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Ruby Walsh: 'If Dermot fancied one and rang you to ride it, you rode it'
Dermot McLoughlin: has won back-to-back runnings of the BoyleSports Irish Grand NationalCredit: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos)
Once could have been a fluke, but twice is certainly no coincidence.
Dermot McLoughlin must have inherited Paul Daniels' magic wand as he has managed to pull two rabbits out of a very small hat on one of the biggest stages of them all in the space of 12 months.
Last year it was the 150-1 outsider of the entire field Freewheelin Dylan, this time it was a 40-1 shot who was having his 14th start over fences and ridden by a relatively unknown 7lb claimer in Paddy O'Hanlon.
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David JenningsDeputy Ireland editor
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