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Tiger Roll is a phenomenal horse. For him to win for the second year running — the first horse to do so since Red Rum in 1974 — was really something. There’s a lot of talk about him being small, but when horses have heart and lungs, they don’t need bulk. He tries really hard and is a wonderful horse. In my eyes, he could have won the Gold Cup if he’d run in it.
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