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The Grand National

The Grand National
Clip: 426226_1_1
Year Shot: 1966 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1747
Original Film: 039-027-05
HD: N/A
Location: Aintree Racecourse
Timecode: 00:16:42 - 00:18:41

What could be the last Grand National Steeplechase to be held at Aintree, England, is won by the 50-1 shot angle, with jockey Tim Norman driving. The famous course is being negotiated for by a building syndicate that wants to cut it up into lots for a housing development. Throngs of people attend one of the most famous and brutal race horse courses in world, The Grand National. Horses are lined up and they take off in an explosion of thundering hooves. Horses clearing one of many hurdles, as the horses make it over there is a jockeyless horse on the track. Horses and their jockeys thundering down the track. Horses and jockeys making it over another hurdle, the horse with no jockey is in the lead. The horses make it over another hurdle, three jockeys fall off their mounts and one remains on the ground. #22 Anglo make it over the last hurdle and he is in the lead and he wins by twenty lengths.