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Article: Grand start to a National career
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- March 30, 2008
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EVERY SO often the Grand National throws up a once-in-a-
generation winner, and this year could see just such a result if
likely hot favourite Cloudy Lane should float past Aintree's
finishing post in first place.
For if jockey Jason Maguire carries the familiar green-and-
yellow-quartered colours of billionaire owner and breeder Trevor
Hemmings into the winner's circle, it will herald the arrival of a
new training star on the scene, one with a familiar name. Donald
McCain jnr will don the mantle of his father, the legendary Ginger,
trainer of Red Rum, and the younger generation will have succeeded
where the elder McCain so memorably went.
Ginger McCain is known as "Mr National" for his ...