'You probably only get five proper darts at a big race each year, so you have to deliver - and I think I've got a massive chance'
Jack Tudor talks to Stuart Riley about his record in big handicaps and his hopes of landing another with Mr Vango
You won't believe how old Jack Tudor is.
Early success warps all sense of time. Just look at another Welsh legend, Ryan Giggs, who made his Manchester United debut when they were playing in the First Division yet did not turn 30 until the 2003-04 season of Arsenal's Invincibles – which was the 12th edition of the Premier League. Those two events feel barely connected by a sport, let alone a player.
Tudor won the Welsh Grand National on Potters Corner in 2019 and was winning virtual Grand Nationals while we were all holed up with Covid-19. He's since added a Scottish Grand National, a bet365 Gold Cup, a Grand Sefton Chase over the real-life version of the National fences, a Midlands Grand National, and on Saturday at Ascot the Silver Cup. He's been around a good while.
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