I wrote about Liverpool being the home of the greatest horse race in the world...The Grand National which is held at Aintree. The most famous horse in the UK who won this race three times and was placed twice, carrying 12stone over 4 miles, is RED RUM. He was a fantastic horse.
I found a BBC link that showed this horse on stage being interviewed with his trainer..it is magnificent to see : you can see why he won the personality of the year! just google red rum+ sports personality of the year+BBC
I also found a blog that has great photos of him too: check out a wordpress blog by googling
makemeadiva+redrum bbc sports personality 1977
Ginger McCain, was a small trainer, pretty much unknown except for this horse, and he became probably the only trainer who knew how to train a horse to win the National. Since Red Rum he had another horse called Cloudy Lane win the Grand National for him again a few years ago. It was such an amazing day, and I recall he was interviewed saying he had woven red rum's browband with a tassle of his mane to bring him luck in running. Red Rum never ran well anywhere else until he saw the huge obstacles, and then he came into his own. Looking at those photos brings back so many lovely memories for me, especially of my beautiful mum, who loved the races and racehorses as much as I do. She told me to put a bet on the race, and by the time I came back to be with her she had passed away. Her horse came in second, so she would have been so happy!
I also wrote about Sandown Park being a right handed track, and for those who don't know what I'm talking about. In the UK horses race both clockwise and anticlockwise, in the USA they only run one way round, which I find odd as some horse like people are more natural at being left handed than right! Sandown was the first Racecourse in the World to broadcast a race in 1948. It was the first course that sponsored a race in 1957.
Hope you enjoyed meeting Red Rum!
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