Michael Owen has a chance to scoop the £850,000 prize money at the Epsom Derby with Mr McCann, who also races on Thursday, May 5 at Chester’s Derby Trials.
The three-year-old colt has an early entry into ‘The Derby‘, another classic in British racing and the feature of the meeting, which sets off Saturday 4 June.
The horse is owned by five current and one former Red in Jordan Henderson, Trent Alexander-Arnold, James Milner, Andy Robertson, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Adam Lallana.
Owen reportedly exchanged a few texts with Milner – who can be known to back a winning horse – and ended up with the players buying the horse for £65,000.
The colt could now pay out more than ten times that with a win at Epsom where the winner takes home £850k.
Despite being a 66-1 shot he’s showing promise over the flat to make him an interesting outsider.
The Hugo Palmer-trained horse has won twice including by over five lengths last time out in September over the same course.
The horse clearly has plenty of potential and only lost in July in Group 2 company behind the 2000 Guineas favourite Native Trail.
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Owen explained to The Mirror: “A horse called Mrs Milner won at Cheltenham and I remember texting James Milner straight after the race with some form of remark.
“Anyway a few exchanges later and I managed to sell them a horse.
“James Milner was the leader of the gang, he went back into the dressing room the next day and rounded another five of them up.
“So there’s six of the guys that own the horse (and Milner), I keep trying to tell them how lucky they are – to win three times last season as a two-year-old.
“We went to the breeze-ups (sales), Ed Sackville bought him for £65,000 and he has been an absolute star.
“Every time we step him up in trip he tends to get better so we are very excited about him.
“He’s pencilled in for the Dee Stakes, if all goes well then we have the heady heights and grand plans of maybe him running in the Derby which would be the most incredible story.”
Mr McCann is aptly named after Liverpool’s press officer, Matt McCann.
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