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How to cope with no Grand National? Wallow in nostalgia and look forward to 2021
Tough guys: Red Rum and Brian Fletcher (nearest) clear an unmodified Becher's Brook on their way to winning the 1973 Grand National
Absence can indeed make the heart grow fonder.
This particular heart could hardly be more fond of the national treasure that should have been celebrated once more on Saturday.
There will be a virtual celebration, which may help to fill the void, but the Grand National will this year stay absent from our lives. That is how it should be. Think not of what we might have had but of what has gone before and what excitement lies ahead when times are better.h
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Lee MottersheadSenior writer
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