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Sir Alex Ferguson made implicit £80,000 connected a winning stake astatine Aintree, which saw him observe a singular 1-3 decorativeness connected Grand National day.
Coming into Saturday, Hitman had 3 wins from 23 runs truthful acold this season, with an awesome 10 second-placed finishes to adhd to that, but could not physique connected his occurrence connected Merseyside.
However, the legendary ex-Man United manager's equine fluffed successful the Grand National, arsenic his lone runner Hitman was withdrawn midway done the large race.
Despite his erstwhile occurrence astatine Aintree, with Hitman having finished successful the apical 3 successful 4 retired of six appearances, the equine was pulled up during this year's Grand National.
Nevertheless, Sir Alex's fortunes turned successful the precise adjacent race, arsenic Kalif Du Berlais crossed the enactment archetypal successful the Grade 1 Maghull Novices' Chase to triumph the Scot £67,524.
Meanwhile, L'Eau Du Sud - trained by Dan Skelton and ridden by Harry Skelton - came 3rd to nett Ferguson a further £12,732.
Sir Alex Ferguson pocketed £80,526 from his 2 horses astatine Aintree connected Grand National day
Although the Scot was unsuccessful successful the large race, helium landed a 1-3 successful the precise adjacent one
Kalif Du Berlais crossed the enactment archetypal successful the Novices' Chase, portion L'Eau Du Sud finished third
The 83-year-old's full winnings connected the time came to £80,526 from the 2 horses.
Splitting Sir Alex's stallions was 25-1 Brookie, trained by seasoned Anthony Honeyball.
Sir Alex added to his triumph astatine this year's Cheltenham Festival, which saw Caldwell Potter, a galloping grey bought successful February 2024 for £630,000, onshore his archetypal triumph astatine the prestigious festival successful the Jack Richards Novices’ Limited Handicap Chase.
Horses nether Ferguson's ownership person present banked implicit £6.8million successful prize money.
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