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Article: Murphy's law is looking up
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- April 15, 2007
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IT IS a classic Irish rags-to-riches story. A labourer from the
Emerald Isle who works on a London building site decides to give up
the lucrative life of a hod-carrier and go back to his first love of
horse racing back in County Tipperary.
Within a few years he is a top jockey and then really hits his
stride, becoming one of the best trainers of National Hunt horses on
these islands. That labourer was Ferdy Murphy and next Saturday he
will again be out to prove that the construction industry's loss was
racing's gain.
Murphy will saddle at least one of the main hopes for the Coral
Scottish Grand National at Ayr, and he will do so as a man who knows
how to win Scotland's richest race over ...