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Article: Folkestone: Piri Piri triumphs for second-time Charlie.(Sports)
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- The Racing Post (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 22, 2003
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Byline: George Ennor
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON once observed that entering into marriage for a second time was the triumph of hope over experience.
Whether he would apply that to returning to the training of horses is not certain, but if he did he would certainly find one man disagreeing with him - Charlie McBride, who won the extended nine-furlong handicap with Piri Piri.
"I trained for two and a half years between 1992 and 1995, but I had only a few horses and they weren't very good," he said. "But I started again in June ...