Barry Geraghty: Winning the Aintree Grand National was the greatest moment of my career
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mirror.co.uk"It was the morning of the National and I remember I had to get down to 10st 7lb to ride Monty’s Pass, so I spent a lot of time in the sauna on the day having some craic with the lads.
I’d been looking forward to the day for a long time. I knew Jimmy (Mangan the trainer) and the owners really well and had ridden the horse a number of times.
We knew he took to the fences having been second in the Topham the year before and he came to Aintree fresher for the National having not run at Cheltenham.
Two races before and I took a heavy fall on Rathgar Beau in the Maghull Novices’ Chase but thankfully I came away unscathed, otherwise the story could have been a lot different.
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