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The 1966 Grand National was the 120th renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 26 March 1966. The winner was Anglo by 20 lengths, giving Freddie second place for a second consecutive year. Forty-seven horses ran. The winning jockey Tim Norman had been injured in a car crash two days earlier.
The Grand National is a National Hunt horse race which is held annually at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England. It is a handicap steeplechase over 30 fences and a distance of approximately 4 miles 3½ furlongs.
Since that time, Ben Nevis II has repeated the feat of winning the Maryland Hunt Cup in 1977 and 1978 and the Grand National in 1980. After his Grand National victory, Jay Trump went to France to run in the Grand Steeplechase. He was the favorite but finished third to Hyeres III, who had also won the race in 1964. Jay Trump then returned to the ...
Anglo (foaled 1958) was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who competed in National Hunt racing.. He is best known for winning the 1966 Grand National comfortably by 20 lengths despite being a newcomer and an outsider as well as being ridden by a jockey, Tim Norman, who had been in a bad traffic accident the day before the race.
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The Grand National has been described by the BBC as higher risk than lots of other horse races. [91] According to the British Horseracing Authority, as of 2022, the five-year average fatality rate for jump racing was 0.43%. [92] However, the rate for the Grand National over the last ten runnings was more than twice as high, at 1.12%. [93]
In 1961, he moved up to the Grand National Series. He achieved the most points for a debutant in 1961. [ 7 ] In the 1964 season, he finished 15th in points, and on December 1, 1963, [ 12 ] driving a Chevrolet Bel Air that he purchased from Ned Jarrett , he won a race on the half-mile dirt track at Speedway Park in Jacksonville, Florida —the ...
Gene Romero (May 22, 1947 – May 12, 2019) was an American professional motorcycle racer. [1] [2] He competed in the A.M.A. Grand National Championship from 1966 to 1981 sponsored first by the Triumph factory racing team and then by the Yamaha factory racing team.