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Being at the Grand National today will re-kindle a long-standing Aintree memory for Suffolk businessman, and racing fan, Keith White.
June 1981. Shergar, ridden by the 19-year-old jockey Walter Swinburn, won the Epsom Derby in spectacular fashion with a record-breaking lead of ten lengths.
Mercer’s years with ‘the Brigadier’ were the highlight of his career, but although he won many classics the Epsom Derby eluded him