Bertram Allen’s great ambition is to ride in Grand National
Calm, calculated thinking and the ability to treat triumph and tragedy as equal imposters are pretty essential attributes when you have anything up to a ton of unpredictable horse flesh underneath you. But he does have one crazy, out there ambition.
He’d love to ride the Grand National. Allen admitted as much a few years ago, long before his 19-year old buddy Danny Mullins claimed victory last month in horse racing’s most illustrious race on board Rule The World.
