1st Grittar 2nd Hard Outlook 3rd Loving Words 4th Delmoss 3rd April 1982 Distance 4m4f Going Good Course Aintree Trainer Frank H Gilman Jockey Dick Saunders
Put your stop watch on Loving Words from he moment he was unseated, to when he got back into the race, allowing for the fact that it took several more seconds to get from a standing start into his race stride. Then put your stop watch on the moment Grittar crossed the line to when Loving Words crossed the line and tell me who might have won that National.
Great winner, what a race. As a kid growing up the BBC Grandstand coverage was an event. The music still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up!
They always showed a montage of Red rum running in slow motion on a beach I remember. A horse version of Chariots of fire! After Aldaniti won in 1981 it was a montage of him instead!
A measure of how daunting were the fences in those days is that for the 1983 National there were odds quoted for more than half the field to be eliminated by first Bechers
I remember watching this race it had everything. Dick Saunders the oldest jockey to win the National aged 48, Geraldine Rees first female jockey to complete the gruelling Aintree course on a horse named after a US sitcom, Cheers. No doubt everybody knew her name after that achievement. It would take 39 years for a woman jockey to become a Grand National winner. And if memory serves me correctly 10 horses fell at the first fence including the '81 winner Aldaniti which was quite a surprise 😮. I don't know if there were any equine fatalities in the '82 National. Btw did I hear Monty Python and Gandhi feature in this race?
@@mrsilverbuck3181 Hello sir, Another Fab National. Dick Saunders was a Momentous horse man n very underrated and sadly taken from us so prematurely and he inspired so many other apprentice jockeys too.Kind regards Glynn n greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands UK 🕊
does anyone know why Peter o Sulivan comet the first fence in this nation he never ever did this in other nations by that I mean this Grand National? at Aintree
The ending with Cheers is frankly embarrassing. I say that as someone who prefers the 1950s fences than today, but enough is enough when a horse is in that state
Loving Words fell and remounted and finished 3rd ....unbelievable!
Put your stop watch on Loving Words from he moment he was unseated, to when he got back into the race, allowing for the fact that it took several more seconds to get from a standing start into his race stride. Then put your stop watch on the moment Grittar crossed the line to when Loving Words crossed the line and tell me who might have won that National.
What a game horse Grittar was never looked troubled ♥️
What a peformance from loving words, even more amazing that he became loving record on the run in.
Geraldine rees flogged cheers for her moment in the spotlight. wouldnt get away with that now !!
it was disgusting cruelty and unmentioned also
It didnt look good. A different age I guess
What a run by Grittar...destroyed the field, much underrated as a horse.
great days of racing
Proper fences. A real event in those days with class at the top and romantic no hopers at the bottom
Great winner, what a race. As a kid growing up the BBC Grandstand coverage was an event. The music still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up!
They always showed a montage of Red rum running in slow motion on a beach I remember. A horse version of Chariots of fire! After Aldaniti won in 1981 it was a montage of him instead!
This horse would have given Rummy a race , no doubt . Real class act .
A measure of how daunting were the fences in those days is that for the 1983 National there were odds quoted for more than half the field to be eliminated by first Bechers
What a ride
Yes it was.
in 1981 he won two Fox Hunter chase Cheltenham & Aintree
I remember watching this race it had everything. Dick Saunders the oldest jockey to win the National aged 48,
Geraldine Rees first female jockey to complete the gruelling Aintree course on a horse named after a US sitcom, Cheers. No doubt everybody knew her name after that achievement. It would take 39 years for a woman jockey to become a Grand National winner.
And if memory serves me correctly 10 horses fell at the first fence including the '81 winner Aldaniti which was quite a surprise 😮. I don't know if there were any equine fatalities in the '82 National.
Btw did I hear Monty Python and Gandhi feature in this race?
Much more interesting and more stories than today.
Do you have extended footage please
Hi Martin Unfortunately thats all i have from grittar national
Thanks for message
Awesome channel mate
@@mrsilverbuck3181 Hello sir, Another Fab National. Dick Saunders was a Momentous horse man n very underrated and sadly taken from us so prematurely and he inspired so many other apprentice jockeys too.Kind regards Glynn n greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands UK 🕊
Ghandi fell and monty python refused it. Probably the greatest line in the history of commentary.
I heard Monty python was following Geraldine Rees
No the best was the cricket. The bowler's Holding the batsmans Willey
does anyone know why Peter o Sulivan comet the first fence in this nation he never ever did this in other nations by that I mean this Grand National? at Aintree
Maybe John Hanmer had a sore throat and couldn't talk so much or there was a problem with the link.
@@gurgless yea thanks we will never know now
I do believ Loving Words would have won this one....
i disagree i think
The ending with Cheers is frankly embarrassing. I say that as someone who prefers the 1950s fences than today, but enough is enough when a horse is in that state
I remember it well, I bet Gritter at a big price
In the 1979/80 season Grittar was quite ordinary. In Spring 1981 he started to be considered as a National type after vast improvement