For good or ill, Aintree’s finger of fate has singled out an abundance of horses and humans since a horse called Lottery won the first Grand National in 1839. Rarely, though, has it exerted such unlikely and life-changing effects as it did towards the end of the pandemic in 2020, when it decided to point at a business student at Heriot-Watt University called Cameron Sword.
Sword is the unlikeliest member of The Ramblers, the seven-strong group of enthusiasts that is, in turn, one of the unlikeliest assortments of individuals ever to own a Grand National winner. They had never met until, in late 2020, they all paid £3,400 for a one-seventh share in Corach Rambler, last year’s Aintree hero, and they all had their own reasons for taking the plunge.
