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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.
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.
Jay Trump (1957–1988) was an American thoroughbred racehorse and one of only two horses to win both the Maryland Hunt Cup and the Grand National steeplechase races. Jay Trump won three Maryland Hunt Cups, 1963, 1964, 1966.
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.
aintree.co.uk [permanent dead link ] – Grand National Media Guide. archive.org – Read Online: "A History of Steeple-Chasing" (1901). archive.org – Read Online: "Heroes and Heroines of the Grand National" (1907). bbc.co.uk – National finishes year-by-year. galopp-sieger.de – The Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree.
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The U.S.-bred Battleship, son of the famous Man o' War, became the first (and so far only) horse to have won both the Grand National (in 1938) and the American Grand National (which he won four years earlier). [119] Both Jay Trump (1965) and Ben Nevis II (1980) won the Maryland Hunt Cup before winning the Grand National.