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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-21T12:50:42.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Vieux Lion Rouge, pictured at Aintree in 2020.Aintree specialist Vieux Lion Rouge, who ran in five Grand Nationals, has died aged 17 owing to colic following a happy and active retirement. The gelding, trained by David Pipe at Pond House for his entire career, is remembered as a “horse of a lifetime” by Caroline Tisdall, who owned him with John Gent. He […]",
  "title": "Final farewell to five-time Grand National runner who had a ‘twinkle in his eye’"
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