INTERVIEW
Nick Townsend talks to doctor-trainer extraordinary, Richard Newman
That moment - a touch before 4.30 on 5 April 2014 - will, surely, forever be seared into his memory. But if Dr Richard Newland ever needs to reassure himself that his 25-1 shot Pineau De Re’s mastery of Aintree’s Grand National fences, and the celebrations that ensued as he was hoisted aloft by his nephew Rupert and his companions was indeed reality and not fantasy, he only has to glance at a wall of his home at his Worcestershire stables.
It’s there in all its glory. Not a Bansky, maybe. But a u...
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