Tiger Roll: proof that brilliant things come in small packages
David Jennings charts the career of Tiger Roll ahead of another Aintree assault
It says something when the biggest rock star in town can't even headline his own Cheltenham concert and is instead forced to do a duet with an act who couldn't sell a record while he was belting out his first number-one single in 2016.
The week after Altior won the best Supreme Novices' Hurdle in recent memory, Tiger Roll was second in an all-weather maiden at Dundalk, beaten by a rival rated 62 who has won just one race since.
Fast forward three years and Altior wins a second Champion Chase to supplement his Supreme success and Arkle victory, but the record Cheltenham crowd gives just as raucous a reception to Tiger Roll after he gallops to a 22-length triumph in the Glenfarclas Cross County Chase.
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