Just the other week there Lucinda Russell recalled a trip down to the Thistle Hotel in Milnathort.Still proudly propped up at the bar is a Tennent’s beer tap installed to mark One for Arthur’s Grand National triumph back in 2017.Now, six years on, top trainer Lucinda is picturing and dreaming of Corach Rambler’s name also taking pride of place in the local watering hole.Kinross-shire based nine-year-old Corach Rambler, as you will know by now, is favourite for the world’s greatest steeplechase tomorrow.“We went down for a drink in the pub (Thistle Hotel) the other day and, when Arthur won, Tennent’s made him a beer tap,” Lucinda recalls. “That is still there.“It would be lovely if there was one beside it.
A Corach Rambler cider.”If Lucinda had needed any evidence as to how much her yard was being noticed from a local point of view, the reception following One for Arthur’s win - beer tap aside - provided it.“You win the National and are getting pulled from press to press,” she reflects to that glorious day six years ago.“Then someone says: ‘When is the homecoming?
The party tomorrow?“When the horse arrived back at the stable there was to be a big video, film and all the press.“I wasn’t ready for that at all so phoned Vicki at the Grouse and Claret saying ‘we need to have a party tomorrow’.“I remember driving back up the road and it was really dark.
Scu (Peter Scudamore) and I were saying we’ve won the National and we have a homecoming tomorrow.“But what happens if nobody turns up?
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