Cameron Sword set to realise dream in racing has horse he part-owns on verge of history after last year’s win in ‘people’s race’
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 Covid 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 they all paid £3,000 for a one-seventh share in Corach Rambler, last year’s Aintree hero, in late 2020, and they all had their own reasons for taking the plunge.
