Full house for ginger

It’s 31 years since Red Rum’s first Grand National victory, but trainer Ginger McCainis still as twitchy about his latest charge at Aintree today. He spoke to Ray Gilpin.

GINGER McCAIN has the magic touch in getting horses ready and willing to tackle the massive Aintree fences and he is not without hope of landing a fourth Martell Cognac Grand National when he gives Graham Lee the leg up on Amberleigh House today.

Red Rum, of course, was the epitome of a Grand National horse, winning three times and twice finishing runner-up in the gruelling four-and-a-half-mile test for McCain.