Even when things look desperate, success is just over the next fence for those who choose to make the jump. Here’s a happy story of endurance and hope on a quiet day in horseracing
The jury is out on the 2012 John Smith’s Grand National to be run at Aintree on Saturday. Love it or hate it, it is a spectacle of endurance that tests man and beast and has captured the imagination of millions around the world.
Beyond the pending investigations, things ended well enough for the Bass-Robinson yard when the improving Rainbow Lorikeet stamped her Paddock Stakes prospects with a gutsy victory under a top-notch ride by Aldo Domeyer
