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<td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#ffff99"><i> <h1><b><u> Maori Venture</u></h1></b> <p>

1987 Grand National Winner Maori Venture was a rank outsider at 28-1, and at 11 years old but at a good weight of 10-13 was ridden superbly by Steve Knight was able to see off the likes of The Tsarevich,Lean Ar Aghaidh and 1986 winner West Tip who was the 5-1 favourite. 
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I think we backed Maori Venture because we were visiting friends in Cheshire and we come from New Zealand. We had not heard about this race but our friends told us how amazing it was.<p> We told them we knew nothing about racing and doubted we would win any money. When my wife saw that a horse called Maori Venture was running we just had to back it, I mean most people just back a horse they like the sound of so why not. When we went back to New Zealand we made a habit every year of making sure we watch it, if the horse has a name that means something to our homeland then we will back it 100%!
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T & J. Dowd - 23rd April 2009 - New Zealand


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