If Kelly wins the Grand National? ‘You probably wouldn’t see me for four days – I’d be drinking tequila in Liverpool somewhere’
Something about the Grand National brings the child out in Lizzie Kelly for a few moments as she contemplates her first ride in the race on 6 April. Hugging a mug of tea in her family’s kitchen in north Devon, she says: “I was pretty obsessed with it at one point, read lots of books about it, knew lots of random facts, like having Red in the horse’s name has been quite lucky because there’s been Red Rum, Red Alligator, Red Marauder … I took a massive interest in the Grand National and it was essentially the whole reason I wanted to race-ride. Without wanting to make it sound like a bloody fairytale, it really was something I desperately wanted to do as a child.”
Then the adult reasserts herself as she considers how it would be if she managed to win the Aintree marathon. “You probably wouldn’t see me for four days because I’d be drinking tequila in Liverpool somewhere.”
Written by Chris Cook
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/24/lizzie-kelly-aintree-tea-for-two-grand-national-horse-racing-tips under the title “Lizzie Kelly aims at Aintree with Tea For Two, her ‘horse of a lifetime’”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
