Grand National
Grand National Every year the Grand National produces very different stories from jockeys and horses alike; uplifting scenes from a victor and heartbreak when a mere inch divides the loser from the…
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Grand National
Every year the Grand National produces very different stories from jockeys and horses alike; uplifting scenes from a victor and heartbreak when a mere inch divides the loser from the winner at the end of nearly four-and-a-half miles and 30 challenging fences. How fitting, then, that in 1839 the first winner was named Lottery. The race has evolved over the years but there is one constant: luck, or the lack of it.
Hotels were so full that some slept four guests to a bed. Back then, huge crowds rode to Aintree by horseback, in carriages, carts or on foot. Today the Grand National is probably the world's most famous horse race, with a global television audience of some 600 million in 140 countries.Anne Holland's richly informed book focuses on the race's various record-breakers, rather than being a purely chronological history.
In this greatest of all steeplechases, many records
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