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The little horse with a big heart: celebrating the grrreeat Tiger Roll
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Tiger Roll with his groom Louise Dunn after victory in the Grade 2 Ladbrokes Boyne HurdleCredit: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos)
Can a horse truly know the difference between an ordinary day’s racing and the big occasion, when everything matters a great deal more?
Can he or she be enlivened by the extra swathes of people, the louder sounds and perhaps the heightened nerves of the humans around them?
If we’re honest about it then the vast majority probably have little idea but there are surely exceptions and if not, how else do you explain the career of Tiger Roll?
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