A “bargain buy” racehorse who cost just £100 gave 20-year-old jump jockey Beau Morgan the biggest win of his career at Aintree racecourse on Saturday (6 December).

The conditional jockey and Twig had been embroiled in an epic tussle with 9/2 favourite Mr Vango (Jack Tudor) up the run-in for the 3¾-mile William Hill Half A Mill Becher Handicap Chase over the Grand National fences and Beau had his fingers firmly crossed as he waited for judges to reveal the outcome of the photo finish.

“Twig is one of those horses that if you hit the front too soon, he will slam on the brakes,” explained Beau, who also had to survive a “nerve-racking” stewards’ enquiry before the final result was announced. “He dug deep today and I owe everything to him.”

Beau Morgan and Twig celebrate success in the 20

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