THE IDEA
A billionaire owner who has bought everything racing can sell him finds himself fixed on the one horse he could never own. Admiration hardens into an idea nobody around him is willing to say out loud.
The Novel
RED RUM: ONE MORE RUN
What if the impossible could be attempted?
The story
Billionaire racehorse owner Khalid Al-Nuri possesses almost everything money can buy. But there is one thing wealth has never been able to give him — the horse he has idolised all his life. Red Rum.
When fascination becomes obsession, Khalid begins assembling the people, science and resources required to attempt something extraordinary. Something controversial. Something that should perhaps never be attempted: to bring Red Rum's extraordinary legacy back to the racecourse.
What begins thousands of miles from Liverpool eventually leads back to the mud, noise and history of Aintree — and towards the race that made Red Rum immortal.
The Grand National.
Inside the Novel
THE PLAN
People, money, science and silence. The plan is assembled piece by piece, thousands of miles from Liverpool, by a man accustomed to being told that nothing is impossible.
THE HORSE
At the centre of everything stands a horse — and the question of what a legend actually is: blood, memory, or the belief of the people who love him.
THE ROAD TO AINTREE
The story travels from desert gallops and laboratories to English yards, early mornings and the long, unglamorous work of making a racehorse ready.
THE PEOPLE
An obsessive owner. A scientist asked to cross a line. An old stable hand who remembers what nobody wrote down. Loyalty is tested more often than the science is.
THE GRAND NATIONAL
Four and a quarter miles, thirty fences and the most famous steeplechase in the world — where the whole impossible idea finally has to answer for itself.
Presented without revealing the ending or the later events of the novel.
Characters
THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE PLAN
Khalid Al-Nuri
The billionaire racing owner whose admiration for Red Rum becomes an obsession.
Tommy Doyle
An elderly former stable hand whose memories of Red Rum become increasingly important.
Dr Mariam Sadeq
The brilliant geneticist faced with an experiment unlike anything she has attempted before.
Further characters will be added as they are confirmed from the final manuscript.
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